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THE WORLD OF ZHOR

Fact Sheet for Zhorian Universe Contributors

Prepared by Overlord

What is the World of Zhor and Why Did We create it?

Basically, the world of Zhor is a "universe" entertaining b&d tg fantasies inspired by the world of Gor, a popular adventure series that first appeared in the 1960's. But Zhor goes where Gor doesn't, i.e. it extends the erotic slave girl experience to male characters. The creator of Zhor welcomes one and all to write stories set in this universe.

Although this universe was suggested by the Gor novels, sometimes we have changed a Gorean term to a new Zhorian one, like "coin girl" becomes "alcove girl." Some terms are left the same, such as "pleasure slave." Mostly, when a term sounds unique to Gor, we have seen fit to suggest a change to it. In general, though, writers of Zhor stories cannot go far wrong if they coin new terms and institutions based on Gor's. Admittedly, it would be a tall order for anyone to read the Gor books in preparation for writing a Zhor story, as there are more than 20 of them and all are long books. Instead, a good quick-study net site would be the Gor fan site at http://members.aol.com/UbarLuther/Contents.html, which was still up the last time we looked. Other Gor sites can be found by net search and these can also provide a good summary background.

In this article we shall try to make clear how Zhor differs from Gor. Most importantly, it is to be found in a parallel dimension, not as another world elsewhere in space. It has a mix of animals, many brought over from Earth. People ride horses on Zhor; they don't fly on the backs of giant eagles (tarns). This makes it easier to illustrate the stories. (NOTE: There exists the possibility that Zhor was once an alien world with alien races and animals. The Overloads brought humans and Earth animals to Zhor, but some remnants of these the older life forms may still exist as monsters, curiosities, and odd encounters. No doubt it was the decline of native life that caused the Overlords to people their world with Earthers, beginning early in human history.)

As one reads about Zhor below, he will find numerous plot hints given. These are meant to suggest the style of adventures that occur on Zhor. Fans of Zhor may feel free to adopt such plots for stories of their own.

Zhor and Gor are worlds of paradox. Their way of life and war is largely ancient or medieval, but they command some remarkable advanced science. They do not have any long-distance communications or any type of transportation that didn't exist in Roman times or the Middle Ages. Nonetheless, humans live for centuries due to their mastery of DNA-related sciences. On both worlds an alien master race sees that mankind has the maximum opportunity to evolve to his full potential without the danger of destruction from advanced weapons of war or degenerate ideologies. This admirable aim is achieved by means of an imposed limit to science in certain destructive disciplines, and the prohibition of the means by which nonsense, hate, and falsehood are disseminated, e.g. broadcast networks and the printing press. In general, Zhor has a social culture that is genial to the human nature in its natural state. As a result, mental illness and the problems of social dysfunction are minimized.

Special Note: We offer Zhor as an open universe. We do not ask that all Zhor stories be submitted exclusively to The World of Zhor. While we would love to consider any submission for inclusion at our site, it is perfectly allowable to post one's own Zhor story elsewhere. Also, simultaneous posting at The World of Zhor and some other site of the writer's choice is also perfectly all right with us here at The World of Zhor.

Special Note II: The slave maids illustrating in this article have been selected exclusively from the ranks of the formerly-male serum girls.


ZHORIAN CULTURE IN OVERVIEW

The Zhor system is based on the city-state type of government. Some states are ruled by elected administrators, some by hereditary monarchs, some by usurping warlords. Zhorian empires are small, like the "empire" of Athens in our own ancient history.

Zhorian culture varies from place to place, but Zhorians put much stock in class and guild. Rulers generally come from the higher classes and there is a noble class, many members of which can belong to the warrior class. There is a prominent priest class and a merchant class. Other people are grouped into the "humble class," though sometimes members of this class are wealthy (traders, artists, scholars).

It is not easy to rise in class, but it is not uncommon. A common soldier who excels in arms and gains powerful patronage may be inducted into the warrior class. One can sometimes rise to the noble class, especially through marriage or the favor of a ruler. One of the humble classes may engage in trade and enter the merchant class, which does not have an iron-handed control over all forms of trade. (The merchant class is more interested in restricting trade in certain luxury products, controlling the most lucrative territories and monopolies, and enforcing practices good for its members.) Slaves are considered to have no class, but in practice their masters consider those slaves who were formerly of high class to be status symbols.

Beyond the small number of social classes, are the guilds. These are organized along the lines of specialized occupations, such as physician's guild, engineer's guild, ironworker's guild, and slave-trainer's guild. Guild members are expected to follow guild rules that protect their fellow members from competition and other difficulties. Breaking the rules may mean fines or expulsion from a guild. Guild members or even the law will often harass outcasts if they try to practice their specialized trade after disgrace. Classes and guilds tend to receive help and hospitality from the same classes and guilds in other cities, but political conflicts too often overshadow class and guild loyalties.

Some of the priest class are pious, but many are just careerists, like the higher clergy in the Middle Ages. The writer should bear in mind that the Overlords do not make a policy of communicating their will directly to the priests, though some priests may be agents of the Overlords, as may any Zhorian. The less sophisticated Zhorians sometime believe that priests know more of the Overlords' will than they actually do.

The lingua franca of Zhor is called "Rhinfew." Developed by merchants for the convenience of transactions in different lands, Rhinfew is used by many people for who travel. Most terms we shall use will be drawn from the common language of Rhinfew.


RUK'S SERUM

The TG element in Zhor stories is usually supplied by Ruk's Serum. Zhorian science allows people to remain young and -- usually -- healthy for centuries. A person is far more likely to die by violence than from natural infirmity. Despite their long lives, the Zhorians have excellent contraception, and so they do not overpopulate.

Also, on Zhor people can use science to rejuvenate or even change their bodies' appearance. This is actually easy and cheap to do on Zhor, like getting a flu shot on Earth. Thus Zhorians tend to be young and good looking, with well-exercised sexual libidos. It was a famous breakthrough to find a way to change a male to a female genetically. Since then, no one has found any reason to develop a serum to change females to males. These serums work by introducing a culture of new DNA into the human body and giving the body instructions to use the new DNA as the master DNA for the entire body.

[NOTE: The human body actually does replace itself over a period of months; for the sake of literature we shall allow that the Zhorian body-changing injections are much swifter and take only a few days. This may be far-fetched, but many professional fiction writers have allowed things even more unlikely. Such a vast change of, say, a seven-foot male into a slim five-foot girl, may leave us with a couple hundred pounds of mass to get rid of, as well as other physiological difficulties. We creators are willing to ignore this fact if Zhor fans are. As for the actual sensation of tranformation, we can assume that a serum subject usually goes into a delirium and will remember very little until she wakes up with the DNA takeover complete.]

It is good to be medically attended during the difficult process, but we will assume that most people can survive it unaided if necessary. Sometimes, perhaps only out of a malicious wish to increase the shock of the subject, a man is given Ruk's Serum while under anesthetic, and is kept that way, intravenously fed, until the change is complete. Then another drug, one to make the subject wake clear-headed, is given. To the awakened one, it will seem like "he" only dozed off a moment before waking up as a beautiful girl.

Ruk's Serum immunizes the body against all body-changing injections, except those that have the markers indicating that it is a new culture of Ruk's Serum that is being introduced. Medical researchers have tried to conterfeit the markers to induce a non-Ruk change, but so far without success. Needless to say, there is no way to reverse any of the effects of Ruk's serum, though a woman or serum girl can assume another woman's shape by treatment with a different culture of the serum. Physicians who cater to slavers have large inventories of stored DNA of women, most of them extremely beautiful. (The standards of beauty on Zhor run very close to the standards of beauty current at Playboy, Inc., by the way.) Beautiful Earth women are sometimes abducted for their genetic contributions, but they are sometimes released again once they slavers have what they want.

Only a small part of the male population ever suffers from sex transformation, and few men fret about the possibility of such a fate inadvertently befalling them, their cultural attitude being one of fatalism. Instead of commiserating with a serum girl, a Zhorian typically assumes that the best way to be kind is to help her accept her new sex and to become a good slave, if slave she is. Not all serum girls are enslaved, but common wisdom holds that no serum girl can be truly happy unless she becomes a pleasure slave. The actual percentages of free people who become slave on Zhor is about 2% but the total slave population is about 5%, since some women are born slave. The level at which new enslavements, slave deaths, and manumissions occur has stabilized at that level. Enslavement of the free is divided about evenly between those born male and female.

Probably, born-women are preferred a slaves by most men, since the male libido in a woman is hard for one man to satisfy. But males go about openly, are less protected by custom, and thus easier to seize for transformation, and their libido is a plus if they are placed into public slavery and require to give sexual recreation to many different men.

The Zhorians are content with their society and do not really desire more slaves than they already have. The powerful guilds, especially, do not want their members to be put out of work by a vast expansion of slave labor. Slaves do not do the crucial work of society; they are meant for household servants and sexual sport, something in the manner of Earth's Middle East in the 10th Century.

The male and female capacity for sex differs. No matter how virile, a man will soon exhaust himself physically in the act of sex. But serum girls are not satiated by a short period of sex, since women can experience multiple orgasms. A serum girl, if "ignited," normally needs to seek pleasure with man after man in a single night. This is why serum girls make better public pleasure slaves than do natural women; promiscuity being in their nature and their male-inherited sex-drive is greater. On the other hand, the lesser sexual needs of women make them better personal slaves in the homes of males, as most men, naturally enough, do not want to be importuned to provide service to a needful slave when he doesn't feel like indulging her.

