Welcome to My Second Life Gor Blog

A new Gorean blog to hang around at! Image source: Gor!

I've taken all my Gor-related posts and put them in a new blog ... this very blog! I cover Gor and Gorean stuff that leaks over into other online games, like the nude mods in Skyrim and so forth. It will be a place where I can write about Gorean RP matters that are not suitable for Politically Sexy, if such a thing is conceivable. And it'll be fun! If yu want to know something about Gor or sexy slavegirls in video games, this will be the place to look.

Roleplay At The Gor Visions Tavern

First published on 7/22/2012

A slavegirl awaits the Master's pleasure at the Gor Visions Tavern. Image source: me.

Well it seems that some enterprising folks in Second Life have started up a Gorean paga tavern that is accessble to all, not just Goreans. This is a brilliant idea, I think, given the popularity of 50 Shades of Gray I suspect there may be a huge appetite for dominance/submission roleplay. A place that can sort of ease people into it, getting the idea of Gorean roleplay without have to actually be IN Gor proper makes all kinds of sense.

I decided to go to the Gor Visions Tavern and conduct an interview with the owner, bubit Treves, and introduce readers to how the tavern works. Treves suggested I conduct the interview in roleplay, which was agreeable to me, so I grabbed a slave and grilled her good. But I got more than I bargained for, and so I posted the roleplay on Bondagerotica so you can check it out for yourself and see what happened, and get an idea of how Gorean roleplay proceeds.

Basically, the Gor Visions Tavern welcomes all to its doors, not just experienced Gorean roleplayers. You can play a slavegirl, a customer, a dancer, whatever floats your boat. The staff will help you learn the rules of the roleplay and guide you so you don't get caught up in roleplay that does not work for you. The slavegirls actually visit non-Gorean Second Life sims and entice visitors to the tavern. It's an interesting concept. I'd like to see them take a wider approach to attracting visitors, but I will watch their experiment with great interest, perhaps making the tavern a regular stopping point for Bondo Quixote on his travels.

If you want to visit the Gor Vision Tavern, here's their SLURL:

Gor Visions Tavern Teleport

Have a great time and tell em Bondo sent you if you drop by!

Slavegirls: enjoy your luxurious accommodations as you are carried, naked, bound and gagged in the trunk of a car, to your new life in the Gor Visions Tavern! Image source: Sex and Submission.

The Fast and Easy Guide to Playing Second Life Gor

First published on 6/11/2012

Beauty, adventure, excitement, combat and sexy fun await you in Second Life Gor. Get on it!

OK, I've been working for weeks on my definitive, or at least somehow useful guide to getting started in Second Life Gor. The goal has been from the beginning to let people get started fast and easy.

To that end, I've broken the article into six different sections, each exploring a different aspect of playing in Second Life Gor.

The first article, Getting Started in Second Life Gor, tells you how to get into Second Life and where to get all the freebie goodies and how to find Gorean roleplay sims. You'll be having fun getting new freebie stuff and playing with it in minutes. Read that article and go, read the others afterward as you move into new areas. The second article, How To Commit Sexual Roleplay in Second Life Gor, is second because you know you want to. Here's how it works. Then ins and outs. Ahem. Shows you how conventions have evolved to let people who have various approaches to and levels of interest in sexual roleplay enjoy the game together. You don't HAVE to do it ... but you CAN do it, if you want to.

The third article, Raiding in Second Life Gor,explains how to learn the skills you'll need to be a successful Gorean warrior, outlaw, panther girl or battle slave. The fourth article, OOC and IC in Second Life Gor, and Lifestyle Gor, is a VERY useful guide to the principles of roleplay in Second Life Gor. Here is where the cowpies you don't want to step in are. I would recommend reading it before engaging in Second Life roleplay, but the choice is yours. The fifth article, 50 Shades of Second Life Gor, was written because I figure with ten million readers of 50 Shades of Gray, we might just have a few people coming over from the books for some BDSMish roleplay, and this article is intended as a way to explain to them the benefits of Gorean roleplay for fans of 50 Shades of Gray. The sixth article, Gor Evolved and By The Book Gor, describes a basic split in Second Life Gor. There are Gor Evolved sims, and By the Book sims. Here's how it happened and how the two different kinds of lands operate, to help you choose your flavor of Gor.

All articles kinkily illustrated, of course. Now get our there and have yourselves some fun!

Fifty Shades of Second Life Gor

First published on 5/30/2012

Yeff, Chriffam ... I meme, yeff, maffah!" Image source: me. Well ten million people have bought Fifty Shades of Gray ... hmmm. That means that if even one percent of those ten million people decide they want to do some kinky sexual roleplay, that's ... a hundred thousand new sexual roleplayers, which is TWICE the current population of Second Life Gor roleplayers by even the ROSIEST estimates. That's why I wrote 50 Shades of Second Life Gor, a blatant attempt to recruit 50 Shades of Gray readers into roleplaying in Second Life Gor. If they're coming, might as well let 'em know what they're in for ... which is to say, tons of kinky, sexy fun! If you're into that sort of thing.

Gorean Roleplay and the Gor Movies

First published on 1/29/2010

I recently ran across a post from a fellow who was discouraged because he felt the roleplay in SL Gor wasn't sufficiently Gorean, that it feel far short of what it should be. That got me thinking about other attempts to capture the Gorean spirit, and I wrote a response that may be of interest to all:

Well. one point you may wish to consider is that it is damn hard to do a proper job of creating realistic Gorean roleplay, even with the best will in the world. And even so, I feel that SL Gor is so much better than any other medium that I've pretty much lost all interest in them. Books, movies, plays, nothing else even comes close. The intense pleasure I get from acting out the Gor novels, putting my own stamp on a character, making him move and breathe, making Gorean scenes come to life in conjunction with other people, really brings the experience home to me in a way that nothing else does.

Think of it this way. The people who made the Gor movies: "Gor" and "Outlaw of Gor" were presumably much more motivated than your average SL Gor roleplayer: they were being given money, there is always the promise of much more money and great fame if the project succeeds. They stand to gain fame and fortune if they do well. Presumably they are participating in the movie in hopes of becoming famous movie stars, famous and successful directors, actors and writers, etc. ... just how motivated can you get?

And yet those movies were abysmal horrors, no more true to the Gor novels than the most wretches excesses of Gor Evolved. (And some of the outliers of Gor Evolved are truly bad ... the other day I saw blue avatars on a supposedly Gorean sim. Blue avatars!). The Gor movies were lame-brained, pathetic excuses for movies that completely missed out on the spirit of Gor and also weren't even interesting stories in any respect. They sucked, they sucked hard, despite all that motivation.

The point is ... it's damned hard to capture the essence of the Gor novels and bring it to life even if you have huge RL motivators for doing so.

I feel that SL Gor has huge room for improvement, and yet even as it is, it's beautiful, a wonderful living world, brought to life by the people who have followed Norman's lead and tried in their various ways to fill the roles he unwittingly created for them. Even if many of them are doing it very badly, some are doing it very well, and damn ... most of us are having great fun at it, to be honest.

Recognize that getting Gor right is a very difficult thing and enjoy it on your own terms, is what I would recommend. There's a lot to enjoy.