An exciting way to start the story of a Kajira in Gor role-playing game is to play a 21st-century Earthwoman, plucked from her daily life and plunged into the world of Gor. It’s a great way to get started, whether you’re a beginner or have already played RPGs in the world of Gor.

But contrary to the belief of the novice player who knows nothing at all, you can’t really get started without knowing or preparing anything, and we’re going to talk about that here too: it’s an exciting way to get started, but also a very difficult one, better prepared with care and game partners, than improvising on your own and letting yourself be carried along by events; the latter can quickly get out of hand and bring nothing but disappointment and frustration.

1- The number of female Earth slaves on Gor

So, for a very long time, the Goreans have been kidnapping women from Earth; a whole secret organization of agents of the Priest-Kings, including Earth civilians, is in charge of this sinister task, which consists of regularly filling the slave pens with Gor women snatched from Earth, all over the world.

EXCERPT FROM THE NOVELS

– ‘Surely such a large number of slaves seized from Earth would attract attention,’ said Paula.

– Not at all,” said Kurik. ‘There are lots of countries on Earth. You can choose a slave here, a slave there. There are millions of slave women on Earth, all they need is a collar.

– So they’d come from many countries? asked Paula.

– Indeed,” said Kurik, “from dozens of what you call ‘countries’. There are slaves from America, England, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and so on. But now they’re going to learn Gorean, the language of their masters.

Plunders of Gor”

There aren’t many of them, however; even though the Goreans pride themselves on their contempt for Earth slaves, it turns out that they’re really rare and really sought-after. There are around 5,000 on average, on the face of it, out of the 7 million slaves that Gor has out of its entire population of half a billion humans. It can be estimated that around 1,000 Earth women are selected and abducted every year, from every continent on Earth. In view of the number of people who disappear around the world, this tiny sample is literally invisible and arouses no curiosity.

If you note the estimated figure of 1,000 women abducted per year, for a total of perhaps 5,000 Earth women on Gor, you must find this strange: there should be more, shouldn’t there? But you have to understand that one in four Earth women will die within the first few weeks of servitude, and that the lifespan of most of Gor’s slaves is dramatically short. Also, there are few of them, because many die, more than the average Gor slave.

EXCERPT FROM THE NOVELS

– Are many Gor female slaves of Earth origin? she asked.

– I suppose all Gor humans are of Earth origin,” I replied.

– I mean,” she asked, “like me, a girl born and raised on Earth, then brought to Gor as a slave?

– Statistically, I said, probably not many. How many I wouldn’t know.

– Ten, she asked, twenty?

– Maybe four or five thousand, I replied. I couldn’t say precisely. Such a number, I conjectured, would not even be lacking in a teeming population like that of Earth.

– Are we being brought here as slaves?” she asked.

– Of course,” I said.

– And the slavery continues,” she replied.

– I suppose so,” I said. On Gor, there’s a market for the beautiful girls of Earth. They make excellent slaves.

Beasts of Gor”

2- Acquisition trips

The expression “voyage of acquisition” is clearly the one used for the selection and abduction expeditions of Earth girls that are delivered to the Goreans in the novels. Anyone who is a scholar or works in the slave trade knows this expression and uses it routinely.

So, how does it work? The Priest-Kings, the Gorean gods, are in fact aliens, with spaceships and all, but also teams and organizations of human agents working on their behalf. The Caste of Initiates is not the only human force at the service of the Priest-Kings. Ordinary humans have very privileged links with the latter, working for them with extensive knowledge and resources, and a whole network stretching from Earth to Gor via a space travel bridge. These agents are not accountable to the Caste of Initiates, who are kept totally, barring exceptions, out of the loop of these activities and organizations.

It’s often said of Gor’s role-playing in Second Life that it’s such a well-kept secret that no one can know anything about it. The novels quickly disprove this idea: few people are aware of the details of this traffic and network, but most educated and erudite people know that it exists and that it is, among other things, the supplier of Terran slaves for Gor.

Literally, a reputable slave trader knows who to ask to order the purchase of Terran slaves and have them delivered. He will have seen the arrival of the stasis chambers where the abducted Terran women sleep after their interstellar journey, and the men who bring them. He won’t be able to ignore the fact that these caissons are creations of the Priest-Kings and these men civil agents working directly for them, in the absence of any control or influence from the Initiates’ Caste, and knows full well that his new merchandise are Earthwomen, acquired (abducted) on Earth, after selection, by goreans and allied Earthmen, living on planet Earth, under the direct authority of the Priest-Kings.

