Well all I can say for the online part of your experience (especially conserning gor) is that in a role play based chat where one's only contact with gor is with those who all too often miss the forest for a single tree, a real life practicioner of gorean philosophies doth not make.
I nor any of those I know in real life who practice the art of this paticular brand of o.s. type bdsm would fit into the discription you have given, in fact I think I can hear my sisters laughing at the preception that we are some how lacking in intellect or originality for we often hold that one should never be a door stop or dull and booring in our submission. Quite the oppoisite in fact; words like inventive, erudite, enticing, aluring, and beguileing, even willful come to mind, tamed not by the weak are we.
In fact, even once collared one may find we are never really "tammed" ever if at all.
In other words it sounds (based soley upon the information you have provided) that most of those you've interacted with in the past who called themselves goreans, were pretending to the title and those online submissives were in fact only playing the role of a doormat as opposed to actually "being kajira".
I invite you to re-examin such things in a new light then good Sir.
We have many threads here on the subject two in paticular come to mind:
http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=15978
http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=17006
"One of the pleasant things about owning a slave," I said, "is the opportunity to converse with her, to listen to her, to hear her express herself, her feelings and ideas. One can learn much from a slave. Many slaves, like yourself, are highly intelligent. They can express themselves articulately, clearly, trenchantly, and lyrically. It is a great pleasure to talk with them." Beasts of Gor, pp 203.