Editing Gor (section)

== Reception ==

The ''Gor'' novels have been criticized for their focus on relationships between [[Male dominance (BDSM)|dominant men]] and [[Female submission|submissive women]], the latter often in positions of slavery. ''[[The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]]'' has stated that the first several books are "passable exercises" of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]-style fiction while "later volumes degenerate into extremely sexist, sadomasochistic pornography involving the [[ritual humiliation]] of women, and as a result have caused widespread offence".<ref name="kink">{{Cite journal |last=Langford |first=David |date=1998 |title=The Kink in Space |url=http://ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx039.html |journal=[[SFX (magazine)|SFX]] |publisher=[[Future Publishing]] |issue=39 |access-date=January 17, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Clute |first1=John |title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy |title-link=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy |last2=Grant |first2=John |date=1999 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Griffin]] |isbn=0-312-19869-8 |location=[[New York City|New York]] |pages=692–693 |author-link=John Clute |author-link2=John Grant (science fiction writer)}}</ref> Science fiction/fantasy author [[Michael Moorcock]] has suggested that the ''Gor'' novels should be placed on the top shelves of bookstores, saying, "I'm not for censorship but I am for strategies which marginalize stuff that works to objectify women and suggests women enjoy being beaten."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Killjoy |first=Margaret |year=2009 |title=Mythmakers & Lawbreakers |url=http://www.tangledwilderness.org/pdfs/mmlb10-michael-web.pdf |publisher=AK Press |access-date=2011-01-18 |archive-date=2017-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425055349/http://www.tangledwilderness.org/pdfs/mmlb10-michael-web.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>