I discovered the following things last weekend:
1. I enjoy a little light bondage.
2. I'm getting used to/into giving the whole impact thing.
3. I am too ticklish for my own good. (Georgie is jealous of my insane sensitivity.)
4. As I suspected, I am really into being blindfolded.
Now I'm going to list some quotes from the last Spiral/Eve/Georgie threesome out of context:
Georgie: Yeah, you just walked in on a total dyke scene.
Eve: SIDEWAYS. Not upwards.
Spiral: "Is it OK if we do, like, affectionate shit?"
Georgie: ...did I seriously say that?
Eve: ...OOOOOOOHHHHHH, that was a racial slur!
Georgie: I feel like a mechanical bull. With tits.
Eve: My nipples. Population: Spiral.
Georgie: I'm not hearing any name calling!
Yeah...it was a blast. :)
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Threesome, Pheromones, and Velociraptors
SO, as I alluded to at the end of my demo report - after the demo, Georgie, Eve, and I headed back to Georgie's place for some further fun, which resulted in my first multiple-person encounter of any kind.
I don't know that I'll be able to write very coherently or sexily about the whole thing, so I won't. I didn't get into my uber-cerebral topspace, so I didn't have the kind of attention to detail that I had during the other encounters I've blogged about. It was also a lot less linear than my other encounters...this was much less about doing a bunch of hypnosis scenes and more about having a whole lot of fun that happened to involve lying around with very little clothing. Hypnosis was not the focus of the fun throughout the night - rather, it was a way to facilitate a few choice scenes. I used it to heighten both Eve's and Georgie's sensitivity; I brought back Georgie's vulva-hands so that Eve and I could evenly divide the task of pleasuring her; we did a scene where the two of them felt everything that happened to the other; I used freeze triggers as a way to escape getting tickled; Georgie continued to absolutely love her submissive headspace (Eve tried it out, but, being a switch and a brat, didn't go as happy-go-subby as Georgie did). Otherwise? The whole night involved a ton of cuddling and cheery fun.
This kind of hazy and playful atmosphere is what led to "velociraptors." Georgie getting clever as she and I worked over Eve led to my complimenting her on her initiative - and Eve following up with a Jurassic Park "clever girl." It became our all-purpose silence-breaker.
Eve also introduced me to all-out brattiness. Georgie got very into her subbie-ness, but Eve playfully fought me at every turn. I had never played with a bratty sub/switch before - this was a lot of fun and a nice change. Eve being a switch was, itself, an awesome part of the whole dynamic - she and I would take turns domming Georgie around, or I would enlist Georgie to top Eve, or Eve and Georgie would gang up on me with tickles, or we would all just go nuts finding ways to make one another feel good.
There was a lot of experimentation all around - I got to try out spanking (hurt my hand getting up to Eve's pain tolerance), really got the hang of hair-pulling, got a tiny taste of getting topped. Georgie had a lot of fun taking advantage of my incredibly high sensitivity - whether through tickling or through shoulder massage (which led to my exclamation, "I feel like I'm having an orgasm in my back!"). I also tried dishing out verbal degradation - I didn't find it as unappealing as I thought I would, but I much preferred watching Eve do it to doing it myself.
Then there was the biggie from the night - at least to me, on an intellectual level. As mentioned in the demo report, Georgie has an aversion to cissexual men that she credits to some kind of pheromone/chemical reaction. [Interesting note: she said that she doesn't count me as cissexual. I take that as a compliment!] Say what you will about whether it actually is pheromones or whatever, that's not terribly relevant. Anyway, at some point in the evening, Georgie said that she wished she didn't have that reaction so that she could cuddle with me. The two of us had the same brainwave at the same time, which she voiced: "You could use hypnosis...!" So I gave her the suggestion that my scent/pheromones/presence would not affect her adversely, that she would regard me as a woman on that chemical level. "You smell like estrogen!" she squealed as she got close. At her request, I let this suggestion stick at the end of the night.
I keep thinking that there has to be some kind of ethical ramification to using hypnosis to become the exception to somebody's sexual orientation. She found me appealing on an aesthetic/intellectual level already; the only intent of this suggestion was to make physical contact comfortable for her. And it absolutely would not work if she didn't want it to work. Still...well, I don't know. I feel that Georgie and I have strong rapport and good communication, so I think I'm on solid ethical ground here. Maybe I've just read too many stories on the EMCSA about innocuous suggestions turning disastrous.
Overall - very enjoyable night. We all had a great time and agreed to do it again. Next time, Eve's going to tie me up...oh dear.
I don't know that I'll be able to write very coherently or sexily about the whole thing, so I won't. I didn't get into my uber-cerebral topspace, so I didn't have the kind of attention to detail that I had during the other encounters I've blogged about. It was also a lot less linear than my other encounters...this was much less about doing a bunch of hypnosis scenes and more about having a whole lot of fun that happened to involve lying around with very little clothing. Hypnosis was not the focus of the fun throughout the night - rather, it was a way to facilitate a few choice scenes. I used it to heighten both Eve's and Georgie's sensitivity; I brought back Georgie's vulva-hands so that Eve and I could evenly divide the task of pleasuring her; we did a scene where the two of them felt everything that happened to the other; I used freeze triggers as a way to escape getting tickled; Georgie continued to absolutely love her submissive headspace (Eve tried it out, but, being a switch and a brat, didn't go as happy-go-subby as Georgie did). Otherwise? The whole night involved a ton of cuddling and cheery fun.
This kind of hazy and playful atmosphere is what led to "velociraptors." Georgie getting clever as she and I worked over Eve led to my complimenting her on her initiative - and Eve following up with a Jurassic Park "clever girl." It became our all-purpose silence-breaker.
Eve also introduced me to all-out brattiness. Georgie got very into her subbie-ness, but Eve playfully fought me at every turn. I had never played with a bratty sub/switch before - this was a lot of fun and a nice change. Eve being a switch was, itself, an awesome part of the whole dynamic - she and I would take turns domming Georgie around, or I would enlist Georgie to top Eve, or Eve and Georgie would gang up on me with tickles, or we would all just go nuts finding ways to make one another feel good.
