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Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 207 | This is much in debate, and I am hoping you can lend some weight to the discussion. My understanding in my reading is that slaves will tower when in the -presence- of a Free Woman, unless in a tavern or other space that is a specific male only realm (tavern, his chambers, so forth). Many are clinging to what I believe a hold over of the onlineism that they kneel nadu at all times. I would love your thoughts on the matter. English, not being my first language, sometimes plays into my failing to properly grasp semantics on an issue, and I admit that. Over the course of many books; though, this seems to be the case. Thank you in advance for your time if you elect to take this one on. I love your site, and I use it as an educational tool for teaching those new to Gor very frequently. Thank you also for the time you take in updating it so regularly.
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Greetings,
As with most rules pertaining to Gorean customs, very few can be said to apply in all cases.
Such is the same with your question. In order to show what the books say, all I did was search what is already written here at ~The Gorean Cave~.
At the bottom of every page is a white Google Custom Search box.
I just searched for the word Tower and here is what I found:
Question 93
I read in your Q&A section, and I think the remark itself is an old one, but you advise on how a slave always kneels in nadu if a man is present, despite a free woman being also. In some incidences within the novels we see how slaves DID kneel in nadu before FW, but I have seen too many examples where this was not the case. (Women ordering slaves to shut their legs, men doing the same when women were present.) Your own references show how a woman's rank is a factor in how a slave must negotiate this etiquette. "'They are not about now," she said, 'and even if they were, it is I who am Mistress here, not they.' " Also, with men present: She knelt in the position of the tower slave, not that of the pleasure slave, as there was a free woman present. Swordsmen of Gor Book 29 Page 180 Also: "She is in the presence of a free woman," said Cabot. "It is thus appropriate that she kneels in the Tower position." Kur of Gor Book 28 Page 342.
She knelt in the position of the tower slave, not that of the pleasure slave, as there was a free woman present.
Swordsmen of Gor Book 29 Page 180
I wish you well,
Fogaban
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