Been fooling around in Gor, trying to come up with some cool images with some animations and atmospheric effects. Came up with one that reminded me of Salvador Dali's stuff, lacking only a melty watch or three. If you click on the pic, you can download a much larger pic that will be desktop worthy. See what you think!
Not until I had been playing Gor for a while did I come to understand the appeal of collars. For securing slaves in positions in which they can be used with impunity, wrist cuffs, ankles cuffs and head harnesses are much more useful. But collars have a nice visual appeal. They identify the wearer as a slave, an animal, especially big honkin' metal collars like this one that can't POSSIBLY be mistaken for a necklace (as some slave collars are clearly designed to be -- once again, plausible deniability!).
In combination with chains and a gag as seen above, it's just incredibly fricking hot. Helpless and gagged.
I guess my general aversion to collars is a matter of safety ... necks are very fragile things, securing people by them is dangerous, if you don't know what you're doing, and really, even if you do. But they do have a certain slavey quality that lends them (and their wearers) great visual appeal. I imagine that the fashion of wearing necklaces got started as Roman matrons grew tired of watching their husbands ogling the sexy slavegirls slinking past in their sexy, sexy collars. Next thing you know, necklaces are all the rage, but here's the thing ... the REASON collars are sexy is that the wearer is a slavegirl, and may be used as one wishes. And I'm betting that the first free women that adopted that hot, sexy, scandalous necklace fashion, was signalling to her husband that he could treat her like a slavegirl in bed. Nice! Of course, I'm just theorizing here ... but such FUN theorizing!
Just a little World of Warcraft and Second Life Gor mashup I thought would be fun to create. Naked slavegirls are sadly lacking in the game, but hey, I hear the night elves will dance almost sexily.
For more on Second Life Gor and how it's NOTHING like World of Warcraft, visit my introduction to Second Life Gor.
Found an excellent post called Danger Theatre: Skyrim Gets Kinky over at the Danger Theater website about the kinky mods now being created for Skyrim, including craftable binds and a gags. There's also going to be a Skyrim Slaver mod, apparently, where you can enslave female NPCs or be enslaved if your character is female. In an earlier post on this blog, I noted some of the naked mods to Skyrim and other video games that have been created, and strangely enough, that has been one of my most popular posts, perhaps because of the the Photoshop artwork I created to illustrate it. But Sasha has gone one better and found actual kinky mods in the game. Great work, Sasha!
Back in the 1800s, there was no bondage porn. There was porn, but it was mostly very crappy stuff. Fortunately, there was Art. And some artists found that the public really liked images of harems and slave girls being sold and and looking all sexy and sensuous in harems.
One of the chief among them was Jean-Leon Gerome, a painter of the Academist style who lived and worked in France in the latter part of the 18th Century. The reason I discovered him is, whenever someone in Second Life Gor decorates a paga tavern or a slave kennel, or sometimes their own hovel, and they want to give things a "classy" look, about half the time they'll use paintings by Gerome.
As I've noted before, an awful lot of women play in Second Life Gor.
I find it amusing that this kinda stick-in-the-mud artist who disliked Impressionism but clearly had NO problem illustrating slavegirl fantasies, should show up so often in an obscure virtual world environment a century after his death (in 1904). The world is an interesting place, indeed.
I've created a new Second Life machinima, "Get Outta Winter and Into Second Life."
"Get Outta Winter" is basically hot, almost naked blonde Uncanny Vallerie traveling through various Second Life sims in various ways -- via jetskis, ATVS, dancing cows, swimming, flying and one very silly run. Other than Vallerie's butt, the sims are the real stars of the movie, I wanted to give viewers an idea of how much just plain old fun there is to be had in Second Life, apart from all the sexy sex that people seem to think of when SL is mentioned.
The machinima is designed to be fast and fun, driven by Bob Seger's "Get Outta Denver," basically a visual interpretation of the term "WHEEEEEE!!" It's also a showcase of how inexpensive Second Life is (playing Second Life itself costs nothing) -- all of the vehicles Vallerie rides except the tricycle are freebies, either available at freebie sites or left out just to use on various sims. The most expensive thing you'll see in this machinima is Virtual Vallerie's hair, which cost 300 Lindens (in-game money) which amounts to about a $1.33US. This is actually logical -- hair is complex and difficult to build, requires a certain amount of scripting knowledge and has a great deal to do with how good an avvie looks. The avvie itself was free, as is the "skin" that covers the avvie.
