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| 7 | 289 | As I knelt before the View more quotes about male">male, I had suddenly realized how I might look to him, at his feet, chained, vulnerable, purchasable, a slave. |
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| 7 | 286 | A man might look upon an attractive free woman, and want her, but, on the whole, she will be inaccessible, little more than a brief, troubling torment, but when a man looks upon a slave girl he knows that it is quite possible that he may obtain her, that she is quite likely to be obtainable, for a suitable price, which he may be able, perhaps with some sacrifice, to afford. |
| 7 | 287 | She will then, in all her beauty, be his, to do with as he pleases. |
| 7 | 288 | And even if he does not move to obtain her he knows that some male, if not he, has the pleasure and mastery of her, and this pleases him. |
| 7 | 289 | As I knelt before the male, I had suddenly realized how I might look to him, at his feet, chained, vulnerable, purchasable, a slave. |
| 7 | 290 | How attractive, how interesting, how delicious, I feared I might appear to him. |
| 7 | 291 | And suddenly, the thought struck me, and seemed to shake me, as it had not before, that I was merchandise, that I could be sold, and would then belong, like a dog, or a cat, or a pig, to a master, and would then be his to do with as he pleased—perfectly. |
| 7 | 292 | I have perhaps not made clear enough the nature of the men of this world. |