sexuality and lack thereof

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tennfan2:

thehypnobunny:

onlyseventhoughts:

justifiedsurrender:

The thing about trying new stuff is that you acquire a whole new range of things that can inappropriately remind you of kink.

I’m at the eye doctor earlier today. I’m not even sure what this particular test is for, but you look into a box and you can see a picture of a landscape. The nurse/technician person is explaining what this is supposed to look like. I’m sure she repeats this same speech all the time and that’s why it sounds weird, but she’s saying in this slightly rising and falling voice “and just let your eyes rest on that image.” Add to that something about mentioning the picture will “drift in and out of focus,” there is a definite hypnosis-vibe going on here it is not only me. (It might be only me.) 

I wouldn’t have cared much about that by itself, but later the doctor is doing that test to look at the motion of your eyes. She’s saying “Look at the tip of my pen” while she moves it back and forth, but also using the little plastic thing on a stick to cover one of my eyes at a time. She’s doing all this pretty quickly, I’m trying to stay looking at the pen and not at the stick… And I’m thinking: hey, do you want to hear about what was going on the last time(s) someone told me to focus on something that was moving around very close to my face? No you don’t, but that would go some ways towards explaining why I’m awkwardly smiling right now and trying not to giggle.

@spiralturquoise

Oh yes. Oh yes

This happened to me on the phone the other day at work. All she was doing was thanking me, but she did it in just. the. right way.

*Giggle*

The eye doctor is the most hypnotic fucking place that mankind ever devised. The new machines in particular are just insane, but also

“Follow the light with your eyes… this way and that way… up and down…”

I MEAN COME ON MAN

Oh god, I know this feel. I have known this feel ever since I read The Miserable Mill as a child.

(And they never do say what exactly happened to Klaus in that optometrist’s office, only what he was like when he left it. That might have made it worse.)

Lately, when sitting in that patient’s chair, I tend to end up going meta. I think about all the past selves that have come before, sitting in that same chair and thinking along those same lines. It isn’t precisely the same thought each time: it changes a little, the more I know and the better I understand myself. I think, if you could go back and trace exactly what I was thinking each time I had an eye exam, year upon year, you could get a trajectory of my sexual development in a nutshell.

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metagorgon:

gcu-sovereign:

ruthlessandstormyeyed:

Me, consuming any media that involves superpowers or highly charismatic people: WHY IS NO ONE OBSERVING MASTER/STRANGER PROTOCOLS

Because Genre Savvy is the province of the Stop Having Fun Guy in superhero movies, judging by the MCU titles that come to mind.

Hell, even though the trope is listed on the Cap: Civil War page, it counts more as a dumb reference than actually being clever.

It is harder, however, to speak of it globally on media. 

As much as I like to bag on Doctor Who, there certainly are times when they give a TInker with Master powers due suspicion (Demon’s Run)

master/stranger protocols are fun. the people who necessitate them are funner.

Regarding the OP: yep.

I haven’t actually read Worm, so I had to google what “Master/Stranger protocols” meant, but apparently it means “the stuff my inner genre-savviness is screaming about all the time”.

(”WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ‘IF YOU HEAR LAUGHTER FROM NOWHERE, GET OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY AND HEAD STRAIGHT BACK TO BASE’?! IF YOU CAN HEAR HIM, IT’S ALREADY TOO LATE!”

“WHY ARE YOU NOT ROUTINELY COMMANDING EVERYONE YOU KNOW NOT TO ACCEPT COMMANDS FROM ANYONE BUT YOU?! THAT’S CANONICALLY A VALID COMMAND; YOU EVEN USED THAT TRICK YOURSELF ONCE! ONCE! WHY ARE YOU NOT DOING IT ALL THE TIME?! I HIGHLY DOUBT YOUR CONSCIENCE CHOSE THIS OF ALL PLACES TO DRAW A LINE!”)

