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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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| 57 | "Is there a quote on ::: is there a length of time stated where a slave is considered abanded?? If so what is it.. and can the collar be removed?? and by whom... "
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Hello,
The whole "abandoned slave girl when does her collar come off" thingy is a
cyberism. To answer your question from that standpoint alone, there has been
a long-standing 'rule' in Yahoo Gorean chat that a girl who has had NO
contact from her master in four weeks may then approach a free person and
beg to have the collar removed.
However, the girl does not then become a free woman, she is merely an
unowned slave.
Following are a few quotes which, while not answering your question
directly, touch on this subject.
I wish you well,
Fogaban
The slave cannot free herself. She can be freed only by an owner. The
condition of slavery does not require the collar, or the brand, or an
anklet, bracelet or ring, or any such overt sign of bondage. Such things, as
symbolic as they are, as profoundly meaningful as they are, and as useful as
they are for marking properties, identifying masters, and such, are not
necessary to slavery. They are, in effect, though their affixing can legally
affect imbondment, ultimately, in themselves, tokens of bondage, and are not
to be confused with the reality itself. The uncollared slave is not then a
free woman but only a slave who is not then in a collar. Similarly a slave
is still a slave even if her brand could be made to magically disappear or,
if she has been a made a slave in some other way, if she has not yet been
branded.
Renegades of Gor Book 23 Page 273
Female slaves are almost never abandoned by Gorean men. He does not care to
release such a prize. He keeps it.
Hunters of Gor Book 8 Page 245
Slave girls almost never escape. The major reason for this is the steel
collar, which, obdurately encircling her neck, read, promptly identifies her
master and his city. Almost no one, of course, would think of removing a
collar from a girl, unless it would be to replace it with one of his own.
This is because she is a slave. Girls may also be hunted down by trained
sleen, tireless hunters. If a girl should elude one master, she will,
customarily, soon fall to another. A successful escape, infrequent event
that it is, seldom amounts, from the girl's point of view, to more than an
exchange of collar and chains. Almost any man on Gor will hasten to put his
collar on a loose, beautiful female. Where is she to run? What is she to do?
All in all, escape is not a reality for female slaves. They are slaves. They
will remain slaves.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Pages 96 - 97
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