Here are the Second Life URLs (slurls) for the various sims in the machinima and some relevant info about them:
Snowy run scene
Primus Weapons
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Primus%20Weapons/182/74/20
This is a Gorean sim, set in the Northern Forests and full of panther girls and outlaws. Running around as a slave is hazardous in such sims if you do not want to RP being a slave, if you don't know what you're doing, or the secret of slaves in SL Gor (which is that a lot of Goreans would just as soon not cap a slave). There are a couple of other sims (Midgaard and others) linked to it at present.
Wyrldmaker (Suboceana)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wyrldmaker/119/83/21
This is a group of 30 sims linked together with a common theme of underwater exploration and also some nifty above-water stuff as well. Has another of freebie vehicles parked at the docks that you can ride ... jetskis, helicopters, sailboats, etc. Definitely worth a visit.
Tricycle Scene, ATV Scene
Kings Bishop
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kings%20Bishop/38/227/24
Kings Bishop is a public sandbox where anyone can rez their possessions and objects and build their own objects, and learn to build. It's in the middle of a mainland continent and there are all sort of different places nearby, much like a real life city, except with a LOT more variation, as there are not zoning codes and there's no problem with leaving stuff in midair. Also, just to the right of the landing zone is a building filled with freebies, most designed to be useful to builders but also some very useful freebies in general.
Fish and submarine swims
Vernian Sea
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Vernian%20Sea/96/199/73
The Vernian Sea is the underwater portion of the Babbage steampunk sims. Some very cool, visually arresting imagery above ground and below ground. A great place if you like steampunk of the dark and grim sort.
Rising from water scene
Flying out of water scene
Caledon Speirling
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Speirling/89/40/18
Part of the Caledon steampunk sims, once again, some very arresting imagery, I used this bit just because it was a nice way to transition from the underwater scenes to the flying scenes.
Diving board scene
Marvil
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Marvil/162/87/28
A sim near Kings Bishop that had a nice diving board to use as a prop to set up the underwater scenes.
dancing cow scene
Omanix, somewhere on Route 13
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Omanix/222/52/50
Another sim near Kings' Bishop that had a roadway that the Dancing Cow could use. There were a lot of other cool vehicles on the sim, but most moved far too slow for the pace of my machinima. Damn, wish I could have used the bus to Nowhere!
Flying scene, water slide scene, tubing scene
Suboceana
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wyrldmaker/119/83/21
More above-water fun in Suboceana.
Run through steampunk land
Caledon Sky City
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Steam%20SkyCity/110/54/76
Ok, this one was a bit of a cheat. Caledon is actually a group of steampunk sims. Sky City is a very detail-rich, built-up steampunk sim, and not all of it rezzed immediately, most notably, the floor Vallerie should have been running on. But I went ahead and ran her in midair, because I wanted to give a sense of how complex and multilayered these sims can be. So as Vallerie is running, that's the ground way beneath her ... she's actually a story above it ... and there are floating blimps and so forth floating in the sky above her as well.
Volcano Run, Silly run
Corsica 3D
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CORSICA3D/123/89/23
These locations just happened to be near a Star Trek museum I was looking for, and I thought it would be fun to have Vallerie jump into the caldera of a live volcano and run through a section with some generally weird creatures with her Silly Run.
Ice Skating
Babbage Canals
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Canals/29/83/105
Back to the Babbage sims for some ice skating to close out the running about.
Leap to Doom
Caledon Lionsgate
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Speirling/89/40/18
This is a spectacular steampunk sim, though all I was able to use was a nice leap. You can fall any distance at all in Second Life with no problem, though some of the animations your characters use to get back on their feet can be funny.
Blowing A Kiss
King's Bishop
Taken in one of their builder's sandboxes, where I used the free FORTRESS I got, I think at the Gorean Recruiting Center. (To be fair, it's a SMALL fortress, just one story high, and c'mon, stained glass windows? In a fortress?)
I had to leave out an AMAZING amount of good stuff to make this video work. I wanted to include some shots of Vallerie flying around in spaceships from Star Wars and Star Trek, but I had major lag when I tried that. There were some amazing sims I wanted to use, but they were full of active roleplayers, and I make it a rule not to interfere with others when making my machinima. I've also made it a rule not to involve others in my productions, as the process of making a machinima is and can be a time-draining pain in the ass, with many retakes.
