Are people losing interest in Gor?

Ahh so making me a alt is some how biased to GOR being a complete and utter Mind screwing joke .. good answer

I hadn't even heard of Gor before I started in SL.
Then I heard about these sims "with macho guys and female slaves" - which would be the classic uninformed outsider impression.

In 2008 I got involved in Gor quite by accident. A visitor to one of my places invited me visit her Panther tribe.
I RPed as a Panther for about 6 months in 2008. That was a learning curve because the RP was in Hispanic sims and I don't speak Spanish. It suited my back story of an Earth girl transplanted to Gor though. I had to learn language and culture.

Most of the RP was far from sexual. It concerned the affairs of the tribe, interaction with other tribes, trading, scouting and raids. It was a lot of fun.
I stopped only because it was consuming too much of my SL time. I was also missing out on the subtleties and complexity of the RP because my translations were not up to the task.
I'll go back some thing, definitely - but this time I'll try an English-speaking tribe.

Gorean builds tend to be gorgeous.
The multi-sim continents with extensive forest are wonderful. Dangerous, but beautiful.
I have no idea what life is like in the cities. I don't think I'd be able to stand it for too long. I'm far too opinionated!
Perhaps I could be a Merc. That would be sort of half-way.


ETA: I never had sex in Gor. The few times I was captured I escaped or spat fire enough to be a turn-off. Plus some of the guys I met were quite OK and more concerned with the general Gorean RP than with sexors.

Uhm Jinx.

You *ARE* an Alt.

Anyone that i know is of an older an account -or claims to be- but uses a new account, to me is an alt.

I could care less about your opinions of Gor, everyone has them, good, bad, and ugly. Mine are good and bad - no ugly - yet.

I never claimed i wasn't a alt actually i have it listed in my profile that i'm a remake account so that doesn't hold any water against my previous statement that Gor is a utter mindless joke

So next statement please so i can laugh some more

No wonder she dumped your lame ass. LOL.

I am the one laughing actually.

LOL!

Ahh so now we are going to bring up real world relationships into the discussion on how mindless Gor is and how i've already stated i'm a alt .. interesting ..

Please by all means lets keep the conversation going this is passing my time nicely

Actually now i know who you are talking about cause i just looked up your profile again in world your talking about the friend from Bukkake Bliss that is from Germany and she dumped me that is really interesting should i post the logs from all our conversations

Cause it sounds like your the one that is not only clueless about the topic at hand but also what other peoples relationships are in world ..


** Added ** Just a side note anybody that starts there profile with - Hello, I am SL's First Briana and this is my personal input really think / feel alot more important about themselves then they really are !

Most of the people I met there were pretty intelligent and well informed. You have to remember that the whole thing is based on a series of *books* and there is a lot of insistence on reading them. There's also an incredible amount of reading material... a lot of sims have libraries and very active librarians.

Of course, books don't guarantee intelligence, but you do generally find people who read a lot and study.

There are quite often discussions about laws, legal differences between various Gorean societies and cities... it's absolutely NOT just a bunch of morons running around acting like savages.

LOL!

But yet, when you met me, the first thing you did was let me know you are from 2003, know of me, but won't say who you are.

** Added ** Just a side note, anybody that starts a conversation off letting someone know they are really an older account is just a poser in the first place.

Get stuffed loser. Oh yea, and keep your "03 on the shelf" - hahahahaha

Bri, I'm not EVEN going to stick my nose into whatever you and Miss Jinx have going.

But, back a ways, you dissed the OP (and Seven, a bit) for mentioning the Gor Hub.

I'm not a Gorean, I've only ever visited a couple of Gorean places briefly. So I have no axe to grind regarding Gorean politics.

But...could I suggest that instead of just laughing at the Gor Hub as a joke, it would be more helpful to provide the OP with better links and leads?

As someone intimately familiar with Gor, you should be dispensing wisdom, not getting all defensive.

Gor is so much not my scene, but a very good friend of mine is heavily into it; she runs one of the larger silk making enterprises and she tells me that her business is still growing pretty steadily (she has about 3,000 kajirae in her update group).

As I recall, a lot of Gorean shops moved from the mainland to Gor (rather than Zindra, since Gor is where their main market is) last year because, for a while, LL said that they'd have to be on adult land if they wanted to use terms like "Gor" and "kajira" in their advertising. I know this got rescinded, but a lot of people had already decided to move, and they still need to be on adult land if they want to advertise "slave silks". This may well have reduced Gor's visibility to the rest of us.

I'm wondering if Bloodlines doesn't have something to do with all this. That's now a far more visible form of RP, at least for new players before they verify their accounts, than is Gor, so maybe people looking for RP in general, rather than Gor in particular, tend to gravitate to that nowadays, at least initially.

