Greetings girl,
Indeed there is such a thing as renting a slave before purchase.
Certainly the prospective buyer would use the slave sexually prior to making the purchase, assuming of course he would not buy the girl strictly for domestic purposes.
I have included below every quote where it mentions renting a slave.
The three quotes which best answer your question I listed again at the top.
I wish you well,
Fogaban
"Then slavers seldom permit their girls to be fully used?" she asked.
"Not for free," I said. "A common arrangement, however, is to charge a prospective buyer, if he wishes it, a rent fee, which fee may then be, should he want the girl, applied to her purchase price."
"That seems sound business," she said.
"I think so," I said. "Why should a slaver give away the use of his properties?" I asked. "After all that is how he makes his living, buying and selling, and leasing and renting women."
Beasts of Gor    Book 12    Page 241
"Does he rent you out?" asked Tina. "Sometimes a man can get an offer on a girl that way."
Kajira of Gor    Book 19    Page 247
A tarsk-bit is not unheard of for a use, but the use would presumably be brief, as, say, for a coin girl, used on the stones of a street. It might be two or three tarsk-bits if one is going to keep a girl for the evening. To be sure, a slave may be rented for a day, or two or three, at some negotiated rate. Sometimes this is done to try out a prospective slave, to see if she is worth buying. If she wishes to be bought, she is zealous to please her rent master. If she is bought, and is truly owned, she may be sure that her former rent master, now her owner, will see to it that she is now held to standards of performance which she had scarcely dared to conjecture might exist when she was a mere rent girl. This is to be expected, of course, as he then owns her. The rent fee, incidentally, is often applied to the purchase fee. Apparently this encourages sales.
Conspirators of Gor    Book 31    Pages 402 - 403
We watched in one stall a bronzed giant apparently swallowing balls of fire, in the next a silk merchant crying the glories of his cloth, in another a hawker of Paga; in still another we watched the swaying bodies of dancing slave girls as their master proclaimed their rent price.
Tarnsman of Gor    Book 1    Page 132
The selection of the girls, incidentally, is determined by judges in their city, or of their own people, in Turia by members of the Caste of Physicians who have served in the great slave houses of Ar; among the wagons by the masters of the public slave wagons, who buy, sell and rent girls, providing warriors and slavers with a sort of clearing house and market for their feminine merchandise. The public slave wagons, incidentally, also provide Paga. They are a kind of combination Paga tavern and slave market. I know of nothing else precisely like them on Gor. Kamchak and I had visited one last night where I had ended up spending four copper tarn disks for one bottle of Paga. I hauled Kamchak out of the wagon before he began to bid on a chained-up little wench from Port Kar who had taken his eye.
Nomads of Gor    Book 4    Page 118
"But it does seem to me," she said, "that you might share in such chores."
"I am the commander of a Thousand," I said.
"What difference does that make?" she asked.
"It makes a great deal of difference!" I shouted.
"You needn't shout," she said.
My eye glanced at the slave chains under the slave ring.
"Of course," said Elizabeth, "we could regard it as a division of labor of sorts."
"Good," I said.
"On the other hand," she mused, "you might rent a slave for such work."
"All right," I said, looking at her. "I will rent a slave."
Nomads of Gor    Book 4    Page 286
"I am lonely," said a kneeling slave girl by one of the booths, lifting her hands to me. I looked at her, a comely wench in soiled Pleasure Silk. She was leashed and her master, who wished to rent her for the quarter Ahn, held the chain with its leather loop wound in his fist. "Use her," said he, "the poor wench is lonely, only a copper tarn disk." I turned and, pressing through the crowd, walked away.
Assassin of Gor    Book 5    Page 156
It could perhaps be mentioned that such work, cooking, cleaning and laundering, and such, is commonly regarded as being beneath even free women, particularly those of high caste. In the high cylinders, in Gorean cities, there are often public slaves who tend the central kitchens in cylinders, care for the children, but may not instruct them, and, for a tiny fee to the city, clean compartments and do laundering. Thus even families who cannot afford to own and feed a slave often have the use of several such unfortunate girls, commonly captured from hostile cities. Free women often treat such girls with great cruelty, and the mere word of a free woman, that she is displeased with the girl's work, is enough to have the girl beaten. The girls strive zealously in their work to please the free women. Such girls, also, have a low use-rent, payable to the city, should young males wish to partake of their pleasures. Here again, the mere word of the free person, that he is not completely pleased, is enough to earn the miserable girl a severe beating. Accordingly, she struggles to please him with all her might.
