Negotiated master/sub relationships assume free will on both sides and a healthy core relationship. I'm totally down with that. I mean, even if I wasn't, it's not really any big. One person's kink is another person's squick. It what makes the world go 'round, says I. Also makes for a happy place if people just go with the thing that makes 'em happy and fuck the rest for not being able to take the joke.

But some of the people who look to the Gor books like they're the Bible are scaaaaary.

Then again, I've known scary Trekkies, scary Browncoats, and scary Supernatural fans. I don't know why Gor fans make me want to back away more than the others. I have to freely admit that it's the philosophy of the Gor-verse that scares me half-to-death.