On one hand, it wasn't as bad as I had heard, the gratuitous sexual material nonexistent and the pervasive chauvinistic themes extremely low-key.

All I can say is that Tarnsman of Gor was nothing like I expected at all. I eventually broke down and read the first title in the series one night, needing something quick and self contained to sate my fiction appetite. While I have heard of the infamous Gor Series over the years from associates and friends, I had never took the time to actually read one of them, assuming I knew all I needed to know from the gossip I heard. Tarnsman of Gor is the 1st book in the Gorean Saga, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire. He is disciplined by the best teachers and warriors that Gor has to offer . . . It emerges that Tarl is to be trained as a Tarnsman, one of the most honored positions in the rigid, caste-bound Gorean society. One frosty winter night in the New England woods, he finds himself transported to the planet of Gor, also known as Counter Earth, where everything is dramatically different from anything he has ever experienced. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life.

Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. The first novel in the long-running sword-and-planet series set on a Counter-Earth, where warriors rise above the chaos of bondage and brutality.

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