Captive of Gor    Book 7    Page 317
I smiled at myself. I recalled that there should be, at my camp, four paga slaves. I had had Rim rent them in Laura. He had rented them from a tavern keeper in Laura, a man named Hesius. Rim had said the girls were beauties. I had not yet seen them. My steps quickened. I was anxious to do so.
. . .
Strangely Hesius had asked for no deposit on his girls, as a surety for their return. This only now struck me as unusual. Surely we were not known to him. Further, now, as I thought of such matters, I recalled his rent price had seemed very low, particularly for fine girls, as Rim had assured me these were. Prices were supposedly low in Laura. I was prepared to believe that. Yet, were prices that low? Could they be that low?
Hunters of Gor    Book 8    Page 177
The owners of these cafes, usually, would bring with them a chain of their girls, stripped, as free women in the Tahari districts may not be, purportedly a typical selection of the stock available.
"In my house," he would call, indicating one or another of the girls, "rent the key to her chains."
Tribesmen of Gor    Book 10    Page 39
She shuddered. "Sell me to a rich man," she begged.
"I will sell you, or give you, or loan you, or rent you," I said, "to whomsoever I please."
"Yes, Master," she said, angrily.
Tribesmen of Gor    Book 10    Page 73
"But what if I attempt to slay you now?" I asked.
"You will not, for you are my guest," said Hassan. "Besides, why should you bring such a slave into the desert with you, a blond-haired, white-skinned, blue-eyed wench?"
"Why?" I asked.
"Not as a simple slave," he said. "You could buy and rent girls at any oasis. You brought her for a purpose. You wished to sell her, or give her, to someone, in exchange for something, for aid, for information, for something."
"You are astute," I said.
Tribesmen of Gor    Book 10    Page 162
"Have I not been kind to you?" demanded the Lady Sabina.
"Oh, yes, Mistress," said the girl.
"And yet I find you like a copper-tarsk rent slave in the arms of a retainer!"
"Forgive your girl, Mistress," begged the cringing slave.
Slave Girl of Gor    Book 11    Page 116
"Rent her! Rent her!" called a man, moving through the crowds. Before him, thrust ahead of him on a control stick, her wrists braceleted behind her, was a naked slave girl. There is a chain loop at the end of the control stick, which is about two feet in length. The loop goes about her neck and, by means of a trigger, may be tightened or slightly loosened. The girl may be signaled by means of the chain. I saw her neck and head move, jerking under the chain. She knelt quickly before me and began to bite at my tunic. "Only a quarter tarsk!" called the man. I brushed her aside. At the other end of the control stick there is a leather loop. This goes about the right wrist of the master. Behind me I heard the girl cry out in pain and struggle to her feet. "You worthless slut," said the man to her. And then he again was calling out, "Rent her! Rent her, kind masters!"
Beasts of Gor    Book 12    Pages 62 - 63
Imnak wished Thimble and Thistle to know Gorean.
Would a white trader not pay more to rent one if she could understand his commands?
Beasts of Gor    Book 12    Page 191
"Then slavers seldom permit their girls to be fully used?" she asked.
"Not for free," I said. "A common arrangement, however, is to charge a prospective buyer, if he wishes it, a rent fee, which fee may then be, should he want the girl, applied to her purchase price."
"That seems sound business," she said.
"I think so," I said. "Why should a slaver give away the use of his properties?" I asked. "After all that is how he makes his living, buying and selling, and leasing and renting women."
Beasts of Gor    Book 12    Page 241
"Sometimes, Masters, as a discipline, rent their girls out to employers to perform repetitious, trivial tasks."
"How horrid," she said.
"See that you please your master well," I said.
"I will certainly try," she said.
"There are, of course, many slaveries in the south," I said. "I have described only the most common to you."
"Tell me of others," she begged. "For I might be sold into them."
"There are paga slaves," I said, "who must please their master's customers in his tavern. There are the girls who staff the public kitchens and laundries. There are rent slaves, who may be rented to anyone for any purpose, short of their injury or mutilation, unless compensation be rendered to the master. There are state slaves who maintain public compartments, and work in offices and warehouses. There are girls in peasant villages, and girls on great farms, who cook and carry water to the slave gangs. There are beauties who are purchased for a man's pleasure gardens. There are other girls who work in the mills, chained to their looms."
Beasts of Gor    Book 12    Pages 249 - 250
"I had intended to rent a dancing slave in Vonda," said the Lady Florence to her guests, "a decorous girl in blue silk and a golden collar, who might by the loveliness and grace of her movements please us, but it slipped my mind. I am so forgetful! I am afraid we must make do with poor Melpomene." The Lady Leta laughed.
Fighting Slave of Gor    Book 14    Page 287
"The dancers were lovely," said Glyco, pausing, a spoon lifted in the air over a small yellow, spiced custard. "Perhaps I can rent them for a supper of my own in Port Cos, before their cages are ticketed for Turmus, and thence to Cos."
