The Slaves

"Second only to the absolute helplessness of the female in her ties, in the Gorean mind, is the attractiveness of her bonds. They should be used to enhance her beauty as well as to imprison it with absolute perfection." — Savages of Gor, page 282.

There are many ways to bind a slave or captive, along with many sorts of materials and devices used. Here are terms and examples of such methods and devices; some are cultural or regional, while others are universal. These methods and devices are not always used on slaves, but may also be used on prisoners or captive free females.

"There are many arrangements for the keeping of slaves, bars, harnesses and such. A simple one is a short, hollow tube, usually used with a sitting slave, whose wrists are tied, the thong then passing through the tube to emerge at the far end, where it is used to secure her ankles. A second similar device is the longer pole, drilled four times, used with a prone or supine slave, in which it is impossible for her to rise to her feet. Her ankles are fastened some six inches or so from one end, and she is then, of course, secured in one fashion or another, back or belly to the pole, as the master might please, at suitable intervals, by the wrists, belly and neck, the pole usually extending some six inches or so beyond her head." — Magicians of Gor, page 60.

The Devices

Following are examples of devices utlized in the binding of slaves; from slavers to the simple owner, from simple tethering for travel to punishments to more elaborate reasons. This section is a work in progress and will be updated as time allows.

• Ankle Bar
A device used in wagons for the transportation of slaves. The ankle bar generally extends to the length of the wagon. When chaining girls to the ankle bar, two ankle rings with a short chain attached are employed. First one ankle ring is secured around one ankle; the chain is passed around the bar and then the second ankle ring is secured to the girl's other ankle. When chained in a wagon to the ankle bar, girls are commonly unclothed.

"Targo gathered his men and goods. Nineteen of the girls, separately, taken deep into the thicket, had had their wrists bound together, either before their body or behind their back, about small trees. There were the ones he had managed to keep. Lana, Ute and Inge had, of course, been among them. The bosk, unfortunately for Targo, had either broken free or been cut free. They had disappeared over the grassy fields. When he emerged from the thicket he found left only one usable wagon, and that damaged by smoke and fire. He had lost a good deal, but he had saved goods, and, most importantly, his gold. He camped that night in the thicket. In the morning a harness was jerry-rigged. The girls looked at one another. Not now, indolently, would they ride chained to the ankle bar of the wagon. Then Targo had set out again for Laura. Some two or three days later, in the trackless fields, wandering, they had encountered a young barbarian girl, strangely clad, who they had made their slave. … — Captive of Gor, page 63.
       From this, as I later saw, camisks were made, a simple slave garment. When chained in a wagon, to the ankle bar, girls are commonly unclothed. When the tarnsmen struck, the girls had been freed from the wagons, to be driven into the thicket. … — Captive of Gor, page 64.
       The two wagons he bought were merchant wagons, with rain canvas. The back wheels were larger than the front wheels. Each was drawn by two bosk, large brown creatures with spreading, polished horns, hung with beads. Their hoofs were also polished and their long, shaggy coats groomed to a shine. One of the wagons had an ankle bar, and the other was fitted with the ankle bar from Targo's damaged wagon, which was the first wagon; my wagon was the second. Each wagon held nine girls. Targo had sold two girls. We were fitted with ankle rings joined by a short length of chain. One ankle ring is closed on the girl's ankle, the chain passed about the bar and then, on her other ankle, the second ankle ring is closed, securing her." — Captive of Gor, page 65.

"I have a spare ankle ring," he said, and took Talena by the arm, thrusting her inside the wagon. In the wagon there were some twenty girls, dressed in the slave livery of Gor, perhaps ten on a side, chained to a metal bar which ran the length of the wagon. Talena would not like that. Before she disappeared, she called over her shoulder, saucily, "You're not rid of me as easily as this, Tarl of Bristol." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 123.

• Ankle Leash
A particular cruel form of tethering a slave girl.

"Ankle leash her," said the lad who held Lehna. Another lad tied a tether on her left ankle. The ankle leash is cruel. It provides effective control of a girl. There is much that can be done with such a leash, particularly in the control of a skillful master. Most obviously, in an instant the girl may be thrown to his feet in a variety of positions, over which he exercises choice. The lad who had captured Donna, now that her ankles were tied, heaved her with a laugh over his shoulder. She landed in the dirt behind him. She broke her fall, as best she could, with her hands. The long end of the rope which bound her ankles trailed her over his shoulder. Her captor took the end of the rope from the lad who had bound her and, holding it about a foot from her fastened ankles, pulled her feet some six inches into the air. She was lying on her stomach.
       "There is my catch," he said. Then he said to Donna, "Roll over." She rolled onto her back, her tied feet now held about a foot off the ground by the rope. "There, my friends," beamed her captor, "is my catch!"
       "A beauty!" said one of the boys.
       "Yes, a beauty!" said her captor. He was proud of Donna. I did not blame him. She was indeed beautiful. Donna was a marvelous catch. "I want her!" said one of the lads. "First capture rights are mine," said the lad who had caught Donna, "but I am generous, and will share my prize with all of you!" There was hearty acclaim among the lads upon the receipt of his welcome intelligence. Donna squirmed, but was helpless on her back, her feet bound, held in the air by the captor's tether.
       "What of my prize?" demanded another lad, he who had caught Lehna by the sleen pen. He now held her ankle leash, and stepped back, bowing and displaying the half-stripped Lehna with an expansive gesture. She, too, I was forced to admit, was a superb prize. Such boys did not have such girls everyday. She was a warrior's belonging.
       "How can we tell if she is pretty?" asked one of the boys.
       "Thusly!" said one, tearing away the bit of gown about Lehna's hips. There was laughter. She was very beautiful.
       "But she is standing!" protested the first lad.
       "Belly or back?" asked Lehna's captor.
       "Both!" cried more than one lad.
       Expertly, with the ankle leash, the lad displayed Lehna's beauty in the luscious modes of horizontality. Some Goreans say that a woman's beauty can only be fairly judged when she lies at a man's feet. More than one of the lads cried out with pleasure and slapped his thigh. Donna then screamed as the boys turned to her. Her gown, too, was torn off. Her ankles were still tied.
       "To the circle of the torch!" cried a lad.
       "On your feet, Wench!" said the lad who had captured Lehna. She scrambled to her feet, covered with dirt.
       "Three have yet to be caught," said a lad.
       I knew one girl had been caught early; I had heard a scream some time ago; I did not know who she was; now I knew that Lehna and Donna were in the power of the pursuers; if only three remained to be caught, then one other girl, somewhere, had also been captured. I did not know who she was either.
       "Let us take these to the circle of the torch," said one of the lads, "and bind them securely, then hunt the others." The captors hesitated.
       "You can put your marks on these in charcoal," said one of the boys, indicating Donna and Lehna.
       "All right," said one of the captors.
       "Agreed!" said the other.
       Lehna was led away on her ankle leash, fastened on her left ankle, and by her right wrist, too, it held in the hand of one of the boys. Donna's captor, to her misery, dragged her behind him through the dirt on the tether which fastened her ankles together. I saw the group, pursuers and fair captives, helpless in their charge, disappear down the street. — Slave Girl of Gor, pages 165-166.

• Ankle Rack
Stockades in which a girl's ankles are held secure. A disciplinary means of securing a slave girl. The girl's ankles are placed in semi-circular openings in the rack and then the top block is closed and locked into place. locked in shackles which are bolted into the rack; she is then released. She must support her weight then on the palms of her hands.

"Bring an ankle rack," said Ulafi to one of the guardsmen. One was brought. "Put her in it," said Ulafi. The guardsman removed his neck strap from her throat, freeing, too, her ankles. He untied her hands. Lifting her under the stomach he held her ankles near the rack; another guardsman placed her ankles in the semicircular openings in the bottom block and then swung shut the top block, with its matching semicircular openings, over them. He secured the top block, hinged at the left, to the bottom block, with a metal bolt on a chain, thrust through the staple on the lower block, over the hasp, swung down from the upper block. The guardsman who had held the girl then ceased to support her. She made a little cry. The weight of her upper body was then on the palms of her hands, her arms stiff. Her ankles were locked in the rack. This helped to support her weight. Her ankles protruded behind the rack. Her feet were small and pretty. She looked about, helplessly. — Explorers of Gor, pages 68-69.

• Ankle Rings
Metal rings which fit about a slave's ankles; chains may then be attached to these.

"… at the end of the chain there is attached another device, a set of linked ankle rings, which, when closed about her ankles, lifts a portion of the slack chain from the floor …" — Nomads of Gor, page 42.

"I have a spare ankle ring," he said, and took Talena by the arm, thrusting her inside the wagon. In the wagon there were some twenty girls, dressed in the slave livery of Gor, perhaps ten on a side, chained to a metal bar which ran the length of the wagon. Talena would not like that. Before she disappeared, she called over her shoulder, saucily, "You're not rid of me as easily as this, Tarl of Bristol." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 123.

"One of the wagons had an ankle bar, and the other was fitted with the ankle bar from Targo's damaged wagon, which was the first wagon; my wagon was the second. Each wagon held nine girls. Targo had sold two girls. We were fitted with ankle rings joined by a short length of chain. One ankle ring is closed on the girl's ankle, the chain passed about the bar and then, on her other ankle, the second ankle ring is closed, securing her." — Captive of Gor, page 65.

