Kajira/Kajirus: These are slaves, female and male respectively. There are many types of slaves to be found on Gor, however, the most common is the ordinary kajira, a multipurpose personal female slave. These slaves are referred to as "kettle and mat" slaves; in other words, they do everything from serve as scullery, to cooking, serving, and warming Master's furs at night. Pleasure slaves are often referred to in discussion, but actually are not common. Just because a slave is used for pleasure, does not qualify her as a pleasure slave. However, the term is wrongly but commonly in use among those of little knowledge; being applied to ANY female slave. Of course all kajira are given the basic instructions in how to serve as a sexual slave.
Barbarian: A native of the planet Earth, usually used in a derogatory sense in reference to slave girls from that planet. Also defined as slave girls captured from outlying regions or cities. Barbarian slave girls from Earth are considered shamelessly sensual.
Bath Girls: Are slaves at the public and private baths. They wear a chain and plate collar. The plate gives their name and cost. They wear towels with nothing beneath them. While swimming, many wrap a long broad strap of glazed leather about their heads like a turban. The bath girls are there for the pleasure of men. Sometimes the girls will pretend to swim away from the men and try to escape but are easily caught by the men. This is done on purpose as most girls could easily avoid the men if they wished. They become excellent swimmers.
Below-deck Girl: The term used for slave girls transported in the hold of a ship. They are held in individual cages and because of infestations of lice, all of their body hair is shaved. The term 'below-deck girl' is used derisively especially by those slave girls allowed to remain on deck in cages, who need not have shaved heads, though all slaves on a slaver ship are unclothed.
Bond-maid: The term for a slave girl used in Torvaldsland also called a girl whose belly lies under the sword.
Camp slave: A slave of the Wagon People. They have special terms for themselves: clad kajira means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the cord in the back; the Chatka is drawn tight; the Kalmak is then donned; it is a short, open, sleeveless vest of black leather; lastly the Koora, a strip of red cloth, matching the Curla, is wound about the head, to hold the hair back. Both Free Women and slaves of the Wagons People wear a gold ring through their nose. male slave, or kajirus, of the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, for the work chains. To be clad kajirus means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather.
Chamber Slave: A slave of the Priest Kings restricted to use within a particular chamber; these slaves cannot leave the chamber and are to serve the Freeperson living there fully.
City Slave: Slave girl in any city, her duties in the apartment cylinders are largely domestic.
Coin Girl: a slave girl who, with a coin box and triangular flat bell chained around her neck, is sent out in the streets of a city to earn money from Masters in return for her sexual use.
Display Slave: a slave girl whose primary purpose is for the display of her beauty to reflect the affluence of her Master; often chained in coffle with other display slaves behind the palanquin or other transport of her Master.
Exotic Slave: a slave male or female bred for special purposes producing quaint or unusual purposes; an example is the passion slave.
Field Slave: these slaves work outdoors, usually gardening, fetching wood or water, etc. She is commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics. Her hair is shorn.
First Girl: slave appointed by the Master to oversee other usually younger or less experienced girls; she rules when Free Persons are not present as the Master, but she is subject to his total authority, usually called Mistress by the other girls, she may have switching rights over them as well.
Flute Girl: a slave trained in the art of music, specifically the playing of the double flute. They perform at various functions and are available for sexual use by those free men of their audience.
Healing Slave: is a girl that helps the Healer or Physician, she is able to give basic medical attention and assists the Physician as needed. she has to take special training to become a healing slave.
House Slave: one whose primary duties are inside the residence. Duties range from personal serving girls to kettle and mat girls.
Kettle Slave/Pot Girl: girl whose main function is cooking and other menial household tasks; used disparagingly.
Last Girl: used to denote either the newest girl on a chain, or the least of all the girls.
Luck Girl: a slave girl who acts as mascot onboard ship; her use is usually reserved for the captain of the ship, but she may be shared with the crew, usually as a disciplinary measure.
Lure Girl: slaves who are set out by their master's to entice men for the purposes of impressing as crewmen or in work gangs. While the man is delightfully distracted, her master's men accost him and hustle him away; also used by panther girls to entice men to be captured as their slaves.