Guardsman of Gor    Book 16    Page 240
"This will be the first time that you have truly had me, as my own Master," she said. "You took me in the Street of the Writhing Slave as a Coin Girl, a mere rent girl, a street girl, a gutter wench, and you have taken me, I a helpless slave, I not knowing you, in the guise of my unknown Gorean master, but this will be the first time that you have had me, so to speak, in your own name and right."
Guardsman of Gor    Book 16    Page 278
Sometimes, incidentally, a master will rent his girl to an urt hunter, this being regarded as useful in her discipline. There are very few girls who, after a day or two in the canals, and then being returned to their masters, do not strive to be completely pleasing.
Savages of Gor    Book 17    Page 67
Afterwards I might go to a tavern, to have a cup of paga and see if I could rent a girl to take to my room for the night, to return her in the morning.
Savages of Gor    Book 17    Page 101
"Does he rent you out?" asked Tina. "Sometimes a man can get an offer on a girl that way."
Kajira of Gor    Book 19    Page 247
Slaves are commonly rented by the day or week.
Kajira of Gor    Book 19    Page 251
I reminded myself that Miles of Argentum did not own me. I reminded myself that he had only rented me for an evening, for a night, as men may rent women such as I. In a few Ahn, in the morning, I would be returned to my keepers. He would then forget about me. In a matter of days, probably some three or four days, I would be on my way back with the others.
I had nothing to fear.
He did not own me. That was what was most important. He could not even harm me, at least seriously, or permanently, without paying some form of restitution to the Enterprises of Aemilianus. I was, after all, their girl proper not his.
Kajira of Gor    Book 19    Pages 345 - 346
Most female slavers, incidentally, are not involved in field captures. It is, on the whole, too dangerous for them. Too, there is always the danger that they might be added to the catch by their men. Most female slavers, accordingly, are established in cities, where they own or manage houses. There they buy and sell slaves, board or rent them, train them, and so on.
Players of Gor    Book 20    Page 86
"It was clever of you to use the free woman with you in the manner of a rent slave. Some men will pay higher use rents for a free prisoner."
Mercenaries of Gor    Book 21    Page 148
"And so," asked the fellow, "what of your free tart? Did her rent uses spoil her for freedom?"
"Perhaps," I said. "I do not know."
Mercenaries of Gor    Book 21    Page 149
The Gorean seldom does without women. Such girls are usually supplied in groups by contract slavers, for the course of given campaigns. They may he used in their enclosures or, more commonly, they are sent to the tents of the men who rent them, usually for the night.
Mercenaries of Gor    Book 21    Page 216
"Do you see that area?" I asked, pointing.
"Yes, Master," she said.
"Speak," I said.
"It is the enclosure of camp girls," she said.
"Yes," I said. "Do you recall a girl there," I asked, "one who had not been fully pleasing last night to a rent master?"
"Yes, Master," she said.
"What was done to her?" I asked.
"She was whipped, mercilessly," she said.
Mercenaries of Gor    Book 21    Page 225
For example, the Curulean is there. One may also rent and board slaves there.
Mercenaries of Gor    Book 21    Page 267
Goreans are fond of giving dinners and having parties. They are a sociable folk. If one does not own one's own slave, or enough of them, it is also possible to rent them for such occasions.
Dancer of Gor    Book 22    Page 280
"Slut rent period is up," he said.
"Take her away," said the burly fellow, with a wave of his hand.
Renegades of Gor    Book 23    Page 111
I also did not appreciate his criticizing me, mostly implicitly, for my choice of rent sluts.
Renegades of Gor    Book 23    Page 112
Considering the size of the besieging force there were not as many women in the camp as might have been expected. I hoped this would work in my favor. The paucity of women, relatively, rent slaves even bringing a copper tarsk a night, had largely to do with the coming and going of the slave wagons, which tended to carry off most of the captures, apprehended refugees, women who had fled from Ar's Station for food, giving themselves into bondage for a crust of bread, and such, to a dozen or so scattered markets, markets such as Ven, Besnit, Port Olni, and Harfax.
Renegades of Gor    Book 23    Page 158
Whereas in the common fashion show of Earth the woman considers the clothing and the man considers the women, and the women serve the ulterior purposes of the designer, in the parade of slaves there are generally no free women present, and the men, openly, lustily, consider the beauty of the women, as it was meant by nature to be considered, as that of slaves, and the women serve the ulterior purposes not of a designer, but of a master, who will, in the event of their selection, collect their rent fees, or such.