"In displaying a girl, an ankle ring is placed on her left ankle. This locks on the ankle. There is also a smaller ring, projecting from the larger ring, which also locks. This smaller ring can either be snapped into a particular link in a chain, thus allowing the girls to be spaced at certain intervals, or it can be closed about the chain as a whole, thus permitting the chain to run freely through the ring without injuring or burning the girl's ankle." — Captive of Gor, pages 61-62.

"Now again Midice danced, her ankles in delicious proximity and wrists lifted again together back to back above her head, palms out. But this time her ankles were not as though chained, nor her wrists as though braceleted; rather they were truly chained and braceleted; she wore the linked ankle rings, the three-linked slave bracelets of a Gorean master…" — Raiders of Gor, page 116.

• Binding Fiber
A very heavy and stout twine made of strips of leather or of a fiber-like hemp; used in binding slaves; can also be used to fashion a temporary collar.

"She had been thrown to her stomach. Already, with a binding fiber, her wrists had been tied tightly behind her. A warrior now crouched at her ankles. With a few swift motions he fastened them together." — Raiders of Gor, page 56.

"Bring me binding fiber," I said. She looked at me. I indicated a coil of binding fiber that lay near the foot of the rail, below the tiller deck, on my left. She put down the great bow, with its arrows, on the tiller deck. She brought me the coil of binding fiber. I cut three lengths. "Turn and cross your wrists," I told her. With the first length of binding fiber I tied her wrists behind her; I then carried her and placed her, on her knees, on the second of the broad steps leading up to the tiller deck, two steps below that in which I fixed the chair of the oar-master; she now knelt below that chair, and it its left; there, with the second length of fiber, I tied together her ankles; with the third length I ran a leash from her throat to the mooring cleat on the aft larboard side of the barge, that some five yards forward of the sternpost. — Raiders of Gor, page 81.

• Binding Strap
A strap commonly used for binding the hands and/or feet of slaves and prisoners. The straps are generally about eighteen inches (18") long.

I threw him a narrow, eighteen-inch black strap. "This is for when you take her home with you tonight," I said.
      "Thank you," he said. When he left tonight, of course, she would not be wearing a collar, and, presumably, she would be stripped. The strap would be useful in tying her hands behind her back. — Guardsman of Gor, page 237.

"The golden straps she had used to simulate the footwear which she had worn on Earth were golden binding straps. … Such straps, incidentally, are commonly used to bind the hands and feet of women." — Guardsman of Gor, pages 251-252.

"Do you have another binding strap," asked Callimachus, sheepishly, "something to take her home in?"
      "By some odd chance, I do," I said, grinning, and threw him such a strap. I had brought three such straps to the table, one for each of the girls who was to be awarded as a gift. — Guardsman of Gor, page 269.

• Blindfold
The Gorean blindfold consists of three pieces: two round pieces of soft felt (approximately three to four inches (3"-4") in diameter, and the binding, which is made of a folded cloth or scarf, and secured behind the head by knotting. The blindfold is used primarily by a master when he wants to admire his slave's lips, or to tease her receptiveness.

"I regarded the blindfold. It was efficient and Gorean. Most blindfolds of a sort used on Earth are inefficient for one may see under them. This is not the case with the common Gorean blindfold. It consists of, commonly, three pieces, usually two rounded pieces of soft felt, three to four inches in diameter and the binding, which usually consists of two or more turns of a dark, thick, folded cloth, or scarf, knotted behind the head. The pieces of rounded, face-hugging felt, the eyes coverings, in the girl's blindfold were about three a half inches in diameter. They were yellow. The binding, tightly behind her head, held the eye coverings securely in place. The blindfold, of course, is seldom used in the transportation of a slave. Slave hoods are much more common in such a role. Some of these are fitted with gags. Also, they may be, or some of them, locked upon the girl. The blindfold of course as will be recalled by those who have seen a girl in one, has its own advantages. It permits, for example, something of the beauty of her face, such as her trembling lips to be seen. Also it permits you to place your teeth upon hers, to tease her tongue for responsiveness with yours, and if one wishes to run the tip of one's finger lightly inside her mouth, between her teeth and the interior of her cheek." — Rogue of Gor, page 204.

"The hood tends to be more effective than the blindfold as a security device. For example, it is difficult to dislodge it, as it ties under the chin, by, say, rubbing it against a wall or tree. An advantage of the blindfold, of course, is that it enables the mouth of the female to be seen, and to be kissed, and such. It also allows her to use her own mouth, of course, in kissing, and such. The half hood is a device intended to couple something of the effectiveness of the full hood with the various exploitable advantages of the mere blindfold." — Vagabonds of Gor, page 242.

• Body Chain
A closely meshed chain with a length of about five feet (5'); the chain is used in a variety of ways to adorn as slave, as jewelry, or to secure a slave. Often times, the chains are decorated with colorful beads, gemstones and leather.

"The loop of the body chain was some five feet in length. It was made to loop the throat of a woman several times, or, by alternative windings, to bedeck her body in a variety of fashions. The chain was not heavy, but too, it was not light. It had a solid heft in one's hand. It was closely meshed and strong. It could be used, if a man wished, and perfectly, for purposes of slave security. It was decorated sensuously with colorful wooden beads, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. Detachable, but not attached to the chain at one point were two sets of clips one of snap clips and one of lock clips. It is by means of these clips that the chain can be transformed from a simple piece of slave jewelry into a sturdy and effective device of slave restraint." — Rogue of Gor, pages 71-72.

"Chain!" she cried. "Master!" She tensed her body and struggled, but only for an instant. I tightened the chains. She ceased struggling. The chains were tight in her flesh. "Master?" she asked. I then lifted the chains from her, and held them out, before her. "It is beautiful," she said. She saw now that the chains had been the loops of a single, graceful body chain, sinuous and glossy, closely meshed and dark, ornamented with colorful beads of wood, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. Its full loop is some five feet in length, and it can be wound and looped, and twisted and strung about a woman's body in a variety of intricate fashions. It is light and the closeness of its meshing allows it to follow closely the contours of a woman's body. It is unbreakable. It may be worn with or without clothing. By means of small clips, snap clips or lock clips, it may be used to secure as well as adorn a woman. It is to be worn, of course, only by a slave. "It is beautiful, my Master!" she said. "Is it mine?" — Guardsman of Gor, page 281.

• Body Hoods
Also: Slave Sack
A full-body "hood" which is used to help keep the female or prisoner docile

"There are several varieties of body hoods on Gor. Most body hoods are made of leather or layers of stout canvas. They may be fastened by means of such devices as cords, straps and laces. They may be tied shut or locked shut. The prisoner is entered into some body hoods from the back, her legs being placed through the openings in the lower portion of the hood, the hood then being pulled up an, from the back, laced shut. Most of these hoods do not have openings for the arms, but some do. In most hoods the arms are confined within the hood, either free within the hood itself or bound or braceleted within it. Some hoods are open at the bottom, and fastened on the prisoner by means of thongs or straps, often looped about the thighs. Others are constructed in such a way that they may be opened at the bottom, for the master's convenience. Sometimes the hood is thrust up and fastened about the prisoner's waist. The typical hood provides hand and arm security with the advantages of a blindfold. Most body hoods, unlike many slave hoods, do not have provisions for an internal gag. The prisoner, of course, may be gagged before being hooded. The body hood, like the slave hood, tends to keep a female docile. Another advantage of the body hood is that it is intriguing and attractive on a woman, baring her legs, but usually, unless the arms are also intriguingly bared, concealing the rest of her, this sort of thing exciting male interest, and yet in virtue of the predominant concealment afforded, making her seizure less likely than if she were lying about more exposed in common bonds." — Renegades of Gor, page 151.

• Bondage Knot
This particular knot is a formed of a woman's hair on the right side of her face just above her right shoulder. It carries two meanings, used in two instances. One, it can be a silent plea of attention for that of a master whom she is afraid to speak, and two, an indication of ownership being claimed, such as in a raid.

"On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck has recourse upon occasion to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood. I shall mention two such devices. There is, first, the bondage knot. Most Gorean slave girls have long hair. The bondage knot is a simple looped knot tied in the girl's hair and worn at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. The girl approaches the master naked and kneels; the bondage knot soft, curled, fallen at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder." — Tribesmen of Gor, page 27.

She looked at me. I took a long set of strands of her dark hair, some inch and a half in thickness. I loosely knotted them at the right side of her cheek. "The bondage knot," she whispered.
      "This will mark you as having been taken," I said. — Tribesmen of Gor, page 321.

"I would tie the bondage knot in my hair for you," I said.
      "Are you soliciting the touch of a man who is not your master?" he asked. — Dancer of Gor, page 299.

• Choke Collar
Made of metal and leather, used in conjunction with a leash; intended to compel obedience with a simple tug. See also: Choke Leash.

I felt my hands pulled again behind my back. The girl who had held my leash lashed them together, mercilessly. I felt again the snap of the choke collar on my throat.
      "We have rested," said Verna. "Let us continue our journey."
      The girl, clad like the others in the skins of forest panthers, who had held my leash, and now again held it, she who had bound me, her sleen knife again in its sheath, thrust her face toward mine. It was she who had leaped at me with her knife. She twisted her hand in the metal and leather choke collar. "Kajira!" she said, with contempt. I gasped, choking. I was terrified of her. — Captive of Gor, page 126.