But we cannot fairly stereotype the serum girl. Some men do not have powerful sexual libidos and as women these will make suitable inmates of pleasure stables. Incidentally, Zhorian men are better able to sustain themselves in sexual activity than are Earthers. Sexual enhancement is one of the most popular changes that men seek of physicians. Ironically these enhancements, even if artificially gained, will make them even more needful as serum girls and more easily "ignited," should womanhood be their fate.

Ruk's Serum Used on Born-Women

Ruk's Serum may be used on natural women. It causes them to take the new shape dictated by the serum's DNA culture, but they do not become lustier than they were originally. Vanora specifically instructed Ruk not to introduce male-intensity sex drives into women who received the serum, but only to preserve that which was already there. Her intention was, of course, to make former males the more desirable type for pleasure slavery. For a while Vanora fancied the idea of the serum having no effect on women at all, but at last allowed Ruk to let the serum make even women into natural slaves. For this reason, many born-women are given the serum upon enslavement. Vanora herself seldom used it this way, however, since she changed the policy of her house and only trained serum girls once the serum was a success.

The Serum-Girl Transformation

Who is transformed? The serum is cheap and widely available. If a city outlaws it, it can be found in another location, or bought from illegal dealers. Captive males, such as war prisoners, may be injected as a way of disposing of them profitably, should ransom not be available or desirable. Then, too, some individual males are seized by slavers and are injected. Runaway youths are especially vulnerable to this mishap. In some known cases, personal enemies have waylaid a hated one and injected him, perhaps with a thrown serum dart. As Zhorian males tend to think that being a female sexual slave is worst than death, transformation of criminals by law is considered a useful deterrent. Besides, prison is expensive, execution cruel, and penal mutilation and crippling creates useless drags on society. Transformation creates useful human livestock, and most transforees come to enjoy their lives. Ruk's Serum is, therefore, both humane and a boon to law enforcement. The criminal's life is spared and the girl's master becomes her "warden," privatedly covering her support expenses and acting to insure her good behavior.

Sometimes a victim is not enslaved by enemies, but is transformed and maliciously sent back to his own city. Free serum girls are often shamed at home, being so degraded. Oddly, one's city and family feels much less of the shame if their citizen or family member should be not sent home, but enslaved in some foreign city. This may be a case of "out of sight, out of mind." One who is enslaved is legally dead and can be mourned and honored as one of the departed.

Ruk's serum is also used in the treatment of otherwise incurable diseases. One dreadful affliction is Selyf-Digon, a scourge that only affects men of certain genetic lines; oddly, the male-to-male body serum will not cure a case of it, but Ruk's Serum will. The disease is so terrible, especially in is disfiguring qualities and the social shunning it brings about, that womanhood is viewed as acceptable by some.

Ruk's Serum may be used by persons working in espionage while working undercover. The disguise it provides is even better than simply changing a male's shape to that of a different male. Security forces know that spies often change their bodies and tend to check men's documents and cover stories carefully.

Few guards expect for a spy to come in the form of a degraded slave girl, knowing that the serum will bring urges that will probably render her ineffective. In one known case, a warrior volunteered to spy upon dangerous group in the guise of the enemy leader's favorite pleasure slave (who had been captured by agents of the Overlords in order to take DNA samples and replace her with a skilled spy). The spy, despite all, succeeded brilliantly. Not all men have strong sexual libidos, hence the Ruk girls they become are not so ruled by lust that it overrides all other considerations. Of course, all Ruk girls are also natural slaves, but not all are to the degree as to be debilitated by the condition. And those who are psychologically repressed do not suffer greatly at all. Alas, any prolonged repression can lead to emotional problems in the long run. It's a factor that Zhorian spy masters have to deal with.

There is the story of a man who accepted Ruk's Serum in the hope of working undercover to help a very valuable captive escape. And, also, men still speak of a private individual who so hated a rival that he willingly became a serum girl and had his servants send "him" to his enemy under a false identity, on the pretext of being a gift from an admirer. "His" plan was to slay the man when alone with him in his chambers. Fortunately for them both, she had underestimated the power of genetically-induced slave-need and yielded to him in helpless ignition. The two of them are love-master and love-slave to this day. It is unclear whether she ever admitted to him her natural identity.

However it may happen that they are transformed, some free serum girls try to continue on much the way they did as men. Others try to live as ordinary free women and may even pretend to be such. Free serum girls, alas, are often not successful at private life, as they must deal with perhaps ravenous urges. In the course of their long Zhorian lives, many free serum girls will eventually seek or be deliberately careless and fall into slavery. The rate of those who do is certainly over 50% and some would put the figure much higher. There is the case of a serum girl with dormant urges who lived in semi-seclusion for a hundred years doing scholarly work. Then a handsome man came to her mansion as a guest and suddenly her well-honed self-discipline seemed to dissolve. Yet she knew she did not want marriage. One thing led to another and today she is a branded girl in his pleasure stable. Though he prizes her, it pleases a man of action to keep such an intelligent and learned girl under strict discipline and brought in a skilled lash mistress to have her trained to serve a man in always. It is said her only regreat is that she could have found a love master a full century before she actually did. A truly intelligent Ruk-maiden is the one who submits to male authority as soon as she possibly can.

Then there is the story of the exclusive club of young rakehells doing questionable deeds in one Zhorian city. New would-be members had to prove their daring by playing an initiation game like Russian roulette. Ten syringes were set before them; in one syringe was Ruk's Serum, and in nine others was a harmless inert substance.

In another city there is a type of duel where if one duelist is rendered at the mercy of the other, he must choose either death on his opponent's blade or Ruk's serum and enslavement by his vanquisher. Zhor has many stories of the preceding type.
In most cases, when males consent to take Ruk's Serum they feel that their sacrifice is needed to serve a great end; they too often fail to think ahead to any subsequent consequences. Or, they are motivated by such zeal or hatred that it overrules their good sense. Few males realize how powerful is the slut-urge and slave-urge of the serum girl. Most think they can resist the changes in their nature, or be lucky enough to have them dormant, long enough to do their job. Sometimes they succeed, but very often their plans for the aftermath go astray.

In the case of the vengeful one mentioned above, he found that he -- she -- no longer clashed with his hated enemy now that they were relating not as two rival, dominate males, but as man and woman, master and slave. The self-made slave, before she realized it, became so enamored of her strong, handsome rival that she put away her idea of burying a dagger in his heart and, becoming ignited, instead eagerly received the man's great " dagger" into her receptive loins. In this famous case former enemies became love-master and love-slave.

Oernads

Free serum girls, moved by simultaneous slut-craving and slave-craving, often take hired lovers called oernads, kautels, or by other names. While this might feed their need for sex, it usually starves them emotionally. Some free serum girls are tormented by carnal cravings that tend to grow over the weeks and months from the imperceptible to the powerful.

Slave Clubs

Bondage clubs are known on Earth, but they are much more common on Zhor because legal sexual bondage exists everywhere and women, observing it, oftentimes are incited to intense erotic fantasies. Serum girls, tormented by induced genetic impulses that urge them to natural slavery and sexual hyper-activity, are frequently drawn to act out their impulses in club fantasies. But even born-women may attend them.

At the clubs women of all origins are guided by skilled bondage masters, most of whom belong to the Guild of Slave-Trainers. Some slave-play clubs specialize in providing the slave experience exclusively for serum girls, since Ruk-maids are most comfortable betraying their weaknesses among their own kind. Interestingly, some serum girls who go to club camps do so hoping that the experience will be so painful and degrading that they will lose the fantasy of being enslaved and raped. Oftentimes, though, club experiences actually exacerbates their forbidden drives and many Ruk-maids who have had the club experiences have crossed wrists before free men (sometimes pleasure-house keepers). Any Zhorian female who becomes a pleasure slave will probably a sexual bauble for the remainder of a life that may last many centuries, centuries of youth and beauty undiminished.

If compelled by an erotic obsession, a woman's club visits may become more frequent until they become the very center of the serum girl's life. Some women and serum girls become carried away and seek out true slavery eventually. To help such obsessive clients from going so far, some clubs have special camps, usually in the country, where the pseudo-training can be extended over weeks at a time. The volunteers agree they will not be released until the specified period and will accept true slave training, short of using excessive brutality. Sometimes their agreement allows the camp trains to provide them with sexual partners.

Oftentimes the club drills seems so lifelike to the volunteer that she panics wishes to be released. In such a case, the contract usually permits chaining, confinement, or even a limited number of lashes with the girl whip. By the end of the camp term, the girl has generally overcome her inhibitions and is eager to return later. It is interesting to think that a serum girl, perhaps an ex-warrior, will by degrees voluntarily become the equivalent of a trained slave girl. It is said that if such a girl is enslaved, the trainer has little to do to get her ready for the sale block.

The law of some cities looks down on such clubs, but places the onus for the mischief done there not on the powerful slave-trainers' guild, but on the women who cater to their degrading services. Constables sometimes raid clubs and free women who are found there naked or wearing slave tunics and collars can be arrested. Social disgrace and, if the city prohibition is particularly severe, possible enslavement will follow.

