Real and Online

I've written the following piece for the website of a channel I've been spending time in recently as an Op on irc.bondage.com, called #The_Golden_Goblet.  It reflects my personal ideal of Gorean involvement on IRC.  As of yet it is still my personal work, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of the Owners of #The_Golden_Goblet.

When you first encounter #The_Golden_Goblet, you'll find that as a virtual Gorean paga tavern, this place is not much different from other Gorean IRC channels. The slaves here are more than eager to please and ready to be taken. If you are so inclined we have pretty much any food or drink you can imagine (although you may have to coach the newer girls with your more obscure requests). And if you're into discussion we can likely chew your ears off. But there's nothing new in that. Not many Gorean channels that would claim anything different.

What is different here is our purpose. For the patrons and Ops of #The_Golden_Goblet, the paga and the roast bosk and the dancing girls are just a part of a much larger picture. For us, the channel serves as a place to connect with real Goreans, a meeting place for hard men and soft women who have taken Gor from the page and from the screen and started living it in their lives, offline and away from the computer. And while it is definitely a place to have fun, it's also a place to talk and share and support, a place to learn and teach and mentor and study, a place to discover how to apply Gor to real life.

The men and women in this virtual paga den are very real when it comes to Gor. It's no longer just a fun thing to do on IRC; for the patrons and Ops here it has also become a guide for life. These people strive to be true to themselves, all the time. To build their lives on the foundation of concepts like "Being a Man" and "Ownership" and "Mastery". To take the concepts of Gor into their workplace, into their homes, into their hearts. These people strive to *be* Gorean Men and Women.

So, the people you find in this channel are real people. Real Goreans. The characters you see in channel are who we are offline. Take away the computers and the virtual accoutrements, the tospits and the sleen and the tarns, and you'll be left with hard men who fight to master their lives, and the women slaves who surrender to them. The choices we make in channel, are be the same choices we would make offline. And if you knew us online, you would be familiar with us offline. Because we are real.

If you choose to come among us, we'll expect you to be real, too.

Penned by Jennen