Quote Originally Posted by Texxx
Today far to many that chat in Gor read Norman's books cover to cover all of them ..... cause they need to create a persona ..... I was a part of Gor....when most... ( not all mind - you) were just Gorean. Like me they were Gorean before they knew there was such a thing. They did not need to create somebody .... they were SOMEBODY.

I would have to disagree. Perhaps not with the sentiment, but with the wording. People involved in BDSM (before it was called BDSM) didn't need a book or another person to tell them what they were called. The "Old Guard" dynamic has existed since at least the 1950s and in it, the principles of power exchange and complete submission and servitude are pretty much preached like doctrine.

Well, all of that was before the first Gor book was released in 1963. So, people weren't Gorean and just didn't know it. People were very well aware of what they were and they knew it quite well. And who they were, it turns out, were the forerunners and pioneers of what we all today call BDSM, in one form or another.