Family Expectation — Ayn Rand

Fransisco, you’re some kind of very high nobil­i­ty, aren’t you?” He answered, “Not yet. The rea­son my fam­i­ly has last­ed for such a long time is that none of us has ever been per­mit­ted to think he is born a d’Anconia. We are expect­ed to become one.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged…

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The Sum of Fundamental Convictions — Ayn Rand

Love is blind, they say; sex is imper­vi­ous to rea­son and mocks the pow­er of all philoso­phers. But, in fact, a man’s sex­u­al choice is the result and the sum of his fun­da­men­tal con­vic­tions. Tell me what a man finds sex­u­al­ly attrac­tive and I will tell you his entire philosophy…

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Refusing to Judge — Ayn Rand

The man who refus­es to judge, who nei­ther agrees nor dis­agrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes respon­si­bil­i­ty, is the man respon­si­ble for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, exis­tence is an absolute, a speck of…

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You might not be Gorean if…

…You have named your recent­ly acquired prop­er­ty, “lit­tleone” or baby­doll” or “sweet­iekins” or “sug­ar­bot­tom” ( From Wise old Bear) …You have a wife, but secret­ly sign online to play “Master” most­ly because you are bored, and rarely get laid. …You have set up *safe* words so your spe­cial love kaji­ra does­n’t get…

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Basic Instinct: Violence in the Soul

(Reprinted from orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in the Gorean Voice mag­a­zine) Ah, vio­lence, how our mod­ern soci­ety claims to abhor it! It is blamed for a mul­ti­tude of ills in the world, every­thing from teen mass mur­ders to the qui­eter, more intense nature of the psy­cho­path­ic ser­i­al killer on the loose. Road…

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