Domination & submission _ the BDSM relationship handbook ( PDFDrive )

Gor novels from 1967 through the mid-1980s, and an additional seven Gor
novels in the following decades.
The popularity of the Gor novels over the past four decades has spawned a cultlike
following reminiscent of the millions of enthusiastic “trekkies” who are
devoted to memorializing and making real, to the greatest extent
possible, Gene Roddenberry’s fictional Star Trek universe. The difference, of
course, is that trekkies typically keep their warp drives and sex drives
completely separate.
There are some of you reading this right now who would have preferred that I
give anything having to do with Gor a far more cursory treatment in this book
than I have. Much of that disinterest and
animosity is a natural result of the events and resulting bad feelings which I have
just described. Some of it is also the result of a general lack of
awareness of the critical role that the Gor novels have played in the growth of
the D/s movement in the past fifty years. A lot of what we take for
granted in the lifestyle today got its start in John Norman’s pulp
fiction. Much of our lifestyle’s customs, protocols, language and
traditions (such as collaring) can trace its heritage directly to the Gor novels.
Even so, it can be difficult to discuss this lineage and
the impact it has had without encountering the lingering animosity and
misinformation that plagues this particular D/s subculture.
Separating the common misperceptions and negative biases from what might be
considered the “real” Gorean way has been an almost-insurmountable challenge
in the writing of this chapter. My
solution has been to rely less upon what people think Gor is about, and more
upon what John Norman says it is about. For that reason, I’ll be borrowing
heavily from the Gor books themselves to illustrate the tenets, traditions, and