Slave Punishments

There are many ways of punishing misbehaving Gorean slaves. Here are several of the ones described in the novels.

Hanging from an A frame: A captive or slave could be hung from her wrists usually nude, from two sloping beams planted on the ground and crossing at the top, forming like an A without the crossbar. Her ankles could be tied widely apart to rings on the base of the poles. A frame or posts were also used.
Ankle Rack: Like the stocks used on earth, the ankle racks are two hinged wooden planks with semi-circular openings for holding the ankles of the slave.
Bastinado: This punishment is not described in too much detail, so we will suppose that it consists on hitting the soles of the slave's feet with a rod, because that is the modern meaning of the word.
Blindfold: Consists of three pieces, usually two rounded pieces of soft felt, three to four inches in diameter for covering the eyes, and the binding which usually consists of two or more turns of a dark, thick, folded cloth, or scarf, knotted behind the head. It is used as a punishment.
Bracelets, Hook: Soft leather cuffs with locks and snaps. The snaps are self closing devices. They are used to hold the cuffs together, holding the hands of the slave at her front or back. Even when a snap is easily open if you can reach it, they can hold somebody with the movements restricted by the cuffs. A slave in one of the novels feels herself utterly defenseless considering how easy are the snaps for her Master to open, and how out of reach they are for her. They can be used as a means of restraint or as a punishment.
Bracelets, Slave Metal handcuffs used for restraining the slave.
Branding Rack: A metal rack locked on a girl placed upright. Her wrists are placed behind her, in wrists clamps, each on a vertical flat metal bar. Feet and knees are shackled on a rotating metal platform. The branding rack rotates for bringing into view the place to be branded with red-hot irons. Branding is used for identifying a slave, but they also can be used for punishment.
Couching: A common way of punishing a slave (and also a free woman) is to tie her with a chain to a ring at the foot of her Master's (or Free Companion's) bed, making her to sleep naked on the floor, without blankets or mattress.
Cuffing: Of course, a Master will slap his slave's face as frequently as needed. The slaps are as hard as for the slave mentioning a taste of blood in her mouth, or for throwing her to the floor.
Deck Cage: On a ship, the slave could be held naked inside a small cage on the deck. If the weather is too rough, it could be covered with tarpaulin.
Denial of Clothing: A slave is owned, and she owns nothing, but the master can allow her to have some clothing or jewelry. Even when slave clothing is not for covering but for revealing, it is usually treasured by the slave, which can show it as a signal of her master satisfaction with her. That is why its removal can be used as a punishment, more than for the humiliation of being in the nude, what is not unusual for the slave.
Four Chains: Wrists are tied with a chain of about 18" and so are the ankles. Each wrist is also chained to the corresponding ankle, making the "four chains".
Gag: The normal slave gag consists on rolled leather wadding that goes into the mouth, secured by a wide strap that covers the mouth and secures at the back of the head. It has attached smaller straps that secure it at the upper lip and to the chin, and that are tightened also at the back of the head. It can be used when there is a need to mute the slave, or as a punishment.
Iron Belt: It is like a "Terran" chastity belt. It consists of a curved iron bar for the waist, and a contoured band that goes between the slaves legs, secured at the back with a lock to the waist bar.
Leash: A fifteen inches leash secured to the slave's collar and used to lead her. For leading, part of the leash will be coiled on the Master's hand. Its full length is used for leash dances and for bounding her. The folded end can be used for slave discipline.
Lock Gag: A leather gag locked to the head by a curved metal bar about a quarter of an inch in diameter. As it cannot be removed, the slave's hands can be left free for working.
Penalty Brands: Small (1/4 of an inch) brands used for punishment. They have the form of Gorean letters. In "Captive of Gor" the main character is marked with the initial letters of the words liar, thief, and traitress.
Pleasure Rack: Made from wood, with gear for adjusting it to many positions. It serves two major purposes: exhibiting and displaying the slave and holding the female in any position one pleases for punishing or using her.
