One of these days, the habit of waiting until the last minute to write this column is going to catch up with me, and Pantheus will have my head on a pike outside the Gorean Voice channel set up on Austnet. Luckily for me, it seems that at some point each month a topic jumps up and bites me in my well rounded (as described by a little subbie) hind end. So what is it this month? It's a topic that I "ran into" on the Gorean Public Boards concerning a particular male who feels that the surgical removal of his penis would then line him up for service as a kajira. My first thought upon seeing this post was to pull it, since I help administrate the Boards, but then realized that this fellow who crashed into our little corner of the world might provide some very frank and interesting discussion. I was correct. We had more posts than the punishment room at the Port Kar School of Wayward Kajira, and many of them held tasty nuggets of thought candy. While I certainly will neither quote positions I agree with, nor those I do not, I will use my little humor forum to thump you over the head with my personal opinions and positions! Some positions I agree with are nadu, and then there is sula, and… Oh wait, wrong kind of position. Sometimes I just can't help what flows into my mind when I hear a particular word! (A bit like my slave who has an orgasm each time she drives past a "yield" sign.) Okay then, let us move on to the meat of this article before some Swedish surgeon attempts to remove it… Here are the basic truths I gleaned from the collision with the male that wishes to be otherwise:

Public condemnation is not the answer. Even though we use the "public" Gorean boards, it still isn't the same as running about ranting and raving about how others live…. Say, like the Moral Majority leaders are wont to do. No, we simply keep vigil in our little corner of space and educate, even brutally at times, those who happen along. Someone or another blasted me for inferring I might call our "transposter" a mutant. Technically, I was incorrect, since that would indicate that the mutation was transferable to future generations. As anyone that has had Mom or Dad's "birds and bees" talk would know, if the "pre-op" becomes a "post-op", that just ain't going to happen. I should have used "mutilate", and not "mutate". My bad!

Goreans do not need to change the world. Nor do I feel that they could at this point. But moreover, I don't think there is a single one of us who would change our sex, even if it were possible in some way. We revel in our respective "hoods"… Men in our manhood, and women in…. Well, they revel in our manhood as well! The point here, to me, is that while we won't be changing the concepts and notions of a polluted society, we have to guard against allowing that society to change us. Many people, when it comes to personal philosophy, will switch faster than a schizophrenic subbie on methamphetamines. When it comes to Goreans, we must be steadfast. Even if labeled as bigots and hate-mongers that discriminate against those who are not like us.

The natural action is not always the right action. And this may, on the surface, seem like a complete reversal of what I have been speaking about, but bear with me. Let me first use an example that will clarify both of the points I am trying to make. Remember Hillbilly Clinton, the present president of the United States? I am sure you do. Remember that fix he got himself in when he got head in the Oral Office? I am sure you do. Now the question…. Is it natural for a man to desire oral sex from a young woman who has lips that could suck the warts off a tharlarion's ass? Sure. Is it right for the leader of the most powerful country on the planet to set aside his marriage vows, accept said oral sex, and place the office he attained at risk? I think not. Now, let me make a huge separation in thought that is made possible by the very concept of a woman placing her lips on the sexual organs of a man…. It is not within the natural order of our species. Oh, you may gasp at the thought, you may disagree, but nature has provided for a man to insert his penis into the vagina of a female, achieve orgasm, and procreate. Period. Anything past that is fun and games. And while a distinction must be made between natural order and what is natural for our species to desire, lopping off a penis to become the opposite sex will never fall under either category. Not now, and not ever… Perversion does occur, but it is what we condone that defines us. Sorry, readers, but I refuse to be defined by a pecker chopping male who cannot stand up and claim the rights nature intended for him. Now, if you ask me if I engage in oral sex with females, I will have to admit that I do. Is it in the natural plan? No, perhaps not. Is it natural? Perhaps…. But could I allow a former male with his cock removed kneeling and doing the same thing that my slutty little slavegirl does for me? I would have to say, "no", unequivocally. And the thought makes me want to vomit. Probably in the same modality as JaKil, who whistled chunks all over a certain kajirus, in a specific tavern, one particular day…

Words are funny things. And when I say funny, I mean the peculiar kind of funny, not the amusing kind of funny that I attempt, and occasionally manage, to provide each month. (See? I told you words were funny!) I believe in one post I was called a bigot, in another fearful, and one who discriminates as well. The other word bantered around was "hate". So then… Several of us, including me, are discriminating bigots full of fear and hate. Hmmm… Well, let's look at those words, eh? First, there is hate. A very powerful word at first glance, but in reality it means "to dislike greatly". There are many things I dislike greatly, such as taxes, hangovers, and a particular Mercury automobile, all of which can make my life miserable. You might notice I didn't mention any person in my list, and quite frankly, I don't hate anyone. That includes my ex-wife and the "tran-man". I do, however, hate the fact that our society avails us the opportunity to have a sex change operation. Am I a bigot? I would have to say, "yes and no". In some definitions of the word, there is an element of holding "blindly" to a particular creed. While I like to participate in some activities in darkness, this would not be one of them. In fact, one of the cornerstones of this whole philosophy is shining the bright light of introspection on the things we do, say, feel and believe. In that regard, I can comfortably discriminate against such actions as the removal of sex organs and the people involved in those actions. Not out of fear, but out of contempt. So I suppose I'm just a discriminating semi-bigot filled with contempt of people who participate in activities I hate… I can live with that.

When I left that pathetic post on the GPB, I do so because I felt it would "elicit very good responses even though it lacks in content." And, by the two hundred and sixty reads and one hundred responses, I think it did just that. Not only did it show the true colors of a few folks, but it even taught me something. I noted that "Dr. Lange did not cover this type of thing in his novels", but as one slave pointed out, this is not actually true. A fellow Scribe elaborated on the point in fine fashion, and showed us that examples from Blood Brothers do make plain the Gorean point of view. If for no other reason, I am glad that I refrained from yanking (no pun intended) the original since I had forgotten that portion of the novels…. That, and the fact that it provided enough material to keep my head off the pike for another month.