There was a lot of experimentation all around - I got to try out spanking (hurt my hand getting up to Eve's pain tolerance), really got the hang of hair-pulling, got a tiny taste of getting topped. Georgie had a lot of fun taking advantage of my incredibly high sensitivity - whether through tickling or through shoulder massage (which led to my exclamation, "I feel like I'm having an orgasm in my back!"). I also tried dishing out verbal degradation - I didn't find it as unappealing as I thought I would, but I much preferred watching Eve do it to doing it myself.
Then there was the biggie from the night - at least to me, on an intellectual level. As mentioned in the demo report, Georgie has an aversion to cissexual men that she credits to some kind of pheromone/chemical reaction. [Interesting note: she said that she doesn't count me as cissexual. I take that as a compliment!] Say what you will about whether it actually is pheromones or whatever, that's not terribly relevant. Anyway, at some point in the evening, Georgie said that she wished she didn't have that reaction so that she could cuddle with me. The two of us had the same brainwave at the same time, which she voiced: "You could use hypnosis...!" So I gave her the suggestion that my scent/pheromones/presence would not affect her adversely, that she would regard me as a woman on that chemical level. "You smell like estrogen!" she squealed as she got close. At her request, I let this suggestion stick at the end of the night.
I keep thinking that there has to be some kind of ethical ramification to using hypnosis to become the exception to somebody's sexual orientation. She found me appealing on an aesthetic/intellectual level already; the only intent of this suggestion was to make physical contact comfortable for her. And it absolutely would not work if she didn't want it to work. Still...well, I don't know. I feel that Georgie and I have strong rapport and good communication, so I think I'm on solid ethical ground here. Maybe I've just read too many stories on the EMCSA about innocuous suggestions turning disastrous.
Overall - very enjoyable night. We all had a great time and agreed to do it again. Next time, Eve's going to tie me up...oh dear.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Hypnosis Demo = Epic Succeed
...well, maybe not epic succeed, but definitely a good time, and I like using that phrase.
As is, Pet Ferret chose to back out of the demonstration - after considering it, she decided that she just wasn't ready to open up to strangers that way. Things got more complicated when Georgie had to mangle her schedule to get to the demo on time. So, no two-person scenes happened at the demonstration, although a lot of cool things did.
The turnout for the demo was predominantly women, which I find fascinating from a gender-theorist perspective. Hypnotism in general (not just the fetish) is often gendered as a feminine area (whether it's the sexy assistant brought up to be hypnotized on stage, the damsel in distress controlled by the evil villain, or the enchanting hypnotic seductress). It was intriguing to see that reflected in the attendance.
I started the demonstration with a lecture on what hypnosis is, trying to address all of the common misconceptions while providing realistic expectations of what is and is not possible with it. I also tried to address as many safety and ethics issues as possible (I skipped some in my nervousness, which bugs me still - at least they got addressed in the handout that all of the attendees received). I felt that I did a great job in being personable and knowledgeable, in answering questions and not letting my penchant for tangents get the better of me too often.
I brought Georgie up for the demonstration. She had given me permission to use more physical contact during the demo - so I cuddled up with the intention of adding to her relaxation during the reinduction process. I used the pocket watch here for dramatic effect - she described the process to me afterward by saying that she felt performance anxiety going under in front of an audience, but ultimately decided, fuck it, and relaxed for me. Unfortunately, she had some trouble getting quite as relaxed as she had last time - after I brought her back up, she stated that my proximity distracted her because she had an aversion to the smell of cissexual men (even clean and nice ones like myself!). That got a nice laugh out of the audience, at least! I rolled with it, moving myself away to allow her greater comfort.
I moved the demo into a demonstration of triggers, first freezing and posing her for the audience before putting her back under. The next routine was inspired by this blog post, as per Georgie's request - both of her hands were turned into proxies for her vulva et al. I brought up a mutual friend, Eve, to help me work her over - this got a laugh as she told Eve to go harder and then doubled over in pleasure. After finishing, she clapped her hands together - only to get a jolt, since the suggestion was in effect until she went back under. I resisted the horrible urge to make a "self-tribadism" joke, on the grounds that probably nobody would have gotten it.
I finished off Georgie's part of the demonstration by repeating the same bondage + orgasm scene described in the two posts about her trial session. I'm told that some of the onlookers had very amusing reactions to this, but I sadly did not notice because I was way into my hypnotist's trance.
Next, I brought up Pandora, who volunteered to be hypnotized without prior preparation. The two of us had met up and chatted a few days prior, and had discussed ideas for the demo over Fetlife. She's a LARPer, had done meditation, and enjoyed being a sub - so, as I told her, there was no chance in hell she would not go under well. I was right. >:) I put her under with the Elman Induction, helpfully pointing out the steps to the audience along the way.
Since she had that LARP and acting experience, I decided to differentiate her section from Georgie's by focusing on role play suggestions. I first turned her into a kitty, and she gave some very nice purrs as I petted her, scratched her neck, tickled her chin. Next, she became a bimbo - her friends in the audience stared wide-eyed as she started twirling her hair and staring vapidly. She didn't get too into the role, though - as we discussed in front of the audience when I brought her out. She commented that the role just wasn't comfortable, and I took the moment to note that playing to a hypntoee's preferences will always result in a better scene - and playing against them will be unsatisfactory for all involved, to say the least.
[Honestly? I'm not even INTO the whole bimbo thing. I just thought it would be cool to demonstrate a role play suggestion, and I happened to be familiar with that one since it's so popular in the hypno-community. She was cool with it in theory, even if she found it not-so-appealing to try.]
I finished Pandora's section off with another orgasm demonstration, since she really wanted to have one. I tried giving her the same type of suggestions as Georgie, only to find that she didn't respond to the idea of increasing sensitivity at all. So, I switched gears and gave her the suggestion that she would instead focus on a memory of a truly outstanding orgasm, savor the memory and bring those sensations right into the present once I tapped her on the forehead. Indeed, she began shifting and breathing heavily as I focused on building up her arousal (as opposed to her sensitivity), and then, as she nodded that she was ready, tapped her forehead and brought her to climax.
