Arrogant Slave - Ch. 2 - Arrogant slave comes to my house

[Pengelana]

So, there is already porn book in slave era huh?

 

[wallsg]

So, there is already porn book in slave era huh?

History of erotic depictions


Sex between a female and a male on a clay plaque. Mesopotamia 2000 BCE.

Edit: Woah... This was a direct cut and paste from Wikipedia. I didn't use the Insert Image function here. I don't think that's ever worked for me before. There must be something special about the way Wikipedia includes images.

Properly inserted image if that one goes away:

 

[chronostriker1]

Kinda disappointed that no one pointed out the last bubble should say "What are you, a porn book?" not "AN porn book".

 

[Julian117]

This manga is like if Darkness from "Konosuba" became a slave.

 

[SeriousBubbles]

Kinda disappointed that no one pointed out the last bubble should say "What are you, a porn book?" not "AN porn book".

Thanks for pointing it out, updated it

 

[Latte10]

She so arrogant of the opposite huh lol

 

[Baronoflight]

"What are you, a pornbook?"
Yeah, Master Commoner is an Isekai'd man.

 

[aloysiusks]

Isekaied as a porn book would be epic

 

[wallsg]

Isekaied as a porn book would be epic

How about as a vending machine that sold porn books?

 

[TNT261]

That trope about hiding porn books/mags under your bed again… Is Japan still fapping to (paper) magazines in 2024 ? Or is Hamita showing his age ?

This is late but wanted to add to this. So you clarify in later comments you're asking about young men hiding physical porn they're ashamed of (like from parents or what not) and I have no idea if that's still a thing. I don't think anyone does. Heck there's a good chance it was never a thing. Because you say the only think that matters in your first line. It's a trope. It's cemented itself in popular media and is something most readers know and continue to reference usually as a joke here (which is why it got a chuckle out of me). Again, can't speak for this one, but tropes never had to be accurate in the first place. Honestly who can how many men actually ever engaged or still engage in that behavior? It'd at most be something people can talk about from experience or through word of mouth which isn't an accurate count. Good luck finding a survey that went out to all households and even then I mean how likely do you think people would have answered those correctly. Don't take it politically but consider all the TV tropes about Americans especially American minors growing up. Those are just a very narrow minded simple exaggeration (for the most part) of a single idea of what American childhoods look like to a single group of people. The image that has been cemented through decades of media aren't remotely diverse (not even in region) and don't the cultural, socioeconomic, and identity differences in Americans. Not everyone has the same household, but typically a group of people who talk together have a similar one and then those similarities get pulled out and exaggerated and over time you get these tropes that did start rooted into at least someone's truth but aren't exactly indicative of reality.

 

[TNT261]

That is usually handwaved away by the slave being starved, belonging to a racial minority, or being in some other way undesirable.

It's certainly handwaved away, but really that's just lazy writing (which I mean most stories aren't here to go into the nuances and complexities of slavery). Even racial minorities and undesirable slaves are still really expensive because you're paying for another person. Think about how expensive a dog or pet is or how expensive a baby or child is. It'd probably be somewhere between there assuming you're only feeding that slave the bare minimum and doing the bare minimum to keep them housed, clothed, from freezing to death at night, etc. And for all that... slaves fony really contribute much. Like at all. It's a big reason why slave labor is unsustainable. In order to keep slaves docile they're deprived of resources to improve themselves (such as knowing how to read and write which is a big one). You're essentially paying for a human being that isn't good for much and still requires the constant upkeep all humans do. Now, usually the (lazy writing) also conveniently gives the MC a slave with an OP or HAX ability that more than makes up for the cost or keeping them well fed and clothed, but that ability only comes out with the MC. Supposedly they've been entirely useless (even failing as an escort) which just makes for a really unsustainable business practice for slave traders.

Taking the US history for example slaves were really only largely owned by massive plantations which just needed hands for mass physical labor. Even then slavery had gotten to be such a financial burden it was dying out until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin greatly increasing the output of a single slave. Otherwise it's frankly far more sustainable just to take advantage of people in other scummy ways. Which unfortunately businesses quickly found out. Exploiting low skill workers (or illegal immigrants) for example with incredibly low wages instead of slavery actually costs way less because you aren't responsible for any of their living expenses and are still paying them dirt.

 

[danvolodar]

It's certainly handwaved away, but really that's just lazy writing (which I mean most stories aren't here to go into the nuances and complexities of slavery).

Sure, handwaving valid setting considerations away is lazy writing. But it seems pretty clear that the goal of most such stories is having a character that is subordinate to the protagonist without the need to establish any meaningful reason for such subordination, so they jump immediately to slavery. Which of course in their eyes is somehow not an ethical catastrophe when done by a "good" protagonist, as if owning people can be acceptable as long as you treat them half-decently.

Even racial minorities and undesirable slaves are still really expensive because you're paying for another person. Think about how expensive a dog or pet is or how expensive a baby or child is. It'd probably be somewhere between there assuming you're only feeding that slave the bare minimum and doing the bare minimum to keep them housed, clothed, from freezing to death at night, etc.

Yes, but this is only a consideration for heritage slavery. For the slavery in Antiquity, in the cases where slaves were captured in wars or border raids; and in fact in modern-day human trafficking, the slavers do not pay the expenses for bringing the slave up, just for capturing them.

You're essentially paying for a human being that isn't good for much and still requires the constant upkeep all humans do.

Again, generally true, but comes with a whole host of exceptions, especially when slavery's practiced on large scale, with whole enslaved communities paying the tribute to their enslavers. Consider the Roman Empire, or in fact the Middle Ages with serfdom, which was but a step away from full slavery. These systems stayed stable and profitable for centuries, the agricultural output of a sustenance farmer essentially the same whether freeholder or serf.
Similarly, slavery was extremely profitable when acquiring slaves was cheap, and they could be very profitably worked to death. Take the Athenian silver mines as an example, or most of the Roman mining industry, or the early European colonial ventures.

 

[avefenixflames]

First Pizza and now a Porn Book? safe to say that the author didn't commit to the medieval setting...

 

[SuplexSensei]

"Yeah, you've been j*cking off to me right?"

"What do you mean how did I know? That was just a joke. Don't tell me you actually pulled a wank while thinking about this type of bod-"

aight i'll stop now

 

[Carn109]

Porn book slave