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You know... it spreads through close contact with me...

Ozmosis!!
Oh, you must visit certain areas quite often...it's a condition very frequently found in Ozlo.



Just a few quick remarks on the Gor books...

Literature is pretty much my daily bread. This is mostly what I do: I read books, and then I interprete then. The people around me do the same. The typical scenerio goes like the following:

We start a friendly debate. One person is talking. The person has finished talking, and the rest of the people in the room jump at them with some delight. If we weren't in an academic surrounding we'd most likely start to mudwrestle at some point, but it's definitely intellectual mudslinging:

A: It is OBVIOUS that the author meant to say...
B (with fervour): But we MUST NOT FORGET
C: You are all wrong. It is entirely different
A: But if you look at this passage it's EVIDENT
ad infinitum

If I have learned something then it is that the same book can be read in many different ways by different readers. It depends on your own worldviews, your own experience, your own emotional state in the moment of reading...imho, there is no 'one true reading'. And hell, am I glad there isn't -- my field wouldn't have much future if this was the case.

What I'm trying to say is, I think it's possible to find the Gor series misogynist without being 'incorrect' per se. It is a reading that the books allow, just as much as they allow for an entirely different reading. Personally, I find them enjoyable and entertaining, but neither particularly misogynist nor particularly exciting.

When it gets to interpretation, we do exactly that -- interprete. And as soon as we begin to interprete, we leave the safe ground of fact and enter the realm of, well, interpretation. It is something we can discuss, of course. But at the end of the day, everybody will arrive at their respective, subjective 'truth' and stick to it. This is of course no criticism into any direction, I'm just a bit weird about literature in general

And denuseri, just because it fits in here (not wanting to hijack the thread): I really admire the courage and passion you show when you talk about the lifestyle you chose for yourself. I realise there is an (in my opinion unjustified) stigma attached to the Gorean lifestyle, and I learned a lot from you and the few but lovely Goreans on this board. Thanks for that!

And now I'll stop boring ya'll to death!