Many don't understand the meaning of a carving on a woman. So Let me try to explain. To the average person who is not looking for the deeper meaning it would seem possibly like a random act of Sadism, those people who believe that are not only ignorant but stupid. Plainly to the naked eye it means Mine, however the meaning in truth is much deeper. The Carving of a woman is something done more for the woman then for the man who has done it. There is nothing more intimate then a carving, no better way to lay claim to a woman then to claim her flesh and if done correctly her heart and mind as well.
What those initials mean:
Safe: He may hurt you but he'll never harm you.
Protected: Port Kar is a dangerous place, but he will protect you, or fix you and kill what broke you.
Cared for: Every need a woman has will be met by him.
Cherished: She's a prized and hard woman asset
Disciplined: Not abused, actually corrected so she can be a better woman
They are a source of Great Pride for a woman. Not done to disfigure a woman or even to cause the pain it causes, but done to bring about acute awareness of whom you belong to.
However the carving of a woman is something else to, it's a responsibility. It's means that you are to honor the man that cares enough to put his initials on you, that you are never to make that man look bad, that you will never question his authority over you, because in fact he has authority over you.
"The Man who Respects a woman does not know what else to do with her" ~ Beasts of Gor
"A woman can only respect a man who can reduce her to utter defeat" ~ Nomads of Gor
Greed and selfishness I now, for the first time, understood. There is more honesty in Port Kar, I thought, than in all the cities of Gor. Here men scorn to sheath the claws of their heart in the pretenses of their mouth. Here, in this city, alone of all the cities of Gor, men did not stoop to cant and prattle. Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons. Here they concerned themselves only with themselves. Here they behaved as what they were, cruelly and with ruthlessness, as men, despising, and taking what they might , should it please them to do so.
(Raiders of Gor Page 102)