Vagabonds of Gor    Book 24    Pages 29 - 30
For example, I already had, in my gear at my tent, a sewing kit. It is amusing, incidentally, to rent a slave, bring her to your tent, and put her to tasks such as your sewing. Then, when she thinks this is all that is required of her, and expects to be dismissed, you order her to her back or stomach, teaching her that there is more to her womanhood than the performance of such tasks.
Vagabonds of Gor    Book 24    Page 52
"Stake position," said Ephialtes to the two women. Immediately they both lay down, with a sound of chain. It is not unusual to forbid a rent slave, during her use times, when chained at a stake, to rise even to her knees.
Vagabonds of Gor    Book 24    Page 386
Marcus looked down at her, angrily. Then he turned to me. "Her use, of course," he said, "is yours, whenever you might please."
"Thank you," I said, "but I think that I can find a rent wench outside in the camp, or, if I wish, buy a slut, for they are cheap in the vicinity of Ar these days."
Magicians of Gor    Book 25    Page 27
"If you will not use me, Master," she whispered, "rent me, or assign me, to another!"
Prize of Gor    Book 27    Page 662
"You knew these women?" I asked.
"They frequently brought us paga," said a man.
"I see," I said.
"We can rent them on leashes," said a fellow. "They will bring good coin in the furs."
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 125
Interestingly there was no coin box on the necks of the slaves, as would be the case with "coin girls" in some cities, usually port cities, or coin dishes beside the mat, as in great camps, and such, in which coins might be left by clients or patrons. Indeed, I had not even given a tarsk bit at the entrance. These slaves were furnished as a perquisite of the camp, to content the men who might not have their own slave or slaves. The rent money given to Torgus for his girls then, as with others, was furnished by the Pani, rather as they might have underwritten other forms of expense, clothing, bedding, housing, tools, weapons, food, ka-la-na, paga, kal-da, and such.
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 263
Perhaps no more than two or three preferred slaves are ever called to the slave ring of their master. Indeed, he may often bring in rent slaves from the party houses to sing and dance for him, and his guests, to play the kalika, to accompany with flute music the measuring of wine and the cutting of meat.
Mariners of Gor    Book 30    Page 469
"If he found me of slave interest," she said, "why was it that he never snapped his fingers, summoning me to his table, why did he not bind me, and thrust me before him to an alcove?"
"I did not want you thusly," I said, "a girl for a coin, to be relinquished after some Ehn or an Ahn, or so, to be ceded in her turn to another, to be surrendered at the closing of a tavern's portal. I wanted you whole, and mine, indisputably, legally, in every way. I did not want to rent you for the price of a drink. I wanted more. I wanted all. I wanted everything. I wanted to own you, completely, every strand of hair, every bit of you."
Mariners of Gor    Book 30    Page 574
A tarsk-bit is not unheard of for a use, but the use would presumably be brief, as, say, for a coin girl, used on the stones of a street. It might be two or three tarsk-bits if one is going to keep a girl for the evening. To be sure, a slave may be rented for a day, or two or three, at some negotiated rate. Sometimes this is done to try out a prospective slave, to see if she is worth buying. If she wishes to be bought, she is zealous to please her rent master. If she is bought, and is truly owned, she may be sure that her former rent master, now her owner, will see to it that she is now held to standards of performance which she had scarcely dared to conjecture might exist when she was a mere rent girl. This is to be expected, of course, as he then owns her. The rent fee, incidentally, is often applied to the purchase fee. Apparently this encourages sales.
Conspirators of Gor    Book 31    Pages 402 - 403
"Behold these slaves," said the newcomer, gesturing to the tunicked slaves recently emerged from the forest. Are they not of interest?"
Only too obviously were they of interest judging from the responses of the men.
"Such, and many others," said the newcomer, "serve in Tarncamp. They exist for your service and pleasure. You may buy them, or rent them, or visit them in one or another of the slave houses. The Pani, who are your employers, are generous with such meaningless baubles."
Smugglers of Gor    Book 32    Page 98
Occasionally the master of a merchant wagon would trundle in, with a trove of silk, and clothing, sometimes a fine sword. occasionally a peasant would appear with a daughter to rent or sell.
Rebels of Gor    Book 33    Page 370
"See this one," called the auctioneer, turning the beauty before the buyers, with deft touches of his whip, "see this olive skinned, green eyed beauty, with long, glossy, night-black hair, recently imported, with many others, from the World's End. Think of her at your slave ring, leaping helplessly in your arms! Train her in slave dance. Chain her outside your place of business. Would she not bring in customers? Buy her to rent her out. Buy her on speculation! If she is proud, humble her. If she is displeasing, whip her."
Plunder of Gor    Book 34    Page 278
