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| 3 | 81 | Most View more quotes about simply">simply, as a normal girl of my world, I had been negatively conditioned with respect to men and sex. |
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| 3 | 78 | But mostly I suspect I was found wanting in subtle psychological dimensions, available to the acute observer as a consequence of almost subliminal cues. |
| 3 | 79 | These matters are conveyed by subtleties of facial expression and physical demeanor. |
| 3 | 80 | I was a girl raised in a culture predicated on the denial of primate biological realities, a girl from a world in which hypothetically cogent animals denied, denounced and hysterically strove to suppress their own animality, a world in whose social insanity even sexuality had now come to be politically suspect. |
| 3 | 81 | Most simply, as a normal girl of my world, I had been negatively conditioned with respect to men and sex. |
| 3 | 82 | In the last few years, an accretion to this form of conditioning, I had been taught that men were my equals, and that men and women were the same. |
| 3 | 83 | If this were so why then did I feel so small and slight among the Gorean men, and tremble when they put their hands upon me? Among the men of Earth, thoughtful, and cute and kind, I had not felt small and slight, nor did I tremble when they put their hands upon me; I had felt only irritation, and would push them away; I did not dare to push away a Gorean man; I might have been put under discipline; further, I found myself longing, though I did not admit this to myself at the time, to lie lovingly in their arms, theirs. |
| 3 | 84 | I think the major reason I so failed to impress the men at the camp of my captor was because at that time I had not yet been taught to come alive as a woman. |