Along those lines, in some of the sims Vallerie visited, notably the steampunk sims, she was severely out of costume. Some sim mods and owners don't mind that, others will ban you from their sims for being out of costume (Vallerie has in fact been banned, um, once or twice, mostly for excess nakedness). So keep that in mind. Generally most sims that have roleplay also have freebie costumes for visitors. (I know that Babbage does, and it's true of many Gorean sims.) Some sims, like the ones around King's Bishop, have no clothing requirements other than the ones associated with their rating (can't go naked in a sim rated General or Moderate, though in Moderate anything goes so long as the naughty bits are covered. Adult, sky's the limit.)
NEW! From GORCO! It's the Abercizer Plus! Let's face it, gentlemen ... the REAL reason we don't work out our abs is that the exercises are BORING! There, we said it: BORING!
But now, with the help of Gorco's brilliant new invention, the Abercizer Plus, doing abs will be EXCITING and FUN. Just put the Abercizer Plus on your slavegirl and then do abs right on top of her! The sight of her squirming and moaning beneath you (don't forget to put the ballgag on her!) will encourage you to do abs with an enthusiasm you've never experienced before!
Never before has any exercise system directly addressed the issue of MOTIVATION! The Abercizer Plus ENCOURAGES you to use it by making every exercise experience an ORGASMIC experience. (For extra fun, FORBID your slave to orgasm and see how long SHE can last!)
It's not sold in stores, it's not sold on television, only in the remotest corners of the Internet, such as this one!
Offer void where prohibited by law. Slavegirls sold separately. If erection lasts longer than four hours, TELL EVERYBODY YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!
News is hitting the celebrity blogs that bordello owner Dennis Hof (of the HBO reality series "Cathouse: The Series" fame) is planning to open an alien-themed bordello in Nevada. And no, it will not be full of Latin Americans. It will be a REAL alien bordello, with Slave Leias, Orion Slave Girls, Silurians from Doctor Who and Neytiri from Avatar on hand to offer sexual delights to all the guys whose plans to get laid at DragonCon fall through, as they so often do.
No word yet on whether or not Hof plans to include Gorean paga sluts in his business plan, but really, he's missing a bet if he does not.
So my flying monkey brought home a link about Slave Girl Leia, which didn't seem to productive at first glance ... a discussion on what appears to be an official forum of the Star Wars: The Old Republic online RP game. It starts off innocently enough, with an RPer asking where she can get a sexy slavegirl outfit for her character. There are a couple of reasonable sorts of responses, then long about the fifth post the mod rushes in and locks the thread on the grounds that"We ask that everyone hold off on submitting feedback until they have experienced gameplay on Public Test." Check it out here.
Seemed kind of abrupt to me, then the penny dropped. Star Wars is not exactly Gor, but let's face it, the Web is FULL of visual evidence that fantasies about Slave Leia are pretty much all about sex slavery. Or heroic rescues from sex slavery. Often, both! (See above, and below.)
So, Star Wars probably wants to attract that wonderful, mythical FAMILY audience that corporations love so much, and they are probably EXTREMELY leery of all the RP that Slave Leia is likely to spawn, so they're EXTREMELY skittish about it. I mean, it COULD be that the thread was shut down purely for the technical reasons that were cited, but it sure seemed awfully HASTY to me. I'm betting, corporate stuffed shirts gave out orders to put the nix on the sexy slave girl stuff.
Good luck with that, corporate stuffed shirts.
HAD to include this image, it's the best Slave Leia fake I've seen by a long shot. Found it on the NVM discussion board. Attempts to chase down the actual origin proved futile except for several other discussion boards and pic posts, despite the fact that there was a cartouche on the original image that said, "faked by HM." Googling the image, the term "faked by HM," "fakes by HM," "photomanips" and "HM" all proved futile, as did Googling the cartouche that said "faked by HM." So, whoever you are, HM ... good work! There's a lot of other good Slave Leia art on the NVM board and elsewhere on the Web, have fun checking it out.
Got some new art up for my Cafe Press T-shirt shop, a Gorean paga slut dancing for free men in the confines of a paga tavern, wearing only a ball gag and a sex harness, not knowing which if any of them will drag her to an alcove and use her. Adds a whole new element to being a waitress! Check out my Sir Laughs-A-Lot shop here, all sorts of designs sure to bring shame and embarrassment to the whole family this Christmas!
Bondagerotica announces the Kajira Doll, the latest product from GorCo, the world's largest manufacturer of dolls that are anatomically correct, politically incorrect and TOTALLY biodegradable! Check it out!