I continued answering audience questions for a while then, addressing some very cool discussion about different methods of trancing, different possibilities for play, and other bits of info about the whole hypnotism process.
I finished things up with a demonstration of instant inductions. ...at least, that was the plan. I brought Eve up for another cold induction, and proceeded to epically fail at doing a handshake induction. Twice. Then I tried to give her a butterfly hand induction, but she didn't go under - she did feel something, though, as if she was about to go under and then snapped awake. I commented that my nervousness probably got in the way of my timing, and that instant inductions were never my forte to begin with (they're useful now and then, but I find a slow, gradual induction both more rewarding and more effective on most occasions).
Mercifully, my goof was not recorded on the video of the demonstration. I think I would die of embarrassment if I had to watch that again when playing the video back for my friends.
I had a blast afterward, making small talk with all of the different people who came - with the previous back-up demonstration subject who found that she was able to come at the last minute, with the submissive of one of my pen pals from the community, with someone I recognized from a non-kinky context, with someone I had seen around at the munches and never got to talk to, with Pandora's boyfriend to muse on how her personal quirks affected her going under. I very much played the social moth, flitting from one conversation to the next depending on how fun it looked to join in - I do that sometimes. Like I said - a blast.
All in all - I think I did a pretty decent job. Not a great job, but a decent one! I'm proud of it, especially since I'm quite a bit younger than most of the people who come in to do presentations for the group.
Once the event was over, Georgie, Eve, and I headed back to Georgie's place for some additional fun...at least some of which will be the subject of a future blog post. :)
As is, Pet Ferret chose to back out of the demonstration - after considering it, she decided that she just wasn't ready to open up to strangers that way. Things got more complicated when Georgie had to mangle her schedule to get to the demo on time. So, no two-person scenes happened at the demonstration, although a lot of cool things did.
The turnout for the demo was predominantly women, which I find fascinating from a gender-theorist perspective. Hypnotism in general (not just the fetish) is often gendered as a feminine area (whether it's the sexy assistant brought up to be hypnotized on stage, the damsel in distress controlled by the evil villain, or the enchanting hypnotic seductress). It was intriguing to see that reflected in the attendance.
I started the demonstration with a lecture on what hypnosis is, trying to address all of the common misconceptions while providing realistic expectations of what is and is not possible with it. I also tried to address as many safety and ethics issues as possible (I skipped some in my nervousness, which bugs me still - at least they got addressed in the handout that all of the attendees received). I felt that I did a great job in being personable and knowledgeable, in answering questions and not letting my penchant for tangents get the better of me too often.
I brought Georgie up for the demonstration. She had given me permission to use more physical contact during the demo - so I cuddled up with the intention of adding to her relaxation during the reinduction process. I used the pocket watch here for dramatic effect - she described the process to me afterward by saying that she felt performance anxiety going under in front of an audience, but ultimately decided, fuck it, and relaxed for me. Unfortunately, she had some trouble getting quite as relaxed as she had last time - after I brought her back up, she stated that my proximity distracted her because she had an aversion to the smell of cissexual men (even clean and nice ones like myself!). That got a nice laugh out of the audience, at least! I rolled with it, moving myself away to allow her greater comfort.
I moved the demo into a demonstration of triggers, first freezing and posing her for the audience before putting her back under. The next routine was inspired by this blog post, as per Georgie's request - both of her hands were turned into proxies for her vulva et al. I brought up a mutual friend, Eve, to help me work her over - this got a laugh as she told Eve to go harder and then doubled over in pleasure. After finishing, she clapped her hands together - only to get a jolt, since the suggestion was in effect until she went back under. I resisted the horrible urge to make a "self-tribadism" joke, on the grounds that probably nobody would have gotten it.
I finished off Georgie's part of the demonstration by repeating the same bondage + orgasm scene described in the two posts about her trial session. I'm told that some of the onlookers had very amusing reactions to this, but I sadly did not notice because I was way into my hypnotist's trance.
Next, I brought up Pandora, who volunteered to be hypnotized without prior preparation. The two of us had met up and chatted a few days prior, and had discussed ideas for the demo over Fetlife. She's a LARPer, had done meditation, and enjoyed being a sub - so, as I told her, there was no chance in hell she would not go under well. I was right. >:) I put her under with the Elman Induction, helpfully pointing out the steps to the audience along the way.
Since she had that LARP and acting experience, I decided to differentiate her section from Georgie's by focusing on role play suggestions. I first turned her into a kitty, and she gave some very nice purrs as I petted her, scratched her neck, tickled her chin. Next, she became a bimbo - her friends in the audience stared wide-eyed as she started twirling her hair and staring vapidly. She didn't get too into the role, though - as we discussed in front of the audience when I brought her out. She commented that the role just wasn't comfortable, and I took the moment to note that playing to a hypntoee's preferences will always result in a better scene - and playing against them will be unsatisfactory for all involved, to say the least.
[Honestly? I'm not even INTO the whole bimbo thing. I just thought it would be cool to demonstrate a role play suggestion, and I happened to be familiar with that one since it's so popular in the hypno-community. She was cool with it in theory, even if she found it not-so-appealing to try.]
I finished Pandora's section off with another orgasm demonstration, since she really wanted to have one. I tried giving her the same type of suggestions as Georgie, only to find that she didn't respond to the idea of increasing sensitivity at all. So, I switched gears and gave her the suggestion that she would instead focus on a memory of a truly outstanding orgasm, savor the memory and bring those sensations right into the present once I tapped her on the forehead. Indeed, she began shifting and breathing heavily as I focused on building up her arousal (as opposed to her sensitivity), and then, as she nodded that she was ready, tapped her forehead and brought her to climax.
I continued answering audience questions for a while then, addressing some very cool discussion about different methods of trancing, different possibilities for play, and other bits of info about the whole hypnotism process.