There are known cases where women or serum girls have actually impersonated pleasure slaves in public. Sometimes it is as innocent as dressing as a slave and being led by a faithful servant into the market to shop and be ogled by passersby. Sometimes it is much more extreme, such as paying a tavern keeper or pleasure-house matron to admit a free person to join, in disguise, the slave girls already there. This is considered much worse a moral offense than is going to private slave clubs. Zhorians believe that a woman who degrades herself degrades all free women. Sometimes only the legal enslavement of an offender will save face all around. But the danger to the woman is even greater than that. She may evade the law, but is usually reluctant to let anyone know where she is, and so she is at the mercy of those running the tavern or pleasure house.
An unscrupulous matron or taverner may, at a whim, gag, bind, and sell her to some unethical slave dealer. These buyers usually put a hood over the hapless female and chain her in a wagon of slaves going to another city, where she will be sold into true slavery.

How Zhorian Women are Protected

Zhor protects its women from wholesale enslavement. It is easiest to enslave a woman if she is a foreign captive. Taken away from the protection of her city and family, the mere touch of a branding iron oft suffices, under most jurisdictions, to degrade her status and there is no legal repercussion for the enslaver. Only if the foreign city is an ally of the woman's city is there is some risk from authorities. Such protection is informal, though, since the sacred law of the Overlords forbids treaties between states that lead toward power-collusion and empire-building attempts. Apparently, the Overlords prefer that Zhorians be able to move about Zhor, safe from persecution for acts done elsewhere and from extradition. Because what arrangements exist tend to be informal, even closely allied cities may show bias in favor of their own citizens in suits, such as those aimed at obtaining the return of a captive or one "wrongly" enslaved. In the past, the unfair adjudication of a prominent or outrageous enslavement case has caused allied cities to become enemies.

It is much more difficult for one to attain the legal enslavement of a desired woman in her own city, especially by foreigners. As referenced elsewhere, various types of crimes committed by a woman often results in her reduction to slavery. In such a case, she is generally placed on a state-run auction block with her history read aloud to a crowd of bidders. There are, alas, cases where a man lusting for a free woman has planted false evidence against her or has brought forward false accusers, but this is not common. The investigators of crime are generally quite skilled at revealing hoaxes. (In some cities false evidence and bogus witnesses can lead to the perpetrator's transformation (if a man) and enslavement.)

Nor is it always easy to enslave woman in her own city by using duress to force her to "cross her wrists" Coercion of a city's daughter negates the act of submission. Likewise, if blackmail is used to impel a woman to submit to slavery, the enslavement is not legal and the blackmailing would be considered a serious crime.

Sometimes the lust of a man for a free woman of his own city is so great that he will abduct her and take her to a foreign city, to which he offers his allegiance. Yet, newcomers are not always welcomed without bribes to city officials, and are sometimes regarded as potential spies. Moreover, Zhorians are patriotic and it generally brings great grief to a man of Zhor to change his city. A woman who somehow escapes a turncoat and returns to her own land stands a good chance of being freed by home authorities.

The male involved, unless he can prove his innocence, would be considered a criminal subject to charges if he returned. There is a recent case where a turncoat stole back into his former city to recover an escaped slave, only to be captured by her bodyguards and turned over to the law. Transformed into a serum girl, he was sold naked from a public auction block and now serves in his/her own city as a cup slave in a tavern frequented by bawdy sailors.

Many sly tricks are played to attain the enslavement of a woman by one who hates for lusts for her. Some cities have an enslavement penalty for insolvent debtors, their bodies being sold if their property does not cover their debts. A woman who becomes insolvent through gambling may find herself sold as a slave as the most disgraceful sort of debtor. Sometimes a woman who is a compulsive gambler is deliberately enticed into piling up a heavy load debt by one who seeks her enslavement. But any woman who is heavily indebted risks having her debts bought up by one who wishes to sue for her enslavement. Insolvent men, by the way, are generally banished as a bad character or placed on work gangs to pay back bad debts. Sex change and enslavement of males is usually reserved for crimes worse than insolvency. However, those who have already become female for whatever reason are subject to the same harshness of the law as other women.

Another trick used is seducing a woman or hiring a man to seduce them. If a woman can be persuaded to commit an illegal sexual act in front of hidden witnesses (as acts of teur -- fellatio -- might be) she may be tried and condemned to slavery. Tribadism is another crime that many cities will punish with enslavement. At least for a time, some serum girls are still attracted to women. Some cities make allowances for serum girls in this situation, but most do not. If seduced in front of reliable witnesses by a woman, both women may be tried for the crime and enslaved if convicted. In some cities, if a female citizen commits tribadism with anther's slave before witnesses, she becomes the property of the slave's master or mistress.

But public sales can be expensive and a man with no great estate may not be able to buy a woman he wants that way. Still other tricks may be used to avoid spending money, too many to name. In fact, where mysteries are popular on Earth, fictional stories about how clever men trick women whom they hate or lust for into slavery sell well in marketplace bookstalls, in some places illegally. Interestingly, many women enjoy this sort of literature. Reading it, they can fantasize about being abducted or tricked into slavery by strong, handsome men, and then deflowered in chains, stung with the girl whip, and compelled to betray their true nature as that of sluts and slaves.

Repressed serum girls often read this sort of literature also, favoring tales that describe the adventures of men who become serum girls and, usually, pleasure slaves. In some cities this sort of erotica is forbidden to women and it is a social disgrace to be revealed as a reader of it. A known taste for enslavement literature may put a woman into a bad light if she needs to oppose a citizen of good repute in court. Such a woman is considered to be prone to flights of fancy and maliciousness.

Another peculiarity of Zhorian culture is this: In most cities, Zhorian fathers have absolute rights over their wives and children under twenty, as in Ancient Rome. Wives and daughters may be killed or enslaved at will, though society will spurn a man who does such acts without cause. Sons may be killed, or injected with Ruk's serum before being sold as a slave. There is a recent case in the city of Hynodion where a nineteen-year-old rakehell son of a merchant seduced and impregnated the daughter of a noble. Rather than be driven from his city due to scandal, the father did the bidding of the girl's noble father and ordered the transformation of his erring son. He had a skilled physician move the fetus from the girl, whose family didn't want it, to the womb of his new daughter. (The killing of the unborn is held in wide abhorrence in most of Zhor, though they widely practice contraception. Even the bastard of a noble line adds dignity to a merchant clan.)

Though angry and rebellious in her pregnancy, the formerly rakish son was eventually brought to a painful childbed and delivered of a healthy daughter. As the serum increasingly made her more maternal and female heterosexual, she was married to the son of a family of lesser merchants (who could gain prestige and a large dowry of the match). The young couple became quite cordial in no time at all, and they even dared social censure by having another child. (The censure in such a case comes only because the long-lived Zhorians do not want to overpopulate.)

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PLEASURE SLAVES

The great majority of Zhorians are free, but their slave system is well developed. On Gor, our model for Zhor, males may be enslaved, though 90% of Gorean slaves are female. On Zhor (take note) only females may be enslaved. This is due to the will of the Overlords, who communicated their inflexible laws to men long ago. Zhorian priests devoted to worshipping the Overlords as the intermediates to the high gods keep the people aware of the will of Zhor's (presumably) divine masters. It is normal for civil law to pay deference to the will of the Overlords also. The Overlords, if offended, may intervene directly, perhaps by the god-sent "fire death," which seems to be a mysterious form of spontaneous combustion. There is no significant movement to free the slaves and any free Zhorian who interests himself in the dignity of thralls is looked down on as a weakling without the normal male drive of dominance. Free women who oppose the institution are even more scorned. People often assume that they speak in self-interest, that they suspect they are natural slaves themselves and wish to have slavery abolished before their natural impulses drive them to cross their own wrists before the men they desire.

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Social decorum therefore tends to make both men and women supporters of the existing system, at least in public.The proper attitude of a free Zhorian to slaves is that the gods of fate, not men, have caused a slave to be a slave.Slaves are to be managed with wise discipline, kept at the tasks assigned them, but should not to be used with unbecoming cruelty. In general, slaves are not badly treated Zhor, though no law protects them from death or mutilation. This is because Zhorians are psychologically a very healthy breed. (This is a situation that the Overlords seem to have brought about by their careful guidance of human development on Zhor.)

Men on Zhor are proud and paternalistic, reared to protect their households and serve their city. Women are trained to manage households and to anticipate the needs of men. To some degree, males tend to be heroic, while the women tend to be either satisfied or disgruntled. Disgruntlement usually comes from possessing slave urges and having no outlet for them. Perhaps the Overlords allow female slavery as a healthy outlet for women who need what slavery gives them.

Many non-pleasure slaves do domestic work, as in ancient Rome. Those who are considered pleasure slaves may act as harlots (alcove girls, cup girls, pleasure-house girls, etc.) or more respectable pleasure-stable girls, which are essentially harem girls. Many men of humble means have only one personal slave at a time, if any at all. Those with no slaves are common visitors to taverns and pleasure houses where public slaves are available for a fee. Many a public slave has been bought by a pleased customer and made into a pleasure-stable girl. Masters and slaves commonly fall in love and in the best cases, they relate to one another as "love-master" and "love-slave." Their love might be real and intense, but few Zhorians forget the master/slave part of any such relationship. As many slave girls are natural slaves, they would be very disappointed and start to behave badly out of frustration if their master acted weak and solicitous toward them. The sole slave in a humble house may have many work tasks to perform, such as cooking, sewing and cleaning, but she will also be expected to keep herself attractive and be attentive to the sexual and emotional needs of her master. Intelligent, sympathetic girls make the best slaves. Some women who never seemed to show a minute of sympathy in their free lives, discover stockpiles of tenderness once they have lived in slavery for a time.

