The Experiment

By Kittiara

Tal and greetings, all,

It is getting to the time of year that brings us lovely weather and hopefully great moods. It is also the time for me, after having written a few articles for TGV, to thank some of the people who have helped me in my journey for knowledge of the Gorean lifestyle. I will make it brief, before getting to my article of the month. I would like to thank my dear friend Kimariaus, a long time lifestyler, for all her patience, Luther for his wonderful site filled with knowledge, LevanA for supporting me through all my ups and downs in the lifestyle, Billboe for bringing The Gorean Voice to my attention, and all my other Gorean friends for simply being who they are. Thank you.

For my article of this month, I thought I would do a little experiment and see how the books translate to real life. Of course we are all aware of the Master/slave relationships and of how we can implement the philosophy and its values to our daily lives. But what if you are a free woman and have no Goreans around you? How would this role, especially a free woman’s day- to-day duties, truly translate then?

The first hindrances in my experiment were the facts that there is technology around my house that would not be there on Gor, and that I do not have any heavy robes and veils. As I would never be able to persuade my housemate to do without this technology even for a few hours, nor do I wish to build a fire in my home, and seeing that clothes were not overly important to what I was looking for, I decided to disregard these facts. After all, I wished be realistic, and it was a free woman’s duties that I was experimenting with.

A brief introduction to my clueless totally non-Gorean housemate, whom I shall refer to as “M.” from now on. M. is not even close to how a standard Gorean man would be. He is a musician and DJ, who has been known to run a marathon in a fairy outfit (with wings) handing out lollipops, and who ran around a city at night-time once in a very interesting g-string just because, well, he felt like it. He also thinks he is a pixie. Well, as he is the only man around me on a day-to-day basis, he would be my guinea pig for a few hours. Mind you, he had no idea that he was a guinea pig.

I first pondered upon housework. A free woman would not go about housework as it was felt in the books this would be beneath her. At least for a woman of the higher castes, not that I have a caste mind you, but were I to have one I guess I would be a Scribe, as this comes closest to what I do in life. Problem is I don't have any slaves.

So I tidied the house, did the dishes, made it look nice. This is not really uncommon for me to do so, but rare, as M. enjoys doing house chores more than I do which is fine with me. As M. came home, therefore, he was pleasantly surprised. I kindly offered him a coffee, which surprised him even more. This too would have commonly been a slave’s job, though I do think a free woman should be a good hostess. He accepted of course, by now looking slightly suspicious. I could almost hear him think “What has she done or what does she want?”. After that, I enquired about his day and let him chill for an hour or so, before asking what he wanted for dinner. I could see it dawn on him now. I was trying to kill him and take over the house. He knows my cooking skills. They are not very good. “Pizza?” was his careful answer, and I could not blame him.

I had established then that there is a reason for house chores being for slaves, that if you don’t have slaves you have to do the chores anyway, that I would never make a decent housewife and also that this experiment went rather wrong. I guess I found out what I already knew. Being a free woman in real life, the only thing that I can do, when not having a free companion or being surrounded by other lifestylers, is to simply be myself, be respectful and kind as I can be, and live in accordance to my values.

Guess I can do with learning how to cook though, always a handy skill.

I wish you well,

Kittiara

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