More astonishingly, many scholars, and even slavers, have learned to understand and even speak some of Earth’s most common languages. So it’s not surprising to find people who understand English, Chinese or Spanish. It’s useful to know these languages, also known as slave languages, to be able to manage newly-acquired slaves. They are often required to learn Gorean and forbidden to use their own language, but this is by no means systematic:

EXCERPT FROM THE NOVELS

“During this period, they wore only their necklace and, in the case of Phyllis and Virginia, the ring on their left ankle. The purpose of this exercise, or so Elizabeth and I assumed, was to accustom the young women to thinking of themselves as slaves. During the second week, kneeling in the same way, they had to repeat the ritual phrase: “I am a slave. I am a slave. I am a slave.” Virginia and Phyllis, by necessity, did so in English and Elisabeth in Gorean.

The Assassins of Gor”

The technique of abduction and acquisition

This excerpt from the novels, below, has the merit of explaining everything, so I’ll leave you to read it – it’s quite clear and edifying as to how it’s done. You’ll learn that selection is really a matter of sorting, which generally owes nothing to chance. Physical criteria are important, but the agents in charge of acquisitions also give priority to the intelligence of those selected and, last but not least, their apparent natural disposition to accept slavery.

As for this last point, I’d have to qualify it, though: since the Goreans are clearly complete pigeons when it comes to a deep understanding of human nature in general and female nature in particular – as they themselves often admit in the novels, and insist on pretending they don’t care – their selection criteria for deciding which women are slaves at heart and which aren’t must often be completely screwed up. As a matter of fact, the novels also show that they regularly screw up.

EXCERPT FROM THE NOVELS

“- Terran slaves, says Peisistratus, are normally sedated on Earth, brought to collection points, stored in such caissons for the journey to Gor, landed unconscious on Gor, then brought unconscious to the pens. So, in a typical case, a girl might go to bed as usual, in the comfort of her sheets, with no thought other than of her next day’s existence, totally unaware of her selection, then later, to her astonishment, wake up in the pens. Admittedly, there’s a lot of variation in these areas. Sometimes, for example, if a girl has been deemed somewhat annoying, she may be caught in bed, gagged, stripped, hands and feet bound, then left there for a few hours, to let her think things over, after which she will be sedated, and things will continue in a more routine fashion. Sometimes the girls are not taken directly to the pens, but, particularly when the priest-kings’ patrols are unusually zealous, they are unloaded into the wild and, although unconscious, are extracted from the caissons. In this way, they wake up on the grass, naked, in a chain of slaves, only to be led to a predetermined house or rendezvous. In this way, they seem no different, for satellite surveillance, from other caissons of this type that are transported from one city to another.

– You, however, said Cabot to his Cecily, would have been selected by the priest-kings and brought to the Prison Moon with one of their ships.

– Could I,” Cecily asked Peisistratus, “have been found interesting by you or your colleagues?

– Certainly,” replied Peisistratus.

– How are your acquisitions selected? she asked.

– There are usually a number of parameters involved, said Peisistratus. Obviously, female desirability is important, because they have to be sold. Unusual beauty, high intelligence, helpless sexual need, etc. are then sought.

– But it’s understandable, says Cabot, that they’re essentially looking for women who will make superb slaves, women who have slave dispositions, who desire to be slaves, who want to be slaves, who need to be slaves, who won’t be happy until they’ve been conscripted, and so on.

– They don’t need, of course, to be fully aware of this on Earth, Peisistratus said. But they are likely to be aware of it in their dreams, dreams that may frighten them, or in their fantasies, which they may fear and keep secret.

– Some of these women are carefully scrutinized, I understand,” said Cabot.

– That’s right,” said Peisistratus. Our agents on Earth often search for them for days, weeks, even months, observing their features and dispositions, considering what they might look like in camisk and handcuffs and so on.

– Do you have any idea of their predispositions?” asked Cecily.

– ‘Certainly,’ said Peisistratus, ‘we’re skilled in slave stock assessment, as you are. You can, certainly after a while, feel their needs, and the fires burning within them, barely concealed by their silly clothes.

– Do you have lists?” says Cecily.

– Yes, says Peisistratus, there are lists of possibilities, which are actually inspection or assessment lists, and then, if the woman is deemed suitable, she is put on an acquisition list. Once on an acquisition list, it can still be weeks or months before it’s acquired. It’s funny in its own way, how they so naively, so unsuspectingly, face the dull, meaningless banalities of their daily lives. They don’t know they’re already Gorean slaves. All they need is the brand and the collar.

 Kur of Gor”

Selection criteria

Well, the following extract is one of the most complete on the subject. It remains vague, as if Norman himself had trouble defining them, but it explains that choices are not made by chance and that, therefore, the Priest-Kings’ agents on Earth spend time making sure they choose and keep records of very specific girls to fill their caissons for acquisition trips. It’s fair to conclude that, in terms of physical appearance, Goreans are less interested in women with slim, mannequin-like figures than in those with fuller, more generous silhouettes.