How does a pleasure slave behave? Any slave who is not prepared to conduct herself like a heroine in a mainstream pornographic movie will probably be often punished and soon sold. A slave who continually disappoints is gradually sold down into the dregs of slave work. Such slaves are hard-driven by whips and are sometimes kept chained out of sight when not needed for labor. There are even masters who will buy the worst sorts of slaves for deliberate disfiguring or crippling, in order to send them out as pathetic objects with begging bowls.

Note: Bringing a woman into the psychological mindset of pleasure slavery is a progressive thing. The best slavers do not use force to bring a raw slave to the silks. They are instead dressed and treated as slaves, and given proper slave-like tasks to perform, until ripeness shows. Normally, before a serum girl can ignite, she must achieve psychological ripeness. A girl often becomes ripe while still a virgin, even without any slave instruction, indeed, while living entirely free. A serum girl who clings to mannish ways if often ignored by men. But if she shows developing ripeness she oftentimes attracts the interest of a would-be lover or even an abductor. When a serum girl has grown ripe -- perhaps without yet realizing it -- it means she has exchanged a male sex drive for a female one. If, for instance, a man seizes and kisses a newly ripe girl, she commonly finds herself becoming sexually excited by a male embrace for the first time. A ripe Ruk-maiden's body language may become provocatively female. Her reflexes and instincts declare to the world that "I am female; treat me as such." The hips of a ripe girl might sway in a seductive way, probably unconsciously. She might be observed stealing glances at handsome men, as if they both attract and thrill her. When a female has achieved true ripeness, she is ready to experience coitus with a man. Sex with a man will give her pleasure, while it probably would have have before had grown ripe. Without first attaining ripeness, an enslaved serum girl rarely attains the even more desirable condition of ignition.

Slavery as a way of life

Zhorians do not favor slaves of crushed spirit, as they find such girls dull companions. Private slaveholders (as opposed to those who are essentially pimps or whorehousekeepers) want spirit and personality as well as discipline in their pleasure slaves. From childhood, Zhorian men are trained to be masters, and so few slave girls can use their wiles to gain excessive influence over them. Though Suleiman the Great of Earth let a harem favorite, Roxanne, lead him by the nose and do things that led to the corruption and fall of the Ottoman state, a Zhorian in his place would have simply ordered Roxanne well whipped and kept in close confinement until she remembered that she was only a slave. If she did not, she would either be killed or sold. Zhorian males do not find ambition and manipulation lovable in a slave; they have enough of that from their wives. Interestingly, it is often said that the deepest and truest love possibly between a man and a woman is between a master and his pleasure slave.

There are many ways to fall slave on Zhor. Both amateur and professional abductors abound. Young Zhorian warriors gain much prestige if they capture a slave. It is permissible to steal another man's slave, but to capture a free woman is even more honored. As many cities are enemies, raids for women are common. Since serum girls have come into existence, they also may be taken as prizes.

Another custom widespread on Zhor is that if a man saves a woman's life, her life is assumed to belong to him. If she will not freely admit that he has actually saved her life, reliable witnesses must be called to testify. If the rescue is provable, honor demands that the woman be surrendered for binding. There is the case of a male of wealth and power who became, by misfortune, a serum girl. "She" decided to commit suicide out of shame, but was saved by a male passerby. She tried to escape enslavement by denying the rescue took place. In her very own city her rescuer sued for her enslavement and provided witnesses to the effect that she was alive only by his intervention. The serum girl's own family felt they had no choice but to yield her up, and actually had her collared and branded before taking her to her master's house. The rescuer thereafter kept his slave too busy in the silks for her to think about any second suicide attempt.

Captives

Zhorian warriors often take captives, and not always for enslavement. It is a status-earning act to capture an enemy male for ransom or an enemy woman for degradation and ransom. Zhorians do not do this out of hatred of women, but to insult her family or her city. A captive woman's treatment is governed by certain rules. Most of these rules boil down to the fact that a captor can treat her much like a slave, even to putting her to pleasure use. She may be enslaved at any time, of course, but this would serve to reduce the disgrace of her degradation, since slavery is considered a legal death in most cities. A living captive in disgrace is considered to be a galling dig at her family and city. Some families will refuse to pay ransom for a degraded captive, since her rescue will not erase the dishonor her carelessness has caused. Even if ransomed, a woman may afterwards be secluded by her kin, being considered unfit for normal society. Any marriage opportunity for her will tend to be very poor and beneath her, even if the family is willing to put up a large dowry. A woman so wronged and abandoned might eventually flee and become a forest girl, or she might actually prefer to accept the relative freedom of slavery and the protection of a master to a unending life of social inferiority among her own class.


Natural Slaves and Natural Masters

What is a natural slave? Zhorians believe that women have evolved an emotional symbiosis with males. The natural slave seeks the protection of alpha-males, superior men, in a situation that will give her the maximum number of children. Men who need to command like obedient women most, and have the most children by them. This causes gene selection and this trait strongly enters the gene pool. The psychology of natural slavery is complex, but one with a pronounced natural slave instinct tends to experience a thrill to find herself dominated, especially sexually, by the male.

Since natural slavery is genetic, the "slave-urge" gene can be isolated and artificially transferred to another person. Ruk took his gene cultures from the most pronounced of natural slaves for his basic serum culture.

Some are able to repress the urge to act as natural slaves, or at least to sublimate it. In still other cases, for some unknown reason, the natural slave instinct does not "kick in", but exists in only dormancy. Usually though, if the conditions are right, (i.e. the serum girl is slave-trained or she meets a male who arouses her) this repressed or dormant natural slavery is awakened. If it has been repressed or dormant for too long, natural slavery may go incandescent once it is finally released.
There is the case of the serum girl, never enslaved, who was a skilled "lash-mistress." She took the greatest pleasure in reducing other serum girls to the most shameless and abject of pleasure slaves. A male lash-master eventually developed a passion for this cold-hearted and fierce woman, but she was sublimating her powerful sexual drives in her work and would have nothing to do with any man. He left that slaver establishment eventually and dwelled in another city. Even so, he couldn't forget the fetching lash-mistress. He decided that if he couldn't have her as a wife or free mistress, he would have her as a slave. At last he returned and abducted the object of his passion. The former lash-mistress is presently training well. Now unable to sublimate her slut-urge and slave-urge in cruel, domineering ways, she has become quite a different person. Even so, it has taken her master much discipline and many a lusty bout in the silks to tame her pride and rebelliousness. By now, though, her conqueror knows that she is a prize worth any amount of trouble. In all of Zhor there is hardly a pleasure slave more abject and shameless than the former lash-mistress.

Admittedly, the natural slave instinct in a born-woman can vary; it may be very strong or be apparently missing. Women who work hard and living harmonious in their relationships are usually not natural slaves. Free women who are strongly inclined to natural slavery are oftentimes discontented and frustrated. Frustration can manifest itself as frequent exhibitions of ire, i.e. "bitchiness." Such women tend to make poor wives and poor companions. On the other hand, they make the best sort of slave, lusty and obedient, exercising great imagination in the giving of satisfaction and pleasure to strong and dominating men.

Maybe bitchiness is a generic-based trait, too, an unconscious signal to males that they should get angry and "put her into her place." Many a bitchy free woman on Zhor has suddenly found herself an (eventually) happy pleasure slave. There is little female slavery on Earth, and that may be why we find many bitchy women. However, the utter devotion of many streetwalkers to their pimps may be a sign that woman's nature is not very different between the worlds.
Males have not escaped evolution themselves. They tend to be natural masters. A natural master is one who is firm, confident, and dominating. Yet, he is not an egoist always in conflict with others. He recognizes the naturalness of social hierarchy and makes a loyal subordinate, but is one who can rise to command if called upon.

Nature seeks to give the natural master many offspring, so it has endowed males with a voracious sexual appetite. But when a man is made to feel evil or guilty simply because he is moved by natural-master instincts, as is often the case in the decadent societies of Planet Earth, men's psyches turns down dark alley ways and they are prone to perversion, crime, and cruelty. If a natural master becomes a serum girl, his instinct for natural mastery wars against a growing inclination toward natural slavery. Natural slavery almost always wins after months or years, because that is how Ruk custom-tailored his serum. Intense slave-girl discipline and sexual use speeds the triumph of natural slavery over natural mastery.
Admittedly, there are males endowed with the desire to be dominated, but they are rare on Zhor and they are generally thought to be uninteresting people.


FEATURES OF ZHORIAN SLAVERY

There is no common word for a male slave and such a person exists only in theory or metaphor. The very term "vaecwi" in the lingua franca of means "female" and "slave" inextricably (just as esclava in Spanish does), so to say "female slave" is actually a redundancy; a Zhorian slave can be nothing else.

Under Zhorian law a slave is an animal. She has no more rights than a cow. As had been said, killing one's own slave is not a crime. Killing another person's slave is an act against a master's property rights and may be punished as such. There are many rituals and protocols that govern slave behavior. These differ from place to place, but very common is the safie, the "slave position," kneeling with knees somewhat apart, eyes lowered, hands on thighs. One common method of slave conditioning is to command a girl to take the safie before a mirror and chant, "I am a pleasure slave. I am a pleasure slave."

