Punishments

    _Are you sure about that?

   _Totally, master. Your favorite slave will not suffer permanent damage. No consequence  capable to diminish her market value will happen.

    _I am thinking about other thing, the opposite  actually. Are you sure that's a punishment adequate for her actions?

     _I'm positive, Master. That's the punishment this bitch needs, to calm down and start listening. After that she will be far more docile.

      _ She does not sound like someone being punished to me.

      _Don't you trust your first slave anymore, Master? 

Problematic Costumer

Friend and Concubine

"...

_Satisfied ? I hope you are happy with your self! 

    _Well, that's a nice start! Now Take of your dress, and show me your body. I want to see how it look like in you, when you are naked. 

                                        _WHAT !?? "

    _...WELL, dude, you must be more careful about your jokes from now own ! We just proved ourselves that you CAN tell me what to do, and bend me to your will.

    _I'm truly sorry about that, Greice. I was NOT thinking straight !
       Don't worry. You can trust me, I promise: I will never make a joke like that again.


      _You better not !!
         Because if you EVER talk to me using that tone again, friend, I will obey every word !!



       _Of course. And nobody wan... wait, WHAT ?? Said you will do what?

There isn't a story for this image, yet. 

  But just before I end it I was thinking about a conversation I had some time ago, were a friend was actually trying to prove _with rational arguments_ that men are more fragile_ physically_ that women. In that context he mentioned the extreme vulnerability of male's genitals.  

  
  By the time I mentioned women's breasts as being more exposed and fragile enough, but the subject remained in my mind. 

   Visual fiction do explores the kick in the balls without necessarily have a ideological motivation for it, just because the image works. As every man knows the mere image is a little painful, and use that to tell stories is perfectly fine. At same time there was a trend to avoid scenes were women are kicked or punched in many genders (those scenes do happen from time to time but are less common). Traditionalists (the ones some like to call "sexists" implying a heavy moral accusation)  would not place their heroines in physical altercation if they could avoid it, and if they had to then the lady villain would be fighting with a good girl. Feminists today do love to put "strong women" in body fights_ specially_ against men, and the fictional convention is than women are not as good fighters as men, but far better than them.      


  Until that conversation I had never considered the possibility that this repeated image could distort the perception of reality of adults.  Children is one thing, when you have 10 you can play Dungeons and Dragons and question yourself is would me possible to actually kill someone with a hammer "maybe one need a blade", all right, no problem. Eventually you find the News, make the basic Math, and reach the one and only possible answer for that conundrum.  

   Is as possible to kill someone with a hammer as it it to kill someone with a knife, and our specie has being proving both possibilities since hammers and knifes became available. 

   Women are, in general, far worse in corporal fights than men. Biological species do not evolve to fit abstract  ideal, such as gender equality, "women can do everything as good as men, or better" only became a plausible fantasy recently. Up to Modern Age men  had to be the ones fighting, liking it or not, because women could not replace them in war any more than men can replace women in pregnancy. 

   That separation of tasks was a matter of survival. As a matter of fact  now_ in part_ the need for corporal fights is in the past and the separation can be abandoned. But neither men became fragile as crystal in the last 30 years nor women are now made of steel. 

   By the way, I almost forgot the point but, yes:  a hard kick between  the legs has a fair chance to put a Sonja Warrior out of combat as fast as it would do the same for your average Conan).    

    Who is Up There ?


    _Look! See that woman up there?  Don't you recognizes her, Teddy Bear?
    _Not really Katy, do I know her?
    _I believe so, yes, we both do.  Remember the time when we first saw each other?
   
    _The dance classes on Bergen, three years before the vortex catch us. Of course I remember! What about...?
     _ ONE!! TWO! Now stop, THREE!! Jump four, FASTER!!!!!

     _You mean..., NO, you think? Look like, a little bit, but I don't believe. Can't be her, here on Sharitarn, or can it?

     _C'mon  Roci !  I had went to her self defense classes during two years when we met, three times a week. Besides, she used to date my cousin in the military academy. Trust me: is her.

    _What's her name?

