shayla's Introduction

Greetings..

If you've read Master's previous posting, you will know why this site is here. A testament, an ongoing timeline of development and growth. Not only for the relationship between her Owner and shayla, but hers as well. So those she's known will be able to follow the path of her training and personal development.

Master has directed you to google for 'Gor'' and 'Gorean Lifestyle', if you are at all curious as to what it means to be 'Gorean'. shayla would add to his advice. To begin, there are a great deal of misconceptions to be found on-line. There are any number of terms to be found on-line that have no place or basis in the life-style. This lifestyle is based on the values and beliefs set forth in John Norman's 26-book Gor series. But it is very much reality, practical-based. There is no different language, names for positions (unless it be the Master's desire), no fantasy animals and places. Simply being true to one's self and nature, and having the courage to do so in spite of society's conditioning.

This type of relationship is not about pain, not about degradation. Master and shayla are not living an off-shoot of BDSM, nor do we consider ourselves to be part of the BDSM community. This is not some type of bedroom game that stops at the front door. It is 24/7. No matter where shayla is, or what she is doing, she is continually under her Master's direction and edicts. Whether that be what she eats, drives, or in the work-place.

Being Gorean has a great deal to do with honor, self-discipline, integrity, and respect. There are those who would say that a kajira has no place in discussing honor. It is shayla's thought that such is not the case, not in the real world. To be a kajira in this society takes a large amount of the qualities she mentioned earlier. There is little stopping her from cheating on the directives placed upon her when her Master is not around. Little keeping her from playing power-games, attempting to manipulate the situation to her advantage, or even leaving entirely because she had not gotten her way in something. Her sense of honor, respect, and the strong sense of devotion she feels towards the Man she has come to belong to, as well as her equally great desire to only please him, all are part of her honoring her Master and herself, as well as the lifestyle we have chosen. A kajira has much honor, she believes.

There is one more bit of advice she would give; directed towards the girls who, as shayla once did, dream of belonging to a man and letting the persistent, continual need to serve and be what she is develop to its unlimited potential. As well, the Men who read this should keep in mind.

The Gorean Master/slave relationship is not something to enter into on a whim. As a Master, you are taking full responsibility for another human being. Their current physical and emotional needs, their lifestyle, income (if allowed), children from previous relationships, as well as future needs right up to retirement and death. These are, as Master of your girl, your responsibility and duty to the one you've chosen to own fully.

shayla spent over a year speaking to her Master, via e-mails, chat, phone, letters, and so forth. She performed two separate background checks on him, spoke with people who have known him for years. In that time she continually was aware of his consistency, reliability, honesty, his own sense of honor. All these precautionary steps before actually coming to reside with him. There was a great deal of soul-searching on her, as well as his, part, before actually entering into this. Much care was taken, on both our parts, before we commenced our relationship.

On an equally serious note, when shayla did come to live with her Master, she found herself freer than she had ever been. Free to be herself, what she naturally is. Over the time she has been here she has slowly begun to re-discover things she used to know, old instincts long-since buried and repressed. She has never been, in her 34 years, been as happy, un-stressed, and relaxed as she has been the past two months. It is her sincere hope that her presence here has caused him the same contentment in his life.

shayla