Eleanor, are you saying that the books permanently scarred you? Because the smiley face implies that they didn’t.
I don’t remember being upset by them, but I do think they were a bad introduction to erotica. There were a couple of Playboy-published sci-fi books which should have been hidden too. These were mixed in with hundreds of normal sci-fi books, and my dad had probably forgotten about them.
Any normal girl would’ve been reading her mom’s regency romances instead, wouldn’t she? But no, I went from Heinlein’s group marriages to Blade’s Dimension X adventures and then to Gor.
I’ll never forget coming up to my mom with “To Sail Beyond the Sunset” in hand. I had to convince her a friend had suggested it to me since I liked Heinlein…
Cover picture – Not for the prude work environment though nothing naughty is showing.
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Did your Mom ever find out about the book’s pervasive incest theme, etc.?
She never mentioned it to me if she did.
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You’re not misreading me. I miswrote me. What I meant to say was
I buy into the mainstream view on points one and two. In other words, that nonconsensual slavery is not a good thing, and that it is not the way to a girl’s heart.
And while I’m making corrections to my post, delete the word “happily” from the following sentence:
elfbabe? When did you change your username?
What am I, chopped vulo liver? :dubious:
Re the rest of your post, it more or less boils down to “Yes, you could make a Gor film if you took pretty much every aspect of the author’s take on the place out of it”. I agree, but why bother? You wouldn’t get the Gor fans in that way, and you wouldn’t get the Gor haters in that way. Better just to run with “Evil Sex-Slavery Planet part I thru XXVI” and have done with it.
Direct to video.
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OK, I’m the second biggest fan of the Gor novels that I know of on this board … or maybe just one of the top ten fans … it there are ten fans of the Gor novels on this board … who are willing to admit they are … 
And I think the option I labelled the “obvious” one would permit a presentation of Gor as written by Norman. You could have the protagonists not liking or understanding Gor, but feeling ambivalent abut the Goreans because of the whole honor thing and the obviously sincere feelings of the Gorean slavegirls about loving their slavilicious lifestyles. It would be Gor, just seen from the outside rather than by a sympathetic believer in Gorean ideas.
Well, in Spain they did make a ten-part “Story of O” series that was direct to video in the U.S. Much better than the movie, too. Followed the book pretty much exactly.
That’s more or less Tarl Cabot’s view in books 1 to 5. He starts gradually to come to terms with Gorean slavery throughout these books, but he’s nowhere near to turning native. There’s no way his relationship with Elizabeth Cardwell in books 4 and 5 is anything like Master/slave from the Gorean p.o.v.
Harking back to this:
This is a little reminiscent of the scene in Fighting Slave of Gor in which a nasty scheming slave girl is punished by being locked up for the night with Jason Marshall, and he is too much the Earth gentleman to lay a finger on her. Within the hour she is begging and screaming to be let out.
Does that letter end in the middle for you, too, or just for me?