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You can find copies of the books at amazon.com, or through e-bay, or you can try going to a local used bookstore. I cannot stress enough how important reading the books will be for your adventure into this world. The Free Woman of Gor was a cold and frigid woman. She could be very harsh and cruel in her thoughts and actions. Free Women were courted and engaged in what is refered to as a Free Companionship relationship, this was a contract similar to marriage but was done on a year to year basis. A Free Woman could be face stripped and enslaved if she violated any city laws. The Free Woman had a strong dislike for the female slave, the reason being that the slave girl was outwardly sensual and totally pleasing to a Free Man, giving totally up to his wants and desires, she had to refrain from the same desires. In reading the books I have found that tho the Free Women were of most castes, they did not perform the heavy duties required of them, thus where a woman maybe born to the builders caste she would not be found on sight building the structures. At this point I have not as yet found any examples of a Free Woman being a trainer for slaves, this was done by the men. No women were of the Black caste of the Assassins nor were there any in the books that carried swords and fought as a man. The woman on Gor was compared in strength to that of a 12 year old boy. Women were active in the caste of the Scribe and the Healer however. As a Healer the woman was given 2 bracelts she wore, removing one when she had a child and after the second she could advance to full status as a Healer. The Free Woman dressed in a certain fashion depending on the location they were found upon Gor. Below is a attempt to break down the various locations and styles. COMMON DRESS FOR FREE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH Robes of Concealment Undergown - a white under dress, sleeveless, diaphanous, floor length, resembling a Greek chiton, and split to the waist at the sides. Overdress - the overdress is normally of heavy brocade, high collared, box pleated from the shoulders, stiff with jewels and pearls, shimmering with ornate embroidery and often closed down the front with Frog-type fasteners. Hood - the head is covered normally by a hood, which may be fur-lined or trimmed, and to which the veils are normally pinned with ornate, jeweled pins. Gloves - the hands are gloved, usually in white Veils - there are normally five veils worn. For Free Companionship Ceremonies and other formal occasions, the number may be increased to up to eight. The five common veils are known as: The first, or outermost veil is waist length, and normally of brocade to match the outer gown. It is called the Street Veil. The second veil, beneath the Street Veil is called the House Veil. It is also waist length, and of a lightweight brocade, and may be of a contrasting color to the Street Veil. Third is the opaque white Pride Veil, which hangs to just below the breasts. Fourth is the Freedom Veil, sheer and hanging to just below the collar bone. Lastly is the chin length, wispy modesty veil. Alternative Work Dress for Southern Free Women "She wore a full, beige skirt, the hem of which fell to within some six inches of the ground, and slim, high, black-leather boots, a beige blouse, and a beige jacket, belted, which fell to her thighs; too, she wore a loose hood, attached to the jacket by hooks, of matching beige material, and an opaque veil, also of beige material. Such garments, far less formal than the common attire of the Gorean free woman, are sometimes worn by rich women in the supervision and inspection of certain sorts of holdings, such as orchards, fields, ranches and vineyards. They constitute, for such women, so to speak, a habit for work." -=Fighting Slave of Gor, page 232=- "Free women, drinking, commonly lift their veil, or veils, with the left hand. Low-caste free women, if veiled, usually do the same. Sometimes, however, particularly if they are in public, they will drink through their veil, or veils. Sometimes, of course, free women will drink unveiled, even with guests. Much depends upon how well the individuals are known, and who is present. In their homes, of course, with only the members of their families present, or servants and slaves, most free women do not veil themselves, even those of high caste." -=Fighting Slave, page 276~=- COMMON DRESS FOR WOMEN OF THE TAHARI "The haik, black, covers the woman from head to toe. At the eyes, there is a tiny bit of black lace, through which she may see. On her feet were soft, black, nonheeled slippers, with curled toes; they were decorated with a line of silver thread." -=Tribesmen of Gor, page 44=- COMMON DRESS FOR WOMEN OF THE NORTH "In the northern cities, and in the forest towns, and northward on the coast the woman do not veil themselves, as is common in the cities to the south." -=Marauders of Gor, page 25=- "Her hair was hung in a snood of scarlet yarn, bound with filaments of golden wire. She wore, over her shoulder, a cape of white fur of the northern sea sleen. She had a scarlet vest, embroidered in gold, worn over a long-sleeved blouse of white wool, from distant Ar. She wore, too, a long woolen skirt, dyed red, which was belted with black, with a buckle of gold, wrought in Cos. She wore shoes of black, polished leather, which folded about her ankles, laced twice, once across the instep, once about the ankle." -=Marauders of Gor, page 25=- "She was very lovely and attractive in her hunting costume, brief tunic and long hose, brown, a scarlet cape and cap, the cap with a feather. She