I then realized this was not the proper thing to say. �You are too good for him?' asked the merchant.

�Have you permission to speak?� He asked. �I ran to the merchant and knelt before him.

There can be no greater degradation for a slave girl than to be made to serve a slave.' She could not believe what was being done to her. 'Please, no, Mistress,' begged Melpomene, extending her hands to her Mistress. They regard themselves, and correctly, I suppose, as the rightful property only of free men and women, masters and mistresses.' 'It was a great shame, I knew, for a female slave to even have to touch a male slave, let alone to perform such an act as to address him as master. 'A male slave can be slain for touching a free woman.' 'In some cities, including Ar, an unchained male slave is almost never seen there are, incidentally, far fewer male slaves than female slaves ' They do not choose to be dictated to by females.' 'Gorean men do not surrender their birthright as males, their rightful dominance, their appropriate mastery.