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~the difference between a collar and a brand~
"The girls are usually branded impersonally, perfunctorily, as cattle..Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transform their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidding of masters; the mark in an impersonal designation; this is understood by the girls; when she is marked she understands herself not to be marked by a given man for a given man, to be uniquely his, but rather, so to speak, that she is marked for all men; to all men she is a slave girl; usually, of course, only one among them, at a given time, will be her master; the brand is impersonal;the collar is intensely personal; the brand marks her property; the collar proclaims whose property she is, who it is who has either, or paid for, her; that the brand is an impersonal designations of an absence of status in the social structure in perhaps another reason why masters do not often brand their own girls; the brand relationship to the free man is institutional; the collar relationship, on the other hand, is an intensely personal one; it is not uncommon for masters to pride themselves on the depth with which they know their slave girls..."
Tarnsmen of Gor; page 42.
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