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Gorean Commands and Positions
Eye Contact
A stimulation cage is an ornately barred,
low-ceilinged cage; it is rather roomy, except for the low ceiling about
five feet high. The girl cannot stand erect in it without her head
inclined submissively. In such a cage, and in training, when not in such a
cage, the girl who is housed in the stimulation cage is not permitted to
look directly into the eyes of a male, even a male slave. This is
designed, psychologically, to make the girl extremely conscious of males.
When she is sold then only, if the master wishes, he may say to her, “You
may look into the eyes of your master.” When she, frightened, tenderly,
timidly lifts her eyes to him, if he should deign to smile upon her, the
girl then, in gratitude and joy, at last permitted to relate to another
human being, often falls to her knees before him, an adoring slave. When
next she looks up, his eyes will be stern, and she will look down,
quickly, frightened. “I will try to serve you well, Master,” she whispers.
TRIBESMEN OF GOR; 10; Page 24
“Your head should be down, between your arms,”
I said. She put her head down. Again I saw a small movement in her body, a
tremor, subtle. She had put her head down before a man. Another
consequence of this position is that the girl’s eyes, in the specific act
of her serving, do not meet those of the master. They are lowered before
his, as one who submits. This is also reminiscent, in an experienced girl,
of her training. Often, in training, a girl is not permitted to look into
the eyes of the trainer, unless he should specifically extend this
permission. Indeed, in some cities, the girl in training may not raise her
eyes above the trainer’s belt, unless, again, specifically accorded this
permission. EXPLORERS OF GOR; 13 Pages 160-161
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 collar, 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 as what they are,
and it is the first time that they have found themselves being looked at,
frankly, and honestly, within the order of nature, and as what they are,
females, appropriate objects of male predation and desire. This
recognition of her femaleness, and this joy in release and self-discovery,
often comes as a stunning revelation to the Earth female. Never again,
once having discovered this, does she retreat to the conditioned ideals of
neuterism and pseudomasculinity, nor, indeed, even if she desired to do
so, would her masters permit it. Sometimes in training, incidentally, or
as a discipline or punishment, the slave is not permitted to look into the
eyes of the master. Indeed, sometimes, in training, she is not permitted
to raise her eyes above the belt of the trainer. Also, it must be
recognized that many slaves often, and perhaps all slaves sometimes, find
it difficult to look into the eyes of the master. He, after all, holds
total power over them and they fear to displease him. What if he should
interpret her gaze as suggesting the least insubordination or insolence?
Are they truly prepared to have the soles of their feet lashed or to live
on bread crusts for the next five days? But, on the other hand, there is,
on Gor, in circles of the mastery, no discouragement, commonly, of eye
contact between masters and slaves.
Indeed, in the deep and profound relationships of love and bondage, such
eye contact is usually welcomed and encouraged. What can be understood of
the glances of masters and slaves by those who have been united only in
lesser relationships? Too, to be sure, from the practical point of view,
it is useful for a girl to be able to look into the eyes of the master. In
this way she may be able to better read his moods, and desires, and,
accordingly, be able the better to serve him, in the process perhaps
saving herself a few cuffings and beatings, such as might be garnered by a
less alert, more slothful, laxer girl. To be sure, all girls, upon
occasion, are cuffed or beaten. This is good for them, and helps to remind
them that they are slaves. Beauty in a slave girl, incidentally, and most
slaves are beautiful, for this is the sort of woman that tends to be
enslaved, does not excuse poor service. The most beautiful girl must serve
with the same perfection as the lesser girl. Gorean masters are
uncompromising on this point.
From the point of view of the master, too, not only is it pleasant to look
into the eyes of a slave, but there are certain practical advantages
attached to doing so. For example, one might, in her eyes, read desire,
and thus order her to perform an act which she, even though a slave, might
not have dared to beg to perform, or, say, by looking into her eyes, one
might determine if she has been up to something or has neglected something
to which she should have attended. Has she been into the sweets? Has she,
perhaps gossiping and dawdling with the other girls, been amiss in the
discharge of her duties? Perhaps the shopping has not yet been done?
Perhaps the laundry has not yet been finished? Such infractions call for
discipline. But perhaps, in lieu of discipline, the master will accept the
performance of desperate placatory services on the part of the offending
slave. The decision is his. I would, incidentally, advise the slave to be
superb. SAVAGES OF GOR; 17 Pages 258-259
The girls continued to look ahead. They wisely
avoided direct eye contact with the appraising warrior, thus perhaps
precipitating an encounter crisis, in which, perhaps because, of
misconstrual or misinterpretation, he might feel prompted action. There
are various ways in which a woman may look into the eyes of a man. One
way, of course, is with a direct and self-assured gaze, as though she
might be the equal of the brute who regards her, the way of the free
woman. This is not to be recommended, of course, for a woman who is
scantily clad and has a chain on her neck. Such an insolence, at the
least, would be likely to win her beauty a bout the five-stranded Gorean
slave lash. Why do some women look into the eyes of a man in this fashion?
It is an interesting question. Some think that it is their way, perhaps
even half consciously, of challenging him to their subduing, of
challenging him to make them a woman, a slave. It is not unusual for a
woman, at any rate, who has looked into the eyes of a man in that fashion
to discover, later, that she is looking into his eyes in quite a different
fashion, that whereas she once may have regarded him directly, and
insolently, she now, perhaps kneeling stripped at his feet, in a locked
collar, bearing his identificatory device, lifts her eyes to his rather
differently, doing so now as a mere slave girl to her master.
SAVAGES OF GOR; 17;Pages 261-262
Kudos to you, Mr. Norman for writing the Gorean series!
A rich, yet utterly simple saga; a world, a time, a people;
those of the Counter-Earth .. the planet .. Gor.
Thank you!
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naia{Saul}.
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Counter-Earth Saga.
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