Zhorian Garments

The familiarity of some Zhorians voyagers with Earth has brought the nether-closure garment, such as shorts and panties, to Zhor and it has increased in popularity, though such garments still generally regarded as part of a slave costume. They range from scanty to very scanty. At first, slaves rarely wore such items under slave silk; they were outer garment intended for male eyes to feast upon. It was thought that if a slave is wearing a dress-like garment, even a very short one, she should be bare beneath it. Increasingly, though, fashion permits the wearing of "slave briefs" with pleasure silks. This may be because males have learned to enjoy having something additional to strip from beautiful girls as a preparatory ritual working up to a luxuriant brolling.

In most places, a free woman who wore drawers under her dress is generally assumed to be fantasizing about being a disguised slave. To be denounced as one wearing undergarments would bring humiliation. Some respectable women have been marked for abduction when word of their secret wearing of slave garments became gossip. Men, however, much more commonly wear some types of undergarments -- most of them either like brief drawers or loincloths. Serum girls who persist in dressing like men may feel the loss of these male-signifying garments keenly when they are first stripped for slavery.

Free woman prefer slippers for foot wear and only slaves wear high heels. This is a fairly recent innovation borrowed from Earth. The beauty of high heels, allied to the discomfort of wearing them, makes them ideal for slave apparel. When dressed for sexual enticement, slaves may wear slippers, sandals, or go barefoot. A free woman or free serum girl who enjoys fantasizing being a slave will no doubt learn to walk in high heels on the sly, or at a slave club.

Even though public nudity is not remarkable, a Zhorian slave's nudity is usually reserved for the hours at home with her master. Then, too, if a slave has been displeasing, she may be sent about her public errands in the nude. Public alcove slaves often ply their arts naked, or very nearly naked. A fashion that started with them, the alcove thong, the arcoy is very like the G-string and may have been copied from Earthly originals. The is a gradation between what is a daring xxxx and the shameless alcof and one can scarcely say where one begins and the other ends.

Formerly free slaves find public nudity distressing until they have been conditioned to it. Such a slave will especially not like becoming a public slave in one of those establishments that customarily present naked slaves for their clientele's enjoyment. The "Inn of the Disrobed Slave" in Llygadlym is one of the most notable nude taverns.

There are many garment styles that have distinct names. Various designs are called "slave tunics" and their design will vary. The most common garment referred to as a tunic is a light, trim, and very short dress, usually sleeveless. The tasque is a more specific name for a garment that is especially enticing because it conceals the saer. A narrow, tight piece of cloth, it is held together by a clasp on the back, a fastening that a master finds easy for remove. It passes between the slave's legs and widens up the front to cover her breasts. The chanette is a more classic garment, one that looks very much like a pair of baby doll pajamas. It apparently dates back well before the Earth design, and so is probably a parallel design and not a borrowing from Earth. It is usually made of light, airy silk. Depending on whether it is held up by silk straps or by a saddle piece, it normally leaves the neck, arms and shoulders bare. Zhorians love to see a slave's legs on display and its hem, accordingly, is made to fall so high that it barely conceals the peren of its lovely wearer. Some are even shorter, but these are generally worn with slave briefs.

The Skills of Pleasure Slaves

Sexual athleticism is by far the most important slave skill, but pleasure slaves may also be taught to perform various entertainments, such as musical instruments and singing. One of the most frequently taught arts is dance. Some of the most beautiful slave garments worn by women of Zhor are dance costumes. Zhorian girls learn many slave dances, but, interestingly, Zhorians visiting Earth have learned of a dance that is more slave-like than any yet created upon Planet Zhor. This is the striptease. These days, many slaves are taught the Zhorian versions of the striptease, called the drefa-dex, and a Zhorian stripper is referred to as a "dex." Drefa-dex means "Dance of Slow Revelation." Although new pleasure slaves are generally trained in the nude, public undressing is considered even more abhorrent and most women dread learning the drefa-dex. Naturally, masters who think their girls are too proud (and too many raw serum girls come to the collar proud and defiant) make certain that their fetching wenches learn to perform the Zhorian striptease. Some dance slaves perform before personal guests and friends. Some taverns are famous for their public displays of the dex's dancer's art.

The Slave Brand, Collar, and Restraints

Very common on Zhor is the marking of slaves with the brand and the collar. The collar that is locked about a slave's throat is usually black leather, but may be of metal or other materials. It is the most visible and obvious indicator of a girl's servile status and it is also a powerful sexual symbol. In some places, to don a collar willingly is to pass into legal slavery. In other lands doing so is only considered decadent and disgraceful behavior, though lovers often use slave garments and implements in play. Most raw slaves wear locked collars so that they cannot be removed. Tame slaves may be allowed non-locking collars, which allow easy changing for various occasions and for easier hygiene. It is almost always a grave offense for a slave to be seen outside her own chamber in dishabille (i.e. uncollared.) If expecting her master or any other free person to visit her chamber, she should not receive such uncollared. Many collars are engraved to declare whose slave the wearer is.

The brand is usually the size of a half-dollar and these vary from place to place, but the most widespread slave mark is the "vaec." It looks like the stylized tongs of a trident and stands for the first letter of the word "slave girl" (vaecwi) in the language of Rhinfew. The most usual place for the brand is on the left hip, where a male may lovingly stroke it with the fingers of his right hand while he drives his twyll deep inside her needful body.

The brand has a mystic quality, though not all slaves are legally required to be branded in every city. In some principalities, the tattoo is a more popular means of marking. Commonly, a brand will of itself transform a free woman into a slave. It some lands it is not even possible for a woman to accept a slave brand as a disguise (confident that Zhorian cosmetic surgery can later remove it utterly) because the brand makes her a true slave regardless of the circumstances. For example, once a serum-girl spy consented to receive a brand in order to enter an enemy warlord's camp disguised as a dancing girl. Her spymaster, of necessity, had to perform the manumission ritual when her marking was finished. (In this case the ritual consisted of cutting of bindings placed around her wrists and pronounce the words, "I release you from bondage. Rise, free woman.")

Zhorian trainers often bind slaves for punishment. They also have many ingenious restraints. Most restraints are uncomfortable and humiliating, but as such serve as useful tools of discipline. Obstinate new slaves are often placed in these devices so that their helplessness and discomfort will make them realize that they are truly slaves and not mere captives. New serum girls, especially, can be very defiant upon enslavement. Hence they (more often than born-women) experience slave restraints. There are devices designed to force a slave into almost any desired position -- usually for the performance of sexual acts. By their use, a slave learns that sexual submission cannot be avoided. This leads her to realize that her life will be more comfortable if she performs as commanded without futile protests.

The most common whip used upon a slave is the "vaecwi" whip, which means "slave-girl" whip. This is a device of several broad thongs made of soft leather fixed on a handle. It is meant to sting, but not to bruise or break the skin. It hurts far more than one might expect. If a girl earns a lashing, ten strokes are considered lenient. A girl with a history of defiance and grave misbehavior can easily draw a hundred.

THE OVERLORDS AND THE OUTSIDERS

In the Zhorian mind the Overlords are angelic beings able to live hidden on Zhor and who work to fulfill the will of the vaguer "gods," which dwell in heaven. The Overlords are revered by those who believe in them, and sometimes actually worshipped. But theology holds that they are being much less in power and importance than the gods in heaven. To most Zhorians, the Overlords' true appearance is unknown. They live in Teirdon Mountains, where passage is forbidden to mortals. Some atheistic or fanatical individuals have climbed into the mountains to meet the Overlords, but they do not return.

Actually, some humans dwell with the Overlords: slaves, captives, and their selected agents. But who but the select few know how they live and serve there? A man becomes an agent by being approached for recruitment, perhaps by first being abducted to the presence of the Overlords themselves. Many lesser agents are recruited by a human agents acting for the Overlords. Only the senior agents, or those intended to be senior agents, ever meet the Overlords face to face. The Overlords are actually advanced intellectual aliens, not omniscient gods.

They use humans for their spies where technology, such as spy satellites, does not give them what they need. They also use humans as agents in special missions, even to Earth, which they can reach with Overlord technology. Many Zhorians, maybe all of them, are descended from Earthers kidnapped long ago. Kidnapping is still going on, to improve the breed of Zhor.

The Overlords have a powerful foe in the race of the Outsiders, advanced alien beings from a dying alternate world who would like to conquer Zhor and Earth. But Earth is protected by the Overlords. Sometimes the exploratory ships of the Overlords and Outsiders visiting Earth are mistaken for flying saucers.

Zhorians and the Planet Earth

Most Zhorians do not know about the existence of Planet Earth. Only a few outside of the agents of the Outsiders and the Overlords know this information, and even fewer have visited it. Those who do use the "exploratory" ships of the two alien races that can both fly and cross the dimensional barriers.

The Outsiders also use Zhorians and Earth people as agents. They try to infiltrate the power institutions of Earth and Zhor to gain allies and advantage in their espionage war with the Overlords.

The Outsiders sometimes replace people (both on Zhor and on Earth) with DNA-altered impostors. When they have no more use for the original, he or she may be killed, but many are enslaved. Earthers may be taken across to Zhor and given to agents as gifts, or sold. Barbarian slaves, those whose language is unknown, are sometimes found in slave markets and some of these are from Earth.

