The Null Device

First the Heinleinian pagans and now this: Salon has a fascinating article about the Gor books, bombastic pulp scifi S&M erotica about a planet where "men are men and women are slaves", and the subculture of real-life Goreans, of various degrees, who subscribe to the principles of male domination and female slavery:

The Gorean Argument, something of a definitive statement by "Marcus of Ar," a major contributor to the Silk and Steel site, says that "the process of evolution has naturally selected for strong, competitive males, and females who were both desirable to such men, and who were in turn attracted to such men. ... Weak males would not survive the competitive selection process to reproduce. Females who were not attractive and responsive to strong men would not be selected to reproduce. Therefore, nature being what it is, the non-competitive and unattractive geneaological [sic] lines would fade away and the strong and attractive lines would continue to survive."

Julian also disputed, on theoretical grounds, the very foundation of the Gorean lifestyle as it is being lived: the consensual nature of the slavery entered into by women... Julian's fantasy is that he would be able to make a woman surrender to him totally if he were somehow able to "get away with" kidnapping and "training" her to please him.

(Seeing this reminded me of The Houseplants of Gor.)

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