Q. How many Gor books are there? A. TOO MANY!

[baratron]

Oh my god! The Times is reporting about a "sadomasochistic sex cult" that are taking the GOR BOOKS SERIOUSLY!!

At alt.polycon 7, there was a panel where we passed around a book written by John Norman, and the idea was to open the book at a random page and read as much as possible before you started laughing. I opened it at one particular page and couldn't even START to read, I was laughing so hard. It was just that bad. It wasn't even a case of "your kink is ok, but not my kink", I just couldn't see how any rational human being could find it erotic.

So apparently there's a whole bunch of Gor fetishists living in Darlington. I'm scared.

Comments

[oilrig.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, the reporting has been largely mature (pleasant surprise, given the usual attitude to such subjects) and police have found no criminal activity to act on (no surprise, but a relief given the recent proposed legislation)

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Yes, my first thought was "good for the police". My second was "Why does the BBC have to sensationalise this?"