On Zhor they cannot read or write the local languages and are considered illiterate slaves of small worth. With training, though, some of these barbarians become excellent pleasure slaves. However, any casual slave-abduction that is done on these trips is incidental. The Overlords and Outsiders have bigger fish to fry than to restock their slave pens. Sometimes an agent on earth has a personal reason to abduct one of Earth whom he hates or lusts after and permission from superiors may be obtained. Also, to acquire valuable genetic material is a secondary purpose of some visits, though blood samples are normally all that is required for this and the victim is oftentimes not taken away but released with foggy memories of a kind of "alien abduction."

It goes without saying that many Zhorians are contemptuous of human relationships on Earth. But since they come from the same stock, some ideas created by one group meet the approval of the other. For example, Zhorian slave trainers have learned of the Earthers' French maid fetish. This is obviously the deep-seated desire of Earthmen to do what they are culturally too corrupt to do -- namely make beautiful women their servants and provide them with trappings that declare them to be recognized sexual objects. In fact, the shameless way that so many Earth women dress seems to tell Zhorians that natural slavery is much more common among Earth women than it is among Zhorian damesls.

Abduction, therefore, usually has an important purpose. There is a story of a man who was powerful in one of Earth's government bureaucracies. He was replaced by Outsider agents, one of whom was transformed into his likeness by Zhorian science (to which the Outsiders have full access) to be an imposter. The man himself was injected with Ruk's Serum and as a beautiful young woman and a natural slave in training, was compelled to tell all "she" knew in order to aid the impersonation. The ex-government man wore a French maid outfit with a plunging neckline. He -- she -- was told that when their work was done on Earth her original shape would be restored. But when the Zhorians needed the wench's information no more, her reward for cooperation was to be taken to Zhor, already half trained for sexual bondage due to her time spent as a French maid. Branded, collared, and placed in a chanette, the serum girl served as an ignited slave on Zhor for centuries, benifitting from the planet's rejuvenation serum.

Over all, Zhorians look at both sexes on Earth as physcologically female, at least since the heroic days of personal combat. Unless he proves himself, an Earthman is called a bywoh, "a women-man," in the common parlance. Yet, some Zhorians think that Earth males make poor pleasure slaves just because they lack the strength of character and inner fire that is common to Zhorians of both genders. A Zhorian truly likes to tame a rebellious woman. The cringing surrender of so many Earth-born serum girls makes them unchallenging. This is unfair of course, as most bias is unfair; we have already observed that many former Earth males have made splendid Zhorian pleasure slaves.

TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH PLEASURE SLAVERY

Alcove girl: The Zhorian equivalent of the streetwalker. She must solicit sexual encounters for pay and her earnings are given to her master. This class is among the lowest type of Zhorian pleasure slave. Other terms referring to her are vendee, vlead, and galign.

Binding: Slaves are often bound for one reason or another, but it is also a cultural term. Binding is the ritual act of making a free person a slave. Usually the woman knees before the male and crosses her wrists as if to have them tied. The man may tie them, or merely twist a thong or cord around her wrists, and the ritual enslaving is complete. Some women are coerced to accept binding, but others who are will in extreme cases submit themselves to a man of their choice. The greatest insult to a woman is to have her submission refused. The male who refuses her may kill her, or dismiss her with the ritual phrase, "Thou art less than a slave to me. Be gone." A dismissed woman will be a mockery, and even if she is of high social status, she becomes a social outcast. In her family home, she might be secluded for years. If she ever marries, it will likely be to a lowly man far beneath her station.

Chadwor's Serum: There once was a brilliant Zhorian physician who regretting all the whipping that resistant slaves girls received. He wished that there were some way to make a slave submit to her master's will without doing her such lingering injury. He found the solution in the inborn affliction of a slave girl called Signeer. Signeer was outrageously ticklish, especially in the breasts (most so at the nipples), and her peren (especially at her clitoris), and her navel. Chadwor realized that no slave girl who was so vulnerable could long resist the punishment of the feather, but a girl so punished would recover immediately upon the cessation of the tickling. Serum girls can, of course, be inflicted with the Curse. The trait, though, is sex-linked and Chadwor's serum has no effect on males injected with it. Unfortunately, unlike Ruk's Serum, the maker's of Chadwor's serum are expensively licensed and protected by area monopolies. For that reason a minority of slaves receive this blessing, a fact which would have disappointed Chadwor, who wanted his serum made cheaply with wide distribution as a humanitarian aid.

Cup girl: A slave barmaid. She is often called a "siolat girl," after the popular beverage. In effect, she is a combination cocktail witness and prostitute. Customers may lead such a wench from the floor to a prepared alcove for sexual use. Sometimes a fee is charge, but in some taverns a cup girl's use is offered as a free courtesy to any customer to buys a drink.

Dex: A Zhorian striptease dancer. The plural is dexi.

Feather Slave: Also called "laughing slave," a feather slave is a thrall who has received Chadwor's serum and is therefore hyper-ticklish. For a feather slave, a bird plume (most commonly the passion bird wing feather) is as effective a discipline device as a slave-girl whip, but in many ways is more merciful.

First girl: A first girl is a senior slave who is empowered to manage and command her sisters in bondage, almost as if she were a free mistress. Usually a master will let the girls sort out for themselves who will be first girl. This is elective in some cases, but usually the rank is attained by the best fighter in the stable. Often a first girl will challenge a new slave to fight or to obey. It is common for a serum girl who was a warrior previously to use her fighting skills to become first girl. But a first girl who uses her rank too selfishly or who is skilled in fighting but is indifferent to pleasure-giving is usually deposed by her master and, usually, sold. If she continues in her ways she will probably end up in harsh bondage, such as that of an alcove girl.

Furs: A term similar to "silks." (See "Silks," below). "In the furs" implies pastoral sex, while "in the silks" suggest urban sophistication.

Joy Girl: By no means are all harlots of Zhor slaves. Some work without direct supervision or training, but typically life in the protection of a bawdy house for free woman, called a "joy house" (See below). A woman may freely contract herself to perform sex and other erotic services (such as dancing, singing, massaging, story-telling, etc.) in a joy house. The different types of sex acts and sensual services that she agrees to perform are laid out in her contract. To earn her pay and receive protection in a dangerous trade, she agrees to be subject to certain forms of discipline, should she renege and refuses to perform any of the agreed acts or services. Usually the penalty is chaining and/or whipping. Some joy houses of the highest quality voluntarily offer a new joy girls an injection of Chadwor's serum, thereby rendering any necessary chastisement less painful but no less effective. There are many takers, for there is little stigma in a free woman protecting herself against physical brutalization. The social stigma of having formerly been a joy girl varies with individual communities and cities. Good marriages are seldom available to ex-joy girls, but among the common throng there is a wide-spread attitude that "ex-joy girls make the best wives."

Joy House: A free Zhorian prostitute often works under the protection of a managed establishment commonly called a "joy house." Typically a joy-house contract runs for a year and then expires. If it is not renewed, the woman is free to leave the joy house. She will have no more obligations to it, and it has no more responsibility toward her. Zhorian authorities, as a whole, do not want such a contract to become another form of forced slavery. To protect a free woman's rights, an impartial city magistrate and a prescribed number and quality of witnesses must observe both the initial contract signing and every renewal. However, while a girl is under a legal contract, she is very much like a slave. In this sense a joy girl contract is much like a gladiator contract in ancient Rome, who could be "whipped or burned with fire" if he did not do the will of his contracting masters. Some girls who want to acquire skills they can talk out into the world, such as that of a free dancing girl, sometimes enter joy houses for a short length time as a learning experience, just as many persons of both sexes enter the army to gain valuable training for civilian life.

Forest Girls: Forest girls are bands of outlaw women, fugitives or outcasts from normal society. In some cases they are of mixed origin, but Zhorians are class-conscious and most bands tend toward homogeneity. Some consist of free born-women, some escaped born-women slaves, some escaped serum-girl slaves, and some of free serum girls. They use simple light arms, especially the spear and the bow, and live by theft and hunting. Sometimes would-be new members are rejected by old members and are sold by out of the forest as slaves. Bands are often hostile to one another and fight pitched battles for turf and raiding grounds. More usually, though, they ambush individuals and small groups of travelers and forest girls from other bands. Most captives that fall into their hands are sold to slavers in exchange for needed trade goods.

Ignition: To be ignited as a slave is to experience a freedom from all inhibitions that diminish a woman's surrender to her genetically-driven impulse to embrace a life of slavery, and also to enjoy the act of physical sex. Some say that no woman can achieve the mental state of mind unless she is already in slavery and acknowledges herself as such, at least unconsciously. There have been some experiments run upon prisoners and volunteers in which women are treated as slaves, but know that they remain legally free. It is said that no such controlled experiment has ever achieved success, though the same subjects, if afterwards truly and legally enslaved, have often ignited with wonderful swiftness.

Zhorians can be regrettably careless in their use of the term 'ignition.' Almost any pleasurable multiple orgasm might be mistermed an ignition. What is most inaccurate of all is to call a freewoman's transports her 'ignition.' A woman can hardly go through a true ignition experience not be deeply enslaved psychologically, which Zhorians would consider a contradiction in terms.