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Ella Reads Hypnosis Research (So You Don’t Have To)

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tennfan2:

ellaenchanting:

Do you want to do hypnosis? Do you want to do hypnosis WITH SCIENCE?

As much as research tends to lag behind what people are actually doing with hypnosis, the last few years have actually seen a pretty big increase in research done on and scientific curiosity about hypnosis. My personal theory is that this is because there’s an increasing number of studies coming out saying that hypnosis is A THING in and of itself (outside of, although often in addition to, the influence of factors like authority and cultural expectations).  The hypnosis that shows up in research is obviously differently-applied (and often narrower) than what we tend to do as hypnokinksters/hypno-enthusiasts. A lot of hypnosis research relies on old, old methodologies and constraints of trying to standardize procedures.  Still, I really like peeking in at the research that is happening and seeing if I can learn anything.

Join me, won’t you?

Referenced article (for those playing along at home): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307604862_Nuances_and_Uncertainties_Regarding_Hypnotic_Inductions_Toward_a_Theoretically_Informed_Praxis

Keep reading

All of you should, obviously, read this.

Also, “facilitative sensory stimulation” is now a fetish on FetLife, which we all should add. It’s the greatest euphemism I’ve heard in a while.

Ella: I’m incredibly curious about what a facilitative sensory stimulation suggestion is and cannot get to the referenced article. Kinesthetic inductions? I have someone imagine they’re on a mountain and play the sound of yodeling in the background? I have no clue.

Okay, so I looked into the article you couldn’t reach (yay university subscriptions!). While it never actually uses the term “facilitative sensory stimulation”, I skimmed the article a bit and found this quote regarding debriefing:

Subjects in the experiential expectancy modification conditions were told the following:

“We tried to help you become hypnotized by making sure that you would have the first few experiences I suggested to you. Remember when I told you to see colors on the wall and to hear music? Whenever I said to imagine a color, we turned on a colored light that made the room look a tiny bit that color. When I told you to imagine that you could hear music, we turned on a tape. We did that only for the lights and the music. Everything else you did entirely on your own, and you did very well indeed.”

So that’s probably what facilitative sensory stimulation means: making the first couple “hallucinations” happen in reality as convincers.

(Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble. But hey, now you know what they were on about!)

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sebsteerpike:

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tennfan2:

enscenic:

jonsmisu:

So, random thing, based on a mood I keep having: How many people here are more into the less ero* side of things? Or not as into the BDSM aspects with it? I’m curious, mainly because it fits me pretty well and I like to think I’m not the only one out there with that view.

 

 

*I’m horrible at defining it, but let’s say it means that while hypno is a bit ero for you, you prefer the more funny/not as ero side of things.

This is a topic of much debate – @tennfan2, @soundshypnotic, and I occasionally “teach a class” themed around it. (I use “teach a class” because really it’s more like “put on a show”.)

And my role in said class is (as in real life) the guy whose heart is just about always in the hypnosis-for-hypnosis’-sake camp.

To be clear, it’s still very hot to me; hypnosis (depending on the context) is both a nerdy hobby and a kink, but adding the BDSM (for me) doesn’t necessarily amp up the hotness.

I mean, to me, hypnosis is almost always erotic on some level? there are a few *people* who are exceptions, but that’s mostly because of the nature of my friendship with those people…

As most of my EH pals know, and as I’ve talked with @jonsmisu about in private in the past, this is a HUGE topic for me–not so much on trying to parse the varying types of personal erotic interest, but in how our EH community makes itself fun and welcoming to all types, not just BDSM folks,

I’m personally not a “hypnosis for hypnosis’ sake” guy–I’m much more into using hypnosis as a tool to get at other mind-control or transformation erotic fantasies. That said, I do dabble in BDSM when it’s hot for a partner (which makes it hot for me!), and I absolutely know that most of my fetishes center around a power exchange of some sort and often a certain type of mental sadism. (Yes, all sadism is probably mental on some level – everything we do is mental on some level – I just mean my sadism tends to lean more toward doing nasty, mean, cruel things to someone’s mind and will, rather than physically to their body.)

