pinealoptics replied to your post: The Gor books are not mere science fiction or…
YEAH but they’re also creepy and misogynistic and shit. So that balances it out a lil bit.Many young readers are, in effect, adult readers. Adulthood does not always index to chronology. Some…
I’d say the distinction of M/S from S&M relationships is a false one, as the whole point of BDSM as I understand it is also trust and, in a way, love. The point is that the submissive puts his/her faith in the dominant partner, trusting that they won’t do anything evil or permanently harmful. To say that a Gorean relationship, which seems more to do with conquest than anything else, is more loving than a BDSM relationship doesn’t seem very truthful.
Also: It’s one thing “…if a woman chooses to submit herself, voluntarily, to a master” as the writer puts it, but it’s heavily implied and sometimes even explicitly stated throughout the series that this male dominance over females is the correct way of doing things, the only correct way and the way nature intended. So it seems extremely dishonest to cast the series in the light of voluntary submission. It makes more sense to recognize that it’s misogynistic, but that’s a facet of the art, and doesn’t necessarily reflect the author’s worldview.
All of this is really incredibly well written, by the way. I’d be interested to see whatever this is quoted from.