"Verna resnapped the leather and metal choke collar on my throat. She then threaded the leash through the ring, about three and half feet high, behind the post, brought the leash about and looped it, from the left to the right, about my neck and then rethreaded it through the ring, pulling it tight. I was bound by the neck to the post. Then she threaded the free end of the leash through the lower of the two rings, passes it about my belly, and rethreaded it tight, fastening me at the waist to the post. With the free end of the leash, keeping it taut, she then lashed my ankles together behind the post. I was bound, save that my hands were free." — Captive of Gor, pages 131-132.

• Choke Leash
A type of leash with a sliding loop around the throat; intended to compel obedience with a simple tug. See also: Choke Collar.

"Suddenly there was a rush about us of bodies, the sound of blows, Lana began to scream, but the scream was muffled. Ute cried out, but then her cry, too, was abruptly terminated. The men tried to climb to their feet, shouting in anger. There were blows, heavy blows from the darkness. The man who had held me leaped half to his feet, crying out, when something large and heavy struck him on the side of the head. He fell to one side in the grass. I tried to dart to my feet but two bodies, those of girls, thrust themselves on me. Another girl snapped a choke leash on my throat, twisting it, so that I almost strangled. As I opened my mouth, gasping for air, a wadding was thrust into it by another girl. Then I was gagged. The pressure on my throat then eased. I was thrown onto my stomach and, with binding fiber, my wrists were tied behind my back. Then, by the choke leash, half strangling, I was dragged to my feet. — Captive of Gor, pages 117-118.

The choke leash is a useful device for controlling a bound slave. I must follow perfectly. I could not offer the least resistance without strangling myself. — Captive of Gor, page 122.

"This leash pressure, in testing, of course, either is done with the ring in the front position, to avoid damage to the throat, even if the collar is then to be turned and she is to be back-controlled, or, if the ring is left in the back position, in such a way, say, with a thumb or fingers inserted at the front of the leash collar, as to take the pressure of the testing, and protect the throat. The general consideration here, of course, is to avoid pressure to the front of the throat. It is general Gorean practice to avoid even the slightest of pressures here. This does not represent a relaxation of Gorean disciplinary practices incidentally, for discipline may be, and will be, if there is the least cause for it, inflicted outside the strictures of the leash. Too, if the ring is in the back position, if the girl is not compliant she puts this pressure on herself. An excellent example is the choke leash, which cannot be slipped, but can tighten. The least bit of resistance on the part of the girl closes the loop. In such a device, girls, after the first moment or two, follow without resistance. — Mercenaries of Gor, pages 431-432.

"The usual tether, it might be mentioned, is tied snugly but not tightly. There should be room to place two fingers between the throat and the inside of the tether. Any pressure felt by the prisoner must be felt on the back of the neck. A good Gorean tether constitutes no impediment whatsoever to a girl's breathing. An exception is the choke collar which does interfere with a girl's breathing, but only if she is in the least bit recalcitrant. In the cities it is more common to use collars and leashes than tethers, or knotted tethers. The common leash has a snap clip, sometimes a locking one. This snap clip has a variety of uses. It can snap about a link or ring in its own leash, the leash then functioning as a self-contained collar-and-leash device, or about such things, say, as a collar, collar ring or neck bond, perhaps of rope or chain." — Blood Brothers of Gor, page 127.

"He kept her on her stomach by the bath and slipped the leather loop of the leash over her head. Quickly his large, efficient hands shortened the loop, sliding the slip ring to a snug fit, then securing it in place, preventing its backward movement, with the snap lock. The leash could then tighten, functioning as a locked choke leash, but could not loosen. — Slave Girl of Gor, page 397.

"The leash, it might be mentioned, aside from its convenience in controlling a slave, particularly the choke leash, is an extremely useful training device. Many trainers, the leash looping about their left wrist hold the leash in their left hand at their training whip in their right. Girls, too, can be taught to use the leash to enhance their seductiveness, appearing to draw away, then, approaching, using it about their body, kissing it taking it in their mouth, fingering it, and so on." — Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 366-367.

• Coffle Collar
The coffle collar includes several types of steel collars with front and/or back rings so as to enable the slave to secure three (3') to four (4) lengths of chain between them, thus forming a coffle line; some are hinged in the back, with the girls spaced on the chain by means of snap rings.

"Would you give me a hand with these chains?" He then bent down and, from some things, his, I gathered, near one wall, he had picked up several loops of light chain, with spaced, attached collars. He slung these loops over his left shoulder and joined me, near the last girl kneeling on the line. He handed me a collar, at the chain's termination. I clasped it about the neck of the last girl on the line. It closed, locking, with a heavy metallic click. The collars had front and back rings, were hinged on the right and locked on the left. This is a familiar form of coffle collar. The lengths of chain between the collars were about three to four feet long. Some were attached to the collar rings by the links themselves, opened and then reclosed about the rings, and some of them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings. Another common form of coffle collar has its hinge in the front and closes behind the back of the neck, like the common slave collar. It has a single collar ring, usually on the right through which, usually, a single chain is strung. Girls are spaced on such a chain, usually, by snap rings. An advantage of the first sort of coffle arrangement is that the chain may, as girls are added or subtracted, be shortened or lengthened. A chain which has been borne by fifty girls would, of course, be impracticably heavy for five or six. An advantage of the second arrangement is that girls can be easily spaced on the chain, more or less closely together, and can be conveniently removed from, and added to, the chain. Which chaining arrangement is best for a given set of girls depends, of course, on the particular intentions and purposes of their master. — Savages of Gor, pages 135-136.

• Gags
An [often simple] device used on slaves to keep them silent. There are various forms of the gag, such as the ball-gag, but often times, a gag is simply a bit of cloth, or even a girl's silks folded and thrust in the mouth, then secured with straps. The Ball-Gag typically is a heavy, rolled-leather wadding which is then thrust back behind the teeth and over the tongue of a slave, secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it; most likely fashioned from the horse gag.

Etymology:Middle English gaggen to strangle, of imitative origin;
       1. "Something thrust into the mouth or throat to prevent or hinder speaking or outcry."
       2. "A bit with rings at each end through which the cheekpiece of the bridle is continuous with the reins used to keep the horse's head properly up." Merriam-Webster Dictionary ©2003-2006

"I was then gagged and hooded, utilizing the devices of the ball-gag, the straps, the leather covering, the buckles and lock, as I had been when first leaving the house of my training. There were very good reasons for this, as I later learned." — Dancer of Gor, pages 147-148.

"I did so, and felt a heavy, rolled-leather wadding thrust back, behind my teeth, over my tongue, so that I could scarcely move my tongue. This device would be secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it, across the mouth, pulling it back between the teeth, and one to secure it at the chin. These straps were then pulled back tightly, and fastened, to the top strap above my ears, behind the back of my head, and the two lower straps behind the back of my neck. The roll in my mouth then loosened a little, as I could not help struggling with it, and this, by design, caused it to expand and, secured in place, pack my entire oral orifice. "Are you well gagged?' she asked. I made a very tiny, pathetic, affirmative whimper. I could do little more." — Dancer of Gor, page 271.

• Iron Belt
The Gorean chastity belt. Although generally it is used to protect the virginity of a slave girl, it is also used at times as a means of punishment. It consists of a horizontal and vertical piece; the horizontal portion, shaped in an oval, encircles well around the girl's waist. The vertical portion is shaped like the letter "U" and hinged in front to the horizontal portion, flattened, shaped and slotted at its center, then swings up between the legs and there it is fastened via a laterally slotted end, much like a hasp, and would be secured over the staple on the left side, and then padlocked. The girl then is safe from sexual intercourse — except, of course, by the one who holds the key. If it's not fitted properly on a girl, it can cause much skin irration.

"She wore not only her collar. She also wore an iron belt. This belt consisted of two major pieces; one was a rounded, fitted, curved barlike waistband, flattened at the ends; one end of this band, that on the right, standing behind the woman and looking forward, had a heavy semicircular ring, or staple, welded onto it; the other flattened end of the waist-band, looking forward, had a slot in it which fitted over the staple; the other major portion of this belt consisted of a curved band of flat, shaped iron; one end of this flat band was curved about, and closed about, the barlike waistband in the front; this produces a hinge; the flat, U-shaped strap of iron swings on this hinge; on the other end of this flat band of iron is a slot; it fits over the same staple as the slot in the flattened end of the left side of the barlike waistband. The belt is then put on the woman in this fashion. The waistband is closed about her, the left side, its slot penetrated by the staple, over the right side; the flat U-shaped band of iron, contoured to female intimacies, is then swung up on its hinge, between her thighs, where the slot on its end is penetrated by the staple, this keeping the parts of the belt in place. The whole apparatus is then locked on her, the tongue of a thrust through the staple, the lock then snapped shut." — Kajira of Gor, page 103.

"We were all naked. It was easy to tell, however, which of us were virgins, for the virgins, like myself, wore the "iron belt." Its horizontal portion, like an iron oval, would close about my waist, and the vertical portion, like a "U", hinged in front to the horizontal portion, flattened, shaped and slotted at its center, would swing up between my legs and there it flattened, laterally slotted end, like a hasp, would be placed over the staple on the left side, already over this staple, and secured there, behind my back, with a heavy, dangling padlock. There was little danger I would be penetrated while wearing this device." — Dancer of Gor, pages 64-65.