So I’m definitely into hypnotism for the Ero part of Erotic Hypnotism.

However, I’ve often warned that our growing EH community needs to keep reminding itself that not everyone is into BDSM; not everyone has a D/s relationship with their partners; not everyone wants collars or to use terms like “pet,” “slave,” “Mistress/Master,” “Sir/Miss;” not everyone is into rope or floggers or canes. And while I put myself firmly on the Erotic side of things, I also have to remember that there are folks whose idea and definition of “erotic” is very different from mine—just as there may be folks who are into erotic hypnosis who have ZERO interest in a power exchange or control of another.

We have a very lovely, welcoming, friendly community, but as I’ve written at length before, the BDSM side of things still tends to dominate the community (no pun intended) for several reasons, including the fact that many EH groups and events are created in conjunction with an existing BDSM kink community or local dungeon, so not only do information about and invites to events disseminate through that BDSM community first and foremost, but also people already comfortable with being in a kink group and attending in-person events tend to be more likely to hear about and come out to attend an Erotic Hypnosis event.

In the past year, I’ve met so many more EH people like myself, or Smisu, or others here who are NOT necessarily into the formal BDSM side of things, and that’s been very encouraging and wonderful. And at the same time, I’ve done some of exploring myself of types of play that involve more elements of BDSM, with mixed but always fascinating results.

I hate having to repeat this over and over, but someone ALWAYS misses the point: I am NOT saying BDSM is bad or that it shouldn’t be part of the EH community. I am NOT suggesting we further sub-divide and Balkanize our EH community. I love my BDSM-lovin’ friends and play partners, I love talking to them, learning from them, and playing with them. I have NOTHING against BDSM and have always appreciated my own explorations of it. What I am repeatedly saying is that our larger community needs to be aware that not everyone is into BDSM and should keep our events and discussions as open and friendly as possible for folks curious about or into erotic hypnosis from different, non-BDSM angles.

But still, especially here on Tumblr, depending on how you curate your feed, you can find your daily dashboard filled with an overwhelming amount of BDSM images and discussions—much of it from your close friends in the EH community. And there are times when that feels overwhelming and alienating—it can make you feel like an outsider in the very EH community you were hoping to finally find fellowship in. You discover the EH community and think, “Oh yes, finally! My people!” and then you look around and go, “Oh wait… hmmm… Are you my people? Am I your person? Do I really belong here?”

The short, easy answer is always YES, of course you belong here—when you tune out all the BDSM imagery on Tumblr, we’re still left with a growing and varied community of great folks who welcome everyone, whatever they’re into to whatever degree. The issue isn’t how nice and welcoming and diverse the EH community is, it’s just how some of us sometimes perceive it, based on some of its most overt BDSM imagery and topics. 

We meet cool, fun, awesome new friends, and then sometimes there’s that feeling of, “Oh, but they’re into so many things I’m not.” That can sometimes leave you feeling lonely and left out again. When you’re trying to find play partners to do the hypno things you want to do, but it seems like everyone is into all kinds of things you’re not, and you despair of ever finding a play partner who’s into YOUR thing or your particular level and definition of eroticism.

Jon Smisu, I’m sure your idea of and interest in “erotic hypnosis” is different from mine, and I know mine is different from @tennfan2’s or @daja-the-hypnokitten’s or @enscenic’s. Heck, I know my fetishes don’t even line up exactly with the play partners I do lots of fun things with—almost all of them have other kinks or fetish interests that fall outside my usual realm of play. Some of those things I explore with them, some of them I shrug and leave be.