Intelligence is a particularly important criterion. That said, it’s a risky criterion; an Earthwoman’s intelligence is not the same as that of a Gor slave, and this intelligence can also make her highly resistant to Gorean training techniques, even to the point of death. The Goreans say that a captive who commits suicide is stupid. Any freedom-loving Earthwoman who refuses to end up broken and enslaved will say, quite rightly, that it’s the last alternative to a fate worse than death. We can therefore imagine that the intelligence sought excludes too much intelligence, from that which is accompanied by a fierce will or too much lucidity, the latter traits risking a loss of merchandise.

But then again, in the novels themselves, we realize that, on the one hand, Norman doesn’t quite understand (that’s a euphemism) certain things about human nature, and on the other hand, that the selectors get it wrong from time to time :

EXCERPT FROM THE NOVELS

“The acquisition of slaves is rarely a matter of chance. It’s usually a matter of selection, often severe and rigorous. Obvious criteria include beauty, intelligence and a predisposition, however latent, for aroused, defenseless passion. The captor may, of course, occasionally balance a multitude of characteristics, aspects, qualities or attributes. Women are, of course, complex and varied. For example, to take a very simple case, a less beautiful but more intelligent woman is more likely to find herself in the chains of a master, subject to his whip, than a more beautiful but less intelligent woman. Of course, the slave owner’s ideal is to find all his desires fulfilled, as they so often are, fortunately for him. The beautiful woman is often intelligent, at least latently passionate, and so on. It may be noted, in passing, that Goreans’ usual taste in women tends to favor the statistically natural or normal woman, the beautiful, well-built woman of average height and weight, who, as a slave, fits well in a man’s arms, as opposed to the more unusual “model types”, who tend to be awkward, skinny and breastless. Sometimes the earthwomen in the pens ask where the beautiful women are, and it’s only later that they understand that they’re the ones who are really the beautiful women, the ones that the ruthless men have chosen for the necklaces. Certainly, certain “model types” are also brought to Gor, and they too, in turn, will learn to serve the masters well, in the kitchens and in the furs.

Price of Gor”

3- The status of Terran slaves on Gor

Okay, so you know how Terran women arrive on Gor and under what conditions they wake up. The rest is going to be a painful, scarring and cruel adventure, the typical training of the slave according to Gorean methods. ( https://www.psychee.org/gorpedia/slave-training-education-2/ )

But what do Goreans think of Earth slaves? Here, opinions are varied and the references given are above all the personal viewpoints of individuals in Gor’s world. So, I’m going to concentrate mainly on the opinion that slave traders and those in charge of the trade give about Terran women; after all, they’re the ones who sell them, kidnap them, transport them, and they wouldn’t be doing this if there wasn’t a real interest in doing so.

Sought-after slaves

We soon learn that the price of an Earth slave, even at her very first sale, is much higher than the average market slave. As Norman has never been able to employ the same monetary standards from one novel to the next (the silver tarsk is sometimes worth ten times more, or ten times less than it’s supposed to be from one tome to the next), we’ll just compare and, roughly speaking, a freshly trained Terran slave is worth between three and five times the price of a basic market slave, with the price soaring depending on location and slave training.

The fact is, Earth girls are not only rare (see above) but sought-after. Slaves are always sold with their pedigree and court papers certifying their origin and, when a slave is of Terran origin, it is clearly marked “Terran slave” and the merchant in charge of selling her and driving up the bidding will insist on this point, which is an added value.

In addition to the fact that Terran slaves are rigorously selected for their intelligence and beauty, which already ensures that you won’t buy a silly or clumsy slave, Terran slaves are renowned for their passion and passion for love. However, more than beauty and intelligence, the Gorean master who buys a personal slave, and pays the price, is looking above all for a slave who will worship him with real, sincere love. By buying an earthling, which is already a substantial investment – not everyone can afford to spend so much, it’s already a luxury – he ensures that he has a great chance of being fully satisfied.

Born slaves

This is the expression that all Goreans use to describe women from Earth. For them, it’s simple: Earth is a planet of slaves, so every Earth woman is a born slave. This is an apriori, of course: firstly, because all Goreans are descended from Earthlings; secondly, because from time to time it’s men who are abducted from Earth and brought back to Gor, and these rarely become slaves, but rather adopted members of Gorean society.