"I did not lift my head. I moved as little in the iron belt. It was not as well fitted to me as it might have been. They just take belts they have at hand, and, finding one of the proper size, or approximately so, they put it on her. The 'U-shaped' vertical bar on this belt was, at the center, hammered flat, shaped and slotted. It chafed the upper interior of my thighs a little. I had diffidently called this to the attention of a fitter some weeks ago, but, after he checked it, and had determined to his satisfaction that the matter was not serious enough to have warranted my complaint, he had simply cuffed me, and sent me, blood in my mouth, back to my lessons. I had not complained afterwards.." — Dancer of Gor, page 70.

"Too, it is not uncommon, as a discipline, to send a girl out naked on errands. In such a case she is often locked in an iron belt. Too, it is not unusual, in taverns, particularly lower taverns, as I would learn, for girls to be publicly naked. — Dancer of Gor, pages 163-164.

"I doubted that she was in the iron belt. Also, I did not detect, beneath her dampened tunic, any sign of the close-fitting apparatus, no sign of either its horizontal component, usually a bar or metal strap tightly encircling the waist, nor of its vertical component, usually hinged to the horizontal component in front and swung up, between the girl's legs, to the back, where the whole is usually fastened together, there, at the small of the back, with a padlock." — Magician of Gor, page 293.

• Leading Chain
Chains which are used to lead slaves or prisoners.

"Furious beyond reason, I saw in the grass the discarded slave bracelets, the hood and leading chains. To Talena's indignation, I snapped the slave bracelets on her wrists, hooded her, and put her on a leading chain." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 109.

• Leashes
Made of leather, metal or ropes, attached to a slave collar's leash ring; used to lead slaves or prisoners. Depending upon the situation, both the single and double leash system is utilized. The double leash system allows for greater security and control. Too, choke leashes are used, especially in the training of new slaves. Refer to Choke Collars and Choke Leashes.

"In the cities it is more common to use collars and leashes than tethers, or knotted tethers. The common leash has a snap clip, sometimes a locking one. This snap clip has a variety of uses. It can snap about a link or ring in its own leash, the leash then functioning as a self-contained collar-and-leash device, or about such things, say, as a collar, collar ring or neck bond, perhaps of rope or chain." — Blood Brothers of Gor, page 127.

"This leash pressure, in testing, of course, either is done with the ring in the front position, to avoid damage to the throat, even if the collar is then to be turned and she is to be back-controlled, or, if the ring is left in the back position, in such a way, say, with a thumb or fingers inserted at the front of the leash collar, as to take the pressure of the testing, and protect the throat. The general consideration here, of course, is to avoid pressure to the front of the throat. It is general Gorean practice to avoid even the slightest of pressures here. This does not represent a relaxation of Gorean disciplinary practices incidentally, for discipline may be, and will be, if there is the least cause for it, inflicted outside the strictures of the leash. Too, if the ring is in the back position, if the girl is not compliant she puts this pressure on herself. An excellent example is the choke leash, which cannot be slipped, but can tighten. The least bit of resistance on the part of the girl closes the loop. In such a device, girls, after the first moment or two, follow without resistance. — Mercenaries of Gor, pages 431-432.

"The usual tether, it might be mentioned, is tied snugly but not tightly. There should be room to place two fingers between the throat and the inside of the tether. Any pressure felt by the prisoner must be felt on the back of the neck. A good Gorean tether constitutes no impediment whatsoever to a girl's breathing. An exception is the choke collar which does interfere with a girl's breathing, but only if she is in the least bit recalcitrant. In the cities it is more common to use collars and leashes than tethers, or knotted tethers. The common leash has a snap clip, sometimes a locking one. This snap clip has a variety of uses. It can snap about a link or ring in its own leash, the leash then functioning as a self-contained collar-and-leash device, or about such things, say, as a collar, collar ring or neck bond, perhaps of rope or chain." — Blood Brothers of Gor, page 127.

"The use of leashes differs among Masters. Some Masters use leashes for little more than tethering a girl. Others, of course, use them liberally as leading devices. They are often used with proud, rebellious or recalcitrant girl, sometimes to public humiliate her. After being led on a leash it is not unusual for a girl to beg her Master to be permitted to heel him, following him deferentially in her proper place. Leashes are generally used in cities, or in crowds. A loose slave can be a nuisance. They may be useful, too, of course, in broken or wooded areas where a. fleeing girl might attempt to fm covert or in dangerous places, where she might be stolen. The leash, it might be mentioned, aside from its convenience in controlling a slave, particularly the choke leash, is an extremely useful training device. Many trainers, the leash looping about their left wrist hold the leash in their left hand at their training whip in their right. Girls, too, can be taught to use the leash to enhance their seductiveness, appearing to draw away, then, approaching, using it about their body, kissing it taking it in their mouth, fingering it, and so on. A test for slave potential used by some slavers is to leash a new girl and see if she, in her apparent rebellion and defiance, act ally, subtly, perhaps in the beginning unconsciously, uses the leash to enhance her desirability and beauty. This indicates that she, in her heart is not displeased to wear the leash of the Master. Indeed, the leash, not uncommonly, can cause woman to sexually blossom. This is presumably a function of such things as its actual restraint, which is quite real; message to, her that she is an animal, a slave, and its making clear to her, by a device, such as a bracelet, a brand or collar, what is the order of nature, who it is who controls her and who it is whom she must obey, who is the slave, and who the Master. A leash, even apart from questions of training of course, can have a powerful emotional impact on a girl. It a very useful way of convincing a girl that she is a slave, similarly it can always serve as an effective reminder. Some girls do not seem to believe they are slaves until they have been leashed. But after that, and after having been through 'leash paces,' there is seldom any doubt in their mind. Some girls beg to be leashed, sometimes crawling their Masters, their leash held between their small, fine teeth Most Masters use the leash at one time or another. A Gorean saying has it that a lashed slave is a hot slave." — Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 366-367.

"These can be a double leash or a single leash system, used to lead a slave or prison around. There are several double leashing arrangements, sometimes with two collars, and sometimes with a single collar, with leash rings on opposite sides. The collars are usually of leather, metal or ropes. The leashes, too, are of similar materials. Some collars, stocklike, are of wood. The point of double leashing is security and control." — Magicians of Gor, page 360.

• Leg-Spreader
Devices of various complexity designed to keep a slave girl's legs spread while being used sexually; sometimes used on male captives as an indication of humiliation; used mostly among the red savages of the Barrens.

Below us, half concealed in the tall grass, on their backs, lay the two fellows I recognized as the brothers, Max and Kyle Hobart. They were stripped and their hands were thonged behind their backs. They could not rise to their feet. Each wore a crude, single-position, greenwood leg-spreader. "It is a present to me, from my friends, the Dust Legs," laughed Grunt, "The leaders of those who followed us."
       "A thoughtful present," I said. "Now they are yours."
       "And a rich joke it is, too," laughed Grunt. "See?"
       "Yes," I said. Max and Kyle Hobart wore leg-spreaders. These are commonly reserved by the red savages for their white female slaves. — Savages of Gor, page 162.

• Manacles
Made of a heavier metal than slave bracelets, these are placed on the male prisoner's wrists.

"… and took from his pouch at his side a pair of manacles, which he snapped on my wrists." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 100.

• Neck Strap
Strap of leather used in the binding of slaves, especially that of new slaves to instruct them in proper kneeling position.

"The praetor nodded to a guardsman. He thrust the girl down to her knees. She was in the presence of free men. With the neck strap he pulled her head down and tied it down, fastening it to her ankles by means of the neck strap; the leather between her neck and ankles, which were now crossed and bound, was short and taut. Her rag, the brown, torn tunic of the she-urt, stolen from she who had been Sasi, was then cut from her. She knelt bound then, and naked, in one of several Gorean submission positions." — Explorers of Gor, pages 67-68.

• Pleasure Rack
A device, ranging in complexity from a grid of ropes in a wooden frame to a moveable, adjustable frame with chains, for the display and sexual use of slave girls and captive free women.

"… its women, stripped, lashed to the pleasure-racks of the victors." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 204.

"On one side of the tent there stood, with its straps, a Pleasure Rack." — Outlaw of Gor, page 199.

"Targo squinted at the Pleasure Rack at the side of the tent, perhaps looking for perspiration stains on the straps." — Outlaw of Gor, pages 207-208.

"The pleasure rack is an interesting device," I said. I examined the wooden wheels the levers. In virtue of the axes of the device and the various gears and pinions and the joints braces, fitted, sliding boards, notches and lock points, it can be adjusted to a variety of positions. To be sure not all the pleasure racks were as sophisticated as that on which was bound my former Mistress, the former female slaver, the Lady Tima of Vonda. This device, like some of the others, had doubtless been brought from the city, perhaps dragged forth by shackled men of Vonda hauling on wagon ropes. — Rogue of Gor, page 27.

• Serving Bracelets
Slave bracelets which are attached to two lengths of chain, worn by a slave girl in paga taverns.

"The chains which she had worn while serving paga, and when she had asked for my protection, had been removed, doubtless while she had been in the alcove, sometime after I had left the tavern, that she might have better rendered Surbus, Captain of Port Kar, the dues of the slave girl. They had been serving bracelets, with two lengths of chain, each about a foot long, which linked them." — Raiders of Gor, page 123.

