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Having recorded three successful solo albums in his native Armenian tongue, GOR radically switches directions by fusing the ethnic elements of his past with the new Los Angeles multicultural imprint of today by presenting all new works in English.This package also includes music videos directed by Roger Kupelian (Lord of the Rings)!Rais, Host and Producer of Global Village (KPFK 90.Quotes
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John Norman (novel)Rick Marx (screenplay) ...Tafa (as Jennifer Oltmann)Martina Brockschmidt ...Sorry, there was a problem collecting your vote.Was the above comment useful to you?You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers.They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update.Pornography has been a common charge against the Gor books, but not one that that the average reader can take seriously.League of feminism a code word for any expression of sexual interest between male and female.Why are porn movies so bad?Why do you feel dirty after seeing one?In Gorean communities on Earth, however, the woman accepts the situation voluntarily, and can, in actuality, leave it when she chooses.This makes a world of difference.Also, becoming a Gorean slavegirl on Earth is not something society at large recognizes, understands, or respects.Even if one creates a community, it is still inside the larger community.There the problems mentioned above could be eliminated.This is an element of what Catherine and I have tried to do in our novel, Mythosphere.On Gor most slavegirls were captured, and have virtually no chance of escape, or to change status by their own actions.For an Earth woman on Gor, being on another planet would certainly give a sense of inevitability, while a Gorean woman woud already know the odds.This is a consideration not so apparent to those who spend much of their time on Gor channels, for there they are constanty among like minded people, and there are a great many of them.In terms of the overall population, however, the numbers are minute.Even in our comparativiely repressed world many people, both man and women, are not very strongly sexual.Also, the author presents the situation as though the overwhelming majority of Masters were intelligent, sane, sensible, and essentially decent.But even in the books the girls get knocked and thrown around quite a bit; it is lucky theyare fairly rubbery, or scars, injuries, and broken limbs would be far more common.Also, considering the amount of heavy lifting the girls sometimes do, and their fear of disobeying, one might expect far more injured backs and hernias than we ever hear of.The social situation is much narrower in this respect than on Earth.On the other hand, if Mr.And it is hard to believe that all those passionate and repetitive rants in the later books are merely bad decor.First, Norman intentionally creates a false picture of the human condition.This central factor is missing on Gor.Further, we are given little hint of what the social and psychological consequences of such a change in the human condition would be.Mythosphere, where electronically reproduced identities also have a kind of immortality, but there the implications are still largely up in the air because the place is not old enough for that to bean issue yet.Many fans of the Gor novels speak of a Gorean philosophy and lifestyle, and some have attempted to bring the attitudes and values expressed in the books into real life.Mars is no longer usable as a site for contemporary civilization, but in its place Mr.Burroughs' John Carter arrives on Mars, and returns to Earth the same way.Burroughs', and makes the same appeal to repressed sexuality.The best thing about the Gor books is the sense of a very solid and real world.Customs and lifestyles vary from place to place, but there are core values that are strongly expressed, and which give the world of Gor a solidness and cohesiveness rare in fantasy literature.Like Tolkein, Norman is better with societies than with individuals.None of his characters are deeply realized, and his dialogue is seldom convincing.He is adequate, at least, in the speech of Goreans, but it is almost impossible to believe that any of his Earth characters would ever have used the terms and language he gives them.Most of them originate on Earth, but whether withdrawn or social, all arrive on Gor as virgins, a surprising fact for the end of the twentieth century.Oddly, many of the most impassioned Goreans have spoken very negatively about the readability of the books, while at the same time treating their content with the literalness and faith that fundamentalists do the Bible.Gor books are written clearly, in simple, straightforward prose.The latter ones have picked up a few annoying quirks of diction that earlier books did not have, and all the books do violate a number of basic creative writing commonplaces.It is a shame the author did not ignore them.Instead, he has allowed them to detract greatly from the appeal of the books.Sharon Green, who is still publishing, has greatly toned down this element, and other writers have dropped it.Were the Gor Books Censored?The woman who created it desribes how in her early teens she slipped one of the books out of her brother's room and read it with both delight and amazement.This was better than Tolkein, where there were few women at all, and real women were clearly inferior to elf women.Probably at least half are designed by women, and do not sy away from what might be considered very feminine decor.Even most of the less attractive sites seem to have failed in taste or talent rather than in intent.Further, many of the them strongly express love, or at least affection.Real love and affection do not exist in pornography, except as emotions to deface or ridicule.The Gor books are oriented quite differently.They continually celebrate beauty and vitality.Many may wish it did not exist, but it is there.As an interesting side note, Norman claims that many famous Earth creatures such as the Yeti, the Sasquatch, Grendel, and Otis Nixon are all Kuriis who got stranded here when their intergalactic love boat ran into New Jersey or whatever.Norman NYPD may claim that the planet of Gor revolves around the sun, but in reality the planet revolves around a highly complex and technologically advanced hierarchy of male dominance.Many of the primitive Gorean machines are not powered by gasoline but instead by the vaginal fluid of submissive women who are trapped underneath a quilt and chained to a large boulder while a strong, burly, manly man hits them with an outrageously large Spiked Log of Eroticism.Surprisingly to the Terran, but not to the Gorean, the slave female finds that she cannot help but respond deeply and powerfully to the use of a master: her biological tendency to submission, when allowed to manifest itself, rewards her with extraordinary pleasure in sexual use and sexual drives far beyond what the free woman can experience.Gorean slave girls have been known to break their own bones on the bars of their cages trying to touch a man when they have been secured for a long time.Slim Jim gut and actually viewing their own penis without the aid of a hydraulic lift and a series of NASA cameras.Gor resources to teach you dippy dames how to act around your man!Example: if you lease a house, you can act as an owner of it, but there is a higher authority that actually does *own* the house.By the same token, a slave who has limits, such as being married, that would inhibit the Master from having full and complete power over her, is being leased.Even if the Master chooses not to *utilize* the power he has...Adams kinda sorta paying attention.Dumbledore, but dammit, I hope not.This Week on Something Awful...Some of the best threads of the week from the SA Forums.Weekend Web takes a look at emus.The Something Awful front page news tackles anything both off and on the Internet.Mostly "on" though, as we're all incredible nerds.Something Awful has been mocking itself and the internet since 1999, bringing you reviews of the worst movies, video games, and websites to ever exist.If it's something and it's awful, it's probably on Something Awful, where the internet makes you stupid.
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