I finished things up with a demonstration of instant inductions. ...at least, that was the plan. I brought Eve up for another cold induction, and proceeded to epically fail at doing a handshake induction. Twice. Then I tried to give her a butterfly hand induction, but she didn't go under - she did feel something, though, as if she was about to go under and then snapped awake. I commented that my nervousness probably got in the way of my timing, and that instant inductions were never my forte to begin with (they're useful now and then, but I find a slow, gradual induction both more rewarding and more effective on most occasions).
Mercifully, my goof was not recorded on the video of the demonstration. I think I would die of embarrassment if I had to watch that again when playing the video back for my friends.
I had a blast afterward, making small talk with all of the different people who came - with the previous back-up demonstration subject who found that she was able to come at the last minute, with the submissive of one of my pen pals from the community, with someone I recognized from a non-kinky context, with someone I had seen around at the munches and never got to talk to, with Pandora's boyfriend to muse on how her personal quirks affected her going under. I very much played the social moth, flitting from one conversation to the next depending on how fun it looked to join in - I do that sometimes. Like I said - a blast.
All in all - I think I did a pretty decent job. Not a great job, but a decent one! I'm proud of it, especially since I'm quite a bit younger than most of the people who come in to do presentations for the group.
Once the event was over, Georgie, Eve, and I headed back to Georgie's place for some additional fun...at least some of which will be the subject of a future blog post. :)
Sunday, February 6, 2011
My Writing Style on this Blog
After writing two posts in one night (posting three), I noticed a lot of things about my writing style that I felt I should comment on.
First, in following the tradition of Musings of a Hypnosub, I try to describe the scenes I do to make them hot and sexy for the reader. Certain things get emphasized over others in order to increase the hotness of certain things, some things are left more ambiguous because I don't feel comfortable sharing the details, etc.
Secondly, I realize that I dwell quite a bit on my own goofs. I'm not a fan of the image of the infallible hypnotist, and I also want my writing to model some things for young, starting hypno-doms (model the way I think through the ethics of any given scene, model the flexibility needed to adapt to suggestions that don't work as planned). I realize that I may be giving myself a little too much credit...but I hope that's balanced out by the fact that I'm willing to write honestly about how much I mess things up.
~Spiral (who will really seriously have to stop blogging so that actual work can get done)
First, in following the tradition of Musings of a Hypnosub, I try to describe the scenes I do to make them hot and sexy for the reader. Certain things get emphasized over others in order to increase the hotness of certain things, some things are left more ambiguous because I don't feel comfortable sharing the details, etc.
Secondly, I realize that I dwell quite a bit on my own goofs. I'm not a fan of the image of the infallible hypnotist, and I also want my writing to model some things for young, starting hypno-doms (model the way I think through the ethics of any given scene, model the flexibility needed to adapt to suggestions that don't work as planned). I realize that I may be giving myself a little too much credit...but I hope that's balanced out by the fact that I'm willing to write honestly about how much I mess things up.
~Spiral (who will really seriously have to stop blogging so that actual work can get done)
Volunteer 2: Georgie, Perspective Flip
Georgie posted her own account of our session on Fetlife, and gave me permission to cross-post it here:
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In preparation to be demonstrated upon at a Bloomington Kink event next Friday, Spiral_Turquoise gave me my first live hypnosis session, for which I can't thank him enough! This entry is just to record and relay the experience in partial detail. I know that Spiral_Turquoise will also post about this in his blog, so it will be interesting to read how our viewpoints diverge and converge. Since I am not completely familiar with all of the terminology used in hypnosis, I might occasionally mess up. Feel free to correct me, as I'd rather learn than continue saying the wrong things!
We met at my house and chatted for a bit about subjects kink and vanilla. I should also mention that I had one of my friends present in the room, since I had never met Spiral in person before. My friend was fascinated by the process in general, so he had fun keeping an eye on us while playing Mindcraft.
Spiral started off by trying to hypnotize me using a handshake, which only made me giggle. His explanation of why it works on people was fascinating though! Then he had me follow a pocket watch with my eyes, eventually leading to full body relaxation and me counting myself down into a deep trance. He used a quick awakener (12345 awake) and instructed me while under that I would go back under at the count of 54321. He tried this while I was standing up, and it didn't work. But when I sat back down (now in a much more comfortable chair), he did it again and I went under. He then demonstrated some rope-less bondage like having my hands stuck to the headrest of the chair (not comfortable at all, but they were stuck!) My reaction to each of these feats was "That was awesome!" He then demonstrated freezing, which was especially cool and surreal when he was posing my head and arms in different positions, like an adult-sized action figure.
The pièce de résistance, though, came in two parts. First Spiral put me into an extremely submissive headspace, and added to that feeling by having me forget my name and replacing it with a name of my choosing (pet was what I decided on). Then he woke me up but kept me in trance and in that headspace, and had me stand and kneel on command. When asked my name, I simply stated, "pet," and when asked if that had always been my name, I shook my head. When asked if I could remember what it used to be though, my given name seemed sort of like a wisp of smoke in my mind that I couldn't grasp. Very cool! He then had me imagine that my wrists were bound to the ceiling by a cable, and proceeded to build me to an amazing orgasm with no physical contact whatsoever. As I got closer and closer to climax, my head was actually sagging against my upright, rope-less bound arms, Thinking back on it now, I can still hardly believe it! I felt totally aware of everything, maybe even more aware in some ways, but there was absolutely no desire to not do whatever he was suggesting. The whole thing was a lot of fun, and we chatted afterwards about different possibilities for the demonstration on Friday. At least one other person has volunteered, so there might be some two person scenes, which I would find fascinating to experience.
Thanks again to Spiral_Turquoise for making this happen, and if you happen to be in Bloomington, it would be worth your while to stop by and see him in action!
Volunteer 2: Georgie
Georgie was the first person to reply to my request for a volunteer on Fetlife. She's fairly new to the kink scene, although she'd been to an event or two and knew her way around getting tied up.
She's also genderqueer (her words: "apathetic to gender") (she told me that female pronouns are OK, btw) and not into men. She also asked that she have a friend to watch her and make sure I didn't go any further than her limits - all good by me. That lack of attraction created a very different dynamic than I am used to. No cuddling during the deepening, and I restricted my own use of touching and contact to downplay/eliminate any sexual overtones of the process. This resulted in a strikingly different session from the one with Pet Ferret, who was not only more suggestible but also very attracted to me.
