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Society

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	141	On the other hand, I objected to the Initiates being in the place of honor, as it seemed to me that they, even more than the Warriors, were nonproductive members of society.	10
14	41	"Without this," he said, touching the blade, "there is nothing—no justice, no civilization, no society, no community, no peace.	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

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25	371	"But what," I asked, "if the laws of nature and of human blood were more basic, more primitive and essential than the conventions and teachings of society—what if these old secrets and truths, if truths they be, had been concealed or forgotten, or subverted to the requirements of a society co...	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	168	Those afflicted with it, commonly spoken of simply as the Afflicted Ones, may not enter into normal society.	10
24	229	The girls would be treated gently, and brought well into the world of Gor with as much tenderness as so harsh a society permitted, being freed and domiciled individually with Gorean families, whose households did not contain slaves.	10

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

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10	175	Beyond this, lastly, it might be mentioned that Gorean society, on the whole, tends to be tradition bound, and that there is little questioning of the wisdom of one's fathers; in such a society individuals usually have an identity satisfactory to themselves, and a place in which they feel comfortabl...	10
10	176	A society in which each is expected to succeed, and is placed under conditions where most must fail, would be incomprehensible, irrational, to most Goreans.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	436	But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;...	10
11	1137	You may then use them, such needful weaklings, to rise in the million strata of your intricate society, to climb, to ingratiate and insinuate yourself swiftly, expertly, into the high, warm, comfortable, luxurious places in your busy, impersonal, complex, loveless, anxious world.	10
13	986	Her position in the society is clear, socially, institutionally, and legally.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	12	The dominant and effective families thus take into themselves newcomers of energy and intelligence, who, in exchange for position and opportunity, when they themselves are allied with such families, help keep the families high and dominant in the society.	10
12	13	Human structures are group structures, and closed groups, with senses of their own best interest, yet open enough and intelligent enough to accept a certain amount, carefully selected, of new and driving blood, regulate society.	10
22	715	The sparrow does not feed her young because the society has fooled her into playing that exploitative role.	10

Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1	63	Human beings move differently in a technological society than in a nontechnological society; they hold their bodies differently; a man or woman's acculturation is visible in their demeanor.	10
1	155	On Earth you had the society at your back, the result of centuries of feminization; he could not so much as speak harshly to you but you could rush away or summon magistrates; here, however, society is not at your back, but at his; it will abet him in his wishes, for you are only a slave; you will h...	10
1	62	Like most others she had been acculturated in a thousand subtle ways to minimize, to conceal and deny the natural, organic sweetnesses of her musculature and structure, conditioned into a dignified, formal physical neutership, the stiffness, reserve and tightness so much approved of in females in a ...	10
1	82	Western industrialized societies on Earth optimally would be manned by metal creatures, sexless, smoothly functioning, programmed to tend, preserve and replicate the metal society.	10
1	83	Man, on Earth, had finally succeeded, after long centuries, in creating a society in which he had no essential place; he had, at last, built a house in which he could not live, in which he had left not one room suitable for human habitation; he called it a home; in it he was a stranger; his habitat,...	10
1	298	Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ...	10
4	179	It is not unusual for a woman to fear her womanhood; what is less generally recognized is that many men fear their own manhood; they conceal their blood; they pretend it does not exist; it is even dangerous, in such a society, to suggest that men consider honesty in such matters, to suggest that the...	10
4	568	Gradually, as a girl begins to realize she is a slave, truly, in a society in which there are slaves, and in which one can truly be just that, and without an escape, a fantastic transformation takes place in her.	10
13	436	Their place in society, as slave, is understood, accepted, and approved, even celebrated.	10
24	457	Is it not enough to own and master, and have the whole slave of her? I think the culture makes them that way, that it twists them from the power and force, and the magnificence, of the mastery to smaller, more petty, less worthy concerns, and that they seek lamentable, misdirected vengeance on innoc...	10
24	850	"What if, Tarl," she asked, "I should have these feelings, these terrible, unworthy feelings? What if I should, in my heart, desire domination by men?" "A healthy society," I said, "would make provision for the satisfaction of these feelings".	10
24	852	"Gorean society," I said, "makes provision for them.	10
26	138	The institution of female slavery in a society provides a vehicle for the expression and satisfaction of this basic need.	10

