I have to add my 2 cents worth, as I have read several of the Norman books.

A Gor is a fantasy world, plain and simple. What it portrays is abuse, plain and simple. Respect, growth, and love, rarely exist in the books. I don't know if the Gorean lifestyle track closely with the book, but I suspect it does to closely.

Love is a need, for humans. I see it nowhere in the Gorean philosophy.
The only time love was expressed in the Norman books I read, The slave was set free as a freewoman. The thread of that situation was the saddest of the entire series. Because, the fantasy didn't allow for masters to love, which meant she had to leave her beloved master forever. And her life as a freewoman was maybe more horrific than her slavery, because....

AS A FREEWOMAN, SHE DIDN'T GET ANY ANYMORE. ANY LOVE, ANY COMPANMANSHIP, OR ANY SEX EITHER. SHE WAS AN OUTCAST.

dumb.

That's my opinion, and as others say, add salt to taste.