Also of interest: Georgie had already tried out some hypnosis MP3s beforehand. In the Fetlife PM exchange setting up our meeting, we commented on our separate experiences with Isabella Valentine's MP3s - she didn't like the theatricality of Isabella's presentation, and I had some of the same feeling (I more disliked the subtle conflation of submission with humiliation in the file I listened to). From this, she could tell me what worked well for her - direct commands rather than imagery, focus on bodily relaxation and modulation. In other words: my strengths as a hypnotist. Lucky!
The session with Pet Ferret, due to the sexual dynamics in place and Ferret's high susceptibility, was very much scene-scene-scene-negotiation-scene-scene-sexy times. Georgie's session was more stop-and-start, with a gradual working-up to each hypnotic suggestion.
So, the two of us met up and chatted a bunch about this and that, making all of the negotiation crystal clear. (This was very important to me because, as I stated before, she is not into cis men and I wanted to be absolutely clear about her limits.) The itinerary for the day was hypno bondage, freezing, maybe an orgasm, anything else to be negotiated as we went.
Euphoric after my handshake success with Ferret and hoping to play on pre-existing hypnosis knowledge, I asked Georgie if she had heard of handshake inductions. That was a no, which made the subsequent attempt really awkward. Making her aware of the fact that I was doing something unusual got her laughing when she felt the hand motions, so I took a break to explain what I was trying to do before moving on to a different approach.
I did my classic handy-dandy hands-stuck induction (with pocket watch as visual focus). This induction was one of the first I came across, and the one I used to put my first girlfriend under for the first time; the language I use is based on the heavy arm/light arm induction used in this story, the first piece of hypno-erotica I ever read. (Thank you, RC, for using painstakingly accurate induction techniques in your stories.) When I am in doubt, I go with this since I know my way around it so thoroughly. It has failed me exactly once, which was not with Georgie on this day.
After the induction, I led her through a feet-to-head progressive relaxation to deepen the trance, with particular focus on her breathing and her neck muscles. This led to a little bit of awkwardness since the couch she was sitting on was not really built for someone to lean back in. I then gave her the countdown-from-50 deepener; I had her do the counting while I continued on with a repetitive relaxation patter in the background. This worked, and she was clearly feeling very relaxed and calm by the end of it. I thought I'd move into one kind of hypnobondage by having her arms get really light; my intent was to have her arms rise upward and stay there, unable to be brought back down. However, while her arms moved with the jerky motion of someone in a deep trance, it looked to me that this wasn't the best way to go (the trajectory of her arms wasn't ideal for a bondage scene, the motion indicated that the "effortless" part wasn't quite in effect); I switched gears to make it a deepener, suggesting that her arms would fall back down and her whole body would relax even more once one of her hands touched her face.
I brought her back out, renegotiated where to go next, and she relocated to a nice, comfy chair in the room that let her sprawl out, relax, and prepare to be bound with her mind.
The ropeless bondage here was pretty simple stuff - arms up, hands stuck to the chair, feet stuck to the footrest. Due to that whole "no sexual contact" thing, I was unsure where to take the scene - asked if it was OK to tickle her, only to have her quite happily tell me (after I had started) that she wasn't ticklish. With a different subject, under a different dynamic, and in a different context, that would have merited a punishment. >:) But, since this was Georgie under this dynamic in this context, I put her back under, unbound her, relaxed her, and moved on to some freezing.
She liked this. I had her totally lock in place, unable to speak, when I said "Freeze, Georgie." She chose to be completely frozen, rather than able to speak like Ferret was. Her muscles remained relaxed despite being frozen - another sign of deep trance, and very cool. I always get a kick out of seeing different people's faces when they're frozen and mute. Most hypnotees' faces relax and go blank, staring straight ahead; a tiny, tiny percentage of people (including exactly one of my subs) will have frozen expressions on their faces, usually with their eyes going unfocused. Georgie's eyes kind of slid to the side and stayed there, which was interesting - more on this in a bit. Anyway, I put her in a few model-ish poses, but she was overcome with the giggles when I moved her to a sleepwalker/zombie pose; so I unfroze her and asked what she thought.
"That felt really cool!" She and I chatted a bit about the appeal of freezing to a kinky audience, as well as the way that subs who like being gagged always choose to be unable to speak while frozen. I froze her again after she enthused about the feeling, then we just kind of talked for a while about this and that (the discussion of audience led to some rich tangents).
Somewhere in that discussion, I recalled the time that I made an ex of mine forget a number. The chaperone then insisted that I have Georgie forget the number 4 (coincidentally the same number said ex forgot - the chaperone and I probably had the same thought process on it).
Having covered the big two phenomena I want to showcase at the demo, I asked if there was anything else she would like to experience. When asked for some ideas, I offered the idea of an extra-submissive headspace in addition to some amnesia. She was intrigued. So, in keeping with the style of suggestion I had been using (gradual, less overtly dominant, less overtly sexual), I gradually had her thoughts fall asleep, to be replaced in her head with my voice. Once that happened, I had her imagine all of her control, all of the stress and tension that comes from having control, getting sucked into my pocket watch, leaving her awash in a feeling of deep, powerful submissiveness. As I described waves of submission washing over her, I gave her the suggestion that she could not remember her name, that it would be replaced by her preferred submissive epithet ("pet," in this case).
I woke Georgie up in this submissive headspace - different from how I had done it with anyone else. Like when she was frozen, her eyes drifted to the side, becoming slightly downcast. I asked her if this avoidance of eye contact came naturally to her in this state, and she said she guessed so.
"What is your name?"
"Pet..."
"Has that always been your name?"
"No..."
"Can you remember what your name was before?"
"...almost!..."
"And now you feel it slipping away the more you try to remember it, feeling your name slip away more and more as you feel those waves of submissiveness wash over you, wash over your mind and being..."