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	980	A society which sickens and weakens its members, which cripples them and denies them to themselves, is not obviously superior to a society in which human beings are organic and whole, healthy, and happy and great.	10
9	1009	The caste structure, in spite of its many defects, doubtless contributes to the stability of Gorean society, a society in which the individual has a place, in which his work is respected, and in which he can plan intelligently with respect to the future.	10
9	978	It is difficult to know what would constitute a good society.	10
9	979	Perhaps it would be a necessary condition for such a society that its institutions would be compatible, at least, with the truths of biology.	10
9	981	The test of a society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members.	10
9	982	Let each look about himself and judge for himself the success of his own society.	10
9	1004	Caste is important to Goreans in a way that is difficult for members of a non-caste society to understand.	10
18	63	She wears only a collar and a brand, and a bit of silk, and she flees into a society that will promptly return her to her owner, unless it chooses to keep her for itself.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	485	Man owns woman by nature; in a complex society, and in a world with property rights and laws, female slavery, as a legalized fact, is to be expected; it will occur in any society in which touch is kept with the truths of nature.	10
12	579	Your society is not interested in the psycho-biological needs of human females.	10
21	129	"That does not agree with the principles you have been taught, principles developed to facilitate a certain sort of society, or perhaps even with your immediate intuitions on the matter, a function of your conditioning to accept these principles, but it stands up to the test of life experiences".	10
24	183	Also, the society backs the master.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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27	188	Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality...	10
27	209	For the first time in their lives they, these beautiful, vulnerable, captive, chained females of Earth, have looked into the eyes of a virile, powerful, untamed male, one not crushed and diminished by the machinations of a society pathologically fearful of nature.	10

Book 14. (15 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	625	Perhaps in such a society sexuality would not need to be suppressed but might be permitted to flower".	10
1	798	How strange it then seemed to me that society should ever have developed in such a way that such delicious and desirable creatures should have ever been permitted their freedom.	10
1	896	I realized then, with a force I had not felt before, probably because I had not found a woman so exciting as she before, that, in this society, men must strive to please women, that they must, if they wish to relate to them, be and do exactly what the women wish and require, else the women will simp...	10
1	901	In my society it was women who called the tune, and the men who would have to dance.	10
5	167	That is far deeper than your myths and political inventions, regardless of their expediency in your form of society".	10
7	458	Important, too, one supposes, is the acceptance, even approval, of this modality by the environing culture or society.	10
7	459	The female slave understands, or soon realizes, that she is a familiar, recognized, accepted, valued, prized, integral ingredient in a developed, colorful, functioning, complex society, one in which nature is acknowledged, even enhanced, by civilization rather than subverted and denied.	10
16	35	He stands outside the structure of society.	10
16	52	I have little doubt but what the caste structure contributes considerably to the stability of Gorean society.	10
27	114	It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.	10
34	156	Perhaps a remark or two on the Gorean slave girl would be in order, as it may shed additional light on Gorean society and its nature, and, too, perhaps, it might be of independent interest.	10
34	170	It is precisely what one would expect to find in a powerful, male-dominated society.	10
34	185	And the girls themselves, of course, are well aware, those beauties in their collars, the luscious little beasts, that they are an important and precious, and valuable and beautiful, element in Gorean society, domestic animal or no, and accordingly they commonly walk with pride.	10
34	187	Society, particularly its males, rejoices in their existence.	10
34	189	Society approves of their status, and they themselves desire it.	10

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	473	These are, of course, obvious and practical skills, simply called for and to be expected, in a social milieu of the nature of Gorean society.	10
9	66	Compared to it the gratifications of pretense and denial, the insistence on subverting one's blood and virility in the name of a false manhood conditioned by a demented, antibiological society, are pallid indeed.	10
11	362	Yet how much pain must be endured, how much crime and madness, how much unhappiness and misery, before human rationality, that pathetic reed, that frail staff, that small weapon, that fragile tool, must revolt and cry, "No!" How obvious must it be before human beings are willing to realize that a gr...	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1809	Gorean society is a status-conscious society.	10
19	915	Rank, distance and hierarchy are prominent in Gorean society.	10
20	1576	The society is against them.	10

