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| 11 | 384 | View more quotes about twice">Twice I had, surely inadvertently, stumbled against guards. |
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| 11 | 381 | It is hard then not to see men as her masters, for that is what they are; and she naturally, ineluctably, finds them attractive, men strong enough to command her, and do with her as they wish. |
| 11 | 382 | In this relationship she finds herself most basically, most radically female, as she finds him most basically, most radically male; this relationship, that of the male master and the female slave, is, of course, as one would expect, a relationship which is pervasively and profoundly sexual; those who fear sex must surely eschew it; it is, however, the most natural and profound relationship of its kind, an evolved, sophisticated cultural relationship growing directly out of enhanced biological realities. |
| 11 | 383 | She cannot help but respond, you see, in the order of nature, to the virility and power of the master; this virility and power is stimulating to the slave, overwhelmingly so; indeed, virility and power stir the bellies of even free women; it is natural then for her to want to call herself to the attention of the masters, to want to please them, to desire their touch. |
| 11 | 384 | Twice I had, surely inadvertently, stumbled against guards. |
| 11 | 385 | "You are so obvious, El-in-or," had said Inge. |
| 11 | 386 | How I hated Inge! Could she not see that these things were innocent, that they were mere accidents, that I had merely tripped! But, of course, I also mistrusted the guard. |
| 11 | 387 | I had some dim, abstract inkling of what it might be for a man to hold a slave girl in his arms, and that was sufficient to make me fearfully wary. |