After bringing her back to her full senses and determining that she really enjoyed that, we agreed to go for the hypnotic orgasm. I brought her back down into trance, established that she could use the classic "green/yellow/red" safewords during this scene, and asked her for some of her favorite sensations. In this case, being bound at the wrists. So, I stuck her wrists together and then suggested that they were tied to the ceiling by a very strong cable. Unlike many of the hypnobondage recipients I've tranced, she struggled a lot against the rope and seemed to really feel it and move her body to the best position possible to enjoy what came next.
Since we had agreed on no contact for this scene, I had Georgie open her eyes and watch the watch again, suggesting that as she watched the watch she felt fingers working her clit. When asked for feedback, she described the feeling as a "light buzzing"...I proceeded to suggest that it got stronger the more she looked at the watch. This didn't seem to work well, so, improvising time! The more she watched the watch, the heavier her eyelids felt, and the stronger the buzzing felt - until it doubled in intensity once her eyes closed. Her eyes melted shut, and she reacted quite visibly. Still bound by her own mind, starting to breathe heavily with arousal and sensation, I then suggested that the buzzing would double in intensity every time I snapped my fingers.
*snap*
"Feeling it more and more, feeling it building surely but steadily to a powerful orgasm..."
*snap*
*snap*
*snap*
This went on for quite a while, a gradual, sensual buildup that left her shaking, struggling against the mental bonds, subtly bucking her hips, until, as suggested, Georgie rasped out the word "ready" to indicate that she was ready to come. 5...4...3...2...1...ORGASM. Watching her savor the orgasm and start to feel the afterglow, I suggested that she could ride out the orgasm as long as she wanted, bask in the afterglow and the feeling of submissiveness and the relaxation of trance as long as she wanted, and that she would count herself back up to full wakefulness when she was ready. After a few moments of basking, she did just that, and woke up to say, "THAT was FUCKING FUN!"
We had a fun conversation at this point about how she didn't believe hypnotic orgasms were possible when she saw them advertised by Isabella Valentine, and my personal theory that certain hypno-fetish porn sites (if they use real hypnosis) probably suggest to the models that they will fake orgasms rather than have orgasms upon a trigger.
So, all of this over, we had a closing friendly chat and then both headed off to our separate obligations.
Her Fetlife status afterward:
"Wow! Didn't think anyone could have an orgasm from only hypnosis, but Spiral_Turquoise proved me wrong!"
All in all, a very interesting, very cerebral trance session where the extra work that I put into some suggestions paid off big time. Sessions like this - no sexual contact contact, doing slow buildups and more subtle submissive feelings instead of straight mindlessness - are a fascinating contrast to the kind of hot, passionate encounter that I had with Pet Ferret. Still thoroughly enjoyable, in a different way that is also deeply rewarding.
As is, both Georgie and Pet Ferret are alright with the idea of having some two-person scenes during the demo. This isn't something I expected to do, so I'm going to have to rework my idea of how this whole thing will go down to work in all the new possibilities here.
Chances are my next post will be the report from the demo. :D
She's also genderqueer (her words: "apathetic to gender") (she told me that female pronouns are OK, btw) and not into men. She also asked that she have a friend to watch her and make sure I didn't go any further than her limits - all good by me. That lack of attraction created a very different dynamic than I am used to. No cuddling during the deepening, and I restricted my own use of touching and contact to downplay/eliminate any sexual overtones of the process. This resulted in a strikingly different session from the one with Pet Ferret, who was not only more suggestible but also very attracted to me.
Also of interest: Georgie had already tried out some hypnosis MP3s beforehand. In the Fetlife PM exchange setting up our meeting, we commented on our separate experiences with Isabella Valentine's MP3s - she didn't like the theatricality of Isabella's presentation, and I had some of the same feeling (I more disliked the subtle conflation of submission with humiliation in the file I listened to). From this, she could tell me what worked well for her - direct commands rather than imagery, focus on bodily relaxation and modulation. In other words: my strengths as a hypnotist. Lucky!
The session with Pet Ferret, due to the sexual dynamics in place and Ferret's high susceptibility, was very much scene-scene-scene-negotiation-scene-scene-sexy times. Georgie's session was more stop-and-start, with a gradual working-up to each hypnotic suggestion.
So, the two of us met up and chatted a bunch about this and that, making all of the negotiation crystal clear. (This was very important to me because, as I stated before, she is not into cis men and I wanted to be absolutely clear about her limits.) The itinerary for the day was hypno bondage, freezing, maybe an orgasm, anything else to be negotiated as we went.
Euphoric after my handshake success with Ferret and hoping to play on pre-existing hypnosis knowledge, I asked Georgie if she had heard of handshake inductions. That was a no, which made the subsequent attempt really awkward. Making her aware of the fact that I was doing something unusual got her laughing when she felt the hand motions, so I took a break to explain what I was trying to do before moving on to a different approach.
I did my classic handy-dandy hands-stuck induction (with pocket watch as visual focus). This induction was one of the first I came across, and the one I used to put my first girlfriend under for the first time; the language I use is based on the heavy arm/light arm induction used in this story, the first piece of hypno-erotica I ever read. (Thank you, RC, for using painstakingly accurate induction techniques in your stories.) When I am in doubt, I go with this since I know my way around it so thoroughly. It has failed me exactly once, which was not with Georgie on this day.
After the induction, I led her through a feet-to-head progressive relaxation to deepen the trance, with particular focus on her breathing and her neck muscles. This led to a little bit of awkwardness since the couch she was sitting on was not really built for someone to lean back in. I then gave her the countdown-from-50 deepener; I had her do the counting while I continued on with a repetitive relaxation patter in the background. This worked, and she was clearly feeling very relaxed and calm by the end of it. I thought I'd move into one kind of hypnobondage by having her arms get really light; my intent was to have her arms rise upward and stay there, unable to be brought back down. However, while her arms moved with the jerky motion of someone in a deep trance, it looked to me that this wasn't the best way to go (the trajectory of her arms wasn't ideal for a bondage scene, the motion indicated that the "effortless" part wasn't quite in effect); I switched gears to make it a deepener, suggesting that her arms would fall back down and her whole body would relax even more once one of her hands touched her face.