Book 17. (39 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	591	"Theoretically a society could believe numerous false propositions and still, in normal senses of the word, be regarded as a sane, if, in many respects, a mistaken society".	10
1	627	The girls understand this, clearly, and it helps them to understand their place in the society.	10
1	1075	The institution of counting, or tallying, coup has several obvious effects on the structure and nature of the society of the red savages.	10
1	1076	In particular, it tends, on the whole, to arrange social hierarchies in such a way that the society is oriented toward aggressiveness and warfare, features which tend to protect and preserve, in an almost natural harmony and balance, delicate relationships between food supplies, territories and popu...	10
1	1089	Sometimes she must even serve the members of a warrior society, as a captive female.	10
1	1129	This has to do with the fact that they are members of the same tribe and, usually, of the same warrior society.	10
3	65	Yet this admission, nonverbally, was surely made, and even poignantly and desperately, by many women of my old world, despite the injunctions and conditionings against honesty in such matters enjoined by an antibiological, politicized society.	10
3	68	To be sure, the human infant, in many respects, seems to be little more than a tabula rasa, a blank tablet, on which a society, whether sensible or perverted, may inscribe its values.	10
3	75	The only practical answer to these dilemmas is not continued suppression and censorship, but a society, a world, in which nature is freed to thrive.	10
12	112	In this way she fears all the men of the society for she does not know who it was who was the most cruel to her.	10
12	113	Too, she regards all the men of the society with mixed feelings of sensual uneasiness, for she does not know which one among them it was who made her yield most ecstatically, most abjectly, as a slave.	10
12	114	This is thought good by the men for the camaraderie of the society.	10
12	115	To be sure, eventually she is usually awarded to one or another of the society members.	10
13	396	"Doubtless she enjoyed having me do this," she said, bitterly, "my station in society having been so superior to hers".	10
13	555	Too, she understands, whether this pleases her or not, that she is not only a familiar and accepted part of Gorean society, but that she, like its gardens and architecture, is one of its loveliest aspects.	10
13	1691	And thus was the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, once of Earth, once a debutante, once a lesser scion of position and station, of wealth and power, once an element ensconced within an economic and social elite, once a lovely occupant of society's highest tiers, now a property on a beautiful, sa...	10
14	378	How odd it would be if man had no nature, but was unique in the universe, in being an empty vessel to be filled with ideology, an amorphous handful of clay to be molded into shapes, however bizarre, by the self-serving sculptors of society.	10
14	725	"It lies, I suppose," I said, "at the roots of Waniyanpi society".	10
14	727	"Without it Waniyanpi society would collapse".	10
14	729	"They do not take the disintegration of their society as lightly as you do," she smiled.	10
14	738	"I think I also understand why, in such a society, the women are regarded as somewhat superior, as you put it".	10
15	142	"Our friend," said Grunt to me, "is a member of the Blue-Sky Riders, a warrior society of the Fleer".	10
15	149	These societies had much influence within the tribes and, on an alternating basis, to preclude any one society from becoming predominant, a good deal of power.	10
15	163	Within the society itself, of course, the members profit from the values of alliance, camaraderie and friendship.	10
15	164	Needless to say, each society will have, too, its own medicines and mysteries.	10
15	249	One does not come easily into membership in such a society.	10
17	494	Difference, thus, threatens society and civilization itself".	10
17	578	"Even if the society is totally misrelated to reality?" she asked.	10
17	580	"Even if they think they are all urts, or lizards or clouds?" "I gather so," I said, "and in such a society the one who does not think that he is an urt, or, say, a lizard or a cloud, would be accounted insane".	10
17	592	"What if a society is mistaken, and takes pains to avoid rectifying its errors, what if it refuses, in the light of evidence, to correct its mistakes?" "Evidence can usually be explained away or reinterpreted to accord with treasured beliefs," I said.	10
17	599	For example, an individual who believed in, say, magic, assuming that sense could be made of that concept, in a society which believed in magic, would not normally be accounted insane.	10
17	600	Similarly, such a society, though it might be regarded as being deluded, would not, in all likelihood, be regarded as insane".	10
17	602	"That society, then, would simply be correct," I said.	10
19	70	"The Sun Lances," said Grunt, "a warrior society of the Sleen".	10
19	72	"The sign of the Urt Soldiers," said Grunt, "a society of the Yellow Knives".	10
19	74	It was common for the members of a given society to take the warpath together.	10
19	82	"That is a prestigious society," said Grunt.	10
19	87	The society name, however, more strictly, translates as the All Comrades".	10
19	152	It was not seemly, I gathered, for one such as he to enter into dispute with a younger warrior, one of another society and who had fewer coups than himself.	10

Book 18. (12 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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4	255	Behind him, in a line, coming from the vicinity of the lodge of the Sleen Soldiers, the society lodge, came several members of the Sleen-Soldiers Society.	10
32	112	"It is a dance of the Snake Society, a warrior society of the Yellow Knives," said Cuwignaka.	10
1	110	Scouts of the Sleen Soldiers, a warrior society of the Isbu, had been keeping track of the animals since they had entered the country of the Kaiila more than two weeks ago.	10
1	143	There were members of his own society who feared to ride with him, so swift, so fierce, so careless of danger he was.	10
1	144	Once, in a fight with Fleer, he had leaped to the ground and thrust his lance through the long, trailing end of the society's war sash, which, on that occasion, he had been wearing.	10
1	147	The fleeing members of his society, seeing this, and knowing that he wore the war sash, had then rallied and, though outnumbered, had charged the Fleer.	10
1	262	The Kaiila were mostly members of the All Comrades, a warrior society, like the Sleen Soldiers, of the Isbu Kaiila.	10
1	401	Despotism, then, in virtue of the institutions of the red savages, is impractical for them; this impracticality is a much surer guarantee of its absence in a society than the most fervid of negative rhetorics.	10
3	261	It seemed to me rather unlikely that debutantes from high society would be trained to perform the supplication and passion dances of slave girls.	10
4	198	To be sure, it is not unknown for a man to occasionally seek the lodge of his warrior society, where his children and woman cannot follow him.	10
14	124	"Even if it is a lie it is a lie which lies at the very foundation of our society.	10
54	7	Among these, on the flanks, on each flank, there was a society marking, a flat black line, a semicircular, curved blue line above it, the line of the earth, the overarching blue dome of the sky above it.	10