I put a piece up on deviant art, a tasty slavegirl is bound and gagged and cozy in her owner's study, right next to the fireplace so she can keep her engine of love nice and warm. Click on the pic to see it larger sized on Deviant Art.
A promotional poster for my upcoming (eventually) short film "Paga Slut" one of several new pieces I have uploaded to my deviant art page. (And SO appropriate to deviant art!) You can check them out here!
John Norman, bad prose stylist though he is, had several brilliant inspirations in his books, and one of the best of them is the paga tavern.
A paga tavern on Gor is a combination bar, pub, nightclub and brothel. It has a downstairs area for dining, gaming, dancing, fighting and so forth, and an upstairs area full of alcoves. Alcoves are tiny rooms with furs, chhains, whips and so forth where a slave can be used sexually.
Here is what is genius about Norman’s concept of the paga tavern … imagine going to your favorite bar and getting served by your favorite waitress, and knowing that the price of your glass of whisky or mug of beer includes the right to use the waitress of your choice for an hour or more, in an upstairs alcove, in any way you like.
Now, that’s MARKETING!
Imagine if, here on Earth you had a choice of going to a bar that offered only beer and booze, or of going to a bar that offered beer and booze and the chance to have sex with waitress of your choice at no extra charge. Which would be the more popular bar, do you think?
The bar that pimped out the waitresses of course!
So why aren’t there already paga taverns on Earth? And how would they work if there were? And could they really work on Gor as described?
The answers to these questions may surprise you! Or not! How the hell would I know? Do I look like a mind reader? And do you think I’ll not answer them under any circumstances?
Paga Taverns: A Viable Fantasy Even On Gor? Part 2: How Paga Taverns Work On Gor
Would You Like A Blowjob With That? Part 3: Would Paga Taverns Work On Earth?
So if you want to have paga sluts, you’re going to need a lot of them, enough to fuck all the men who order booze and then request sex, with others on hand to serve food and drink while their co-workers lie chained and naked with their legs spread, providing whatever sexual delights their customers order.
If you had the only such establishment in town on Earth, you’d have to figure on a 1/1 ratio of customers to girls, almost. But we’re not talking about an individual paga tavern, we’re talking about paga taverns as an institution. So let’s switch tracks and see how paga taverns work as an institution on Gor, to get a better idea how they might work on Earth … hell, they might not even work on Gor, as described.
Paga taverns that provide the use of a girl with the price of a drink or a meal would undoubtedly have a much higher number of girls working than a paga tavern that did not, if only because squirming in her bonds underneath various customers is both labor-intensive and time-consuming.
If you had to pay wages to these additional staffers, or paga sluts as Norman calls them, it would be MUCH more expensive to run a paga tavern with paga sluts than it would be to run regular paga tavern where the slaves just served liquor and food.
But on Gorean tavern masters did not have to pay wages to their paga sluts, because they were of course slaves. And slaves on Gor are not expensive to keep on hand. Let’s look at the economics of the deal.
Food for slaves is cheap for slaves because of course you are not concerned about taste or appearance, you just want to keep the slave able to perform their duties without passing out from hunger. So you buy a big bag of ta-sarna wheat, mix it with some water and table scraps and leftovers from the previous day’s meals that are too dodgy to throw in today’s soup but not in a poisonous state, and voila! You have a day’s worth of feed for up to 50 slaves.
And of course, patrons will sometimes feed the girls table scraps themselves, right at their tables, for the fun of it and perhaps to give them a positive incentive to perform well in the alcoves, always having the whip as a negative incentive, of course. As far as management is concerned, it's free feed for the slaves, since the customer has bought the food.
And that’s the ONLY regular expense a tavern master of Gor would have for his slaves. Slave wine is a perfect, long-lasting, side effect free contraceptive, so no worries there. The stabilization serums keep the girls healthy, prevent aging, and ensure they live hundreds of years, which means no medical expenses and very little in the way of turnover due to aging and death by aging.
So we’ve got food covered, shelter is just an iron cage not much bigger than a cardboard box a large screen TV comes in here on Earth. And the iron cages are stackable so you don’t need much room to house them. Kinda tough on the slaves on the lower levels, but what the hell, slaves are washable.
