No no no. I totally see your point (and even agree with it). For most people, the Gor books are just one big ol' purple prose of a fantasy.

But there's that hard-core element that just gets your hackles up. This particular hard-core element has a nasty face...similar to those guys who buy "real dolls" for their masterbatory fantasies. On the surface, it seems a harmless enough kink. Until some of them open their mouths.

The thing is, there's a pretty good reason why the Gor books have been out of print for so long: they don't sell. I worked in a bookstore for more than three years, and I had one guy ask for it.

The thing is they are so poorly written, the author keeps inserting his personal philosophy in it, and the stories are not very imaginative sword and sorcery. Add to that and you also have enough people are seriously squicked by them that they just won't buy them, and that's both sexes.

Do I think there's an audience? Oh, hells yah. Do I think most of the readers will think it stupid fluff not worth thinking about? Yup. Do I think some people will get into it at first and just "grow out of it?" Yup.

It's the ones who won't and who take in that misogynistic message that I worry about.