"They had a typical free woman's misconception of what was involved in total female slavery. The slave is owned. She does not bargain. She owes all to the Master, and gives all to the Master. She strives to be fully pleasing, in all ways, and hopes desperately that she will prove so. Perhaps they would learn that sometime."
-Renegades of Gor, page 44
In regards to this quote, would Tuchuk FW be categorized the same? What are your thoughts here?
I dont think that FW of tuchuk could be catorgized in the same way, as amber said that the tuchuk slaves are more free in their submission I think too that the relationship between slaves and free is much different when in a camp...
when you look at a wagon camp women work, and damn well women work -hard- sure they may not walk around with a sword strapped to their hip but they work hard to make sure that the camp and their men [family as well] are cared for.
in a city im sure there would be alot of things that the regular FW would not do... would she do her own laundry? probably not... but in a tuchuk camp not only do fw do laundry if they must [even Shoko does laundry when she -has- to] but there would be a slave or two right there next to them doing it too.
"She owes all to the Master, and gives all to the Master."
if you look only at this portion of the quote and replace the word master with camp it would make sence regarding the FW of Tuchuk, their camp is their top priority, a woman works for not only herself and her family but for the camp as a whole, Tuchuks in General live and breathe camp and camp alone.
"There is no freer nor higher nor more beautiful woman," I said, "than the Gorean Free Companion. Compare her with your average wife of Earth."
"The Tuchuk women," said Elizabeth, "have a miserable lot."
"Few of them," I said, "would be regarded in the cities as a Free Companion."
---Nomads of Gor
I do believe that due to the fact that the Tuchuk women are hard working and the way that they live that they would be closer to slaves then the high polished city women, a city woman would not grovel so low as to do that sort of work.