As for clothing … why would a paga slut need clothing? It would just get in the way. So it gets cold in the winter or rainy in the summer … it’s indoor work! You might have a house winter coat or three on hand for when you want to send trusted slaves out on errands, but the majority of them can stay in the cozy confines of the paga tavern’s serving rooms, kitchens or in the furs of the alcoves.
So food, shelter, clothing are all covered as regular expenses. But there are some one-time expenses associated with keeping slaves: cages, cuffs, chains, shackles, whips, collars and such, so these can easily be amortized over the hundreds of years the slave will serve you in a state of complete beauty and youth on Gor. IN fact, there might even be a tax break associated with the depreciation of collars and cages and so forth because, let’s face it, if there is any place in the universe where you can get a tax break for the expenses involved in keeping slaves, it’s Gor.
Therefore, I propose that on Gor the cost of keeping 20 slaves is not all that much more expensive than keeping 10 slaves, and the difference between keeping 30 slaves and 20 slaves is even less pronounced, once the slaves are purchased.
Furthermore, there is ample precedence for slaves being cheap … really cheap … on Gor. In Outlaw of Gor its stated that ordinary untrained slaves might sell for as little as five copper tarn disks, and as much as 30 tarn disks. (The smallest unit of currency in Gor is the tarsk bit, it is literally one eighth of a tarsk disk (that is, a copper tarsk disk can be broken into eight pieces, each piece is a tarsk bit). Paga tavern owners who are buying girls as paga sluts would of course look for pretty ones, so I suspect they would be paying 20-30 copper tarns rather than 5 coppers tarns.
Still, that’s pretty cheap. For example a copper tarn at a paga tavern will buy food, drink and the use of a paga slut. So it wouldn’t take a hell of a lot of time for a paga slut to pay for her purchase price. Thirty customers in a week seems reasonable, even conservative, so one week after she's bought she's earned her purchase price.
I was going to go into a long dissertation on Gorean economics to support my point, but the more I learned about the subject the more I realized that it made little or no sense, so I chucked that plan. Norman was not an economist, and there’s no reason he should have been, remember, he was writing novels, not world-building. He had a lot of fundamentally contradictory stuff in his Gorean economics, the biggest howler being his claim that slaves were rare on Gor, amounting to just 2 or 3 percent of Gor’s population, even though in the novels the characters can hardly move without tripping over a slave, but most tellingly, even though slaves are consistently described as cheap.
I mean, you ever heard of a rare and desirable commodity that was also cheap?
Still, I’m comfy with my analysis of the expense of keeping slaves, so, yeah, paga taverns made sense on Gor … the paga tavern owner whose slaves were NOT sexually available to customers would be destined to a fast ticket to being an ex-paga tavern owner.
But … could it happen on Earth?
Would You Like A Blowjob With That, Sir? Part 3: How Would Paga Taverns Work On Earth?
Paga Taverns of Earth … And Gor Part 1: A Brief Introduction To Paga Taverns
OK, so the question now become, if paga taverns complete with paga sluts have a considerable competitive advantage on Gor, so much so that paga taverns without paga sluts are rare, will they have a similar competitive advantage on Earth?
Well, there’s a big obstacle to them working competitively on Earth, and quite frankly, it is that workers in Earth taverns and bars are not, for the most part, slaves. They get salaries and tips for their work. And there are legal restrictions on what they can be asked to do, restrictions that are really strong in areas like, say, blowjobs.
And although there’s nothing exactly like a paga tavern on Earth (that I know of, though I tend to wonder what goes on various Third World hellholes like Saudi Arabia and the remote fastnesses of Afghanistan) there are various businesses that are SOMEWHAT like paga taverns in certain respects, and so it behooves us to both check out these similar businesses and to check our feet for hooves.
There are plenty of restaurants that serve food and alcohol, popular chains such as TGI Friday’s, Applebee’s and Chili’s for example. They cater to a family crowd and have no sexual element at all to them, other than hiring for the most part attractive young people to be servers, which is weak beer even on Earth.
Contrast this to Gor where the most common, if not the only kind of tavern is the paga tavern complete with naked slaves serving as paga sluts.
The closest Gorean equivalent to a family bar/restaurant is the inn, where people of all ages and sexes and genders could stay. There were still slaves at the Inn and I guess if their Masters wanted to use them in public they could, so … hey, it’s not all that close an equivalent. Because I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen a naked woman in a collar bent over a table being fucked at Chili’s. And I’m sure I would remember it if I had.
