Domination & submission _ the BDSM relationship handbook ( PDFDrive )

Unfortunately, this catastrophic combination of rampant deceit, adolescent
immaturity, inexperience in adult relationships, and even their rank
incompetence at role playing over the past twenty years has left literally millions
of women and the people who cared for them with an intense hatred for anything
Gorean. As if that wasn’t bad
enough, the online Gor phenomenon demonstrated exquisitely poor timing by
gaining popularity at the peak of the American feminist movement. Gorean
notions of male dominance and the treatment of
women as sex objects and property didn’t earn them many friends among rank
and file feminists.
The poor reputations rightfully earned by these chat room Goreans make it
extremely difficult to present an unbiased portrait of the actual Gorean way,
versus the caricatures and distortions that have shaped public opinion for so
many years. It would be a little
like trying to write a serious book about ghosts and spirits, using only Halloween
costumes as your source material. Luckily, we have a way to bypass
the role players and the bad publicity in order to go directly to the literary source
of the Gor phenomenon, the thirty-two “Counter-Earth” novels by John Lange
Jr., writing as John Norman.
John Frederick Lange Jr. was an aspiring science fiction novelist who greatly
admired the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs (b.
September 1, 1875 – d. March 19, 1950). There was, after all, a lot
to admire about Burroughs, who was the celebrated author of twenty-six
successful Tarzan novels and close to a dozen books about an earth man who
becomes an unlikely hero called John Carter of Mars. Lange, who earned his
Ph.D. in 1963 from Princeton University and currently teaches at Queens
College, University of New York, is perhaps better known to millions of science
fiction and fetish lifestyle fans as John Norman, the author of a series of pulp
sci-fi novels about the planet Gor. Under that name, he published twenty-five