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

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3	502	"One might, for example, regard a society in which the institution of slavery, with its various advantages and consequences, was ingredient as a better society than one in which it did not exist.	10
3	506	This risk he would presumably regard as being a portion of the price he is willing to pay for the benefits of living in this type of society, which he regards, usually by far, as being a society superior to its alternatives.	10
3	517	"Is there more happiness in a society in which all are free," she asked, "than in one in which some are not free?" "I do not know," I said.	10
15	274	Perhaps one of the most important among them is the closely knit nature of Gorean society.	10
15	275	In such a society it is difficult to establish false identities.	10
15	276	Other factors which might be noted are the support of the society for slavery, the absence of a place to run, so to speak, and the relentlessness with which slaves are commonly sought.	10
36	861	No longer does she languish beneath the neglect of an abstract, invisible master, society, with its rules and pressures, but now finds her fulfillment in the arms of an actual, visible master.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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2	1662	Similarly you do not have her socio-natural vulnerability, that of the legal slave, helplessly so, in a society in which the institution of slavery is accepted, ingredient, pervasive, and honored, an unshakable matter, for thousands of years, of policy, tradition, and law".	10
6	720	"An extensive wardrobe, wealth, significant family connections, a high place in society?" "No!" she said.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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13	303	This is the case, of course, in a natural society, one which accepts and acclaims nature, rather than denounces her and, with ill effects, attempts to thwart her.	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

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3	653	How absurd it seemed! Did he not know that women could do anything with impunity, that no matter what we did, even if it were to bring about the destruction of a man's manhood and the ruination of his life, we were never punished? And yet this man seemed ready to punish me for so little as a lie, or...	10
22	77	I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...	10
24	664	Too, given the culture, her marking, the closely knit nature of the society, and such, there was, for all practical purposes, no escape for the Gorean slave girl.	10
34	556	"The best slaves," he said, "are often those who on Earth are the quiet, soft, gentle, shy women, sometimes even those who fear they are unattractive, having imbibed absurd criteria from a mechanistic, pathological society, and do not know how exciting and desirable they are, the natural woman, sele...	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

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9	72	There are several varieties of body hoods on Gor, which is not surprising in a society in which slavery, and particularly female slavery, is an essential ingredient.	10
21	54	Though the girl loves the master with all her heart and would never dream of fleeing from him, absurd though such a dream might be on Gor, given the branding, the collaring, the closeness of the society, and such, she knows that she is upon occasion to be put in chains.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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37	173	The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more imp...	10
37	174	In short, the person is content, happy, fulfilled, and so on, and the society not only does not object, but praises, supports, admires and approves.	10
46	246	The society is tightly knit, the girl is marked, and so on.	10

Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

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9	348	This has to do with structure in human society, without which, whether concealed or not, such society is not possible.	10
14	331	They lie at the foundation of a natural society, one in accord with the aristocracy of nature, a society in which there are places for both heroes and slaves.	10
2	375	For example, there are not only such obvious things as the brand and collar, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, or the lack of garbing, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, and the general nature of an uncompromising culture, with ...	10
8	234	The blonde, who had been highly placed in the society of Ar, would presumably have been sold out of the city long ago.	10
8	493	Society depends on divisions and order, each element stabilized perfectly in its harmonious relationship with all others".	10
8	494	"You do not believe, then," I asked, "that everyone is the same, or must be supposed to be such, despite all evidence to the contrary, and that society thrives best as a disordered struggle?" Marcus looked at me, startled.	10
8	518	The fanatic is likely to leap blissfully into flames and expect himself and society to be transmuted into gold.	10
8	682	More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions.	10
9	344	Gorean society tends to value tradition and is carefully structured.	10
10	218	Similarly, such charades provide, in more serious cases, a way of expressing one's alienation from one's own society, one's repudiation of it, and one's contempt of it.	10
12	217	"Your surrender cannot be the full surrender of the mature woman, the woman experienced in life, the woman who has come to understand the barrenness of the conventions by which she is expected to abide, who has discerned the vacuity of the principles to which she is expected to mindlessly subscribe,...	10

Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

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8	758	I shall briefly speak of this later, as it may shed some light on an aspect of Gorean society.	10
10	482	One commonly mentioned reason is that it draws a clear distinction in a profoundly stratified society between our lowliness, marked by our rags, or brief tunics, and such, and the loftiness of free women, expressed in the complexity, richness and ornateness of their habiliments.	10
11	1353	How many women, I wonder, marry truly for love, and only love? Do we not consider many other matters—the finances of our potential spouse, his education, his family connections, his position in society, the likely location of his domicile, the presumed trajectory of his career, the prestige o...	10
11	1614	It is usually a very serious thing to lose caste in this society.	10
12	245	They had not been confused, and bled, and subverted, and crippled, by a sick society.	10
12	478	She was a free woman, of course; she could bargain, plan and plot to improve her position in society.	10
12	480	The slave's position in society is fixed, as fixed as the collar on her neck.	10
12	485	He tends to be happy, and happy men are not likely, on the whole, and absent serious provocations, to disrupt society.	10
15	68	There was the collar, the brand, the garmenture, the close-knit nature of the society, such things.	10
19	348	It is probably a kindness for a society to provide mercies of this sort.	10
19	412	While not engaged in obtaining their livelihood from more productive elements in society, Initiates, as I understand it, spend a great deal of time in self-purification.	10

Book 27. (31 results) Prize of Gor

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16	1091	Was she not supposed to cry such things to herself? Was it not expected? Didn't she want to be free? Surely she knew that her society had insisted that she must want to be free, so what was it, deep within her, deeper than her society, more profound than convention, that wanted rather to love and se...	10
27	2652	That is to be expected in a natural society, a society in which a prized and essential ingredient is female slavery, a society in which it is an accepted, respected, unquestioned, honored tradition, an institution sanctioned in both custom and law.	10
11	44	She wondered what might be the reactions of her former feminist colleagues if society were to take seriously their effusive, tiresome, repetitive, propagandistic allegations pertaining to matrimony as slavery, and the general position of women in society as one of being held in bondage, and decide t...	10
22	502	Ellen had never expected, of course, to find herself in a society in which such an institution actually existed, in a society allied with nature rather than opposed to her.	10
26	339	It gives her an exact identity, and an articulated, and clearly understood, position in society, a society in which she finds herself, whether she wishes it or not, a familiar, prized and beautiful ingredient.	10
2	4	It is true however that such as she, and her sisters, so to speak, under discipline, are quickly brought into line, the gentlest and the sweetest, and those who hitherto, perhaps in their unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, in their vanities and impatience, and haughtiness, were not only permitted ...	10
7	234	On Earth there might have been many ways to respond to such attentions, a sneer, a chilling stare, a look of contempt, a scornful dismissal, a demeaning question, a nasty, caustic word, a haughty, supercilious shrug and a turning away, many ways to respond, and to all of these she had had recourse a...	10
9	45	The intricate stratification of society tends to produce social stability.	10
9	48	In Gorean society, with its emphasis on locality and neighborhood, with its diverse Home Stones, each with its own history and traditions, with its many castes and subcastes, each with its acknowledged privileges and rights, and obligations, respected by all, political upheavals, social disruptions,...	10
9	51	In Gorean society there is no nameless, faceless, anonymous, ponderous, swarming many ruled by a secret few.	10
9	52	Too richly formed, too proud, too self-respecting, too intricately structured, too much like nature herself, is Gorean society for that.	10
11	26	Rather, might they not choose to accept that view of the matter, the feminist view, so to speak, and rearrange the institutions of society accordingly? Mirus, her master, indicated that she might withdraw, and so she stood to one side.	10
11	1033	She was exceedingly helpful, particularly because of her connections, her many affiliations, in the worlds of society, business and finance.	10
13	639	These things stabilize society.	10
13	640	One might, of course, if one's taste ran that way, prefer a society founded on a hypocritical denial of obvious differentiation, on concealments of power, on group conflict, on greed, on propaganda, on confusion, uncertainty, machinations, character assassination, spying, slander, and such.	10
14	173	Her virginity, accordingly, was of no more interest or importance to society, or an owner, than would be that of a pig.	10
16	883	The destruction of nature and the ruin of human happiness presents an enormous challenge to social engineering, one to which a pathological society, by seizing control of education, the media, and such, must, if it is to be successful, address itself with courage and determination.	10
17	524	That she was chained as she was, and that she now understood something of the nature of sleen, and their possible roles in Gorean society, had helped her to further appreciate and understand her slavery.	10
17	709	It is important, of course, too, to find yourself in a society where what you are, and what you want to be, truly, is understood, accepted and relished.	10
17	710	Female slaves, for example, are important in our society, an important part of it, and they make it much more satisfying, innocent, honest, profound, natural and beautiful than it would otherwise be".	10
22	148	And now, suppose there was a natural society, in which nature was not denied, but, rather, with all the refinements of an advanced civilization, respected, fulfilled, enhanced and celebrated.	10
22	149	In such a society, one might expect, accordingly, the pervasive dominance/submission ratios of nature to be recognized by, and reflected within, customs, laws, social arrangements, institutions, and such.	10
22	150	In such a society one would certainly expect to find female bondage and the male mastery.	10
22	151	And in such a free, natural society, it is only to be expected that female display behaviors, of all women, but particularly of those in bondage, would be refined and elaborated, and would become openly and gloriously expressive.	10
22	152	In such a society then, in what countless ways might a woman, any woman, but particularly one in a collar, be expected to present herself before a male? Would the female not desire to appear in certain ways, to move in certain ways? Presumably, yes.	10
22	500	In any event, the institution of female slavery is part of the very fabric of Gorean society.	10
24	283	How could this have happened to her? She was a woman of Earth! She had been plucked from civilization, as it had been understood by her former peers, plucked from a busy, complex, crowded, polluted, industrial society, and set down in a very different world, in a fresh, green, natural, primitive wor...	10
27	2228	Too, society accepts them, and has a place for them and their nature, and reinforces their condition with all the irrefragable power of custom and law.	10
27	3462	In his dreams, those of his sleeping hours and those of his waking hours, what man has not yearned for a beautiful slave, and what woman, in such free, innocent, unguarded hours, has not yearned to be owned, to be collared, chained and mastered?" "On my world," said Mirus, "society walls itself away...	10
30	57	At last they have an identity and an actual value, a place in society.	10
30	483	She has her position in society to consider, her station and status.	10