There are also more traditional bars that cater to adults of both sexes, that have a variety of sexitude, from no more than you see in TGI Friday’s, to the low-grade sexitude of Hooters, to those places that sponsor wet T-shirt contests that wind up with the the contestants demonstrating that their pussies are as wet as their T-shirts.
Now this is getting a lot closer to the Gorean paga tavern, as naked dancing is often a part of the festivities in a paga tavern. Of course, in a Gorean paga tavern the customers can sexually use the dancer right after her dance for a couple of copper tarsks. And while I’m sure guys that patronize bars that host wet T-shirt contests might hook up with a contestant after the event and have sex with her, the bar takes no cut in any money that might or might not exchange hands, and the woman is under no compulsion to have sex with anyone. She’s not a slave. She’s not even necessarily promiscuous. She might just be an office worker who’s had a leetle too much to drink and took a dare. There’s a certain Gorean flavor there, but it is still far from a Gorean paga tavern.
There is however a kind of bar that is very close to the Gorean paga tavern in feel, and that’s a strip club.
Strip clubs come in two flavors -- those that provide lap dances and those that don’t. In both cases you have women dancing naked, or practically naked onstage for tips. In both kinds, you can pay women to dance nearer to you. But in one case, the woman does what’s known as a table dance, and there is no physical contact. In toe other case, then woman does what’s known as a lap dance, I.e., she stis in your laps and grinds her butt against your crotch. Now THAT’S physical contact!
(The laws vary from state to state, county to county, and city to city with regard to strip clubs, as the impulse to ban them without being able to simply say “No strip clubs” and/or “no lap dances” has resulted in a literal fountain of absurd laws spewing forth, but as a GENERAL rule, if women can grind their butts in a man’s lap and so forth, she has to wear a thong and maybe pasties. If she can’t touch him or he can’t touch her, etc., the woman can dance naked as a jaybird. (Where I live, naked dancing/no touching is in force, so my knowledge of lap dancing comes from stuff I read on the Web for this article/post -- really! -- but there’s plenty of information out there for those who are interested in it, and it’s fairly consistent in nature, so either take my word for it, or do your own damn research.)
Strip clubs are of course MUCH closer to Gorean paga than anything we have discussed so far, if only because naked and/or practically women are their stock in trade.
It’s also true that in lap dance clubs the women are sexually servicing the men. While there is no penetration, a nearly naked women are swarming all over the men who have paid for lap dances, and nearly naked women are dancing for men the men who have not yet paid for such services, and nearly naked woman are serving them drinks as well. Let’s face it, if the setting were kinda sword and sandal, and the girls were allowed to, er, REQUIRED to fully serve the customers, it would look VERY much like a paga tavern.
Of course, economically, a strip club, lap dancing or no, functions very differently from a paga tavern. The women in them are not slaves, they are independent contractors. The strip club owners make much of their money from the overpriced drinks the customers consume, as well as share in the tips the dancers get from dancing for customers, in their laps or otherwise. Which is to say, the dancers in Earth strip clubs do NOT come with the price of the booze. It’s a VERY different economic setup.
Bordellos, whorehouses, houses of ill repute, Congressional offices … no matter what you call them, these places all have the same purpose … the selling of sexual access to women, to horny men and sometimes, horny women as well.
I am sure that at any of these institutions, based on all reports, you can get a drink and maybe some food as well, but mostly, you can get fucked and sucked and also some specialty stuff as well. The sex is of course the main thing, and the pricey thing -- unlike lap dances or table dances, which are much cheaper. (A quick scan of prices on the Web indicates that drink prices in strip clubs run $5-10, lap dances and table dances run anywhere from $5 to $25, and sex runs $150-300, with higher charges for specialty sexual acts, like bondage. All these prices are not averages but just what I saw in two or three references, could be off by a lot, but I really, really doubt that the major point here … that actual sex is a LOT more expensive than any form of naked or nearly naked sexy dancing, including nearly naked sexy dancing that is done in a guy’s lap … will be anything but upheld by further research.
OK, here we get to our central point, which is this … on Earth, whenever there is sex offered along with booze, the sex is so much more expensive and important that the booze takes second place. There are no paga tavern equivalents on Earth because any such institution on Earth would be the equivalent of a whorehouse. The paga (vodka and whiskey being the Earth equivalents of sul paga and sa paga, respectively) would be totally unimportant, on Earth.
