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Like regular sci-fi and fantasy dipshits, but with slaves

If you're like me, you've wasted a reasonable amount of time on the web rolling your eyes at the insanely detailed websites dedicated to any number of dorky D&D or fantasy books or some similar crap. And yet if they were set into your head with ball bearings you'd never be able to roll your eyes enough at the Goreans.

The Goreans are a group of seemingly run-of-the-mill fantasy dweebs inexplicably hooked on a series of books from the 60s and 70s by author John Norman. The novels are awful, but what makes them stand out is the very prominent theme of sadomasochistic slavery of the women in the books. While this may make them appealing to horny, lonely, acne-ridden teen boys, what's really creepy is how many people are out there actually trying to live their lives based on this. And, even creepier, some of them are actually women.

I'll let these links speak for themselves. It's sad, fascinating reading, and you'll probably want to take a moment afterwards to thank whatever you believe in that you don't have to deal with any of these dipshits.

Oh, I was going to do an article on this for SF!, but it looks like Salon did one about 5 years ago:

Some Gorean links:

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Oh, this guy's good.
And look! He's deluded this poor woman!
Most Goreans don't seem to look like Jonrhus' woman, though.
And they don't seem to like people not taking this seriously.
And this guy even wonders about letting his slaves vote.

Anyway, creepy stuff. Enjoy.