page_title: Gorean subculture
section_title: Gorean community
hierarchical_section_title: Gorean subculture / Gorean community
caption_attribution_description: English: Panthers attending the Thentis town meeting (scene of avatars from "Second Life" online site). NOTE: This is a manifestation of Gorean fandom which is not necessarily fully authentic to the Gor books as originally written by John Norman (Norman probably intended panther girl attire to look much more like File:Dulcie Deamer in leopardskin costume.jpg, and in the books panther girls almost never venture openly into the cities...).
context_page_description: Gorean subculture is a fandom based on the philosophy espoused in John Norman's long-running sword and planet novel series Chronicles of Counter-Earth.
context_section_description: Literalists, otherwise known as lifestylers, incorporate elements from the Gorean culture and gender roles in their daily lives and some adherents of this approach were prosecuted for leading coercive sex cults. As opposed to literalists, the role players, divided into real-life sexual roleplayers (engaged or not engaged in BDSM practices) and online role-playing gamers (present particularly in Second Life) are not necessarily committed to Gorean philosophy and ideals. 
  Starting from the 1990s, Gorean subculture has become attractive to a number of male teenagers through role playing in chat rooms. The teenage role-playing Goreans who concealed many of their personal aspects such as age or lack of experience, thanks to anonymity, managed to appeal to a considerable number of married and middle-aged women as kajirae in role-playing contexts. Such notoriety caused by this profile and related practices in the virtual Gorean community succeeded in creating disdain among both feminists and the BDSM community. Nevertheless, scholars have discussed the way that Gorean subculture groups on media such as Second Life and Internet Relay Chat have influenced the development of online role-playing and even the MMORPG genre.
caption: Gorean role playing in Second Life. Panther Girls, Gorean Amazons from the Northern Forest, attending a meeting at the town hall of the city Thentis.
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