Looking for a quick overview of the locality and locals?

‘The planet Gor lies in the same orbit around the sun as Earth. It is always 180 degrees behind and thus always directly behind the sun, rendering it undetectable from Earth. [...] Gorean civilization is primitive. The priest kings enforce a ban on modern weaponry. Persons who violate this ban are prone to suffer the mysterious 'flame death', a sort of spontaneous combustion. [...] Gorean males are 'real men' who feel that the proper place for a woman is on her knees. [...]
The Kurii are a race of space traveling savage beasts. They have come to our solar system from parts unknown and live in their steel ships out beyond the orbit of Jupiter. [...] To raise funds (apparently their own currency is not accepted on Gor), they abduct women from Earth to sell in the slave markets of Gor. [...] The average female abductee is at first horrified to discover she has been enslaved, but eventually warms to the idea and embraces her bondage in the realization that it has always been her secret desire to be enslaved and forced to serve men.’

Okay, so I’m not likely to get tickled and turned on by that particular fantasy planet due to my dominant orientation. Nonetheless I’m grateful to the talented author Harold for a pretty entertaining glimpse of Gor. I can’t comment on the original books, not having read any, where there may be those instances of companionship and love between free people redEva mentions.
The institution of nonconsensual slavery and its clichés being the big attraction of the planet Gor, this is what Harold wrote about. What daddiebear50 – welcome to the forums! – says applies to Harold’s story: No respect, no love. Abusive, dumb. But – this author did add a grain of salt.

‘All good plans were simple, and by that standard, this was a pretty good plan. I was going to stow away. All I had to do was find a girl they were going to snatch and sneak aboard their ship while they were engaged in her acquisition. There were several things I knew from reading the books. They often took women from New York. These women were usually employed in menial positions, unattached, extremely beautiful (but not without room for improvement through proper diet and exercise), and always snotty. They loved snotty women. Gorean men being what they were, there was probably a shortage of snotty women on Gor, making it necessary to import them. Snotty women drove me nuts. That's why I wanted to go to Gor...’

The story has two parts, Hitchhikers of Gor and Support Groups of Gor. Have fun!