Mul: a Priest-King term for a human slave Passion Slave: a slave girl who has been bred, rather than captured; specifically, one that has been bred for a particular trait, such as beauty or slave heat or the shape of her lips.
Personal Serving Slave: a slave assigned or owned by the person she obeys. Her duties may include running errands, general cleaning, or caring for personal belongings.
Pierced-ear Girl: a slave girl whose ears have been pierced; as piercing a girl's ears is consider the ultimate degradation, it virtually guarantees that the girl will never be freed; the practice first became popular after the fall of Turia to the Wagon Peoples, but is gaining acceptance in the northern cities, especially Ar.
Pleasure Slave: a slave girl whose main function is sexual servitude to her master; traditionally, she kneels with her knees spread wide, and her hands either resting on her thighs or, in some cities, crossed behind her, ready for binding.
Scribe Slaves: scribes that have been captured, they do the bookkeeping no one else wants to do. they are above other slaves with the fact they can read and write, but aren't above, like all slaves, cooking, cleaning and warming the furs.
Self-contract, Limited Slave: an arrangement wherein a Free Woman contracts to be an experimental slave for a period of time ranging from one night to a year. Her documents will contain a specified termination date.
Silk Girl: term used by those of Torvaldsland to denote a slave girl from the southern cities; often used disparagingly.
Stable Girls: these slaves tend to the male slaves needs so they do not become unruly and keep them in line.
State Slave: a state owned girl may have various duties, ranging from general cleaning to carrying messages. State tunics and collars are uniform, sleeveless and plain. Considered by most states an unenviable slavery.
Tavern Slave: also called "kettle-and-mat girls" see above
Tower Slave: a state slave girl in any of the cities of Gor; her duties in the apartment cylinders are largely domestic; traditionally, she kneels with her knees together and with her wrists crossed in front of her, as if for binding.
Work Slave: a category of slaves consisting of field slaves, stable slaves, etc. These females are considered, like kettle and mat girls, to be low slaves. Kajirus: male slave
Field Slaves: these slaves work in the fields, cultivating and caring for the crops, commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics with shorn hair.
Fighting Slaves: Many cities have arena for gladitorial combat. This combat is often quite lethal and many fighting slaves are seriously injured or killed during these games. These male slaves may learn the use of certain weapons, primarily cestae and other common arena weapons. In most cases, free men do not enter these arena games.
Galley Slaves: Port Kar, Cos and Tyros utilize thousands of male galley slaves on their ships.
Seduction Slaves: They are used to lure free women into compromising situations so that the women can be made slaves by the couching laws. The couching laws exist in many Gorean cities. Essentially the law states that any free woman who couches with another’s slave, or even prepares to do so, becomes a slave herself and the slave of the male slave’s master.
Silk Slave: a male slave kept by Free Women as sexual toys, handsome and sometimes pretty by male standards, these slaves are often muscular and manly, as Free Women love having strong men at their feet, this can be dangerous if the slave doesn't know his place or wishes to be free. At the present time there is a city ordinance in Ar which restricts the sexual use, or "couching" of slaves by Free Women, due to the widespread belief that the physical charms of precious Free Women are reserved only for the Free.
Stable Slave: these kajiri are kept in stables and care for the livestock sometimes fighting for benefits, or betting money for their Owners; rewarded with female stable slaves.
Thralls: male slaves of Torvaldsland.
Work Slaves: They are usually used on cargo galleys, mines, great farms or as porters on wharves. Many cities use male slaves for some of the unpleasant labor in the cities, such as in the refuse pits. Most males work on chains with other slaves.
Passion Slave: A girl, not trained, but Bred specifically for sex. No Earth girl is EVER a passion slave. It’s inconceivable and impossible. No passion slave is ever taken to Earth either. Passion slaves are almost never freed. Passion slaves breed true, and their children are marked with the mark of the house that bred them. In this way they are easily identified.. Male passion slaves are harder to identify, except that they are uncommonly beautiful and almost always have a club foot (inherited from the mother). DO NOT claim to be a passion slave, unless you have seriously studied Gor.
