Dancer of Gor
said.
    I did so, obediently.
    In spite of my terror, I felt incredibly alive doing this, obeying him.
    He crouched near me. He put the whip on the rug.
    "You are a virgin?" he asked.
    "Yes!" I said.
    "Are you lying?" he asked.
    "No!" I said.
    "If you are lying," he said, "you will be whipped."
    I looked at him, from my back. I could not begin to understand a man who was so strong. How absurd it seemed! Did he not know that women could do anything with impunity, that no matter what we did, even if it were to bring about the destruction of a man's manhood and the ruination of his life, we were never punished? And yet this man seemed ready to punish me for so little as a lie, or perhaps for something as insignificant as simply not being fully pleasing to him! What sort of man was this? It was almost as though he were not a man of Earth! How had he managed to escape his weakening? Has he, somehow, not been suitably trained and conditioned? How different he seemed from a man of Earth! Was he one of the rare men of Earth, I wondered, who had seen through the debilitating and demeaning hoaxes of his society, who had cast forth from him, like poisons (pg. 39) from his body, the unnatural and pathological conditioning programs to which he had been subjected?
    "Do you understand?" he asked.
    "Yes," I said.
    "I wonder if you really do," he said.
    My lip trembled.
    "You might perhaps think of lying now to a man," he said, "but I assure you, my dear, the time will come when you would be terrified to even think of lying to a man."
    I was silent.
    "Hold still," he said.
    I tensed.
    "This will only take a moment," he said. "I will be extremely gentle."
    I pulled back a bit.
    But he was gently, extremely gentle.
    "Is she a virgin?" asked one of the men standing nearby, the third man, he near the table on which rested the attaché case.
    "Yes," said the man beside me.
    I blushed, hotly.
    The fellow near the attaché case then turned to it, and seemed to sort through some objects within it. Then he found one and placed it on the table. I do not know if I could have told what it was, in the shadows, had I been standing. Lying as I was, of course, I probably could not, from my position, have seen what it was even had the room been as light as it had been long ago, some three months ago, on that bright afternoon when I had for the first time to my knowledge found myself under the eyes of my current captor. Whatever it was, it did not seem large. It made a metal sound when placed on the table.
    "Are you going to rape me now?" I whispered.
    "No," he said.
    "No?" I asked.
    "No," he said.
    "Why not?" I asked.
    "You are a virgin," he said.
    "I don't understand," I said.
    He smiled.
    "But if you are not going to rape me," I said, "what is this about?"
    "Get on your knees," he said, standing up.
    I rose again to my knees, with a small sound of bells, the chain leash on my neck.
    He seemed a bit angry. The other two men, too, he near the (pg. 40) attaché case, and he who held my leash, his fist now close to the back of my neck, seemed somewhat angry. I gather they had not been particularly pleased to learn that I was a virgin. Had it not been for that I gathered they would have seem to it that I pleased them muchly.
    "If I am not to be raped," I said, "I do not understand what is going on. What is this all about?"
    "Have no fear," said the man, "eventually, in your new life, you will be well and frequently raped. Indeed, your life, in effect, will be one of rape."
    "My new life?" I said. "I do not understand what is going on."
    "She is stupid," said the man behind me, he controlling my leash, allowing me so little tether on it.
    "No," said the man before me. "She has her tiny spark of intelligence, nasty, petty and small though it might be, which, hopefully, may perhaps facilitate her survival. It is just that these things, now, are beyond her ken."
    "I do not understand," I said.
    "Can you not guess, cuddly beauty?" he asked.
    "No," I said.
    "Remember,

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