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What's New on Zhor?
Continuing Feature!
This month Christopher Leeson has a new segment to add to his ongoing illustrated story in verse. The Chirstmas season is upon us and our heroine Lulu is a special gift waiting to be unwrapped. To look in on Christopher's latest contribution, click Busted.
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New Frontispiece! As always, we're featuring a new limerick frontispiece this month, this one is called Club Girl.
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Spiff is Terrif!
Our ace contributor Spiff has sent us a number of new Zhor short-shorts in verse
and we plan to post one of them each month while they last. The current one is called Making
a Slave. To get a vew of "Making",
click here. Better still, this month Spiff has sent us a great new prose adventure set on the world of Zhor.
Can a courageous warrior resist the slave urges imposed by Ruk's Serum long enough to complete a vital mission
for his liege lord? Find out in Thaumatrope.
We've done a few refinements to our "World of Zhor" fact sheet. To see tne new draft, hit the link at the bottom this page.
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Mission Statement for the World of Zhor
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Zhor is an otherworldly TG universe inspired by John Norman's GOR series. We try hard to make it more than a mere pastiche, despite our admiration for the Norman series. Even so, one who is familiar with Gor can fill in unknown gaps of knowledge with parallels from the books, just so long as they concern the cultural and erotic life of the two planets. In general, both planets are ostensibly at old Earth's Hellenistic stage of development and erotic slavery is widely practiced upon both of them.
On Gor the great majority of people are free. But there has always been a small slave population, one which seems much larger than it actually is because Norman's stories usually deal with persons, especially beautiful young women, who are enslaved. Some women seek the enbonded life voluntarily (many women being possessed of the gene that makes them seek male domination), but most enter slavery through capture in war, abduction by bandit raiders, or by professional slavers. Also, legal judgments send many women into slavery. (Males more often are sentenced to terms of forced labor instead). A great many Gorean slaves (both sexes) are mere drudges, doing the same chores that servants and slaves on Earth accustomly performed for millennia during pre-industrial times. But this drab type of slave is only occasionally brought into a Gor story; it is the other kind of slave, the alluring female "pleasure slave," that we become most familiar with. And for this we should be grateful to author Norman.
A pleasure slave of Gor is selected for her sexual charisma. She is put to work at tasks where sexuality is at a premium: cup slaves (basically barmaids or cocktail waitresses), private pleasure slaves (concubines, harem girls), house servants (basically French maids), and public pleasure slaves (the fetching inmates of bordellos or the collared girls in tiny shifts, or sometimes merely slave briefs, who work as streetwalkers).
Most pleasure slaves experience male domination, though women may own male and female slaves also. Pleasure slaves go nude at their masters' whim or, alternately, must dress to please him -- usually in scanty garments resembling lingerie. Erotic slaves are expected to enhance their natural assets with cosmetics and scent. For a free woman to dress, paint her face, or use perfume -- normally considered fit only for a pleasure slave -- is to make herself the object of scandal.
Men, on the other hand, find their greatest joy in being the masters of female slaves. (There is a Gorean male sex slave called the "silk slave," vain, wimpish creatures for the most part, but Norman rarely deals with these unmanly Goreans). We may regret that while the creator of Gor goes to great lengths describing the erotic slave system of Gor, he never touches upon the TG subject. This avoidance continues all through the series, although he comes very close to the TG idea in one or two of the fantasies given in his Imaginative Sex, a long out of print collection of SF scenarios for lovers. This omission is unfortunate, for the science of Gor should have been able to achieve advanced forms of transsexual transformation. The main purpose of offering Zhor to the public, however, is to remedy this glaring lack, so that fans of Gor-type action fantasy may enjoy TG eroticism on a planet of exotic adventure.
Zhor is an open universe; we are happy to have new Zhor stories sent to us. We also allow such tales to be sent and posted elsewhere. However, we hope that folks will let us know where such stories have found a home, only so that we can enjoy them, too. We like best the Zhor tales where the emphasis is upon fun and romance. A Zhor story goes wrong, we think, when it emphasizes physical brutality and cruel punishments. Eroticism, not cruelty, is what Zhor is all about. To a true Zhor fan, the world is a Never Never Land of passionate love and erotic fulfillment.
Now, reader, how about sending us that Zhor story that you've been thinking of doing?
For a briefing on the details of Planet Zhor, here is a primer.
Click here to view "The World of Zhor" fact sheet.
For a first-rate example of how to skillfully work the different facets of Zhorian culture into a story of one's own, check out Aardvark's fantastic new Zhor novel at the link below:
Click here to view "The Warrior From Batuk."
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