All of which is to say, hang in there – keep exploring and defining your hypnosis interests for yourself; maybe try some new things, if only to figure out what you’re not into; but most of all, just know that you are far, far from alone in all this. Maybe all our kinks and fetishes and definitions of “erotic” don’t always match, but many of us have felt exactly that mood you’re describing. And meanwhile, our community needs to keep reminding ourselves of that—that not everyone seeking shelter under the umbrella of “erotic hypnosis” is looking for or excited by the same things.

(This post is somewhere between “direct reply” and “using previous posts as jumping-off points”.)

Yeah, my relationship with erotic hypnosis is…complicated, and full of approximations: “this isn’t quite right, but it’ll have to do”.

jonsmisu: you prefer the more funny/not as ero side of things.

Well, I definitely wouldn’t say I prefer the “funny” side of things, because that seems to generally mean embarrassment humour, and I hate embarrassment humour.

sebsteerpike: And while I put myself firmly on the Erotic side of things, I also have to remember that there are folks whose idea and definition of “erotic” is very different from mine

I think of my fetish as sexual, but I often have more in common with people calling themselves “nonsexual kinksters”. I could easily see someone with the same sexuality as me but a different outlook on it using the term “nonsexual kinkster” too.

just as there may be folks who are into erotic hypnosis who have ZERO interest in a power exchange or control of another.

Yeah, the thing where BDSM is treated as the be-all-end-all of kink tripped me up in my late teens. I called myself submissive for a while because I didn’t really know you could be a kinky bottom without being submissive.

(And…this isn’t quite the same thing as conflation with BDSM, but the assumption that a person will be into a wide variety of things is also tricky. Here I am with just the one paraphilia: a few different aspects, but in essence one thing. Being kinky doesn’t make me ~adventurous~. Hell, I’m not even into genitals.)

You discover the EH community and think, “Oh yes, finally! My people!” and then you look around and go, “Oh wait… hmmm… Are you my people? Am I your person? Do I really belong here?”

The short, easy answer is always YES, of course you belong here

I’m not convinced that I do, but I do think there’s something to be gained by hanging out with people who are only almost My People. It’s good for its own sake, and it’s additionally good because places like this are my best chance at running into someone who is My People.

but it seems like everyone is into all kinds of things you’re not, and you despair of ever finding a play partner who’s into YOUR thing or your particular level and definition of eroticism.

Yep. Not even anyone to play with, necessarily, just somebody to talk to.

(I’ve been feeling lonely this week, because on Tuesday it was time for a round of “Am I Ovulating, Or Just Sleep-Deprived?*”. And I knew that if I complained about it on Tumblr, I might get a few people commiserating as best they could, but there would be nobody to nod and say “I know that feel”, because none of them did know that feel.)

*I suspect the answer was “sleep-deprived”, because the next day I slept better but felt worse. Ovulatory libido spikes don’t have a ramping-up period like that (at least for me), so I think I was sleep-deprived on Tuesday but ovulating on Wednesday.

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orbispelagium:

orbispelagium:

If pop music is determined to keep the compulsory heterosexuality from top to bottom, the least they could do is have guys sing about, I dunno, their desire to have a fifty-foot-tall chubby dragon woman sit on their face or something.

Where’s my dismal, by-the-numbers EDM track about vore?

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Anonymous asked: Oh there is absolutely no reason for you to decaffeinate. Isn’t that what blood is made of?

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tennfan2:

I need to sleep! That’s the whole point. If you don’t appreciate sleep and you’re reading my blog I feel like you landed in the wrong kink, anon.

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So for the past two years or so I’ve been slowly working my way through the Red Panda Adventures. Recently I reached episode 100. Towards the end, our heroes are surrounded by a group of hostile sapient zombies (long story). There are too many to take them all out in combat, so the Red Panda uses his mind-control powers to put them to sleep. This being a Christmas special, he begins this process by calming them through evoking the joy and contentment of Christmas.

“You idiot!” I yelled. “You’re begging for an abreaction!”

(I managed not to actually yell this out loud. I was out for a walk, as is my custom when listening to the Red Panda Adventures, and I didn’t want the neighbours to get weirded out.)