• Sirik
An arrangement of chains used to display a slave girl rather than confine her; it consists of a collar, to which about five feet of chain is attached; part way down the chain is a pair of manacles, and the chain terminates in a set of shackles. One of the most decorative, yet effective, of slave restraints, the sirik is thousands of years old. A sirik is a set of chains which connect the wrists, ankles, and neck. The base chain runs from the neck down the length of the body vertically. A second chain runs through the base chain at the natural fall of the wrists, and holds them to the base chain and a body width apart. A third chain runs through the base chain and binds the ankles. The slave can walk, slowly, and use her hands for simple service, but is otherwise restrained. A simple clip put between any two of the end rings of chain secures the slave in place. The impact of wearing a sirik cannot be overstated. Every movement of the girl shows her her limits; every shift of position rings musically. A girl in a sirik knows herself owned.

"… both girls wore the Sirik, a light chain favored for female slaves by many Gorean masters; it consists of a Turian-type collar, a loose, rounded circle of steel, to which a light, gleaming chain is attached; should the girl stand, the chain, dangling from her collar, falls to the floor; it is about ten or twelve inches longer than is required to reach from her collar to her ankles; to this chain, at the natural fall of her wrists, is attached a pair of slave bracelets; at the end of the chain there is attached another device, a set of linked ankle rings, which, when closed about her ankles, lifts a portion of the slack chain from the floor; the Sirik is an incredibly graceful thing and designed to enhance the beauty of its wearer; perhaps it should only be added that the slave bracelets and the ankle rings may be removed from the chain and used separately; this also, of course, permits the Sirik to function as a slave leash." — Nomads of Gor, page 42.

• Slave Bar
This device is used to secure slaves and prisoners. There are several varieties, including the Turian slave bar. A simple version consists of a short, hollow tube used on a sitting slave. The wrists of the girl is tied, then the thong is threaded completely through the small tube, emerging at the other end, and then used to tie her ankles. Another version is for

"There are many arrangements for the keeping of slaves, bars, harnesses, and such. I will mention two simple ones, first, the short, hollow tube, usually used with a sitting slave, whose wrists are tied, the thong then passing through the tube to emerge at the far end, where it is used to secure her ankles, and, second, the longer pole, drilled four times, used with a prone or supine slave, in which it is impossible for her to rise to her feet. Her ankles are fastened some six inches or so from one end, and she is then, of course, secured, in one fashion or another, back or belly to the pole, as the master might please, at suitable intervals, by the wrists, belly and neck, the pole usually extending some six inches or so beyond her head" — Magicians of Gor, page 60.

• Slave Brace
This device is used to secure slaves and prisoners, it is a version of the slave bar. Refer to: "Slave Bar."

" A slave girl was kneeling nearby, in a sort of improvised slave brace, a short, stout pole, drilled through in three places. Her ankles were fastened to the pole, by means of a thong threaded through one of the apertures, near its bottom, her wrists by another thong passing through a hole a few inches higher than the bottom hole, and her neck by a thong passed through the aperture in the top part of the pole, behind her neck." — Magicians of Gor, page 60.

• Slave Bracelets
Made of a lighter metal than manacles, designed for the female captive or slave, generally consisting of three (3) rings.

"Strip her and put her in slave bracelets." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 101.

"Unresisting, the girl extended her wrists, and the soldier snapped slave bracelets on them — light, restraining bracelets of gold and blue stones that might have served as jeweler if it had not been for their function." She seemed unable to speak. In a moment her world had crumbled." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 102.

"Furious beyond reason, I saw in the grass the discarded slave bracelets, the hood and leading chains. To Talena's indignation, I snapped the slave bracelets on her wrists, hooded her, and put her on a leading chain." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 109.

"… both girls wore the Sirik, a light chain favored for female slaves by many Gorean masters; it consists of a Turian-type collar, a loose, rounded circle of steel, to which a light, gleaming chain is attached; should the girl stand, the chain, dangling from her collar, falls to the floor; it is about ten or twelve inches longer than is required to reach from her collar to her ankles; to this chain, at the natural fall of her wrists, is attached a pair of slave bracelets…." — Nomads of Gor, page 42.

"Now again Midice danced, her ankles in delicious proximity and wrists lifted again together back to back above her head, palms out. But this time her ankles were not as though chained, nor her wrists as though braceleted; rather they were truly chained and braceleted; she wore the linked ankle rings, the three-linked slave bracelets of a Gorean master…" — Raiders of Gor, page 116.

• Slave Harness
Usually made of leather, this device is used for securing slaves. The harness is a series of leather straps which cross the front torso then encircle the thighs, with wrists buckled to the straps. The ankles of the girl are bound together, the strap slipping through a metal ring sewn in the back of the harness.

"There are many arrangements for the keeping of slaves, bars, harnesses, and such." — Magicians of Gor, page 60.

"To one side, stripped, bound tightly in black leather, hand and foot, straps crossing between her breasts and circling her thighs, to which her wrists were secured, in buckled cuffs, knelt a whitish-skinned girl, blond, frightened. … She shuddered, and squirmed in the straps. Her fists were clenched at her thighs, beside which they were held in the cuff straps of her harness. — Tribesmen of Gor, pages 9-10.

"The guard took the straps which had bound her ankles together, and, untying them, slipped them through the metal ring, glinting, sewn into the back of the leather collar of the harness, worn over the simple curved collar of iron which marked her, even should she be clothed, and her brand not visible, as slave. The straps had run from the back of the collar to her ankles, holding her in a kneeling position. Her legs were now free. The ankle straps then, sewn to the sides of the collar, and now circled about the collar and crossing in back, and now run through the ring on the front of the collar, served as leash. The harness is designed to provide a large number of ties". — Tribesmen of Gor, pages 28-29.

• Slave Hobble
There are various sorts of hobbles, some of chains, others of leather, like those of the red savages (known as twist hobbles). Slaves are often kept in hobbles at night, not so much as to prevent their escape, but rather to prevent their theft.

Kamchak was fishing about among his paraphernalia and he came up with two wrist-ankle hobbles. "What are those for?" asked Aphris.
       "So that you will not forget you are slave girls," growled Kamchak. — Nomads of Gor, page 152.

"I heard two snaps and I saw that Kamchak had put a hobble on Aphris. The slave hobble consists of two rings, one for a wrist, the other for an ankle, joined by about seven inches of chain. In a right-handed girl, such as either Aphris or Elizabeth, it locks on the right wrist and left ankle. When the girl kneels, in any of the traditional positions of the Gorean woman, either slave or free, it is not uncomfortable. In spite of the hobble, Aphris, in the yellow camisk, black hair flowing behind her, was kneeling alertly by Kamchak's side, looking about her with great interest. I saw several of the Tuchuks present eye her with admiration. Female slaves on Gor, of course, are used to being eyed boldly. They expect this and relish it. Aphris, I discovered, to my delight, was no exception. — Nomads of Gor, pages 154-155.

We lay together in the darkness, I not permitted to move. I heard the peasant boys finishing with my sisters in bondage. Afterwards they would be put in slave hobbles." — Slave Girl of Gor, pages 154-155.

He bent swiftly to the twisted leather hobbles, almost like slave hobbles, on the front legs, almost at the paws, of our kaiila. — Blood Brothers of Gor, page 64.

"At night," said another lad, "to make it harder to steal them, we put them in twist hobbles and tie them together by the neck, in strings, their hands tied behind their backs. These strings are then picketed near the village." — Blood Brothers of Gor, page 125.

"I glanced at the slender ankles of my charge. I thought they would look well in close-fitting leather hobbles, twist hobbles, knotted on the outside of the left ankle, which she, her hands bound behind her back, would be unable to remove." — Blood Brothers of Gor, page 128.

"If I should see her," said one of the fellows, he who had apprised me that the camp was not yet officially open, "I will get her in slave hobbles in no time." — Vagabonds of Gor, page 453.

I then crouched down and tore off a bit of the hem of her robes, but not enough to offend her modesty, for example, revealing her ankles, and, using the cloth as a bond, fastened her ankles together, leaving her some four or five inches of slack, rather like a slave girl's hobble chains. — Magicians of Gor, page 172.

One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind her body, the larger one about her left ankle; the rings are separated by about six inches of chain; they are not sleeping hobbles, which confine only the ankles; then he would rush to the next kurdah, fling a hobble to the next girl, and repeat his command. — Tribesmen of Gor, page 82.

In making their examination of the caravan they had, with their scimitars, opened the curtains of the kurdahs, for there might have been Kavars concealed therein. They had found, however, only girls, slaves, their right wrists and left ankles locked in five-link slave hobbles. — Tribesmen of Gor, page 84.

• Slave Hood
Cloth or leather coverings which go over a slave's head so that she may not see; used to keep a slave or prisoner docile. There are two variations of the slave hood; one is a full hood that covers her head completely, the other is a half hood that is much like the blindfold, though more secure.

"It is not pleasant to wear a Gorean slave hood. They gasped for air." — Hunters of Gor, page 34.

"Bound in the saddle in front of me, drugged, her head completely covered with a slave hood buckled under her chin, was a girl. It was Sana, the Tower Slave whom I had seen on my first day in Gor." — Tarnsman of Gor, page 66.

"It was hot in the slave hood, of several layers of thick leather, stifling, locked under my chin and about my throat; further, this hood, like many, was so constructed as to ensure silence m a prisoner; leather wad that was packed in my mouth nor, because of the straps that held it in place, dislodge it." — Assassin of Gor, page 282.

