Gor (and BDSM)

I received an email today from a reader who asks why we've never covered, or even mentioned, Gor. We've mentioned it, as far as I recollect, in the context of free clothing that fit with 'sexy'. However, I do not like Gor, the concept, or the rather dreary books (I tried the first two, then gave up on account of them being, well, dreary!)

Yes, the silks are sexy, and so are some Panther outfits (fur loincloth works for me!) but I just don't want to get into or encourage a sub-genre world where the enslavement of women, of chaining and subjugating them, is part of the deal.

While we're on that subject, it's why we don't cover BDSM either. The torture of women (or women torturing males for that matter) is not 'erotic' to my mind. In fact, it's right up there with ageplay in the sort of things I won't cover on the blog, encourage, promote or support.

I know some may disagree, and for them there is some sense of the 'erotic' involved in it. But for me, that's not the case, and I won't be covering either Gorean or BDSM items. Occasionally, if a fur loincloth comes along, I may give it some coverage, but that'll be the limit. Why fur loincloths? I did think, at the turn of the year, of setting up a group and blog called 'Second Tribe', to the extent that they exist in unpromoted, unpublished 'ghost' form.

I was going to attempt to create a blogged back story about a post-apocalyptic world in which the inhabitants wandered a wasteland (inspired by Einstein's comment about not knowing the weaponry of World War 3, but certain World War 4 would be fought with bows, arrows, and sticks). Reduced to some kind of pre-historic existence where the clothes are furs, the food the wild animals caught, and living a nomadic, tented existence. This has never happened (yet) because this blog suddenly caught fire and we've got quite a bit of 21st century sexuality to comment on, but it may happen at some point in the future, I don't know. But my vision of that was for a sort of 'normal' sexuality to be the case, and perhaps some role reversal in which women were the sexual predators. I never quite finished off the back story and 'rules' in which this SL group might exist, and maybe I never will. In the meantime, we can continue to dwell on SL sexuality as a mirror of the here and now RL equivalent. And that excludes Gor, or any form of subjugation of women.