Contraception

 Note: Contraceptives on Gor seem to be administered solely to females. A male contraceptive has not been mentioned so far in the series.

SLAVE WINE

- is not really a wine (nor alcoholic)

- prepared from a derivative of sip root

- made intentionally bitter

- effect can be made to last indefinitely (medicine progresses during the series)

- new doses usually given annually for symbolic reasons

Slave wine makes sense in a slave-holding culture such as Gor. The breeding of slaves, like any sort of domestic animals, and particularly valuable ones, is carefully controlled. As a slave, of course, I could be bred, or crossed, when, and however, my master might see fit. It is the same as with other animals.

---Dancer of Gor, page 175

Slave wine is bitter, intentionally so.  Its effects lasts for more than a Gorean month.  I did not wish the females to conceive.   A female slave is taken off slave wine only when it is her master's intention to breed her.

---Marauders of Gor, page 23

Unless you have had slave wine," he said, "I have no intention of taking you through the streets clad as you are. Suppose you are raped." I put the flask, which he had opened, to my lips. Its opening was large enough to drink freely from. "It is bitter!" I said, touching my lips to it. "It is the standard concentration, and dosage," he said, "plus a little more, for assurance.

Its effect is indefinite, but it is normally renewed annually, primarily for symbolic purposes. I could not believe how bitter it was. I had learned from Susan, whom I had once questioned on the matter, the object.

It is prepared from a derivative of sip root. The formula, too, I had learned, at the insistence of masters and slavers, had been improved by the caste of physicians within the last few years. It was now, for most practical purposes, universally effective. Too, as Drusus Rencius bad mentioned, its effects, at least for most practical purposes, lasted indefinitely.

---Kajira of Gor, page 130

(...)  perhaps in deference to tradition, lingering from earlier times, in which, it seems less reliable slave wines were available, doses of this foul stuff are usually administered to female slaves at regular intervals usually once or twice a year. Some girls, rather cynical ones, I suspect, speculate that the Masters give it to them more often than necessary just because they enjoy watching them down the terrible stuff.

---Dancer of Gor, page 174

RELEASER ("BREEDING WINE", "SECOND WINE")

- antidote to slave wine

- prepared from the teslik plant

- tastes much sweeter than the slave wine

The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the 'second wine', is a derivative of teslik.

Blood Brothers of Gor, page 320

"Have you had your slave wine?" asked Ina. "Yes," I said. This is not really wine, or an alcoholic beverage. It is called slave wine, I think, for the amusement of the Masters. It is extremely bitter. One draught of the substance is reputed to last until the administration of an appropriate releaser.

---Dancer of Gor, page 174

In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine". When this is administered she usually knows that she has been selected for crossing with a handsome male slave."

---Blood Brothers of Gor, page 319

"You cannot now conceive," he told her. "If a releaser, as one speaks of it, is later administered, which is a quite sweet, flavorful drink I am told, you will again be able to conceive. Conception in slaves, of course, is closely supervised. They are crossed, mated, and bred only as, and precisely as, masters desire."

---Prize of Gor, page 80

SIP ROOT IN ITS RAW STATE

- is chewed by women in more primitive cultures

- effect lasts for three to four months

She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as she had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and indeed, the effect of sip root, in the raw state, in most women, is three or four moons. 

---Blood Brothers of Gor, page 319

FREE WOMEN'S CONTRACEPTIVE DRINK ("THE WINE OF THE NOBLE FREE WOMAN")

- also made from sip root, works like slave wine does

- tastes delicious

Some days ago, upon my suggestion, following her urgent request for it, the pit master had permitted her slave wine. Who knew, after all, what might occur in the streets or markets? There were many byways in such a city, narrow alleylike streets, dark doorways, and such, into which a slave, ordered to silence, might be drawn.

"That is what we must drink," I had informed her, noting with satisfaction the expression on her face as she had lifted up the bowl, filled with the foul brew, and had smelled it. "It is not like the delicious beverages quaffed by free women for such purposes, is it?" I had asked.

"No," she had whispered. 

---Witness of Gor, page 643

I looked down at the Lady Constantina. She lay on her side, looking up at me. I glanced at her legs, and then I asked her, "Have you had slave wine?"

"What is slave wine?" she asked.

"It prevents conception," I said. "Slaves are not to breed randomly. Their crossings are to be decided by masters."

"I have not had slave wine!" she said.

"A pity," I said.

"But I have had what I was told," she said, "was the wine of 'the noble free woman'."

"Strange," I said, "as you are a slave."

"You know I am not a slave!" she whispered.

"Ah, yes," I said, "sometimes, when I look at your legs, I forget."

"As you have had 'the wine of the noble free woman,'" I said, "it does not much matter. The substances, save in the pleasantness of their imbibings, are equivalent. Indeed, both have as their active ingredient sip root."

---Swordsmen of Gor, page 154