carried a short, yellow bow, of Ka-la-na wood, which could clear the saddle of the tharlarion, its missile being easily released to either side. Her black boots, slick and shining were spurred. A quiver of arrows, yellow, was at the left of her saddle." -=Beasts of Gor, page 111=- Free Woman of Torvaldsland...... "The free woman was a tall woman, large. She wore a great cape of fur, of white sea-sleen, thrown back to reveal the whiteness of her arms. Her kirtle was of the finest wool of Ar, dyed scarlet, with black trimmings. She wore two broaches, both carved of the horn of a kailiauk, mounted in gold. At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women of Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife; at her belt too, hung her scissors, and a ring of many keys, indicating that her hall contained many chests or doors; her hair was worn high, wrapped about a comb, matching the broaches, of the horn of kailiauk ; the fact that her hair was worn dressed indicated that she stood in companionship; the number of her keys, together with the scissors, indicated that she was mistress of a great house. She had gray eyes; her hair was dark; her face was cold and harsh.." -=Marauders of Gor, page 156=- COMMON DRESS OF TUCHUK WOMEN "Tuchuk women, unveiled, in their long leather dresses, long hair bound in braids, tended cooking pots hung on tem-wood tripods over dung fires. These women were unscarred, but like the bosk themselves, each wore a nose ring." -=Nomads of Gor, page 27=- The women of the Wagon Peoples do not wear veils, but do wear thin gold rings in Their noses. They may not wear silk, but for the most part wear long leather dresses; or long leather skirts slit up the right side to allow for ease of movement, and riding on kaiila. With that They wear a sleeveless leather blouse, a cape to protect from the elements, and soft, tanned hide boots. Their hair is most often braided. COMMON DRESS OF KASSAR WOMEN COMMON DRESS OF THE PARAVACI WOMEN COMMON DRESS FOR ALAR WOMEN A nomadic wandering herdspeople well known for their skill with the axe and the Alar sword, they travel in wagons in the northern plains, but tend to camp near settlements, unlike the southern wagon people. Their Free women do not wear veils, rather simple, corded, belted, woolen, plain, widely sleeved, ankle-length dresses, tied snugly. There are few slaves in the Alar camps because they are killed by Free women. The Alars tend to be fair in complexion, blonde-haired and blue-eyed. -=Mercenaries of Gor, pages 43, 45, 47, 48, 50 and 72=- -=Quotes from the books=- In light of all the info I have been collecting I decided it would serve best to list the quotes I have come across. "I rejoiced that in at least one city on Gor the free women were not expected to wear the Robes of Concealment, confine their activities largely to their own quarters, and speak only to their blood relatives and, eventually, the Free Companion." -=Outlaw of Gor, Page 49=- "To be sure, in certain cities, as had been the case with Ko-ro-ba. Women were permitted status within the caste system and had relatively unrestricted existence. Indeed, in Ko-ro-ba, a woman might even leave her quarters without first obtaining the permission of a male relative or free companion, a freedom which was unusual on Gor. The women of Ko-ro-ba might even be found sitting unattended in the theater or at the reading of epics. Outlaw of Gor, Page 49 On Gor a woman normally travels only with a suitable retinue of armed guards. Women, on this barbaric world, are often regarded, unfortunately, as little more than love prizes, the fruits of conquest and seizure. Too often they are seen less as persons, human beings with rights, individuals worthy of concern and regard than as potential pleasure slaves, silken, bangled prisoners, possible adornments to the pleasure gardens of their captors. .... -=Outlaw of Gor, Page 50=- "even girls who will be free companions, and never slaves, learn the preparation and serving of exotic dishes, the arts of walking, and standing and being beautiful, the care of a man's equipment, the love dances of their city, and so on." -=Nomads of Gor, Page 63=- "I have never been in one of these places before," she said. "I now understand why it is that free women never enter Paga taverns." -=Assassins of Gor, Page 22=- "Elizabeth, besides speaking boldly out on a large number of delicate civic, social and political issues, usually not regarded as the Province of the fairer sex, categorically refused to wear the cumbersome Robes of Concealment traditionally expected of the free woman. She still wore the brief, exciting leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl and, when striding the high bridges, her hair in the wind, she attracted much attention, not only, obviously, from the men, but from women, both slave and free." -=Assassin of Gor, Page 74=- "There is a Gorean saying that free women, raised gently in the high cylinders, in their robes of concealment, unarmed, untrained in weapons, may, by the slaver, be plucked like flowers." -=Hunters of Gor, Page 118=- "...For example, there is no higher person, nor one more respected, than the Gorean free woman. ..." -=Hunters of Gor, Page 311=- "Goreans, in their simplistic fashion, often contend, categorically, that man is naturally free and woman is naturally slave. But even for them the issues are far more complex than these simple formulations would suggest. For example, there is no higher person, nor one more respected, than the Gorean free woman. Goreans do believe, however, that every woman has a natural master or set of masters, with respect to whom she