For those of you who don’t speak hypnosis jargon, basically an “abreaction” is when a hypnotised person responds to a suggestion in an unexpected manner, generally because they interpreted it in a way the hypnotist didn’t intend, or something about the phrasing reminded them of something and sent their mind off on a different track, stuff like that. It doesn’t necessarily go badly 100% of the time, but–like all forms of miscommunication–it’s usually best avoided when possible, and this one definitely would go badly if it happened.

The trouble is, not everyone associates Christmas with joy and contentment. All it takes is one bitter Jewish kid (*ahem*) or something, one person whose associations with Christmas are negative, and the thing’s going to blow up in his face.

Now, hypnosis as practised in the Red-Panda-verse is very different from the real thing, so in the abstract it’s not inherently a bad thing to have this in-universe expert hypnotist doing things that even I, a person with no training who simply travels in the right circles to overhear hypnotists talking shop with each other, recognise as mistakes. But in this case, the differences between our universe and his make this worse. In the real world, if your induction backfires because it turns out your subject hates Christmas, you just feel kind of awkward and embarrassed and have hopefully learned a valuable lesson about not assuming everyone likes Christmas. But because he’s weaponising his psychic powers, his suggestions have to work, first try, without a hitch, without discussing it with the subject in advance, or he might die. It is, literally, vitally important for him to keep his inductions as generic and universal as possible, and not pull risky, your-mileage-may-vary shit like the spirit of fucking Christmas.

(For the record, he got lucky and it didn’t backfire on anyone. Still a stupid risk.)

To be fair, it’s easier for me to spot this because, as a bitter Jewish kid myself, I didn’t have to put myself in anyone else’s place to see why this was risky. I can tell you right now, anyone tries an induction on me based on the feeling of Christmas (foreignness and resentment and the particular type of loneliness one feels when surrounded by a crowd of happy people whose joy one will never share*), it ain’t gonna go well.

*You know what, Christmas could actually make a decent metaphor for being undead, or vice versa.

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somnilogical:

brin-bellway:

@somnilogical liked your post:tfw you want to write about why you put your…

Right, that reminds me of what I was going to say when you liked the previous post. (That like was on the OP rather than my reblog, but I saw it anyway because I was looking at the notes.)

Every time you, a person named Somni, like one of my kink posts, I start wondering about nominative determinism. (Although with a chosen name, even if there is causality it might go the other direction.)

*looks up nominative determinism on Wikipedia*

… the entire article is delightful.

The term has its origin in the “Feedback” column of the British popular science magazine New Scientist in 1994. A series of events raised the suspicion of its editor, John Hoyland, who wrote in the November 5 issue:

“We recently came across a new book, Pole Positions—The Polar Regions and the Future of the Planet, by Daniel Snowman.[39] Then, a couple of weeks later, we received a copy of London Under London—A Subterranean Guide, one of the authors of which is Richard Trench.[40] So it was interesting to see Jen Hunt of the University of Manchester stating in the October issue of The Psychologist: “Authors gravitate to the area of research which fits their surname.”[41] Hunt’s example is an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology by A. J. Splatt and D. Weedon.[42]

We feel it’s time to open up this whole issue to rigorous scrutiny. You are invited to send in examples of the phenomenon in the fields of science and technology (with references that check out, please) together with any hypotheses you may have on how it comes about.“[43]

Feedback editors John Hoyland and Mike Holderness subsequently adopted the term nominative determinism as suggested by reader C. R. Cavonius. The term first appeared in the December 17 issue.[44] Even though the magazine tried to ban the topic numerous times over the decades since,[45] readers kept sending in curious examples. These included the US navy spokesman put up to answer journalists’ questions about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, one Lieutenant Mike Kafka;[46] authors of the book The Imperial Animal Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox;[47] and the UK Association of Chief Police Officers’ spokesman on knife crime, Alfred Hitchcock.[48]

Sue Yoo, a lawyer, said that when she was younger people urged her to become a lawyer because of her name, which she thinks may have helped her decision.

