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| Northern Women and bonds | |
| By: Oreo Date: February 25, 2014, 10:51 pm | |
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| Hatred of slaves seems to be more pronounced in the free women | |
| of the North. | |
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| Women of Torvaldsland | |
| I heard a woman sobbing with emotion to my right. "Praise the | |
| Priest-Kings," she repeated endlessly to herself, nodding her | |
| head up and down | |
| Near her , bored, was a slender, blondish girl, looking about. | |
| He r 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 log woollen 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. | |
| She saw me regarding her with interest, and looked away. | |
| Marauders of Gor, page 25 | |
| I looked again upon the slender, blondish girl, bored in the | |
| crowd. Again she looked at me, and looked away. She was richly | |
| dressed. The cape of white fur was a splendid fur. The scarlet | |
| vest, the blouse of white wool, the long woollen skirt, red, | |
| were fine goods. The buckle from Cos was expensive. Even the | |
| shoes of black leather were finely tooled. I supposed her the | |
| daughter of a rich merchant. There were other good looking | |
| wenches, too, in the crowd, generally blond girls, as are most | |
| of the northern girls, many with braided hair. They were in | |
| festival finery. This was holiday in Kassau. Marauders of Gor, | |
| page 34 | |
| I examined the younger women on the platform. None, it seemed to | |
| me, was as excellent as the slender blond girl in the cape of | |
| white sea-sleen fur and scarlet vest. One was, however, not | |
| without interest. She was a tall, statuesque girl, lofty and | |
| proud, grey-eyed. She wore black and silver, a full, | |
| ankle-length gown of rich, black velvet, with silver belts, or | |
| straps, that crossed over her breasts, and tied about her waist. | |
| From it, by strings, hung a silver purse, that seemed weighty. | |
| Her blond hair was lifted from the sides and back of her head by | |
| a comb of bone and leather, like an inverted isosceles triangle, | |
| the comb fastened by a tiny black ribbon about her neck and | |
| another such ribbon about her forehead. Her cloak, of black fur, | |
| , from the black sea sleen, glossy and deep, swirled to her | |
| ankles. It was fastened by a large circular brooch of silver, | |
| probably from Tharna. She was doubtless the daughter of a very | |
| rich man. Shewould have manysuitors. Marauders of Gor, page 35 | |
| "Go to the bond-maid circle," said IvarForkbeard, indicating the | |
| circle he had drawn in the dirt. | |
| The women cried out in misery. To enter the circle, if one is a | |
| female, is, by the laws of Torvaldsland, to declare oneself a | |
| bond-maid. A woman, of course, need not to enter the circle of | |
| her own free will. She may, for example, be thrown within it, | |
| naked and bound. Howsoever she enters the circle, voluntarily, | |
| or by force, free or secured, she emerges from it, by the laws | |
| of Torvaldsland, as a bond-maid. Marauders of Gor, page 45, 45 | |
| Notes on Habiliment | |
| Now, Helga was not a common women of the North, her father was | |
| the richest men known or very close to it, she didn�t need to go | |
| outside and walk in the mud and do chores like most common free | |
| women would. | |
| She wore rich green velvet, closed high about her neck, trimmed | |
| with gold. | |
| She took the next vial, which I had opened for her. �No,� she | |
| said, handing it back to me. | |
| Her hair, long, was braided. It was tied with golden string. | |
| Marauders of Gor, page 112 | |
| Her hands wore many rings. About her neck she wore, looped, four | |
| chains of gold, with pendants. On her wrists were bracelets of | |
| silver and gold. Marauders of Gor, page 114 | |
| My assistant and I knelt before her, at her feet. She wore, | |
| beneath her green velvet, golden shoes. Marauders of Gor, page | |
| 115 | |
| A bad habit on Gor is to see free women coddling, petting, | |
| touching, hugging slaves and bond-maids. Free women simply do | |
| not like bond-maids, they are all that they hate, they deal with | |
| them impersonally and swiftly. | |
| This is a wooden walkway, about five feet wide and one hundred | |
| feet long. On the walkway, back and forth, smiling, looking one | |
| way then the other, turning about, parade stripped bond-maids. | |
| They are not for sale, though many are sold from the platform. | |
| The platform is instituted for the pleasure of the free men. It | |
| is not unanalogous to the talmit competitions, though no talmit | |
| is awarded. There are judges, usually minor Jarls and slavers. | |
| No judge, incidentally, is female. No female is regarded as | |
| competent to judge a female�s beauty; only a man, it is said, | |
| can do that. Marauders of Gor, page 153 | |
| Hatred of slaves seems to be more pronounced in the free women | |
| of the North. | |
| It can not be said enough, that northern woman even more then | |
| there southern sisters despise bond-maids, it is clearly | |
| mentioned that they are a thousand times above sultry bond-maids | |
| and all bond-maids we see are sensual and sexually open as soon | |
| there are no free women around. Free women will disregard this | |
| quote and not all the quote is emboldened or in italics not to | |
| anger, but these are facts one should take into consideration. | |
| Free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, | |
| female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for | |
| some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because | |
| they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not | |
| themselves as beautiful as women found fit, by lusty men with | |
| discerning eyes, for slavery; it is difficult to know what the | |
| truth is in such matters; these matters are further complicated, | |
| particularly in the north, by the conviction among free women | |
| that free women are above such things as sex, and that only low | |
| and loose girls, and slaves, are interested in such matters; | |
| free women of the north regard themselves as superior to sex; | |
| many are frigid, at least until carried off and collared; they | |
| often insist that, even when they have faces and figures that | |
| drive men wild, that it is their mind on which he must | |
| concentrate his attentions; some free men, to their misery, and | |
| the perhaps surprising irritation of the female, attempt to | |
| comply with this imperative; they are fools enough to believe | |