Imagine ignition in this way: Natural sluttiness and a natural slavery are passive states; they might be repressed indefinitely and the woman may be living a life both free and chaste. Ignition is these traits' active realization, their uninhibited release. Ignition tends to be attained when the slave is driven into a high state of erotic delirium, perhaps experiencing multiple transports in one session. The lovemaking skill of the master is an important factor in such a case. Also, a strong emotional connection to the dominant male (who she recognizes has having having absolute control over her body and life) seems to be another contributing factor facilitating ignition.

Ignited born-women make excellent pleasure slaves, even if enhanced by Ruk's Serum. But a serum girl's ignition (and, remember, those called serum girls are always former males) is not always desirable in a pleasure stable, as her needful importuning can be annoying to a lone master with only a normal libido. Public slavery therefore suits ignited Ruk-maids best. Often times masters who insist on keeping an ignited serum girl must see to it that they have other sexual outlets -- such as with male servants, or by renting them out part-time to silk houses and taverns. By Vanora's specific instructions, Ruk took great pains to see that serum girls received their genetic underpinning from women who were especially susceptible to ignition.

Lash-master: A male slave-trainer, also commonly called a "lash-lord." A female trainer is a "lash-mistress" or a "lash lady."

Lash-slave: A slave whose job it is to train slaves to bondage, usually as an assistant to a free slaver. Some private masters will buy or lease trained lash-slaves to instruct their new stable slaves, but normally such specialists are need only when the girl is especially defiant. The normal work of orienting a typical new pleasure slave to her new life and duties is performed by one of her more experienced stable sisters.

Love-slave: A slave who genuinely loves a free man, not necessarily her own master.

Love master: A man who genuinely loves a slave girl.

Oernad: A hired male lover. For a woman to consort with such a one is a disgraceful act, but a substantial number of women who can affords the luxury indulge in it. Some oernads are skilled in taking the master's role in a woman's slave-play fantasy. Free serum girls suffering sexual and slave cravings often hire such men. There is less stigma attached to a serum girl using an oernad, since in so far as the man in the street is concerned every free serum girl is secretly a wanton and little else can be expected of her behavior. Regional terms for oernad include lleif, koarlock, and uhlann.

Passion nectar: Also called "lust potion," passion nectar is a scientific aid to slave trainer. This is a plant-derived substance that, when consumed (usually in drink or food), puts a female subject into intense sexual heat for a span several hours. It acts on female hormones, thus men are not affected. A stubborn, sex-hating slave might be kept in a cage and given lust potion until she begs to have sex. Since many new serum girls are scandalized at the idea of submitting to sex-play with men, passion nectar is often a part of their training. The substance is also used by seducers to get the better of chaste free women, but almost everywhere this reckless use of passion nectar is considered a crime. One of the most common ingrediants in passion nectar is the herb vaid. Although no all such potions use vaid, the herb gives its name to many such concoctions in the common vernacular. Other widespread terms for passion nectar are sone, khoom, and dhori.

Passion slave: This is a skilled slave, much like a Zhorian geisha. A passion slave is rare and expensive. She is selected not only for beauty, but also for talent and personality. A true passion slave is well trained in the arts of physical lovemaking, but is also learned in entertainment skill of other types, such as in culinary service, in dancing, in poetry recital, in singing, and dance. She must also be of a personality type that excels in diverting conversation. To purchase a passion slave for a personal stable slave is to buy high status. The ransom of an abducted passion slave has been known to be as expensive as a noblewoman's. Especially rare are serum girl passion slaves, since the strong male libido, translated into female wantonness, tends to be too distracting to allow the girl to study non-erotic arts entensively. On the other hand, serum girls have a very great advantage in knowing a man likes and how he feels. Legend speaks of a master who committed suicide when his rare and costly Ruk-slave passion-girl was stolen from his stable, beyond hope of recovery.

Pleasure-house: Also known as a "silk house," this is the Zhorian-style public bordello. Other common Zhorian terms for this institution are tu-lurr, bhar-phave, and kusain. Sometimes the terms is carelessly used to describe a "joy house." The difference is that pleasure houses utilize slaves and joy houses employ free women.

Pleasure-house girl: A slave in a pleasure house. Also called a "silk girl," she is is the equivalent of the inmate of a brothel. As on Earth, it is oftentimes a hard life, but Zhorian science prevents the rapid aging that similar girls seem to suffer in the profession. Also, along with cup slavery and alcove slavery, it is often the best sort of bondage for a serum girl, with her male-intensity erotic drive.

Pleasure rack: These come in various designs, but their primary purpose is to hold a slave in any of a wide variety of desired positions. The best of them can change the slave's position without needing to first unstrapping her, by means of slides and pulleys. The most common use of the pleasure rack is to compel an unwilling slave or captive to assume whatever positions a lover may desire for sexual gratification. Sometimes the racks are merely a convenient means to bind a slave in an uncomfortable position for punishment.

Pleasure slave: A woman whose sole or primary duty is to provide sexual recreation to others. She may or may not be well trained in the erotic arts. Other terms for "pleasure slave" are velderl, selice, shallar, and khend.

Pleasure stable: A man's private harem. Depending on his circumstances, it may be only one woman at a particular time, or hundreds. If he is of modest means, his stable girls may be required to be a work slaves also.

Repression: A serum girl soon develops two overriding urges, sexual attraction to males (which she tends to pursue with the intensity of a male pursuing a woman) and the desire to be conquered and controlled by a strong, domineering other -- usually a male, although some women are skilled in making natural slaves respond to them. But sometimes these impulses vanish or never develop. They exist, because they are written into the serum girl's genome, but they do not surface. This is not a healthy condition and if it goes on for too long other emotions may begin to shut down, or the sufferer may engage in perverted behavior in an unconscious attempt to sublimate missing feelings a girl can't cope with -- such as excessive violence or fetishism, or the psychological rejection of femaleness. There is no pat formula for freeing a repressed serum girl of her regrettable malady, but for the majority of cases, repression is a temporary condition, often brought on by a severe shock, such as being abducted before the subject has become comfortable in the role of a female sexual being with probable slavery in her future. Interestingly, some of the most promiscuous slave girls have formerly been a repressed serum girls. A phenomenon of new transformees or persons abducted into slavery, once conquered the condition of repression seldom returns.

Ripeness: Before ignition there is invariably "ripening." A new serum girl usually retains her male heterosexual attraction to females for a brief time, which is usually only a few days to a few weeks. Then the day comes when she starts to see men differently. She experiences a stir of pleasure in the company of a handsome male, a feeling quite different from the enjoyment a man might feel about keeping company with his own kind. A crisis then will come, usually very suddenly, when she realizes that men exude a powerful sense of maleness, almost like a thing metaphysical in its powerful impact on her sensibilities. Only the most self-decieved serum girl can go on pretending that she is attracted to men sexually.

The serum girl meanwhile has been growing more accustomed to her body and gradually ceases to think of her new shape as something alien or strange. She realizes that she is beautiful (as nearly all serum girls are in fact physically beautiful) and starts to favor adornments that set off that beauty -- clothes, hairstyles, jewelry. She also starts to accept the natural flows and rhythms of female movement. A sensuous, unselfconscious roll of the hips is a telltale sign that tells the onlooker that a girl is "ripe" -- that is, ready to be approached as a member of the female sex. Men skilled in seduction like to come on strongly to serum girls just as they have attained ripeness. Such inexperienced females are especially vulnerable, subject to impulses and urges that they have not yet learned to control. Many a serum girl has lost her ymylu on the same day that she first realized that she might like to have a man touch her body.

Ruked: A slang term that means to have been transformed by Ruk's Serum.

Serum Girl: This is a male transformed by Ruk's serum. Also Ruk lass, Ruk girl, or Ruk maid. In common Zhorian languages the synonyms are calique, rew, and vlon. The genetic material selected to transform a male into a female is purposely isolated for beauty, slave-need, and sexual-need. Women who have talents, such as superior voices for song and athletic grace for dance, are also singled out for DNA archiving. A woman changed by Ruk's serum is called an "enhanced" woman, or "enhanced slave," if enslaved.

Signeer's Curse: Signeer's Curse is hyper-ticklishness in a woman, usually artificially induced by Chadwor's Serum with a culture of DNA deriving from an original donor. Some women willingly accept Signeer's Curse while still free, hoping that a penny-pinching slaver or abductor would not use the whip on them if they have already been made easy to tame by the simple use of the plume.

Silks: A term that means "bed," especially as a place for sexual activity. When referring to beds of humble persons, such as a hunter's bunk, it is considered pretentious to call it the "silks." Another term for bed may be used, such as "the furs" or "the pelts," as furs are often used in the beds of soldiers and outdoorsmen, though in fact woolen blankets are even more common.

Slave Bitters: A contraceptive. It protects the slave from conception for at least a month after ingestion. It has a repellent, bitter taste. Freewomen use contraceptives also, but an effort is made to make them taste better. The unpleasant taste of slave bitters is one subtle way that a slave girl is reminded of her status, lest she become too proud.

Slave face: This is a term that refers to the styles of makeup worn by a pleasure slave. Free women wear very little makeup in comparison to slave girls. This recalls our 19th Century, when only actresses and floozies wore powder and paint in public. Interestingly, the makeup styles of Earth (as noted by slavers visiting that planet in the service of the Overlords or the Outsiders) have had a strong influence on slave-face styles back on Zhor. Many slaves now wear bright lipstick, blush, eyeliner and shadow. Zhorians remain mystified why Earthers do not brand and collar the majority of their women, since they are determined to paint their faces and dress in a manner fit only for low pleasure slaves on Zhor.