Weather reporter Storm Field was not sure about the influence of his name; his father, also a weather reporter, was his driving force.

Psychology professor Lewis Lipsitt, a lifelong collector of aptronyms,[83] was lecturing about nominative determinism in class when a student pointed out that Lipsitt himself was subject to the effect since he studied babies’ sucking behaviour. Lipsitt said “that had never occurred to me.”

In 2015 researchers Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb published a paper on their study into the effect of surnames on medical specialisation.

New Scientist coined the term nominative contradeterminism for people who move away from their name, creating a contradiction between name and occupation. Examples include Andrew Waterhouse, a professor of wine,[63] would-be doctor Thomas Edward Kill, who subsequently changed his name to Jirgensohn,[64] and the Archbishop of Manila,Cardinal Sin.[65][E]

I googled “Somni kink” and got my own posts as the first results. [ And several other people with the username “somni” on other sites after that. I’m … not actually in the Supernatural fandom(yet?). In case anyone was wondering. ] So I suspect this is not the name of a specific kink but a general allusion to hypnosis.

In this case, it might be of note that my girlfriend ( Sofi ) (( @sigmaleph )) is rather fond of hypnosis things. And I am interested in her as well.

I’m kind of shy about these things, so I don’t like listing things that I like directly. If you or anyone else is interested, I created an editable document of my kinks and people (including those I’ve done things with) have been filling it in.

It is located here.

#I asked her consent before posting this

#the actual motivation behind my name is more cluster-y
#and has to do with a specific notion of dream logic as it manifests as a technique to reliably solve problems  #or at least get somewhere interesting

#This post feels weird #but everything is accurate  #so off it goes
#I hope I’m being kind  #I can’t see a specific rule of kindness that I broke  #but I worry that I broke a rule undiscovered by me or a rule that I’m not thinking about right now  #But I often worry about this #The heuristic for this is if people are not complaining they are being hurt afterwards  #and other people doing the thing you are worried about with modding out by the confounders are not hurting people  #then it is probably okay as far as you know   #and if you cannot think of a way in which what you are saying is unkind  #after thinking a lot  #there is nothing more to do  the vault of heaven will not crack open and deliver a infinitely trustworthy certificate of ultimate kindness  #to vet your planned actions  #Thinking about it  #looking at what other people have done  #reading  #and consulting others  #is enough  #it might not get the answer right  #but for these small social interactions  #it is enough

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Re: nominative determinism, those are some delightful quotes.

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There is a fetish called “somnophilia”, which is a term that sounds like it ought to apply to me but actually refers to having intercourse with unconscious people (occasionally to other people having intercourse with you while you’re unconscious, but mostly you hear from tops). Sometimes I look through somnophilia stuff in case somebody like me wandered in because they got confused by the name, or is deliberately trying to expand the definition. (I could see an alternate, more genitally-inclined version of me being into semi-conscious intercourse, which is why I got excited when I saw somebody in the Tumblr somnophilia tag talking about how they were into that…and then they turned out to be fictional.)

I went back and checked, and it looks like you haven’t actually pressed the “like” button on any of my posts regarding my adventures in the Tumblr somnophilia tag, although the also-very-aptly-named @spiralingintocontrol did once. (And you did like the pun about fucking the natural order.)

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I don’t see anything unkind, given that you did ask Sofi’s permission.

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@somnilogical liked your post:tfw you want to write about why you put your…

Right, that reminds me of what I was going to say when you liked the previous post. (That like was on the OP rather than my reblog, but I saw it anyway because I was looking at the notes.)

Every time you, a person named Somni, like one of my kink posts, I start wondering about nominative determinism. (Although with a chosen name, even if there is causality it might go the other direction.)

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tfw you want to write about why you put your writing out there, but you’re afraid to put that out there

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