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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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| 405 | My question is: Were Free Women allowed to swear to a Home Stone? I know it says they 'shared' a Home Stone, but is this in the same way they would 'share' the caste of their Companion, or were they allowed to actually swear as a Free Woman individually?
Answer
Most certainly women can and do swear to the Home Stone the same as men.
These first two quotes show that a free woman's claim of citizenship is as serious as it would be for a man.
In having been enslaved she has lost all claim to her former Home Stone.
Explorers of Gor    Book 13    Page 410
"Describe to me," said he, "the Home Stone of Ar."
She looked down, confused. She could not do so.
"I cannot," she stammered.
"Shall I have you taken before the magistrates of Ar," he inquired, "to substantiate your claim of citizenship?"
"No," she said, "no!" She looked at him, terrified. To claim a Home Stone as one's own when it is not is a serious offense among Goreans.
Slave Girl of Gor    Book 11    Pages 394-395
The following quotes are just some which describe a free woman having a Home Stone, without using the word "share".
The free woman is a person; she is a citizen; she has standing before the law; she has a Home Stone; she is noble, lofty, and exalted. The slave, on the other hand, is a property, an animal.
Prize of Gor    Book 27    Page 538
the Gorean free woman, particularly if of high caste, commonly regards herself, and is culturally justified in doing so, as a very special and superior creature, one generally aloof and unapproachable, one commonly lofty and exalted. She has, after all, a Home Stone.
Prize of Gor    Book 27    Page 495
Compared to a Gorean free woman, sheltered by her Home Stone, secure within her walls, complacent in the unquestioned arrogance of her station, the women of Earth do not even understand what it is to be free.
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 87
Were it not for the security of their Home Stones, one supposes there would be few free women in a Gorean city.
Mariners of Gor    Book 30    Page 152
How glorious is the free woman! She possesses a Home Stone, as a slave may not.
Mariners of Gor    Book 30    Pages 213 - 214
A radical distinction is drawn between the Gorean free woman, with caste and Home Stone, and the slave.
Smugglers of Gor    Book 32    Page 126
Despite the exalted status of free women, who are equal to men in the holding of a Home Stone, can hold money and property in their own right, may found, organize, and manage businesses, may occupy positions of importance and authority even to the occupancy of thrones, and who may enter into relationships, or discontinue them, much as they please, the Free Companionship requiring an annual renewal, Gor is essentially a man's world.
Plunder of Gor    Book 34    Page 143
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