I brought her back out, renegotiated where to go next, and she relocated to a nice, comfy chair in the room that let her sprawl out, relax, and prepare to be bound with her mind.
The ropeless bondage here was pretty simple stuff - arms up, hands stuck to the chair, feet stuck to the footrest. Due to that whole "no sexual contact" thing, I was unsure where to take the scene - asked if it was OK to tickle her, only to have her quite happily tell me (after I had started) that she wasn't ticklish. With a different subject, under a different dynamic, and in a different context, that would have merited a punishment. >:) But, since this was Georgie under this dynamic in this context, I put her back under, unbound her, relaxed her, and moved on to some freezing.
She liked this. I had her totally lock in place, unable to speak, when I said "Freeze, Georgie." She chose to be completely frozen, rather than able to speak like Ferret was. Her muscles remained relaxed despite being frozen - another sign of deep trance, and very cool. I always get a kick out of seeing different people's faces when they're frozen and mute. Most hypnotees' faces relax and go blank, staring straight ahead; a tiny, tiny percentage of people (including exactly one of my subs) will have frozen expressions on their faces, usually with their eyes going unfocused. Georgie's eyes kind of slid to the side and stayed there, which was interesting - more on this in a bit. Anyway, I put her in a few model-ish poses, but she was overcome with the giggles when I moved her to a sleepwalker/zombie pose; so I unfroze her and asked what she thought.
"That felt really cool!" She and I chatted a bit about the appeal of freezing to a kinky audience, as well as the way that subs who like being gagged always choose to be unable to speak while frozen. I froze her again after she enthused about the feeling, then we just kind of talked for a while about this and that (the discussion of audience led to some rich tangents).
Somewhere in that discussion, I recalled the time that I made an ex of mine forget a number. The chaperone then insisted that I have Georgie forget the number 4 (coincidentally the same number said ex forgot - the chaperone and I probably had the same thought process on it).
Having covered the big two phenomena I want to showcase at the demo, I asked if there was anything else she would like to experience. When asked for some ideas, I offered the idea of an extra-submissive headspace in addition to some amnesia. She was intrigued. So, in keeping with the style of suggestion I had been using (gradual, less overtly dominant, less overtly sexual), I gradually had her thoughts fall asleep, to be replaced in her head with my voice. Once that happened, I had her imagine all of her control, all of the stress and tension that comes from having control, getting sucked into my pocket watch, leaving her awash in a feeling of deep, powerful submissiveness. As I described waves of submission washing over her, I gave her the suggestion that she could not remember her name, that it would be replaced by her preferred submissive epithet ("pet," in this case).
I woke Georgie up in this submissive headspace - different from how I had done it with anyone else. Like when she was frozen, her eyes drifted to the side, becoming slightly downcast. I asked her if this avoidance of eye contact came naturally to her in this state, and she said she guessed so.
"What is your name?"
"Pet..."
"Has that always been your name?"
"No..."
"Can you remember what your name was before?"
"...almost!..."
"And now you feel it slipping away the more you try to remember it, feeling your name slip away more and more as you feel those waves of submissiveness wash over you, wash over your mind and being..."
After bringing her back to her full senses and determining that she really enjoyed that, we agreed to go for the hypnotic orgasm. I brought her back down into trance, established that she could use the classic "green/yellow/red" safewords during this scene, and asked her for some of her favorite sensations. In this case, being bound at the wrists. So, I stuck her wrists together and then suggested that they were tied to the ceiling by a very strong cable. Unlike many of the hypnobondage recipients I've tranced, she struggled a lot against the rope and seemed to really feel it and move her body to the best position possible to enjoy what came next.
Since we had agreed on no contact for this scene, I had Georgie open her eyes and watch the watch again, suggesting that as she watched the watch she felt fingers working her clit. When asked for feedback, she described the feeling as a "light buzzing"...I proceeded to suggest that it got stronger the more she looked at the watch. This didn't seem to work well, so, improvising time! The more she watched the watch, the heavier her eyelids felt, and the stronger the buzzing felt - until it doubled in intensity once her eyes closed. Her eyes melted shut, and she reacted quite visibly. Still bound by her own mind, starting to breathe heavily with arousal and sensation, I then suggested that the buzzing would double in intensity every time I snapped my fingers.
*snap*
"Feeling it more and more, feeling it building surely but steadily to a powerful orgasm..."
*snap*
*snap*
*snap*
This went on for quite a while, a gradual, sensual buildup that left her shaking, struggling against the mental bonds, subtly bucking her hips, until, as suggested, Georgie rasped out the word "ready" to indicate that she was ready to come. 5...4...3...2...1...ORGASM. Watching her savor the orgasm and start to feel the afterglow, I suggested that she could ride out the orgasm as long as she wanted, bask in the afterglow and the feeling of submissiveness and the relaxation of trance as long as she wanted, and that she would count herself back up to full wakefulness when she was ready. After a few moments of basking, she did just that, and woke up to say, "THAT was FUCKING FUN!"
We had a fun conversation at this point about how she didn't believe hypnotic orgasms were possible when she saw them advertised by Isabella Valentine, and my personal theory that certain hypno-fetish porn sites (if they use real hypnosis) probably suggest to the models that they will fake orgasms rather than have orgasms upon a trigger.
So, all of this over, we had a closing friendly chat and then both headed off to our separate obligations.
Her Fetlife status afterward:
"Wow! Didn't think anyone could have an orgasm from only hypnosis, but Spiral_Turquoise proved me wrong!"
All in all, a very interesting, very cerebral trance session where the extra work that I put into some suggestions paid off big time. Sessions like this - no sexual contact contact, doing slow buildups and more subtle submissive feelings instead of straight mindlessness - are a fascinating contrast to the kind of hot, passionate encounter that I had with Pet Ferret. Still thoroughly enjoyable, in a different way that is also deeply rewarding.
As is, both Georgie and Pet Ferret are alright with the idea of having some two-person scenes during the demo. This isn't something I expected to do, so I'm going to have to rework my idea of how this whole thing will go down to work in all the new possibilities here.