    _Even after all that time on Sharitarn, you still avoid to make me jealous; that's a sweet gesture, Teddy Bear! But you had a huge crush on her, everyone could see that;  and because of that, knowing you, I am sure you do remember her name: Boudica. Well, that will probably not be her name for much longer! If I am not mistaken she will be sold today for the first time, as a untrained slave who does not speak the Merchant Language. Probably to be used as cargo beast, by some Peasant Caste dude.

    _ She looks really frighten. Like someone who just felt from the Vortex.

    _  Who know's what sort of name her first master will put on her? Maybe something like "Honey Pot" or "Goldilocks".

    _You think we should....?

   _...buy Boudica? That's up to you, Rocinante. Keep one spoiled ii lady as a free woman is already a heavy burden on your modest budget of Warrior Caste of this small city. Besides, she has a very "strong personality"! She will sure transform all her frustration and fear into rage and throw it on everybody she sees around_ but mostly on you_ as often as she can.  On Earth Boudica already blamed men like you for all sorts of imaginary offenses and humiliations, even more than the average for women on Earth. Imagine how worse it would be here!


   _You just made very a solid argument, indeed.

   _On the other hand, most Warriors about as successful as you do have at least three slavegirls to do the minor tasks in their houses. I am not complaining, I sure can take care of that myself. And since I have little chance to ever get myself a Caste or a citizenship will remain safer for me to stay home as much as possible when you are working. The domestic tasks give me something to do, what is better than stay alone doing nothing. Still, have someone to talk with would not be terrible from my point o view.

   _But you just said that she will probably attack anyone she sees like a mad tarn, as often as she can! "Strong personality", remember?

   _ You are really cute, Roci. However, there is no need to pretend you don't understand my suggestion. All you need to do is to buy Boudica as a slave and keep her as such. You want that bitch, she would be lucky to find herself sleeping locked in the cage behind our kitchen instead of chained in some cattle shed. At same time, I would have someone to make me company when you must travel.

    _Keep her as a slave? But she is a martial artist, and former military pilot.

    _So what? I don't intend to fight her, not even would risk to tame her by myself ! After you have the woman branded and locked in your collar she will be defenseless enough to learn that her place in the house is at your feet. You told me how local men do that, how they reduce "strong females" to tamed slave cunts and  teach them to obey, implicitly, every command given by the master. The work would be yours but I can help by keep her head down and her humor tractable when you are not present, if you leave Boudica's arms and legs locked by short chains and give me your permission to whip her at my on discretion. 

  _But, what about us? You are suggesting that I keep a slave, who is a attractive woman. Not to mention, as you reminded me, a woman who I used to desire and never had chance to touch. We are no longer a couple?

 _Teddy Bear! Of course we are a couple, for as long as you choose to protect me. Honestly, I would remain your free companion even if I had alternative that wasn't either slavery or suicide.

  _Thanks, ...I guess.


  _That said: you don't think I am naive enough to suppose that you don't have good fun with the slavegirls available on pubs and motels everywhere on that planet.  Do you? Would be very sad for me to find out that your opinion  about my intelligence is that low, after we share so many  experiences.   

                                         

   

Lucky Girls

 _ You both are very lucky! Exceptionally I don't have time to take care of two defiant lassies yet not broken into slavery, because I must travel fast. That's what I will do: the first one who manifest interest, right now, get to die a honorable death as free woman! By my honor: it will be fast, and painless...     
      
     The offer is valid just for one of you. The other I will lock in my collar and carry with me, in chains, to warm my bed and please my whims until I decide to sell her. So, which one of you will to take the deal, and escape the humiliation of being branded slave? 


      Think fast, girls! As I mentioned I don't have time to wait.

      Just give me a sign. No one?         

"Colonel"


  
  "  ...Close the deal, fast !! Do so before this fat beast notice that we know each other, or he may raise the price to more than you can pay."    

That one could be on Sharitarn (my own fictional scenarion), or on Gor (John Norman's). or on several other fictional Universes more or less inspired on Gor. 
  
   Is a 'generic' panel, so to speak.