Hey Seri (is it alright if I call you that?)

I personally find the Gor novels misogynistic as well. The ideas whether intentional or not which are repetitively hammered home is that somehow "all" women have some deep seated need to be slaves to men.

I also don't appreciate the assumptions that a slave is somehow now "public property" in the sense that she must act as if someone else's master has any level of authority or dominance over her. I think these books take something that can be beautiful when expressed between two individual people, and turn it into something ugly that I would want no part of if that was all there was.

Jon Jacobs and Polly Peachum have been pretty outspoken against the Gor novels and they live (I THINK they still do) in an absolute power exchange relationship in which she is the owned party.

I can respect people's right to follow a "Gorean Lifestyle" but I don't find the books particularly deep or beautiful. But that's me. I also can recognize that the Gorean Lifestyle may not be an exact replica of the books. But the books themselves weren't appealing to me.