I heard the girl's voice again. "Take dear Vancius," she was saying, "bind his wrists and ankles, and put him in a slave hood, one with a gag. I may use him for my pleasure later." — Assassin of Gor, page 336.

"A slave hood, with gag, was placed on her, that her weeping and cried might not disturb our rest." — Captive of Gor, page 77.

"There, Hassan and I, locked in slave hoods, and chained, were thrown into one of the wagons, with other loot. Even the female slaves, when fastened in their wagons, were hooded." — Tribesmen of Gor, page 189.

"This yoke is sometimes placed on a girl while she is on her back. If the planks are sufficiently wide the girl cannot see what the man is doing behind her. She can only feel it. Similar sensations may be induced in a woman by putting her in a slave hood. She may then either be bound or not, as the master pleases." — Savages of Gor, page 283.

"The slave regarded it with horror. It was a slave hood, with a gag attachment, common in many such hoods." — Guardsman of Gor, page 195.

"I untied and loosened the slave hood, thrusting it up so that I might reach the gag. I unlaced the tight thongs, from behind the back of her neck, that held the gag binding in place. I then, carefully, little by little, extracted the curled, leather wadding of the gag from her mouth. She could now speak. I then thrust the binding and wadding, unrolled, up and under the slave hood, and readjusted the slave hood on her. I tightened it. She winced. But this time I had left her mouth uncovered. I had decided that it might please me to see her mouth, to note the trembling and movement of her lips as she spoke, and to be able to kiss those lips, or be kissed by them, if I should choose to permit this." — Guardsman of Gor, pages 199-200.

"Her head was concealed in a slave hood, buckled under her chin. The construction of this hood was such that it served not only as blindfold but gag as well, the wadding being sewn to the inside of the hood, and it being held in place by laces, emerging through eyelets, tying behind the back of the neck. Such hoods are often used in the abduction of women, either slave or free. Their efficiency and convenience mandates their use, regardless of the legal or social status of the girl on whom they are placed." — Slave Girl of Gor, page 146.

"The blindfold, of course, is seldom used in the transportation of a slave. Slave hoods are much more common in such a role. Some of these are fitted with gags. Also, they may be, or some of them, locked upon the girl." — Rogue of Gor, page 204.

"The hood tends to be more effective than the blindfold as a security device. For example, it is difficult to dislodge it, as it ties under the chin, by, say, rubbing it against a wall or tree. An advantage of the blindfold, of course, is that it enables the mouth of the female to be seen, and to be kissed, and such. It also allows her to use her own mouth, of course, in kissing, and such. The half hood is a device intended to couple something of the effectiveness of the full hood with the various exploitable advantages of the mere blindfold. " — Vagabonds of Gor, page 242.

"But I saw him draw forth from his belt a half hood. This covers the head to the upper lip. It was put over my head and drawn back, tightly, and buckled shut. I then heard a lock snapped through rings. It was locked on me, in place. I could not see under the device, at all. In this respect it differed from imperfect blindfolds and resembled the full slave hood. Similarly, although it is usually regarded as inferior to the full slave hood in its security, it tends to be more secure than many blindfolds, particularly makeshift ones, seized up from materials at hand. For example, unlike many blindfolds, it, and in this respect it is similar to the full slave hood, is not likely to become dislodged or loose, even if the girl is handled with great roughness. It does, however, of course, possess certain of the rich and attractive advantages of the blindfold, such as allowing its fair captive to speak, to use her tongue, to lick, to kiss, and so on." — Dancer of Gor, page 199.

Slave Oval
A method of chaining a slave girl consisting of a hinged iron loop which locks around her waist, with two sliding wrist-rings and a welded ring in the middle of the back.

"I wore the slave oval locked about my belly, and was neck chained. The slave oval is a hinged iron loop which locks about a girl's waist. Two wrist rings, on sliding loops, are fitted on the oval. It also has a welded ring on the back, through which a slave bolt may be snapped, fastening the girl to a wall or object, or through which a chain might be passed. My wrists were locked in the wrist rings." — Slave Girl of Gor, page 324.

• Slave Sack
Also: Body Hood
A canvas or leather sack used to keep a slave docile or for punishment.

"The common slave sack is usually a sturdy canvas or leather sack, which may be tied, buckled or chained shut." — Vagabonds of Gor, page 389.

"I sensed him remove, with a rustle of leather, an object from his tunic. Suddenly I felt the wadding of the gag of a slave hood thrust in my mouth and, with its straps, secured. It was done swiftly. I could utter no sound. I was gagged. Then the hood itself was pulled up and jerked down, over my head, and buckled under my chin. He threw me forward and I fell on the furs on my right shoulder. He tied together my ankles. I sensed him move aside some furs. Then I felt my body doubled up and my feet slipped inside the mouth of a slave sack. The sack was drawn up, over my body; I sat, doubled up; my head was pushed down a bit; the sack was drawn shut over my head and, with a snap, locked shut." — Slave Girl of Gor, pages 333-334.

"Lying on the floor of the wagon there was a heavy leather slave sack, tied shut at the top. Two chains went to the sack, through the leather, one toward the top, the other toward the bottom. As the girl enters the sack, the bottom chain, with its slave ring, is locked about her left ankle. As she inches down into the sack, the slack of this chain is taken up by the captor or master. If her hands are not tied behind her in the sack, they are usually placed at her thighs, that her arms will be down, at her sides, when she is in the sack. When she has almost fully entered into the sack the collar on the neck chain, the collar within the sack, the chain entering it from the outside, is locked on her neck. It is then tied shut, usually about a foot above her head. The chains are then fastened to a wagon, or other objects, such as stakes or trees." — Vagabonds of Gor, page 388.

"The sack I had drawn over her was an improvised body hood. There are several varieties of body hoods on Gor, which is not surprising in a society in which slavery, and particularly female slavery, is an essential ingredient. Most body hoods are made of leather or layers of stout canvas. I have seen at least one in which two layers of canvas were sewn about a lining of linked chain. They may be fastened by means of such devices as cords, straps and laces. They may be tied shut or locked shut.
       "The prisoner is entered into some body hoods from the back, her legs being placed through openings in the lower portion of the hood, the hood then being pulled up and, from the back, lacked shut. Most of these hoods do not have openings for the arms, but some do. In most hoods the arms are confined within the hood, either free within the hood itself or bound or braceleted within it. Some hoods are open at the bottom, and fastened on the prisoner by means of thongs or straps, often looped about the thighs. Others are constructed in such a way that they may be opened at the bottom, for the master's convenience. Sometimes the hood is thrust up and fastened about the prisoner's waist.
       "The typical hood provides hand and arm security with the advantages of the blindfold. Most body hoods, unlike many common slave hoods, do not have provisions for an internal gag. The prisoner, of course, may be gagged before being hooded. The body hood, like the slave hood, tends to keep a female docile. This may be a particular advantage early in her training, when she may not yet fully understand her new nature and its meaning. Another advantage of the body hood is that it is intriguing and attractive on a woman, baring her legs but usually, unless the arms are also intriguingly bared, concealing the rest of her, this sort of thing exciting male interest, and yet in virtue of the predominant concealment afforded, making her seizure less likely than if she lying about more exposed in common hoods.
       "Slavers, in moving their wares through the streets, sometimes place them in body hoods. To be sure, it is more common to throw a cloak or sheet, which might be of various lengths, over their heads, this usually being fastened on them by means of a cord or strap looped once or twice about the neck and fastened under the chin. In many cities free women object to the marching of naked slaves through the streets. Still, even though the girls may be covered with cloaks or sheets, the men will usually come to watch, and call out to them, and jeer, and such. It is understood, of course, that the girls, beneath those cloaks or sheets, are slave naked. It is sometimes very trying, though also perhaps very instructive, for a new slave, perhaps a woman of a conquered city, to be marched thusly through the streets, stung with pebbles, pinched and slapped, subjected to the most intimate forms of raillery, jocosity and abuse." — Renegades of Gor, pages 151-152.

• Twist Hobbles
See: Slave Hobbles

• Yoke
Referred to also as a Girl-Yoke and Northern Yoke; this is a narrow piece of wood with holes drilled in the middle and at each end. A girl is secured via thongs, which are looped through each end hole and the hole at the neck, attached to both wrists and neck. Such devices can be used for punishment or simply to instill in a woman that she is slave. In the northern yoke, again, it is made of a narrow piece of wood, though bones may also be used instead, with holes drilled in the center and at each end. In securing a slave in this yoke, a leather strap is knotted about the girl's wrist, passed through the drilled hole at one end of the yoke, usually that on her left, taken up through the hole behind the neck, looped twice about her neck, threaded back down through the center hole, taken up through the other hole at the end, usually the one at her right, and tied about her right wrist. Yokes are also useful in the performance of chores, such as carrying buckets of grain.

