{"id":32699,"date":"2024-05-06T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32699"},"modified":"2024-05-06T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:17:02","slug":"not-mentioned-gorean-communities-violate-internet-terms-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/06\/not-mentioned-gorean-communities-violate-internet-terms-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Mentioned: Gorean Communities Violate Internet Terms of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anachronomicon has a short post in a series on real banned books covering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anarchonomicon.com\/p\/the-banned-fantasy-novels-feminists\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">John Norman&#8217;s Gor novels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kulak mentions how Gorean communities for, erm, <em>role-play<\/em> sprang up.  But Kulak does not mention, or probably know, that such communities violate at least one Internet Service Provider&#8217;s terms of service as late as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/02\/sparkly-vampire-fan-fiction-apparently-allowed\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I told the story of how I first encountered Gor books back when I was actively dealing on Ebay and found a number of first and second printings for a quarter each and made quite the multiplier on them (I told the story, briefly, in my review of <em>The Priest-Kings of Gor<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/23\/book-report-priest-kings-of-gor-by-john-norman-1968-1973\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">2006<\/a>).  <\/p>\n<p>I later filled out a set of the first ten(?) at Patten Books back in the day, and I think I&#8217;m down to my last one or two (I read the eighth, <em>Hunter of Gor<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/26\/book-report-hunters-of-gor-by-john-norman-1974\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">2020<\/a>).  I think I only have one left on the to-read shelf along with <em>Time Slave<\/em>, a non-Gor book by Norman, which  I have tried to pick up a time or two since I bought it in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/good-book-hunting-monday-june-5-2017-the-villiage-booksmith-in-baraboo-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anachronomicon has a short post in a series on real banned books covering John Norman&#8217;s Gor novels. Kulak mentions how Gorean communities for, erm, role-play sprang up. But Kulak does not mention, or probably know, that such communities violate at least one Internet Service Provider&#8217;s terms of service as late as 2021. I told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32702,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32699\/revisions\/32702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}