Demo Recap!

So! As I stated in my last post, I was invited to perform an erotic hypnosis lecture/demonstration for my local kink community. It was an absolute blast. :)

A few things were different this go-around. Neither of my demo-bottoms was comfortable demonstrating a hypnotic orgasm on stage (AKA the most iconic/popular erotic hypnosis trick); so I had to come up with other impressive things to show off (which I think worked out for the better, really!). And, while I had the better part of two hours to do my previous demo - I had about 45 minutes to an hour for this one. I stressed a lot about the small amount of time, but it was really not a problem at all - I was able to get a lot in, and the demonstration portion was particularly excellent!

Being short on time, I was sure to hit as many high points as I could. I went for more of an informational lecture for the most part. I covered the whole what-is-hypnosis spiel, did some myth-busting (it's handy that so many people ask me so many questions, I have a good sense of what people want to know and what they think they know).

I particularly tried to focus on things that hypnosis is notably good for - role play, binding people when you don't have rope on hand, freezing in place, enhancing sensitivity, sensations on command, feeling a loss of control...that sort of thing. I didn't get as many questions as last time, which is good, because at my last demo I went so far over time that it was ridiculous (but enjoyed and appreciated by that audience, though).

The demonstration part began with Lovely Petal. I froze her, and posed her amusingly. It's definitely handy to have a hypnotee who can freeze her facial expressions...it's a better convincer for the audience than almost anything else I could show. :) I also gave her a little bit of hypnobondage (rope is big in the community, so it seemed like the ideal thing to show off). Had her bound in an X-like position, and tickled her a little. And then I released her and she shook her arms and stamped her feet while smiling at me.

I then brought up someone that I had not worked with before - Calluna. Like the last demo, I felt that it was handy to demonstrate with someone who was new, both to "prove" the reality of what I did and to show the entire process in a genuine way complete with on-the-fly renegotiation and adjustments. She and I had negotiated beforehand, but that was about all the prep work I had done.

So I put Calluna under using the Elman induction, and she responded very well to the relaxation parts. I then did the suggestion she was most interested in: a little routine I've been calling my Three Pronged Hypno Beating. :) It consists of three post-hypnotic triggers: one for feeling a flogger across the back, one for feeling a hard spank, and one for feeling hot wax. For each of these sensations, I told Calluna that she would feel them exactly as she liked them - she would feel the wax in her favorite spots, she would feel the flogging exactly as she likes it, and she would feel the spanking at exactly her favorite intensity.

Well...Calluna is a switch. More to the point, she is a Sadist, and yes the capital S is intentional. So when I used the flogging trigger, she instead felt as though her shoulder was sore from flogging someone for an hour. XD As she put it later: switch problems!

The other two triggers worked great, though! She felt the wax on her feet (a few people in the audience oohed and said that they needed to try that), and the spanking trigger made her jump in her seat. After using both of those triggers, she curled up (after feeling the wax again), looked at me, and said, "I can hit you back for real, you know..."

After that, I checked that she was doing OK and comfortable with everything. Then I put her back under, cleared the triggers, and wrapped up my presentation.

There was a play party afterward - and I got some trancing done at that, too, although with other awesome people. That'll be in my next post!

I had a lot of people come up to me afterward to rave about it! Apparently I had good stage presence (I've had a LOT of public speaking practice). Some people even called it the best demo that they've seen in that space! I'm very flattered and thankful that people enjoyed it so much.