| what such women claim is the truth about themselves; they should | |
| listen instead to the dreams and fantasies of women, and recall, | |
| for their instruction, the responses of a free woman, once | |
| collared, squirming in the chains of a bond-maid. These teach us | |
| truths which many women dare not speak and which, by others, are | |
| denied, interestingly, with a most psychologically revealing | |
| hysteria and vehemence. �No woman,� it is said, �knows truly | |
| what she is until she has worn the collar.� Some free women | |
| apparently fear sex because they feel it lowers the woman. This | |
| is quite correct. In few, if any, human relationships is there | |
| perfect equality. The subtle tensions of dominance and | |
| submission, universal in the animal world, remain ineradicably | |
| in our blood; they may be thwarted and frustrated but, thwarted | |
| and frustrated, they will remain. It is the nature of the male, | |
| among the mammals, to dominate, that of the female to submit. | |
| The fact that humans have minds does not cancel the truths of | |
| the blood, but permits their enrichment and enhancement, their | |
| expression in physical and psychological ecstasies far beyond | |
| the reach of simpler organisms; the female slave submits to her | |
| master in a thousand dimensions, in each of which she is his | |
| slave, in each of which he dominates her. | |
| �Shameful!� cried the free woman. | |
| In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of | |
| her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her | |
| surrenderings, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly | |
| to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her | |
| exaltation, her joy; in the Gorean mind this matter is simple; | |
| it is the nature of the female to submit; accordingly, it is | |
| natural that, when she is forced to acknowledge, accept, express | |
| and reveal this nature, that she should be almost deliriously | |
| joyful, and thankful, to her master; she has been taught her | |
| womanhood; no longer is she a sexless, competitive pseudoman; | |
| she is then, as she was not before, female; she then finds | |
| herself, perhaps for the first time, clearly differentiated from | |
| the male, and vulnerably, joyfully, complementary to him; she | |
| has, of course, no choice in this matter; it is not permitted | |
| her; collared, she submits; I know of no group of women as | |
| joyful, as spontaneous, as loving and vital, as healthy and | |
| beautiful, as excited, as free in their delights and emotions, | |
| as Gorean slave girls; it is true they must live under the will | |
| of men, and must fear them, and the lash of their whips, but, in | |
| spite of these things, they walk with a sensuous beauty and | |
| pride; they know themselves owned; but they wear their collars | |
| with a shameless audacity, a joy, an insolent pride that would | |
| scandalize and frighten the bored, depressed, frustrated women | |
| of Earth. | |
| �I do not approve of the platform,� said the free woman, coldly. | |
| Forkbeard did not respond to her, but regarded her with great | |
| deference. | |
| �These females,� she said, indicating the Forkbeard�s girls, who | |
| knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, �could be better | |
| employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter.� | |
| The habiliments of Bera again is that of a woman that is | |
| companioned to one of the richest man in Torvaldsland, by her | |
| clothing and accoutrements, it is easy to determine her status | |
| among others. The wool used for her kirtle is from Ar. | |
| 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 brooches, both carved of the | |
| horn of kailiauk, mounted in gold. At her waist she wore a | |
| jewelled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, | |
| twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women in 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 brooches, of the horn of kailiauk; the fact that | |
| her hair was worn dressed indicated that she stood in | |
| companionship; the number of 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 154 to 156[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 170-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Northern Women and bonds | |
| By: Oreo Date: February 25, 2014, 10:58 pm | |
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| Free women might retire early from the hall of their men...after | |
| making the life of bond-maids miserable of course.. | |
| Male thralls turned the spits over the long fire; female | |
| thralls, bond-maids, served the tables. The girls, though | |
| collared in the manner of Torvaldsland, and serving men, were | |
| fully clothed. Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained | |
| with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were | |
| barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with | |
| strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their | |
| faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and grease; | |
| they were worked hard; Bera, I noted, kept much of an eye upon | |
| them; one girl, seized by a warrior, her waist held, his other | |
| hand sliding upward from her ankle beneath the single garment | |
| permitted her, the long, stained woolen kirtle, making her cry | |
| out with pleasure, dared to thrust her lips eagerly, furtively, | |
| to his; but she was seen by Bera; orders were given; by male | |
| thralls she was bound and, weeping, thrust to the kitchen, there | |
| to be stripped and beaten; I presumed that if Bera were not | |
| present the feast might have taken a different turn; her frigid, | |
| cold presence was, doubtless, not much welcomed by the men. But | |
| she was the woman of Svein Blue Tooth. I supposed, in time, | |
| normally, she would retire, doubtless taking Svein Blue Tooth | |
| with her. It would be then that the men might thrust back the | |
| tables and hand the bond-maids about. No Jarl I knew can hold | |
| men in his hall unless there are ample women for them. I felt | |
| sorry for Svein Blue Tooth. This night, however, it seemed Bera | |
| had no intention of retiring early. I suspected this might have | |
| accounted somewhat for the ugliness of the men with the | |
| entertainers, not that the men of Torvaldsland, under any | |
| circumstances, constitute an easily pleased audience. Generally | |
| only Kaissa and the songs of skalds can hold their attention for | |
| long hours, that and stories told at the tables. | |
| Marauders of Gor, page 195-196 | |
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