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| 488 | Thank you so much for taking the time to answer these!
Does it say anywhere that the pani contract women were sexual in any way? I'm confused as to if they were just glamorous entertainers , or more like courtesans with a sexual nature to their services. Any help would be appreciated!
Answer
We learn of Pani contract women in Book 29, Swordsmen of Gor.
Nowhere in what we know of these women are they overtly described as sexually active. Certainly not as slaves are described.
However, this is not to say they are abstinent, as might be concluded by this quote.
I would later learn that these were, indeed, "contract women," who, as girls, were often sold to pleasure houses, most often by their parents. Sometimes, too, they would sell themselves to such a house, to be trained in arts of pleasure, for example, music, dancing, singing, conversation, and such. As their contracts could be bought and sold they were, in effect, slaves, but they were not thought of as such. For example, they occupied an understood, accepted, and generally respected niche in their society. They were not tunicked, not branded, not collared, and so on. They were not "collar-girls."
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 195
It seems the main purpose of a contract woman is to provide comfort and delight in traditional and cultural manners.
When, wearied of a world's concerns, he wished to spend a leisurely, elegant evening, gratifying his various cultivated senses, physical, intellectual, and aesthetic, his choice would not be the collar-girl, but the women trained to comfort and delight him in traditional and cultural manners.
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 196
To fully answer this question, I added a new page to ~The Gorean Cave~ just for you.
Contract Women.
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