Slave Honey: A fertility drug. It counteracts the effects of slave bitters and elevates the user's fertility for two to three weeks. Slave honey is infrequently used, as most slaves are not bred. The stability of Zhor does not benefit by a large expansion of the slave population. Yet in individual cases the breeding of a slave may be desired. A love-slave is commonly bred by her love-master, for to truly love a person is to want breadth, depth, and permanence in a relationship, which may come from rearing a child together. The sweet and pleasant taste of the drug tells the slave what is in her cup and what he fate is likely to be, unless she is some unsophisticated raw serum girl.

Slave fire: This is a metaphorical term indicating the sexual craving and slave-need experienced by an slave when she is sexually stimulated, either by sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch. A girl unable to sate her sexual need is said to be tormented by slave fire if she has trouble concentrating on non-sexual subjects or getting restful sleep. A girl with a solitary master, especially if he has a stable of girls, often go unsated for too long. Physicians have developed a potion to suppress such distress for up to a day. It is not uncommon to feel slave fire prior to ignition, but an ignited slave may often suffer from long bouts of extreme slave fire, the best relief from which is very frequent sex, such as a public slave might attain. Passion potion is intended to instill arousal in a woman, and this oftentimes triggers a true slave fire episode.

Slave orgasm: In the simplest sense, a slave orgasm is the sexual orgasm of a slave. It is folklore that a woman who is unsuitable to a life of slavery cannot have a true orgasm in bondage. Nonetheless, few slaves can claim to be free in their hearts after their bodies have betrayed them by responding lustily to a master's embrace. Because Serum girls receive the DNA of the most responsive slaves, they are believed to experience slave orgasms at an even higher rate than do born-women. Because serum girls carry the promiscuous impulses of their former male libidos, not even natural women enhanced by Ruk's serum can match them for frequency and quality of female orgasms.

Slave silk: A term for the costume of a pleasure slave, also called "pleasure silk." Commonly, too, it is called a "slave slip." These are very general terms and they actually include many styles of garments, not all of them of silk. Slave garment styles have specific names and go in and out of fashion. What makes slave silk different from a common slave tunic is in its cut and choice of fabric. Some slave silk is copied from women's lingerie acquired on Earth. Slave silk is intended to please the male eye and inspire thoughts of pleasure. Pleasure silk seeks to cover just enough of a girl's form to lend her allure and mystery. Usually masters are pleased to show off their girls scantily clad, for a man acquires status by having a slave that others desire but cannot have without his leave.

Slut: The common Rhinfew term for slut is rier. It is used much the same way as the term slut is used on earth. It indicates a woman who is unbecomingly sexually active, indiscriminately or blatantly seductive. When a free woman behaves in a way suitable only for a slave, she cannot be called a slave, because she is not. But the word "slut" is substituted. A free woman cannot wear "slave-face," but untasteful make-up can be referred to as "slut-face." What would be called "slave-need" in a thrall, is called "slut-need" in a free woman. Tastelessly seductive bedroom garb is not "slave-silk" but "slut-silk" if its wearer is free. Is is commonly believed that a free woman who behaves like a slut will make an excellent pleasure slave once abducted and branded. It is believed that some women exaggerate their sluttish inclinations, hoping to incite some man to carry her off and place her in the collar.

Slut orgasm: This is like a slave orgasm, but is experienced by a woman, usually a captive, while she is still technically free. Wives' and mistresses' orgasms are not considered slut orgasms; a slut orgasm occurs only where a decent woman should not be having sexual pleasure, as when she is with a captor or an oernad. A woman known to be prone to slut orgasms is considered a particularly good choice for enslavement. There are cases where a brolled captive, intended for ransom, responds so well in the arms of an abductor that she is instead kept for sale as a slave. Zhorians find it sad that a woman with slut needs should be denied the joy of pleasure slavery. Vanora made certain that Ruk's Serum would make all but the most resistant subjects prone to multiple rapturous slut orgasms when free, and irresistable slave orgasms when branded.

Transformation euphoria: Certain percentage of new serum girls tend to experience "transformation euphoria," sometimes called soimence or kaunead. It most often effects serum girls who used to be males with strong libidos. Such persons may become "ripe" in only a few days. Transformation euphoria can be similar to the behavior of a child set free in a candy store. She commonly overindulges in sex, going to extremes to attract men. She also feels strongly her natural slavery, acting out intense bondage fantasies -- oftentimes going to the extreme of disguising herself as a slave and taking on many partners. Usually, transformation euphoria strikes those fortunate persons who feel very secure against sexual abuse or abduction, such as a wealthy individual living in a protected environment. Actual fear of those thing that are seen as mere pleasant fantasies to girls suffering from euphoria often prevents an onset of soimence. In fact, a bad experience suffered by a euphoric girl can plunge her into emotional repression. The thing to remember is that a new serum girl's emotions are very unstable for a time and can swing to wild extremes due to outside stimulii. Even some professional slavers take care to ripen a captive with caution, not forcing sexual stimulation upon her until she opens to receive it on her own. Signs of natural ripeness tells them that she is ready to be carefully brought into ignition.

Vaecwi: A slave.

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ZHORIAN "4-LETTER" WORDS:

Zhorians seldom use harsh language in sex, a stark contrast with Earth folk. This may be because Earth culture is decadent and Zhorian culture is not. To a Zhorian, sex is considered a healthy recreation, as well as the logical expression of deep and enduring feelings. Due to the inspired labors of Zhorian science, there are no known sexually transmitted diseases remaining that are not easily cured. Thus Zhorians, particularly the males, engage in carefree sexual adventures, usually starting at the very outset of puberty, sometimes with the encouragement of their own fathers. A rich son will often receive the gift of a young pleasure slave of his own, as a commemoration of his having achieved the age of legal manhood. A rookie warrior customarily proves his skill and sexual vigor by abducting a nubile woman from an enemy city and bringing her home to be his pleasure slave. Some believe the Overlords originally encouraged this custom, to keep the bloodlines of Zhor from becoming too inbred.

Most Zhorians, however, do not own slaves and so make frequent use of public slaves, in the street, the taverns, and bordellos. Zhorian wives accept this as a fact of life, but do not necessarily like it. Zhor has a different vocabulary of respectable sex when applied to one's wife or mistress. The following terms are polite only when used in association with slave or captive partners and are in the widespread language of Rhinfew.:

Brol: This means to engage in casual intercourse with slaves, low women, or captives for recreation.

Drin: This means "slave-christening." The first time a slave is brolled by a man, she is said to be drinned, i.e. "christened a slave." Some Zhorians hold that a pleasure slave who is not drinned is not yet a true slave. But this is a mystical concept, not a legal one.

Dorn: is the act of tonguing the penis.

Gair: Anal intercourse is considered a shameless act. There are many euphemism for this, "Morwydd's Conquest" being one of the more common; dhess and krit are two others. Long ago, Morwydd was the harsh, beautiful ruler of a city that was conquered. Enslaved by the victors, she was publicly subjected to gairing as her first experience as a pleasure slave. It is said that she subsequently trained magnificently.

Ffloc: To ffloc is to tongue and/or nibble the scrotum or testicles.

Hentt: This one of various terms that means means "the sex act," usually when engaged in by slaves or low women. More generally it is a term for sex performed by or with slaves. Other terms for this popular engagement are zerl, wynn, and bhence.

Mouroat: A mouroat means "shameless act." It is an act of sex that is considered low and depraved even for a pleasure slave, and is oftentimes illegal for a free woman to engage in. In various jurisdictions, one who does so may be tried for immorality and the usual penalty is enslavement. Even if not illegal, a free woman known to have performed an act of mouroat is almost always socially ruined.

Teur: "Teur" in common usage usually refers to fellatio. More formally, though, the word "teur" refers to a wide variety of oral techniques, most of which have specialized, names, including marring. Other common names acts that are teur in the general sense are vyrl, ouilett, sherelle, and pondeid. Dyff is a very common term that refers to the more classic act of fellatio.

But most common of all the euphemisms for teur is lla-nod. This means "slave-kiss" or "slave girl's kiss." It is one of the services most frequently demanded of pleasure slaves. Almost every new pleasure slave is trained in teuring until she performs it well. Public slaves are expected to encourage customers to accept this sort of activity, since it takes less time and is not so tiring as brolling and gairing. Teuring is often considered a shameless act and is so closely identified with slaves that some cities forbid oral acts to free women. In many places, if a free woman is witnessed performing a teur, she will be tried and possibly condemned to slavery. In some jurisdictions she becomes the slave of the man whom she is seen teuring. A wise free woman will make sure that there are no possible witnesses before she agrees to give teur to a lover.

Ysied is anilingus; other names include nugg and geil. This is another of the acts that is usually considered "shameless."

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PARTS OF THE BODY

Byth is semen. It means "balm" and is often translated as such.

Fod is the penis. Other common terms are dhon, gorrn, and salchow.

Peren is the woman's external genitalia.

Rhadus is the anus.

Saer is the vagina.

Suren are the testicles, often referred to as orbs, spheres, or any number of similar terms.

Twyll is the erect penis, but there are many other common terms, both slang and foreign, the most widely used being fleer, jitt, and tropp. There also are many euphemisms for the erection, including scepter, staff, lance, dagger, etc.

Ymylu: The maidenhead. Other common names for it are phyce, sharlee, and qeller.

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