That said, when it comes to Earth women, the apriori is rarely questioned, even if it sometimes is: some Earth women have become Free Women, influential and powerful, escaping their destiny of servitude. For the average Gorean, every female Earth name is a slave name. Earth tongues are nicknamed slave tongues, pierced ears, a common custom on Earth, is, on Gor, a sign of slavery, considered the most shameful and debasing, tattoos on a woman’s skin are another sign of slavery, and so on. It’s easy to understand the idea that anything from Earth, especially anything to do with femininity or the notion of the feminine, is, for the Gorean, simply proof that all Earth women are potential slaves. The idea makes us laugh, and rightly so, but we mustn’t forget that the vast majority of Goreans know nothing about Earth apart from rumors and tales, which only serve to confirm these apriorisms.

Keeping Earthlings ignorant

If the official explanation is that Goreans despise everything that comes from Earth, the reality is more coherent. Goreans aren’t idiots: their society operates according to abject, cruel moral codes and laws that are revolting to Earthlings, and Earthlings are incredibly far ahead of Goreans technologically and culturally. Knowledge is power, and in this respect, Earth women are a real risk, as their intellect and cultural knowledge already represent a strong potential power. So, to avoid the dramatic consequences of a cultured Terran woman who could understand the codes and secrets of Gorean society, start exploiting them, have the idea of cultivating other slaves, and ultimately sow disorder, disobedience and even revolt, Terran women are all kept uncultivated in Gor’s world. And that’s easy: just keep them illiterate and teach them only what they need to know as slaves.

EXCERPT FROM THE NOVELS

“- Will you teach me to read Gorean?

– No,” he says.

– Am I to remain illiterate?

– Yes,” he replied, “many of the Earth slaves on Gor are kept illiterate. They don’t need to be literate for what the master wants them to be.

– I see,” she smiles.

– Free women also prefer a clearer distinction between themselves and the insignificant slave, he said.

– I see,” she said.

– Also,” he finished, “curiosity doesn’t suit a slave.

Kur of Gor”

4- How to begin?

First of all, read all the above, but also be prepared to read the entire guide to playing a Kajira, which you can find here : https://www.psychee.org/gorpedia/gors-slave-girls-principles-game-guide/ . Playing an earthling who arrives on Gor means that you’ll be playing and discovering one of the most exciting, but also hardest-to-live-with aspects of role-playing adventures in the world of Gor: the ordeal of Gor slave training, starting from scratch, until a Kajira is born.

And you’re going to experience it with a character who doesn’t know how to speak the language of Gor, as well as not understanding anything that happens to her at the start!

And here’s a personal tip: you can of course take the risk of creating your character and go in blind. Surprise is good, and it can end well. But it can also, more often than not, be a disappointment, or even end in dramatic failure, no matter how good your own goodwill: because to have a good game, you need good players: in other words, fair-play, patient, open-minded, willing to listen and experienced. So, if possible, try to find a partner with whom to share the experience; he or she will play the role of the trainer, who needn’t be the local slave-driver played on a sim. The latter can also do the trick, if you’re aware of his acting skills, his fair play, his understanding of his role and his attention to the emotional safety of the players behind the characters.

In short, find out and choose well, prepare your entrance with him/her, determine in advance what you are able to accept of the mistreatment your character is going to endure, so that the player who is going to play the trainer knows when and where to stop. Without mutual understanding, complicity and total consensuality, you run the risk of drifting into very unpleasant areas of this kind of role-playing intrigue, and that’s where the drama comes in, or even worse, where it becomes so shocking that you’re disgusted to play the role and continue the adventure.

A few tips for getting started with kajira :  https://www.psychee.org/gorpedia/tips-for-a-great-kajira-experience/

For trainers and slavers

The advice goes the other way round: the player who plays the role of trainer has a heavy responsibility on his hands to be able to carry out this role, while ensuring constant emotional security. His role gives him NO RIGHTS to do whatever he wants, however he wants. This is role-playing, and while, in theory, his character can do whatever he wants with the character of a slave, he can only do what the player embodying the character accepts. Once again, this is consensuality. Once these rules have been established and respected, trust and complicity do the rest, and then, indeed, you can let yourself be surprised and unexpected. Once you know what limits you can’t cross, you can play a lot and have fun within those limits. And you have to surprise!  Once you know the limits you can’t cross, and once the two partners are in complicity, let go and have fun, and everything will be fine.

Another tips on this subject : https://www.psychee.org/gorpedia/emotional-safety-in-roleplaying/

And that’s it,

This concludes the end of this guide to getting started in this exciting role, which can, when well managed and prepared, lead to some truly powerful, intense, wonderful, frightening and unforgettable moments. It’s a good way to get started, provided you prepare well and then play the game. Final tip: you play this role to give in, of course, to become a kajira born on earth, now a slave on Gor. So, while making the pleasure of resisting last is exciting and often coherent, don’t forget to give in at some point. That’s part of the game too!