Chances are my next post will be the report from the demo. :D
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Volunteer 1: Pet Ferret
So, I'm going to be running a workshop on erotic hypnotism for Bloomington Kink. And it's going to be awesome.
Initially, I was very worried about the workshop, because my originally planned sub had to back out of it due to scheduling issues. Being very excited to do it, I had high expectations for myself that I wanted to live up to. Furthermore, I felt a little performance anxiety when I saw the positive responses the event got on Fetlife - including a message asking me to come to Indianapolis to do another demo there! I was most flattered, but also felt a bit pressured.
Two weeks until the event (the day that the group president posted the event on Fetlife and the website), I still had nobody to present with...so, I had to rely on asking for volunteers in the Fetlife thread. I ended up getting two responses to that post. Before that, I mentioned my dilemma to a trustworthy and kinky friend who was not part of the group yet - and thus I picked up three volunteers. As of today, I have tranced two of them - the third I will hopefully meet with prior to the demo, but will not hypnotize until then (so that I have at least one demonstration of a relatively cold induction).
WELL, here goes for the sexy details. This post will be concerned with my first hypnotee, Pet Ferret - next one will be about today's volunteer, Georgie.
Pet Ferret
So the first of my two volunteers this week was Pet Ferret. She and I had bonded over D&D worldbuilding, Adventure Time quoting, and all purpose nerdiness. As she was quite clearly up for a lot of lewd joking, I had already mentioned the fact that I am quite a kinky bastard, so I felt OK elaborating upon that. Thus: some hypnosis happened.
I had no clear gauge of Ferret's suggestibility, although the fully immersed role playing that she did as a dungeonmaster indicated that she had a lot of potential. After this session, I had no doubt that she would be a fantastic demonstration subject. The move from "friends" to "friends who are also kinky sexual partners" also worked out rather smoothly. :)
This was the second time I had ever used a handshake induction, the first time I had done it without putting the recipient under hypnosis previously. I was...kind of nervous about this, but I had her permission to trance her before I did it, and once I saw her face freeze up rather than say "What the hell are you doing with your hand there," I saw that the natural trance had taken, slipped my hand away, pulled her arm forward with a firm "SLEEP." This segued into a rather lengthy deepening sequence as she lay forward, head in my lap.
As per my usual, I woke her up after bringing her all the way down to check how she was doing, where she wanted to go, etc. Decided to start with some hypno-bondage. Specifically, ankles stuck to the bed, arms held fast to the headboard, and I brought my merciless fingers to the ready. >:D She was rather impressed by how securely she felt bound, and tested her invisible bonds a bit to no avail. I wish I had done a little more with this, because it was very hot. Will scene again.
Since she was just fine with submitting to me all the way, I triggered her back down, sat her up...and brought out the pocket watch. I had her imagine that the watch was like a puppet string, connected to her mind through her eyes as they locked on to it. (During the aftercare, I mentioned how I had a huge thing for using the word "puppet" in an erotic context like this. This exchange followed: "ME TOO!" "...did you just discover this today?" "YES!" Fuck yes, i love giving people new fetishes.)
So, deepening achieved, I had her wake up as a mannequin (able to speak) without remembering when she stood up. There went her shirt as I stripped it off like doll clothes...
[Oddly, while I had given her the suggestion that her conscious mind would go to sleep, and while this showed that she was capable of amnesia, my deliberately vaguely worded amnesia suggestion ("you may not remember how you got into this position" - yay for verbal tricks I've picked up from the community) didn't cause her to forget much more than the exact movement described.]
...and right back into trance. This time, having her kneel in front of me, I gave her her first mantra to repeat and believe - "I am a submissive and obedient pet." It sunk in after about two repetitions [meaning that hell yes she was ready to get into this role], after which I brought her back awake. At this point, she let out a very satisfied squee.
Having increased her submissiveness, I then turned her into a robot. It had been -ages- since I had done this; the state as I like it is a turn-off for a lot of people, so I respect that by leaving it out. Ferret, though, enjoyed it - more as something fun than something hot, but still enjoyed it. One robotic command later, and she was sans a bra; at which point I turned her nipples into speech buttons. [Left nipple: "I must obey." Right nipple: "I am a mindless robot." Going back and forth, sticking to one or the other several times in a row...yummy.]
After that, it was about time for the both of us to get naked (first time I'd been nude in front of someone in a sexual context!). Then she got to be a hypno-kitty, and she purred in my lap as I scratched the back of her neck. A very AFFECTIONATE kitty, I should note, as I got a few sexily surprising licks around my stomach during this...
Next up was a hypnotic orgasm, having Ferret remember the buildup from past masturbation, bringing her right up to the edge of orgasm until she begged me to let her come, gave her the suggestion that she would orgasm hard as soon as I kissed her on the lips...
...and then, as my lips touched hers, she pushed passionately back as she came in my arms, writhing and moaning and still kissing back with desire and arousal.
There was some more trancing, but it got a little more vanilla after that, which segued into the cuddling and aftercare. We both had quite a sense of humor about the whole lying-around-naked thing, which was nice for breaking the ice - plenty of giggles to let out the nervousness.
I asked her afterward to rate the different hypnotic phenomena she tried on a scale of 0-5 (0 being a dead turnoff, 5 being out-of-this-world hot):
-Hypno-bondage: 5
-Frozen, posed, stripped: 4
-"Submissive, obedient pet" mantra: 5
-Turned into a robot: 3
-Turned into a kitten: 3 [She described both transformations as "more fun than hot"]
-Nipples as robot's speech buttons: 2 [She said it just made her nervous that she'd mix them up. She actually got them right 100% of the time, but with that in mind I probably won't do a similar suggestion in the future.]
-Orgasm by suggestion: 20
Before writing this post, I IMed her to ask for permission, and then thought to ask:
{Spiral Turquoise}: at the end, when I "boxed up" your horniness - did that come back later in the evening for you? ^^
{Pet Ferret}: yes, good lord yes it did.
And she now has both a trance trigger and a non-orgasm pleasure trigger.
She also has a vibrator, some collars, and a leash at the ready for round two. I know I'm ready. :D
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