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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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| 509 | I remember reading that slaves didn't need collars , but could have alternatives to them like anklets or bracelets to show their slavery instead. Can you find the quote? Thank you so much.
Answer
Merchant Law is what mandates the use of a collar. Cities must adhere to Merchant Law if they wish to have an official presence at the Sardar Fairs. But individuals aren't required to follow it, as shown by this quote.
Not all masters brand and collar their slaves, but branding and collaring is strongly recommended in Merchant Law, and it would be a rare slave girl who was not both branded and collared.
Prize of Gor    Book 27    Page 209
However, that's not what you ask.
This might be the quote you are looking for.
The throats of slaves, of course, are commonly bared, save, of course, for the collar. As they are slaves, they are expected to display the collar, obviously, and publicly, such a lovely badge of servitude. Indeed, as earlier noted, this display, as certain others, is prescribed by Merchant Law, which is a general, intermunicipal body of law regularly promulgated by the Merchant caste at the great fairs, and tending to be shared by disunited, often hostile, Gorean communities. Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman. One might think in terms of a slave bracelet or a slave anklet, or such, but the collar is almost universally preferred, possibly because of the prominence of its mounting, its unmistakable visibility, its way of clarifying the nature of its wearer, as a collared animal, and its beauty.
Kur of Gor    Book 28    Page 703
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