Book 28. (8 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	120	Gorean society is muchly based on status and hierarchy.	10
18	46	Later, however, as she learns her collar, and realizes its proclamation of her desirability, attractiveness, and beauty, and learns the joy of bondage, and her role in, and importance in, Gorean society, she is likely to walk proudly, head high, shoulders back, and brazenly display her master's prop...	10
51	90	When a society is seized by the ill-constituted, the miserable, the sick, the self-fearing, the weak, the haters, and such, it is natural they would mold, as they can, their world in their own pathological image.	10
53	47	The entire society accepts and demands her bondage.	10
55	133	In a civilization the ways of nature are not only understood and accepted, even embraced, but, further, beyond anything known in barbarism, they are refined, enhanced, and incorporated deliberately and inextricably into the very nature of society".	10
55	140	Her appearance in society is no accident.	10
55	141	She is no mere accretion or happenstance in society.	10
76	23	It is also helpful, of course, if the society recognizes her status, accepts it, and approves it.	10

Book 29. (22 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	193	They have a position and elevation in society which far transcends that of, say, the free woman of Earth who is usually not so much free as merely not yet enslaved.	10
1	194	The analogy is imperfect but suppose a society of rigid status, of severe hierarchy, and the rank and dignity that might be attached to the daughter of, say, a royal or noble house.	10
1	195	One in such a society would not be likely to think of bedding such an individual, at least as a serious project.	10
2	126	Accordingly, this application of the stabilization serums is frowned upon in Gorean society, and in many cities is illegal.	10
2	300	Every society has its weaklings and cowards.	10
2	301	But not every society is taught to celebrate them as its wisest and noblest, its boldest and bravest.	10
4	26	Too, their female agents could not be well integrated into Gorean society, with its orderings, its clan and caste arrangements, its rank, distance, and hierarchy.	10
5	669	The veils of anonymity are not easily donned in a closely-knit society.	10
8	78	I am English, but I was not derived, as far as I knew, at least recently, from strata in English society where such formalities or precedences much mattered.	10
8	197	I suspected he came from a hierarchical society, as that had been suggested by his demeanor, and his concern with one-name and two-name individuals, and so on.	10
8	198	In such a society rigid protocols would doubtless obtain between superiors and inferiors, each, in his way, showing due respect, in some mutually understood fashion, to the other.	10
10	85	For example, they occupied an understood, accepted, and generally respected niche in their society.	10
10	708	That world was one in which women stood commonly within the shelters of civilized proprieties, within the fences of society, encircled by innumerable customs and laws, with their diverse enforcements and sanctions.	10
13	97	For example, the robes of concealment, prescribed for, and almost universally accepted by, Gorean free women, certainly of the higher castes, were not uniform, drab garmentures imposed on them by, say, an oppressive society which regarded women as inferior, unclean, and morally dangerous, but, in th...	10
15	233	One expects such things only in a pathological society where the natural relationships between the sexes are denied, confused, or nonexistent.	10
23	31	He wanted her not to be herself but to conform to some image which, really, in the full analysis, was not so much his own as one which he had been taught should be his own, one formed blindly by happenstance in a society which was, in effect, in many ways, an unfortunate, monstrous, inhumane acciden...	10
23	130	Too, it might be noted that the female slave on Gor is a familiar and important part of Gorean society.	10
23	132	And who other than jealous, envious free women does not relish the sight of lovely slaves? Would you not like to buy one? Two powerful forces are thus conjoined to assure the perpetuation of female bondage on Gor, the society's unqualified acceptance and approval of the institution, it is pleased wi...	10
23	133	In bondage, she finds her fulfillment, a fulfillment society not only has no interest in denying to her, but supports and favors.	10
23	136	Indeed, society not only approves of her bondage but it will marshal all its considerable resources and forces to guarantee that her bondage, whether she wishes it or not, will remain inflexible and inescapable, that the collar, so to speak, will remain securely locked on her lovely neck.	10
23	250	This practice also, of course, tends to distinguish her from the slave, a distinction which is of enormous importance in Gorean society.	10
44	31	Society is unwilling to do without them.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	515	No longer did men, and society, stand behind me.	10
6	32	One is familiar with the haughtiness, the arrogance, the pride, of the typical free woman, defended by guardsmen, ringed by the walls of her city, well-veiled, well-robed, secure in her status, unassailable in station, ensconced in society's regard, but there is another pride, too, little spoken of,...	10
6	43	So one might then contrast two prides, that of the scornful free woman, richly robed, elevated in society, switch in hand, and that of the timid, frightened creature, perhaps in a rag, a collared animal, who kneels before her.	10