Post Strap/Harness: The slave belt's front ring is tied to a post by a strap that goes around it. The slave can move around the post, but cannot go far from it.
Put to the oar: The slave is tied to the oar of a ship, her head in the direction of and near the paddle. When rowing, her head will go down and up the water at the rhythm of the oar's paddle. She can also be attacked by Gor's sea carnivores.
Removal of Name: A slave has no name but that given to her by her master. Removing it from her is humiliating, because she then becomes a nameless animal, not even worth a name.
Sexual Discipline: *Arousing the slave (remember her unleashed sexuality) and letting her bound and suffering her frustration *Giving her for being used by another man, perhaps a slave. (Being used by a slave, not a real man, is humiliating for a Gorean slave)
Shackles: Shackling her ankles with a ten inches chain, and forcing her to walk with short steps.
Shearing (or shaving) of Hair: A slave must be beautiful and pleasing to men. Shearing her hair or shaving it is a humiliating punishment, because it lessens her beauty and because it shows to the world that she has been displeasing to her master. It also tells the girl that she is near harsher punishments if she misbehaves again.
Slave Box: It is an iron box, four feet long and three feet wide, with a depth of about eighteen inches. It opens from the top and has at each side of the lid a circle of small holes, the only openings for breathing or light. A girl could be left for days on such a box.
Slave Goad: Like an Earth cattle prod, an electrified instrument that gives an electric shock to the one touched by its point. The one used for slaves in Gor has an intensity dial that can be set to give from a painful shock to a mortal one.
Slave Hobble: A shackle with about seven inches of chain that ties one of the slave's wrists to the opposite ankle. The slave is kept usually kneeling.
Slave Hood: A slave hood can be just a sack of canvas or leather with drawstrings at the back of the head, or a more elaborate leathern device with a ball gag and rings for a padlock. It haves no openings for the eyes, mouth or ears. It can be used for punishment or when transporting a slave.
Slave Pens: Cages about 4 paces by 4 paces, in which up to 20 slaves could be housed.
Slave Sack (dung sack): A sack made of leather that can be pulled up over the slave's head covering the full body, and laced shut. A night on the sack is considered a light punishment.
Turian Slave Bar: A metal bar, with a collar at each end and, behind each of the collars, manacles which fasten the prisoner's hands behind his neck. It is used to hold two slaves.
Whipping: As always in slavery, whipping is the most common punishment for slave girls. For severe whippings the girl is tied naked to a post with her hands up. A whipping could be given to a girl as a part of the enslavement ceremony, for teaching her the possible results of being unpleasant. Many kinds of instruments or whips could be used for a whipping, the most common being: The kurt. A stout whip, with a long handle, which might be wielded with two hands, and five soft, wide lashing thongs, each about a yard long. The quirt. As on Earth, a riding whip about two feet in length, with flat thongs. The belt. The wide and heavy man's belt is commonly used to lash the slaves. The switch. A light tree branch or similar rod, used for punishing minor faults.
Withholding food: It could be total deprivation, or putting her on bread and water. Considered a mild punishment.
Yoke, Girl or Northern: A yoke made from wood or from the bones of a whale. It consists of a rod with one hole at each end and one in the middle. The left hand is tied with a strap that is then passed to the back thru one of the end holes, then to the front thru the middle hole, wrapped twice around the slave's neck, passed again back thru the neck's hole and then to the front thru the other end's hole, to be tied to the right wrist. The slaves has so the rod on the back of the neck and one hand to each side at shoulder's height. It can be used for punishment, for transport, or for leaving a girl helpless on the furs for using her (The Goreans use to sleep on furs, on the floor or on the bed, so furs also means the bed).
Yoke, Stock: Similar to the Terran stocks, a pair of hinged planks, with matched semicircular openings for the slave's head and wrists. Is commonly used with the girl on her back. If the plank is wide enough the slave cannot see what her Master is doing.