Free Women
FREE WOMEN LAWS
(In Accordance with the City Laws)
This code and Gorean customs apply to citizen and non-citizen Free Women in the City of Treve. For purposes of this code:
1) Any panther girl, desiring entry into the city is to wear proper attire and refrain from wearing visible weaponry, as befits a Free Woman of Gor. Those who break this law are subject to forced collaring for a period of at least 3 days.
2) Female Outlaws and Mercenaries do not exist in Treve and are not allowed and will be collared and/or banned.
3) Savage Barrens people, Wagon people, Torvaldslanders' customs will be observed in this city. ie, Free women and slave clothing, short bows and spears in possession of free women from these territories.
4) No Free Woman who may be asked or instructed to remove her veil for any reason, save by a magistrate preparing her for collaring. The penalty for Illegal Face stripping (any face stripping done except at the order of magistrate) depending on the circumstance, will range from public flogging to impalement.
Free Women of the lower castes are not required to wear a veil but may if they wish to.
5) Free Women are allowed in the any of the IRC taverns or inns. If a FW is offended by what she sees in these taverns or inns then leave.
6) A Free Woman can wear any modest jewellery she pleases, and may decorate herself however she likes except as outlined next in regard to earrings or the wearing of chokers that might resemble a collar. The only instance a Free Woman should wear earrings, is if she was previously a slave and her ears were pierced then. No Free Woman would willingly have her ears pierced.
7) Any Free Woman found to be carrying or brandishing illegal weapons will be subject to imprisonment and/or enslavement. Legal weapons for Free Women include daggers, whips, and hair pins. Examples of illegal weapons would be 'male weapons' such as, swords, long bows or any other large weapon, exceptions are of those women who are of other tribes or Panthers which might use spears and bows. Free Women are not to engage in arena combat except during pre-arranged special events where they would be allowed to participate.
8) Non-consensual sex with a Free Woman is illegal. Sex between a Free Woman and her Free Companion is conclusively presumed to be consensual. FW may also couch their own red silk kajira/kajirus but are not to touch those owned by others. This is a collarable offense.
9) A Free woman can sell herself into slavery but once the transaction is completed, it is too late for her to revoke it.
10) A Free Woman may voluntarily submit herself to another Free Person. Voluntary submissions must be witnessed by at least one other Free Person. The person receiving the submission may:
A) accept the submission,
B) in case of Warriors during a raid only, kill the person submitting, or
C) accept the submission on behalf of the City of Treve, which shall be mandatory for submission received by guards, slavers, and persons acting as greeters for the city, provided that the collar may be private if both parties agree.
11) If a Free Woman kneels in nadu before a man, this is sufficient to make her a slave. Her actions are interpreted as a gesture of submission. A Free Woman may kneel in the Free Woman tower pose (this is the same as the slave tower but do not cross their wrists before them or hold their palms up).
12) A Free Woman who is the Free Companion of another, will not be enslaved, unless by her act of submission. However, in so taking this Free Companion as a slave, there should be some sort of compensation paid to her former Free Companion.
13) A Free Man who saves the life of a Free Woman and is not her Free Companion or Protector, thereby gains the right to enslave her or receive compensation in the amount of her fair market value as a slave. The Free Woman, her Companion, or her Protector may challenge a claim to such right, and the Administrator or the Magistrate will rule.