could not help but be a complete and passionate slave girl." -=Hunters of Gor, Page 311=- "The free woman was a tall woman, large. She wore a great cape of fur, of white sea-sleen, thrown back to reveal the whiteness of her arms. Her kirtle was of the finest wool of Ar, dyed scarlet, with black trimmings. She wore two broaches, both carved of the horn of a kailiauk, mounted in gold. At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women of Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife; at her belt too, hung her scissors, and a ring of many keys, indicating that her hall contained many chests or doors; her hair was worn high, wrapped about a comb, matching the broaches, of the horn of kailiauk ; the fact that her hair was worn dressed indicated that she stood in companionship; the number of her keys, together with the scissors, indicated that she was mistress of a great house. She had gray eyes; her hair was dark; her face was cold and harsh." -=Marauders of Gor, Page 156=- "An unowned girl, a free woman, thus, can never experience her full sexuality. ...Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and important 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 fight passion; the free woman must remain cool and in control of herself, even in the arms of her companion, to avoid being truly 'had,'..." -=Tribesmen of Gor, Page 17=- "Rich, vain women of high caste may wear ostentatiously as many as nine or ten veils. . . . The veil, it might be noted, is not legally imperative for a free woman; it is rather a matter of modesty and custom. Some low-class, uncompanioned, free girls do not wear veils. Similarly certain bold free women neglect the veil. Neglect of the veil is not a crime in Gorean cities, though in some it is deemed a brazen and scandalous omission. In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be for most practical purposes unknown, even among free women. The cities of Gor are numerous and pluralistic. Each has its own history, customs and traditions. On the whole, however, Gorean culture prescribes the veil for free women." -=Slave Girl of Gor, Page 107=- "...Slave girls relish compliments. Indeed, there is a Gorean saying to the effect that any woman who relishes a compliment is in her heart a slave girl. She wants to please. Most Gorean men would not think twice about collaring a girl who responds, smiling, to compliments. It is regarded as right to enslave a natural slave. ..." -=Beasts of Gor, Page 17=- "...It is not wise to try to tear away the garments of a free woman with one's bare hands. They may contain poisoned needles." -=Beasts of Gor, Page 402=- "This type of response, however, however natural on Earth in such a situation, would not be feasible on Gor in a slave. Gorean free women, of course, may do what they wish. The slave girl, on the other hand, does not compete with the master, but serves him." -=Explorers of Gor - Page 39=- "Only slave girls, on Gor, reveal their navels." -=Explorers of Gor, Page 334=- "Is she free?" asked Ayari. "No," said Kisu. "Have her put her arms over her head, wrists back to back," said Ayari. "Do so," said Kisu. Tende complied. . . . The lovely posture which Tende had just assumed was undeniably one of the initial postures of certain slave dances. . . . No free woman, for example, would dare to place herself in such a position before Gorean free men, unless perhaps, weary of her misery and frustration, she was begging them, almost explicitly, to put her in a collar. There are many stories of Gorean free women, sometimes of high caste, who, as a lark or in a spirit of bold play, dared to dance in a paga tavern. Often, perhaps to their horror, they found themselves that very night hooded and gagged, locked in close chains, lying on their back, their legs drawn up, fastened in a wagon, chained by the neck and ankles, their small bodies bruised on its rough boards as they, helpless beneath a rough tarn blanket, are carried through the gates of their city. -=Explorers of Gor, Page 342=- "Free women, in being free, command attention when they speak. It is their due." -=Explorers of Gor, Page 354=- Free Gorean women, incidentally, enjoy a prestige and status which, it seems to me, is higher than that of the normal Earth woman. -=Explorers of Gor, Page 459=- "Free women, drinking, commonly lift their veil, or veils, with the left hand. Low-caste free women, if veiled, usually do the same. Sometimes, however, particularly if they are in public, they will drink through their veil, or veils. Sometimes, of course, free women will drink unveiled, even with guests. Much depends upon how well the individuals are known, and who is present. In their homes, of course, with only the members of their families present, or servants and slaves, most free women do not veil themselves, even those of high caste." -=Fighting Slave of Gor, Page 276=- "I shall not expatiate on what manner of place this is," said Ginger, "for you, yourself, shall soon learn, and well. And this is not how they treat all women. Women on this world, most of them, enjoy a status and freedom of which you, from Earth, cannot even conceive. Their raiment is splendid, their station is lofty, their mien is noble, their prestige is boundless. Dread them and fear them--". -=Savages of Gor, Page 129=- There seem to be two major reasons why free women are seldom raped on Gor. first, it is thought that they, being free, are to be accorded the highest respect, and secondly, slave females are regarded as being much more desirable." -=Guardsman of Gor, Page 184=- The men, save I, rose as one to their feet, for Gorean men commonly stand when a