The Gor scene in SL has evolved beyond my Lifestyler type of living the Gor Philosophy. It is dominated by the "By the Book" mentality RPers and unfortuntately from my experience since 2008 is that the average age of a Gorean Master has dropped dramatically down to the teens - or so it seems. Another big turn off.

And the By the Bookers are entirely too serious. Whatever happened to fun...

Eh, never heard of it. Could I interest you in a rat-on-a-stick?

Odd that you say that, since your only other post was about Gor.

There *are* furry Gor sims, by the way.

I too never heard of Gor until I came to sl. I "interacted with a few Gor Masters and found them to be fascinating rp'ers. The Gor sims are simply goregous. I love silks but I only have a few of them. Out of respect for their culture I don't wear them. Ok....at home more like for lingerie for the hubby. But out in public no.

I believe they are mostly misunderstood and unless one takes the time to at least try to familarize themselves with their culture it will continue to be misunderstood. Like Jig I tried being a slave and I didn't last a week. LOL. The problem with me was the "collar". The collar represents rl slavery to me and the image of Lamar Burton in Roots always pops in my mind and I cannot get beyond that.

How are the silks unique to Gor? They look like things any belly dancer would wear. Is there something about them I'm missing?

They came to SL with Gor. Not with belly dancing anim sets.

You know Milla that is a good point. It never occurred to me about the belly dancers. Yeah!!!! Because of the few I have they are very HAWT!!!

Are there gay Goreans? I've been to some of the sims and visually I love them, and I like medieval type stuff to begin with, but the books certainly don't mention anything about it.

Although in the parody fanfic genre, Gay, Bejeweled, Nazi Bikers of Gor (http://books.adultfanfiction.net/form_adult.php) is pretty hilarious.

Yes there are. The gay Goreans seem to have more issues from others, like other men, than Lesbians.

The thing you have to realize is that SL Gor is not one thing.

Anyone can set up a sim and *call* it Gor, and since it's their sim, they can run it any way they like.

Some of the sims are attempts to recreate a particular place from the books; others are invented locations in a general area described in the books.

There are some sims, that you can generally classify as "Gor Evolved" in which women have more rights than in most Gor sims. (The idea is that Gorean society would keep on changing after the period described in the books.)

There are furry Gor sims. There are Gor sims that are GBLT friendly. There are Gor sims in which nothing is forced and nothing bad can happen to you.

And there are by-the-book (BTB) sims and lifestyler sims, as Briana mentioned. The BTB sims are probably the most numerous, and the idea is conformity to the books. If it wasn't in the books, it's not allowed.

I haven't "read the books" - apart from researching on-line snippets relating to Panthers in order to figure out what I'd got myself into - and then extending out a bit into general Gor.

My understanding is that a gay male would be anathema to a Gorean sense of order.
BDSM would also be very strange. I think they are primarily into just the D side of that.

As for furries...... you wa??
.... which is kind of strange considering that the Priest Kings are non-human and with all their space travel would have come across all sorts of bodily forms.

In the wonderful imaginative world of Sl, of course there must be gay and furry Gor sims.

For all I know there are Tiny Gor sims!
Imagine being captured by them - like Gulliver.

Yea, the By-the-book mandate that many sims use declaring Humans Only lasts about as long as it takes for me to get there. Whenever i am seen, the Masters seem to start operating with their lower brain functions and forget all about the rules against us nasty Elves.

As it turns out, there is at least one (primarily?) gay Gorean city, Skjern. I'd made the mistake of Googling "gay Gor" instead of "gay Gorean" and hadn't come up with much.

I also have to chime in on the question, what happened to the fun?

Case in point, shared with me by somebody else who actually had this happen in a Gorean sim (I won't name him since I haven't asked for his OK to do so, but should that become necessary I'll certainly ask).

He was standing on a bridge in a Gorean sim with somebody else, and they were having a contest. The idea was to see how far out into the river they could spit. Somebody else came along and chastised them quite severely for their behavior, stating that it was totally opposed to what Gor was all about, bad for the environment, and yadda-yadda-yadda.

At this point he asked them about the body down there in the river. Mind you they didn't actually have a prim body down there or anything, but he was roleplaying. This got the individual who confronted them very bent out of shape that he would even dare suggest there may be such foulness as a body in their river, that is not the way of Gor!

Seems to me that the situation was entirely appropriate within the particular society that is Gor, as I have actually read all the books. I found it totally in character.

So why the extreme insistence that their conduct was in any way wrong, when it fits extremely well within the particular word that Mr. Norman invented? There should be plenty of room in Gorean roleplay for encounters like that to actually happen, and I'd think they would actually improve the experience of being in one of those sims, wouldn't they?

To answer the title : I never had an interest in Gor.