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Quebie -> RE: Free Companion? (12/26/2006 7:29:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Nosathro
Tal and greetings MaryT
Yes everything that has been said here is true in Gorean terms. I must say I am amazed at those here and their knowledge of Gor. One thing that I may want to clarify is that a Free Woman and Free Companion of Gor were not protected from being enslaved. The Male Free Companion could collar her for the slightest displeasure. In many of the Cities laws were created which punishment was enslavement. For example in the City of Ar, if a Free Woman was caught "Couching" (meaning having sex) with a slave male or female, she would be collared herself. However, in some Cities, a Free Woman or Free Compaion could take the issue to a Magertrate who would rule in her being collared or have the collar removed.
The Free Compaion concept has it orgin in the old Celtic "Hand Fasting". This was also done for a year, in fact the Cermony pledge is called "A Year and Day". This cermony is still in partice today.
I wish you well
Nosathro
Tal and greetings
While I report to know nothing of the ceremonies of others, still I know a little about the FC of Goreans.. know a little more about Goreans and the phillosophies they follow, before you make such a casual comment that literally dismisses the import of Free Companionship.. they were never entered lightly and were very often only sundered by death.. not the enslavement of one by the other for a 'minor' infraction. To state that a FC may be enslaved simply for displeasing her Companion is to so belittle the FC as to make it meaningless and truly shows a lack of understanding of the gorean phillosophies and their implementation. The free companion is held in a status higher than that of the married woman and her companionship is held higher even that of marriage.
A free woman’s name, of course, tends to remain constant. A Gorean free woman does not change her name in the ceremony of the Free Companionship. She remains who she was. In such a ceremony two free individuals have elected to become companions. The Earth woman, as a consequence of certain mating ceremonials, may change her last name. The first and other names, however, tend to remain constant.
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From the Gorean point of view the wife of Earth occupies a status which is higher than that of the slave but lower than that of the Free Companion.
Explorers of Gor, Page 365
"She is a slave," I said, "not a free companion, who may not be touched, to whom nothing may be done, even if she turns your life into a torture, even if she drives you mad, even if she intends to destroy you, hort by hort."
Magicians of Gor, Page 467
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