"Is there a quote on ::: is there a length of time stated where a slave is considered abanded?? If so what is it.. and can the collar be removed?? and by whom... "



Hello,

The whole "abandoned slave girl when does her collar come off" thingy is a cyberism. To answer your question from that standpoint alone, there has been a long-standing 'rule' in Yahoo Gorean chat that a girl who has had NO contact from her master in four weeks may then approach a free person and beg to have the collar removed.

However, the girl does not then become a free woman, she is merely an unowned slave.

Following are a few quotes which, while not answering your question directly, touch on this subject.

I wish you well,
Fogaban


The slave cannot free herself. She can be freed only by an owner. The condition of slavery does not require the collar, or the brand, or an anklet, bracelet or ring, or any such overt sign of bondage. Such things, as symbolic as they are, as profoundly meaningful as they are, and as useful as they are for marking properties, identifying masters, and such, are not necessary to slavery. They are, in effect, though their affixing can legally affect imbondment, ultimately, in themselves, tokens of bondage, and are not to be confused with the reality itself. The uncollared slave is not then a free woman but only a slave who is not then in a collar. Similarly a slave is still a slave even if her brand could be made to magically disappear or, if she has been a made a slave in some other way, if she has not yet been branded.
Renegades of Gor Book 23 Page 273

Female slaves are almost never abandoned by Gorean men. He does not care to release such a prize. He keeps it.
Hunters of Gor Book 8 Page 245

Slave girls almost never escape. The major reason for this is the steel collar, which, obdurately encircling her neck, read, promptly identifies her master and his city. Almost no one, of course, would think of removing a collar from a girl, unless it would be to replace it with one of his own. This is because she is a slave. Girls may also be hunted down by trained sleen, tireless hunters. If a girl should elude one master, she will, customarily, soon fall to another. A successful escape, infrequent event that it is, seldom amounts, from the girl's point of view, to more than an exchange of collar and chains. Almost any man on Gor will hasten to put his collar on a loose, beautiful female. Where is she to run? What is she to do? All in all, escape is not a reality for female slaves. They are slaves. They will remain slaves.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 96 - 97





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