Etymology:Middle English yok, from Old English geoc; akin to Old High German joh yoke, Old Norse ok yoke, Gothic juk yoke (of oxen), Latin jugum yoke, jungere to join, Greek zygon yoke, zeugnynai to yoke, join, Sanskrit yuga yoke, yunakti he yokes, joins;
       "1a(1): A bar or frame of wood by which two draft animals (as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together and especially for drawing a plow or a load and which is usually a piece of timber hollowed or made curving near each end, laid on the necks of the oxen, secured in place by a bow passing under and enclosing each neck, and fastened through the timber;
       1a(2): an arched or curved device formerly laid upon the neck of a defeated person; also: an arch consisting of a spear resting horizontally upon two upright spears under which a captured foe is compelled to pass as a symbol of submission;
       1a(3): a usually wooden frame fitted to a person's shoulders to carry a load suspended in two equal portions on opposite sides of the body." —Merriam-Webster Dictionary ©2003-2006

"She wore an improvised girl-yoke. This consisted of a stout branch, about two inches thick. and some five feet in length, drilled at the center and near the extremities. It fits behind the back of the girl's neck. A long, single thong of rawhide fastens the girl in place. Her left wrist is thonged and then the thong is passed through the drilled aperture in the left end of the yoke. Her wrist is pulled tight to the yoke. The same thong is then taken behind the yoke and passed through the center hole, whence, after having been knotted, to prevent slippage to the left, and having been looped about the girl's neck, usually some five times, and having been knotted again, to prevent slippage to the right, it is returned through the same hole, whence it is taken behind the yoke to the hole drilled at the right-hand extremity of the apparatus. It is passed through that hole and then, of course, is used to fasten the girl's right wrist in place, tightly against the yoke. When this action is completed then, as you can see, the whole package is neatly tied. The knots near the throat and, in preventing slippage, serve two functions; they hold e girl's wrists against the yoke and, at the same time, prevent any undue stress from being placed on the throat bands. The function of the throat bands is to hold the girl's throat in the yoke, securely and perfectly, not to cause her discomfort, nor to strangle her. Gorean men are not fools in tying women. Longer yokes, such as this, incidentally, are commonly used for marches.
       "Confined as she is, with her arms extended, a girl can exert almost no leverage to free herself. Smaller yokes, some two to two and a half feet in length, similarly constructed, can be used for other purposes, such as enjoying a girl in the furs. Afterwards she can always be kenneled or chained. A soft, braided leather rope, a trade rope, cored with wire, some fifteen or twenty feet in length, was looped some five times about the girl's left ankle, and tied, thence being run to the axle of the nearby wagon to which she was tethered. This is a useful sanitary provision as the girl, then, need not sit or lie too near to her own wastes. The wire coring in the rope, of course, tends to discourage the attempt to chew through the bond. Light chains, sheathed in silk, or satin or velvet, incidentally, have this utility as well, as well as their intrinsic strength, more than adequate for the securing of a female.
       "Three separate thongs, incidentally, two short and one long, are sometimes used for this type of securing of. the female. In this way of doing things each wrist is tied in the center of one of the short thongs. The two free ends of the short thong are then taken back through the hole and, once through the hole, are simply knotted, heavily. This knot cannot, of course, be drawn back through the small drilled hole by the girl. Her wrists are thus held in place. One end of the longer thong is taken through the center aperture and that thong is then looped about the girl's throat, usually, again, some five times, and then returned through the center aperture. Once through the aperture it is knotted together, heavily, with the other end of the thong. Again, of course, this knot, a heavy one, prevents the thongs from slipping back through the narrow aperture. The girl's neck is thus held closely to the yoke. This, too, of course, is an effective way of securing a girl. Indeed, there is, in my opinion, normally little to choose from between these two yoke ties. Which is preferred may well depend on matters so trivial as the nature and lengths of the binding material available, for example, ropes, cordage, binding fiber, twisted silk, thongs or straps. If there is a preference, perhaps it would be for the single-bond tie. It is stout, and, in its unity, aesthetically attractive. Second only to the absolute helplessness of the female in her ties, in the Gorean mind, is the attractiveness of her bonds. They should be used to enhance her beauty as well as to imprison it with absolute perfection. These yoke ties, incidentally, are not to be confused with a stock tie, or a stock yoke. This is normally a pair of hinged planks, with matched, semicircular openings in the planks. The girl's wrists and neck are placed appropriately between the planks, aligned with the semicircular openings. The planks are then closed and tied or locked shut. Her neck and wrists, then, of course, helplessly, are fixed in place. They find themselves enclosed in effective and perfect constraints. This yoke is sometimes placed on a girl while she is on her back. If the planks are sufficiently wide the girl cannot see what the man is doing to her. She can only feel it. Similar sensations may be induced in a woman by putting her in a slave hood. She may then either be bound or not, as the master pleases." — Savages of Gor, pages 281-283.

"She was dressed, save for her bondage strings, in much the same way as most of the women of the red hunters, bare-breasted, with high boots and panties. Thistle, however, behind her, was naked, in a northern yoke and on a leather leash. The northern yoke is either of wood or bone, and is drilled in three places. The one Thistle wore was of wood. It was not heavy. It passed behind her neck at which point one of the drilled holes occurred. The other two holes occurred at the terminations of the yoke. A leather strap is knotted about the girl's wrist, passed through the drilled hole at one end of the yoke, usually that on her left, taken up through the hole behind the neck, looped twice about her neck, threaded back down through the center hole, taken up through the other hole at the end, usually the one at her right, and tied about her right wrist. She is thus fastened in the yoke. From each end of the yoke hung a large sack." — Beasts of Gor, pages 196-197.

The Methods

• Bound by the Master's Will
This command is used as a form of binding, as well as an instructional tool for the slave. The slave will hold position (stand, sit, lie down, or kneel) with hands hands and ankles positioned as instructed by the master, as if she were truly bound with chains or fiber. Despite discomfort, the slave or captive may not move that portion of he body that is rendered to be held until commanded to release such hold. Oftentimes, to break from this position is to be immediately slain.

"There are many ways of binding by the master's will. The behind-the-back position is one of the simplest and loveliest. Simply, the slave will stand with her hands behind her back, in contact with one another. She cannot separate her hands or wrists without permission. This position exposes the girl, frames the beauty of her breasts and makes her helpless. That the bond is a will bond makes it clear to her the power of her master over her. Another common form of bond is when the girl must kneel, grasping her ankles. Another is when she is forced to sit and reach forward between her legs, passing the right arm from inside the right thigh to outside and beneath the right calf, to grasp the right ankle from the outside, and the left arm to from inside the left thigh to outside and beneath the left calf, to grasp the left ankle in the same way. In this position she is helpless and cannot rise. Too, it becomes apparent to her that she cannot close her legs. A girl may be kept in such bonds for hours. Of course, she may be tied in such positions." — Dancer of Gor, page 227.

"I was pleased that she had had the intelligence not to act as though she had been put at the ring 'bound by the master's will' because her leaving the ring might then have elicited astonishment or comment. There are many ways of putting a girl at the ring 'bound by the master's will.' One typical way is to stand her at the ring and have her place her right hand behind her back through the ring and grasp her left wrist. Another typical way is to kneel her at the ring and have her put her right hand through the ring, grasping her left wrist. One of the simplest and perhaps the most typical way of 'binding by the master's will' is simply to have the girl grasp her left wrist with her right hand behind her back. Needless to say whatever amusement, pleasure or (convenience this may afford a master it can be exquisitely frustrating to a slave to strive desperately and in terror to maintain this position while, say, being subjected to various attentions typical of the mastery. Most masters, in such a situation, would simply bind the girl, tying or braceleting her hands behind her back. In this fashion she knows her struggles will be unavailing, that she is helpless and cannot escape. She may then without fear or hesitation open herself completely to the joy of her subjugation, to the rapture of her conquest, to the bliss of her surrender." — Magicians of Gor, pages 388-389.

"Some of the other girls under the ropes and cloths were tied in more conventional fashions. Some were not even tied at all. An example was Oiputake, or Kiss, whom I well knew. … She wore the 'bonds of the master's will.' Grunt had put her in them. She lay on her stomach. Her wrists were crossed behind her. Her ankles, too, were crossed. She was "bound." She could not move from this position unless, at the word of a free person, she was freed from it. To break the position otherwise is to be instantly slain." — Blood Brothers of Gor, page 248.

"How much more merciful, I thought, if they would just hood the women. It is hard to be blindfolded by, gagged by, or bound by the 'Master's will.' In being 'blindfolded by the Master's will' one must keep one's eyes closed. I had, just shortly before, been so 'blindfolded.' In being 'gagged by the Master's will,' one may not speak, even to request permission to speak. In being 'bound by the Master's will,' one must keep one's limbs in the prescribed position, as though they were actually so bound, or so metal-clasped, or chained. There are several familiar versions of this. In one the slave crosses her wrists before her body and must retain the position until freed by 'the Master's will.' In another she kneels, her head down, and clasps her hands behind her back. If she is right-handed, she clasps her right wrist with her left hand. If she is left-handed, she clasps her left wrist with her right hand. Another common version of this sort of 'binding' is to put the slave on her belly and have her cross her wrists and her ankles. It is thus as though she were bound hand and foot. She remains this way, as in all these cases, perhaps for hours, until she is freed 'by the Master's will.' A very unpleasant application of this technique is to put a slave in the sun and spread-eagle her 'by the Master's will.' One then smears her face, and body, and hair, with honey and leaves her there, her presence being soon noted by a large variety of unpleasant insects. This is, of course, a punishment. After such a bout with thousands of tiny, swarming, crawling visitors, sometimes almost obscuring her, the slave is much improved. The more merciful master, of course, literally stakes the slave out, binding her wrists and ankles widely apart, to the four stakes, before applying the honey. In either case, the girl will be much improved. Even the threat of this sort of punishment, it might be noted, is likely to be effective. And this saves a good deal of unpleasantness all around, and some honey, as well. To be sure, for the threat to be effective, the girl must understand quite clearly, and will understand quite clearly, that the threat is not an idle one. If she entertains any doubts on that score, the master will see to it that they are soon satisfied." — Witness of Gor, pages 453-454.

