Domination & submission _ the BDSM relationship handbook ( PDFDrive )

Chapter 7: The Gorean Way
There are many in the D/s and BDSM lifestyles who believe that any discussion
of Gor and Gorean tradition would be more
appropriate to a forum related to fantasy and science-fiction than in any
conversation about relationships and sexuality. In fact, there is no shortage of
people who typically react to the merest mention of Gor almost viscerally, with
much hostility and resentment. What causes them to respond so negatively to
anyone or anything seemingly connected to the Gorean way? The answer lies in
two little words: the internet.
For close to twenty years, internet chat rooms and online virtual worlds have
been overrun by millions of Gorean role players, many of them teens and young
adults seeking a fantasy role play world that would push their sexual limits in
ways that Dungeons & Dragons never could. Even though the Gorean novels
upon which
this fandom is based had already been widely read for over twenty years, the
sudden and geometric growth of internet chat in the 80s and 90s allowed
virtually anyone to assume the role of a Gorean slave master anonymously and,
for the most part, unchallenged. To muddy the waters
even further, many of these role players, drunk with their very first taste of
power over another human being, deliberately set out to blur the lines between
their role play activities and real life by concealing their ages, experience levels,
and the fact that most of them were still in high school. As a result, an
astonishingly large number of curious and bored middle-aged housewives were
sucked into the charade, and suddenly found themselves slaves to deceptive and
sadistic teenagers who, more often than not, had never read a single page of any
of John Norman’s 32 Gor novels.
It would not be unreasonable to assume that many of the teenaged Gorean
“Masters” had never even had a real girlfriend prior to becoming the proud
owners of actual women who fancied themselves Gorean slave girls.