free woman enters a room." -=Guardsman of Gor, Page 255=- Whereas a free woman may often make a man angry with impunity, she being lofty and free, this latitude is seldom extended to the slave. -=Blood Brothers or Gor - Page 221=- Some Goreans think of the Free Companionship as being a form of contract slavery; this is not, of course, precisely correct; on the other hand, if more women took that definition seriously, I have little doubt but what free companionships would be far more rewarding than they now are, for many couples. They might then, under that interpretation, and held contractually enforceable on the woman, be that next best thing to her actual slavery. -=Blood Brothers of Gor, Page 246=- "I inclined my head, "Lady," said I, acknowledging the introduction. To a free woman considerable deference is due, particularly to one such as the Lady Rowena, one obviously, at least hitherto, of high station." -=Players of Gor, Page 12=- "...A free woman is inordinately precious. She is a thousand times, and more, above a mere slave." -=Players of Gor, Page 92=- "I am a free woman," she said. "How can you, a free man, deny me anything I want?" "Easily," I said. She looked at me, angrily. "Many free women believe they can have anything they want, merely by asking for it, or demanding it," I said, "but now you see that that is not true, at least not in a world where there are true men." -=Players of Gor, Page 119=- "...in some cities an unveiled free woman is susceptible to being taken into custody by guardsmen, veiled, by force if necessary, and publicly conducted back to her home. ...Repeated offenses in such a city usually result in the enslavement of the female....." -=Players of Gor, Page 125=- "Beware your words," I cautioned her. "I am a free woman," she said. "I can speak as I please." I could not gainsay her in this. She was free. She could, accordingly, say what she wished, and without requiring permission. -=Mercenaries of Gor, Page 7=- "I am sure you find free women of some interest," she said. "Certainly I find them of interest," I said. The most interesting thing about them, of course, was that they could be seized and enslaved. After that they might become of real interest to a man. The female slave, of course, yours in her servitude, is ten thousand times more interesting than a free woman could ever dream of being. In any contest of desirability the free woman must always lose out to the slave, and if she does not seem to do so, then let her be enslaved, and see how she then, suddenly, in a moment, competing then with her former self, becomes ten thousand times more desirable than she ever was as a mere free female." -=Mercenaries of Gor, Page 346=- "She looked up at me in wonder, blood at her mouth. She had been cuffed. "Did you strike me because I challenged your manhood?" she asked. "I did not really mean it. It is only that I was terribly angry. I did not think." "You were not struck for such an absurd reason," I said. "You are, after all, a free woman, and free women are entitled to insult, and to attempt to demean and destroy men. It is one of their freedoms, unless men, of course, should decide to take it from them. You were struck, rather, because you were attempting to manipulate me." -=Mercenaries of Gor, Page 422=- "In Ar's Station," he said, "as in Ar, robes of concealment, precisely, are not legally obligatory for free women, no more than the veil. Such things are more a matter of custom. On the other hand, as you know, there are statutes prescribing certain standards of decorum for free women. For example, they may not appear naked in the streets, as may slaves. Indeed, a free woman who appears in public in violation of these standards of decorum, for example, with her arms or legs too much bared, may be made a slave." -=Renegades of Gor, Page 367=- "Any free woman who couches with another's slave, or readies herself to couch with another's slave, becomes herself a slave, and the slave of the slave's master. ..." -=Magicians of Gor, Page 7=- "Perhaps free women are incomprehensible. A Gorean saying came to mind, that the free woman is a riddle, the answer to which is the collar." -=Magicians of Gor - Page 50=- "A free woman may speak to a Free Man in any way she pleases, even with impertinence and the man must abide but seldom is this luxury allotted to a slave. The demeaning of men, whereas it is permitted to, and not unknown among, free women, is not permitted to female slaves. Such, on their part, can be a capital offense." -=Magician of Gor, Page 227=- Also do not forget the FW has been known to hold the leash on occasions. "Is it not safer to cower in the caves of lies than to stand upon the cliffs of truth, surveying the world? Yet when one stands in the sunlight, and feels the winds of reality, how dank and shameful seem the dark shelters of falsehood, and how foolish it seems then to have once feared daylight and fresh air." -=Fighting Slave of Gor, Page 103=- "I feared she might release in me things which I feared to understand, because I feared she might release in me something proud and savage, something which would be a stranger to apologies and pretenses, something long-forgotten and mighty, something which had been bred in caves and the hunt, something which might be called man." -=Fighting Slave of Gor, Page 111=- I strongly stress sitting in observe and reading the rules for the page you wish to enter, if no rules are present IM someone sitting there and ask questions, get safe passage granted before you just waltz in or you may find yourself dead or in someones collar. |
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