• Coffle
A method of chaining a line of slaves together; common methods are to link the slaves by the left ankle, left wrist, or throat; also, the line of slaves itself.

"When a coffle of slaves are to walk, they begin with the left foot." — Magicians of Gor, page 161.

"The collars had front and back rings, were hinged on the right and locked on the left. This is a familiar form of coffle collar. The lengths of chain between the collars were about three to four feet long. Some were attached to the collar rings by the links themselves, opened and then reclosed about the rings, and some of them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings. Another common form of coffle collar has its hinge in the front and closes behind the back of the neck, like the common slave collar. It has a single collar ring, usually on the right through which, usually, a single chain is strung. Girls are spaced on such a chain, usually, by snap rings. An advantage of the first sort of coffle arrangement is that the chain may, as girls are added or subtracted, be shortened or lengthened. A chain which has been borne by fifty girls would, of course, be impracticably heavy for five or six. An advantage of the second arrangement is that girls can be easily spaced on the chain, more or less closely together, and can be conveniently removed from, and added to, the chain. Which chaining arrangement is best for a given set of girls depends, of course, on the particular intentions and purposes of their master." — Savages of Gor, pages 135-136.

• Common Slave Tie
In the common slave tie, the slave's arms are brought between her thighs, left wrist passing under left calf and secured to her left ankle, right wrist passing under her right calf and secured to her right ankle.

The girl's arms down between her thighs, her left wrist passing under her left calf and tied on the outside of her left ankle, the right wrist passing under the right calf and tied on the outside of the right ankle. Red Savages are known to use this tie as well. — Vagabonds of Gor, page 456.

• Display Chain
The method of chaining girls to display them well. Placement in the display chain is rated upon beauty, training, etc.

"Lana was always placed at the end of the display chain, that the most attractive merchandise be glimpsed last. We were hoping she that she would be sold, but Targo was holding out for an extremely high price for her. Doubtless he would have received many times, except that she had not been of high caste. She treated the rest of us as slaves. Targo, and some of the guards, sometimes, would give her candies, and sweetmeats. My own position in the display chain, at the beginning, was fourth. … In displaying a girl, an ankle ring is placed on her left ankle. This locks on the ankle. There is also a smaller ring, projecting from the larger ring, which also locks. This smaller ring can either be snapped into a particular link in a chain, thus allowing the girls to be spaced at certain intervals, or it can be closed about the chain as a whole, thus permitting the chain to run freely through the ring without injuring or burning the girl's ankle. In the 'display chain,' we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl. Thus, not only would we be secured, but we were unable to crowd together, as girls, particularly unexperienced girls, have a tendency to do when not prevented. In the display chain, it might be mentioned, as would be expected, we are exhibited, unclothed." — Captive of Gor, pages 61-62.

• Double Leashing
A method of slave and prisoner control; often used with male slaves for the added security. There are several such arrangements; some with a single collar and rings on opposite sides, some utilizing two collars.

"Then I was double leashed," she said.
       "A single metal collar," I said, "with chain leashes on each, side?"
       "Yes," she said.
       There are several double leashing arrangements, sometimes with two collars, and sometimes with a single collar, with leash rings on opposite sides. The collars are usually of leather, metal or rope. The leashes, too, are of similar materials. Some collars, stocklike, are of wood. The point of double leashing is security and control. A prisoner is not likely to be able to pull away from two leashes. At least one is likely to restrain him. Similarly, by two leashes he can easily be immobilized, kept in place, held, say, between two leash masters, unable to reach either of them, or a third person. In the case of females double leashing is primarily aesthetic. Certainly a girl would not be likely, more than once, at any rate, to attempt to attack a leash holder, say, to bite or kick. That is something she would never do again. On the other hand, in Lavinia's case, clearly the guards would not wish to risk her approaching the Ubara too closely, even back-braceleted. — Magicians of Gor, page 360.

• Handle Tie
In this form of binding of slave girls, the girl is naked, her ankles are bound together with about twelve inches (12") between them and her wrists are bound before her with a tether, which is then drawn between her legs and up behind her, then tied about her neck forming a 'handle' in which she can thusly be lead, forming a sort of choke leash.

"Put her in the handle tie," I said.
       "Yes, Captain," said the man, grinning.
       Her fur boots were pulled off and her ankles were linked by leather thongs; she had good ankles; the leather permitted them a separation of some twelve inches; the tether on her wrists then was taken between her legs and lifted up and behind her, where its loose end was tied about her neck. The linking of the ankles prevents the slipping of the handle tie, and controls the length of her stride when she is put in it. A given pressure on the handle tie, exerted through the strap at the back, permits it to function as a choke leash; a different pressure permits her to be hurried along on her toes. The handle tie is usually, of course, reserved for naked slave girls. — Beasts of Gor, page 173.

• Slaver's Necklace
A coffle of female slaves of various cities on Gor, superbly knelt before potential buyer(s); often in such an arrangement, girls are placed according to height or to contrast the skin or hair colors.

He clapped his hands sharply twice, and there was a scurrying and tumbling of bodies and the sound of the long chain slipping through the ankle rings. The girls now knelt, each in the position of the Pleasure Slave, in their camisks on the grass, in a line between the two trees to which their chain was fastened. As I passed each she boldly raised her eyes to mine and said, "Buy Me, Master."
       Many of them were beauties, and I thought that the chain, though small, was a rich one, and that almost any man might find thereon a woman to his taste. They were vital, splendid creatures, many of them undoubtedly exquisitely trained to delight the senses of a master. And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace — there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the delta of the Vosk, girls even from the high cylinders of Great Ar itself. I wondered how many of them were bred slaves, and how many had once been free. — Outlaw of Gor, pages 194-195.

"It must be admitted there is more prestige in being auctioned from a major, or central, block than there is being casually purchased from a side block. One might as well be sold off a slaver's public shelf, in a city, or out of a cage, or kneeling in the mud outside a village, from a 'slaver's necklace.' To be sure, a girl who is once sold off a side block may, in time, her femininity blossoming under the discipline of the whip and the harsh tutelage of masters, become a treasure, a slave so beautiful and desirable that men will pay fortunes to have her at their feet." — Savages of Gor, pages 106-107.

"I sat back from the fire, watching them closely. It was now late at night. Grunt had shortened the coffle by two collars and chain lengths. I had put the new girl in Margaret's place, after Priscilla, and before the Hobarts. This was the position of "Last Girl", which, fittingly, not counting the Hobarts, she would occupy, being the newest girl in the coffle. Coffle arrangements, incidentally, are seldom arbitrary. One common principle of arrangements is in order of height, with the tallest girls coming first; this makes a lovely coffle. Sometimes, too, coffles are arranged in order of beauty or preferences, the most beautiful or the most preferred girls coming first. Coloring and body type can also be important. It is for such reasons, perhaps, that the coffle is sometimes spoken of as the slaver's necklace. Sales strategies, too, can enter into the formation of a coffle, as, for example, when a girl is put between two plainer girls to accentuate her beauty, or a superb girl is saved for last, and many other considerations, as well, can enter into the formation of a coffle. When one sees a chain of beauties, fastened together, say, by the neck, or the left wrist or left ankles, it is well to remember that their locations on that sturdy, metallic bond, keeping them precisely where the master wishes, are seldom likely to be merely fortuitous." — Savages of Gor, pages 240-241.

The girl who wore the sign, "I am for sale," danced before us, as she had before others, displaying her master's proffered merchandise. I saw that she wanted to be purchased. That was obvious in the pleading nature of her dance. Her master was perhaps a dealer, and one, as are many, who is harsh with his stock. Her dance, thusly, was rather like the "Buy me, Master," behavior of a girl on a chain, the "slaver's necklace," or in a market, the sort of behavior in which she begs purchase. A girl on such a chain, or in a market, who is too much passed over has reason for alarm. Not only is she likely to be lowered on the chain, perhaps even to "last girl," which is demeaning to her, and a great blow to her vanity, but she is likely to be encouraged to greater efforts by a variety of admonitory devices, in particular, the switch and whip. Earth-girl slaves brought to Gor, for example, are often, particularly at first, understandably enough, I suppose, afraid to be sold, and accordingly, naturally enough, I suppose, sometimes attempt, usually in subtle ways, to discourage buyers, thereby hoping to be permitted to cling to the relative security of the slaver's chain. Needless to say, this behavior is soon corrected and, in a short time, only too eager now to be off the slaver's chain, they are displaying themselves, and proposing themselves, luscious, eager, ready, begging merchandise, to prospective buyers. — Magicians of Gor, page 45.

• Tharna Tie
In this form of binding, developed in Tharna, the ankles are crossed and the head is tied down, via the use of a tether attached to the ankles.

The ankles are crossed and bound and the head is tied down, fastened by a short tether running back to the ankles. Any pressure in this tie is, as usual, at the back of the neck, not at the fragile, vulnerable throat. It can be used with chain collars, and such. The hands, as a last touch, are simply tied together behind the back. — Vagabonds of Gor, page 375.

 

 

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