7	138	This is clear in a hundred ways, from their brand, their collar, their clothing, if permitted clothing, their behaviors, their demeanors, their diction, their deference, their expressions, their place in society, and, once they are broken to the collar, their softness, their radical femininity, thei...	10
12	500	But what was a free woman but a slave without a master? How stood the conventions of society, the habits, rules, customs, and such, against the biological facts of an uncontaminated nature? Surely he spoke to her in a way that went far beyond the trivia of tunics and collars, brands and chains.	10
12	667	What is her will compared to the weight of society? Too, is it not easy to make a virtue of necessity, that ice should commend cold, and the stone its lack of feeling? How natural then that she should, with all innocence and conviction, often with a raging earnestness, praise the treachery which has...	10
21	386	What fires men have set to burn in the bellies of slaves! Is it cruel, I wondered, to have done this to them, to make them the helpless victims of such powerful, frequently recurrent needs? I supposed not, as it makes them the richest and fullest of women, the most helpless and authentic of women, t...	10
24	15	Where would society be without the Builders, the Merchants, the Metal Workers, the Cloth Workers, the Wood Workers, the Leather Workers, the Peasant, with the great bow, the ox on whom the Home Stone rests? The trail upward was steep.	10
28	233	How they would be ostracized and scorned, put from society, if they did not say such things! Indeed, they might be remanded to slavers".	10
33	169	What purposes could be served, and whose purposes, I wondered, on such a world, to instigate such suspicions, such conflicts and contradictions, to set one part of a body against another part, one part of a mind against another? How ill or insane the society which might find profit in such divisions...	10

Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	226	A casteless society, an open society, in which elevation, wealth, and success is supposed to depend, or does depend, on the outcome of merit and free competition will obviously generate an enormous amount of frustration, jealousy, envy, and hostility.	10
8	227	In such a society most will fail to fulfill their ambitions and must almost inevitably fall short of achieving at least the greatest rewards and highest honors which such a society has to bestow.	10
7	740	Accordingly, when the society's demands were to be met, and the more embarrassing, regrettable aspects of companionship satisfied, those having to do with matchings, lines, alliances, and such, the proper free woman was to enter into carnal congress with disdain, resignation, and reluctance, or feig...	10
7	742	Upper-caste women doubtless were subject to the same needs and drives as other women, and I would learn that affairs and assignations were not infrequent amongst them, and that many free women, particularly those most sensitive to the demands of their codes, who had most internalized society's expec...	10
8	77	Too, Gorean free women, whatever might be the expectations of their society concerning them, were surely women, with all the instincts, needs, desires, and drives of the human female, all the complex genetic codings of such latent in each cell of their bodies.	10
8	1402	In my case, it would not be merely the brand, the garmenture, the collar, the closely knit society, and such, but the very Gorean I had been taught was quite possibly a slave Gorean, subtly different in certain ways from the Gorean spoken by the free.	10
8	1465	Accordingly, in the social circles of an exclusive, prestigious institution, located high in the tiers of a subtly hierarchical society, one given to denying its hierarchicality, and are not all societies inevitably hierarchical, we, and others, competed for the attentions of promising young men.	10
8	1985	Of all women they were the quickest to learn that the collar was truly on them, that they were now actually owned by a master, that society wholly supported and approved their condition, and that escape was impossible.	10
46	93	The man whose sexual needs are well satisfied tends to be content, and he who is content is commonly happy, and he who is happy has no need to disrupt his society, hurt others, or prey on his fellows.	10
46	94	I have no doubt that the presence of kajirae in Gorean society has much to do not only with its naturalness, for men desire slaves and slaves long for masters, but also with its general harmony, security, and stability.	10
52	237	"You speak of torment! What do you know of torment? What do you know of a woman's slave fires, once men have kindled them, and forced them to burn? Can you imagine what it is to feel such things, not just in one's belly, but throughout one's helpless slave's body? We cannot seize and command a maste...	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
46	55	Society accepts her with the same unquestioned equanimity that it accepts other domestic animals.	10
46	58	The culture and society wants its kajirae, and will have them.	10
46	60	She has her place in society, and well understands it.	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
56	8	Might there not be scraps of food in such a place, even scrapings from the sides of garbage bins? Might not such locations then be frequented by such an individual, or individuals, trying to survive like urts in the collapse of a society or civilization? I had located it and other such facilities in...	10

Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	134	The caste structure apparently lends a great deal of stability to Gorean society, as most Goreans respect their caste and recognize the nature of, and the value of, its role in society.	10
1	56	Were humans not essentially unreal, a fraud, unlike the lion and the hawk, more honest forms of life? Were human beings not a counterfeit currency of sorts, masquerading as a genuine life form? Were they not shallow sociological artifacts, nothing in themselves, only clay waiting to be shaped, simpl...	10
7	418	I resolved, after he had left, in the midst of conflicting emotions, despite my profound inclinations to the contrary, as I was beginning to sense what I might be, and perhaps had always been, to behave in a way which certain militant factions in my society, with their self-serving agendas, might ap...	10
8	46	Our differences from men were not only acknowledged by society, but, by brand, collar, and tunic, confirmed and celebrated.	10
8	50	Too, women such as I were not encased in proprieties and conventions, not hedged in by society, not permitted to hide ourselves behind veils, or within cumbersome robes, not permitted to bargain, to tease and taunt, to barter our favors for social or economic advancement.	10
8	293	Considering these things, I shook with terror, for here I was not a free woman, exalted in society, possessed of a Home Stone.	10
26	14	Indeed, it is highly likely that, long ago, in the beginning, the caste was formed to supply a need, or perform a role within society that was perceived as being not only fully justified, but desirable.	10
49	418	The free woman has her freedom, her place in society, her influence, her connections, her resources, her position and power, all that she can offer a man, while the slave has little more than her helplessness, her collar, and her needs.	10
51	110	"Each Gorean," I said, "has his place in society".	10
57	67	Whereas, given the collaring, clothing, and marking of a girl, the closely knit nature of the society, the acceptance and approval of bondage in the culture, and the culture's unquestioned support of, and enforcement of, the rigors of the institution of bondage, there is no escape for the Gorean sla...	10
61	533	The Gorean free woman has a place in society that is far above that of the "free woman" of Earth.	10
61	535	Naturally free women, in most cities, in their frustration, as would be expected, make the most of their prestige, caste rights, intelligence, beauty, and such, exploiting such things ruthlessly to consolidate and improve their position in society.	10

Book 35. (11 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	323	Yet what woman, slave or free, does not thrill to the curious, admiring scrutiny of a handsome, powerful male who one day might prove to be her master? Ambivalences warred within me, excitement, rage, joy, warmth, shame, humiliation, pride! How dare these monsters take for granted, so easily and una...	10
1	207	Society is at her feet; men vie to serve and please her.	10
2	63	The society accepted, and wanted, slaves.	10
3	103	Would not their sick society collapse and their miserable world perish if even a hint of manhood were suspected? And so we have an unnatural, artificial world, a shallow, petty world in which men are to be punished for being men and women are mocked and scorned for being women.	10
3	356	A pallid, mechanistic, unnatural, and artificial society fears manhood and what it might mean.	10
13	18	The society accepts slavery as a valuable and important institution.	10
14	82	Gorean society is built on the acceptance of rank, distance, and hierarchy.	10
14	84	Indeed, rank, distance, and hierarchy stabilize the society.	10
25	66	At one time I might have believed that, but I had learned in Brundisium, and after that, from a thousand other asides and remarks, in the tavern and elsewhere, that Gorean society did not easily ignore the shame and dishonor which would inevitably accrue to a family's name and reputation should it b...	10
29	41	The rank, distance, and hierarchy common to Gorean society seemed in these crowded precincts to be abated or ignored.	10
38	78	As the result of a particular confluence of historical circumstances, which need not be recited here, the storms and flames of revolution unexpectedly burst forth, resulting in a radical transformation of Tharnan society.	10

Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	26	Doubtless she was familiar with, accustomed to, and had profited from, the many advantages, preferences, preferments, and privileges, educational, economic, and social, which had been lavished upon her by her society.	10
17	45	Many a woman whose remarkable loveliness on Earth might have led to the acquisition of considerable advantages in Earth society find themselves, once brought to Gor, the possessions of a fellow with modest, even minimal, means.	10
46	92	"It exacts its vengeance in a thousand ways, in plagues of confusion and guilt, in the disordering of society, in the propagation of ignorance, illness, hypocrisy, and hatred".	10
59	234	"We are a civil society".	10