Whereas in the classic paga tavern, the use of the waitresses, while clearly important to the appeal of the tavern, is hardly the only thing. Men come for drink, for food, to fight, to play games such as kaissa, to watch women dance, and they may enjoy any or all of these pleasures on any given night, without necessarily using a paga slut.
Whereas the number of guys who go to strip clubs or bordellos just for a drink are probably vanishingly small.
That’s because, as Norman points out, Gorean men are masterful types who take women whenever they like, and slave women who can be taken are plentiful and conditioned to know that they can be taken by any master.
(Caveat: Norman in one book claims slaves constitute just two to three percent of the population, which would make sexual access to them quite scarce unless every last one of them spent their entire lives staked out naked in various public square. However, given that Norman also repeatedly claims slaves are cheap (rare commodities which have value are almost never cheap, in fact, rare commodities that are pretty darned crappy are almost never cheap … ask any comic book collector) and because they are commonplace characters in his novels, we can reasonably ascribe this to the list of Norman howlers like counter-Earths and birds that can carry half a dozen full grown humans) and take Norman at his word in those books in which he claims that sexual access to Gorean slave girls is easy and cheap.
Since Gorean men know that sexual access to a beautiful slave girl, entirely on their own terms, can be had for pocket change whenever they like, they aren’t so ANXIOUS when they visit a paga tavern. It’s a place that provides sexual access to slave girls, as is commonplace on Gor, and if they feel like using a waitress sexually, they will, but if they just feel like sitting around drinking and talking, or playing kaissa, or fighting, they’ll do that.
It’s a very different attitude from what prevails in Earthly strip clubs and bordellos.
Now there is one Earth institution that is very like paga taverns, so far as I can tell, and that’s the saloons of the Old West.
At one time, every town of any size out in the West had a bordello, often consisting of upstairs rooms above the local saloon. IN addition to booze and girls, saloons often offered such amenities as hot baths, shaves and rooms to rent.
This state of affairs prevailed because men vastly outnumbered women in the Old West. Cowboys coming in from a dusty cattle drive, miners taking a break from backbreaking labor, and farmers coming in for supplies, would all find the delights at the saloon of interest. And because the institution of Old West saloons was widespread and accepted (at least, by the overwhelmingly male population of the Old West) they weren’t all that ANXIOUS about the chance to have sex with a whore in the bordello portion of the saloon. Drinking, gossiping and playing poker were also real draws for the saloons.
(In deference to modern mores, the sexual element of saloons is often downplayed in modern movies and TV shows, more so back in the 1950s and 60s than in modern times.)
But that is a moot point of sorts, as the Old West has been replaced by the New West, and no such institution as the Old West saloon remains. Which is to say, there’s no equivalent to a Gorean paga tavern on Earth at present.
That said, COULD THERE BE a paga tavern equivalent on Earth?
It seems highly unlikely, though not impossible. The return of chattel slavery in Western culture is not a likely event. (It can reasonably argued that it has not yet been removed from Eastern and African culture.)
While I do not doubt that modern corporations of the sort that run institutions like Chili’s or Applebee’s would gleefully seize on chattel slavery as a means of improving the bottom line, I really don’t think they’re gonna get the chance. Places where the sexual services of waitresses are available for the cost of a drink are not gonna happen.
That said, strip clubs seem to show the way where something like a paga tavern might exist, with the sexual services of waitresses tacked on for a premium, and not a huge one. The primary attraction would be the strippers/whores, but they might become a place where you cold go for a drink and some gossip or some biz planning as well, perhaps even a little gaming. It does not seem overwhelmingly likely that this will occur anytime soon, but the rise of strip clubs as a business seems even less likely … yet it clearly has happened.
And if strip clubs do eventually morph into something like a paga tavern or an Old West saloon, I can see some bright-eyed, sleazy corporation eventually coming to the conclusion that a great deal of money could be extracted from consumers’ pockets by streamlining and simplifying the strip club/saloon/paga tavern format, much as corporation streamlined the old inn/restaurant formula into motels and fast food franchises. And, well … the status of American workers would have to sink at least a little lower than they are now … just a little … to the point where they might still accept a minimum wage, but for that wage would be willing to wear a paper hat, smile at all and sundry and ask, “Would you like a blowjob with that?”
I’m not holding my breath though. It COULD happen, but it does not necessarily HAVE to happen.
Paga Taverns of Earth … And Gor Part 1: A Brief Introduction To Paga Taverns
Paga Taverns: A Viable Fantasy Even On Gor? Part 2: How Paga Taverns Work On Gor
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