“I assumed, naturally, she would wish to return to her native planet. Gor is harsh and cruel. And surely no woman bred to the civilities and courtesies of Earth would care to remain on a world so barbaric, a world perhaps beautiful but yet threatening and perilous, a world in which a woman is seldom permitted to be other than a woman, a world in which even the exalted Free Companion sleeps upon a couch with a slave ring set at its foot.”
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So again, Tarl does not think Elizabeth is cut out for Gor, but uses a slave earlier in the chapter. Why does his “compassion” not extend to all females? He picks and chooses which girls are slaves and which are to be freed. How can a person believe slavery is good for some females, and not for other females? What is the basis for his judgement, except for his own inability or unwillingness to master her?
This girl thought His intention was to return all of the barbarian girls back to Earth. To her, that sounds like He doesn’t understand that some of them may have decided that they prefer life on Gor as a slave, harsh and beautiful, to life on Earth.