"They
all wear collars," is the first portion of a familiar
exchange, of which Goreans are fond. The second, and concluding,
portion of the exchange is, "But each in her collar
is different." This exchange, I think, makes clear
the attitude of the Gorean toward the slave girl. In one
sense, she is nothing, and is to be treated as such, but,
in another sense, she is precious, and is everything.
---Guardsman of Gor
, 20:260
Collaring
(Collars and collaring are discussed on
the collar page)
Eye
Contact
Commonly, in the presence of free men
and women, and especially in public, the slave
keeps her head down, her eyes to the ground.
This rule of attitude and demeanor is not,
however, as simple as it would seem. On one
hand, the condition of slavery basically forbids
the slave from presuming that she is allowed
to dare look into the eyes of any free person;
on the other, the extreme personal nature
of the master/slave relationship makes eye
contact yet another way the slave shows she
hides nothing.
I thought Grunt was wise not to have the girls
look into the eyes of the Fleer warrior. Such
an exchange of glances or looks, can be like
an electric shock, an encounter almost fearfully
significant. Who knows what each might recognize
in the eyes of the other? Does she see in
his eyes that he is one such as might be her
master? Does he see in her eyes that she is
one who could not help but acknowledge herself
and soon, despite what she might now take
to be her desires, his helpless and natural
slave? Sometimes, at as little as a meeting
of eyes, masters and slaves know one another.
"I must have her. She is mine,"'
he tells himself. "I belong to him. I
am his slave," her hearts whispers to
her.
This
matter of eye contact is interesting and has
many facets. One
of the most initially frightening and disturbing
things to Earth women brought to Gor as slaves
is the way Gorean men look at them. They are
not used to being looked at as women, truly,
with appraisal, desire and ownership. This
tends, in the beginning, when they are still
new to their collars, to confuse and frighten
them, but also, of course, as it will continue
to do, and even more powerfully, to stimulate
them. It is the first time that they have
found themselves in the order of nature, and