Showing posts with label ASFR. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Another Erotica Post
I've been thinking a lot about my favorite erotica lately, so I thought I'd do another round of these links-and-reviews to hypnosis and mind control stories!
Still all maledom m/f or f/f...which is evidence that I should broaden my horizons, I think.
As a bonus - most of these have some kind of personal connection to one of my partners, whether said partner gave me a new perspective on the story or it inspired a scene.
Just Can't Get Enough by Jukebox (f/f, realistic hypnosis)
My Mandatory Jukebox Story. Do I even need to elaborate on what a fantastic writer he is? Anyway, I like this story because it combines a portrayal of negotiation with extremely hot trance play and a really adorable sense of humor. It's also a rare but excellent example of hypnotist's trance being described, and in a sexy fashion at that! Also, some of the similes are really golden - Nine called my attention to them, and they are seriously cute and funny.
Mandy by RC (f/f, noncon, robot fetish, sci-fi)
And this is my Mandatory RC Story. This is the first FemMech story, and by far the best. Yeah, it's a non-con story, but the gradual robotizing is hot. I also like the twist about Mandy 2542 halfway through the story - it not only foreshadows where the story is going, it hints that the setting is bigger than this one story.
I had Sluggish Twitch read this one...and while reading it, she IMed me to let me know she was getting really hot and bothered, and planned to masturbate once she finished. So with her permission, I dropped her and gave her the suggestion that she would do that masturbation as a robot as soon as she finished the story...she adored it. :)
Raggedy Anne by thrall (f/f, noncon, doll fetish, fantasy, heavy objectification/dehumanization)
Y'know, this one (with the exception of a few scattered moments) is not even that hot to me. It works for me as a sort of erotic horror story. thrall hits the objectification/transformation/control kinks really well, and it did not surprise me to learn later that this was a very personal fantasy for her. She writes with such energy - all of her stories have this grandeur, for lack of a better word, to them. Every thrall story has this sense of overwhelming power - it's easy to get sucked into her descriptions of mindlessness, helplessness, and brainwashed obedience because of how passionately she writes. She describes these things with the same kind of power that Lovecraft wrote about otherworldly horrors - except that she provokes eroticism instead of terror. Well...maybe a little terror!
Bound to Please by Jay Petto (m/f, noncon, objectification, humiliation)
Now this one...well, Jay Petto's stories tend to all fit into a single niche (marionette fetish scenes, usually involving psychic powers). And that's a good niche, because nobody else is doing them! And they're pretty good! This one stands head and shoulders above the rest, in my estimation, because it has a sense of love and energy built into it that I find really enthralling.
This one gets a particular nod for inspiring some scenes with sleepingirl - it certainly suggested the puppet strings routine that I use frequently, and sleepingirl asked that I make my strings more like the ones in this story (IE, every use of them sends a surge of pleasure through her body). At any rate, there are a lot of little bits that are strikingly hot, for both dollification elements and humiliation elements.
The Chip by Darkmind (m/f, robot fetish, sci-fi, brief in-story simulation of non-consent)
Darkmind tends to write these dark morality tale stories about abusive mind control....and here he instead wrote a sci-fi scene story. As in, portraying the BDSM and mind control/robot fetishism...of the future! It's a really sweet story, and the scene is varied in a fun way. I like how the top readjusts after several ideas don't work -I enjoy that sense of fallibility and humanity, that a scene involves constantly reevaluating what's happening in order to get the result that both people want. It's left vague whether the specific missteps were negotiated beforehand; I'd like to imagine that they were idly mentioned in a conversation about the scene, and then simply didn't work out in practice. (What can I say, if I see a gap like that, I prefer to fill it in consent culture style.)
This story came to mind when Nine drew up a really fascinating scale of autonomy for mind controlled characters - since the bottom goes all over the scale over the course of the story. I may post this scale and my thoughts on it in the future!
Still all maledom m/f or f/f...which is evidence that I should broaden my horizons, I think.
As a bonus - most of these have some kind of personal connection to one of my partners, whether said partner gave me a new perspective on the story or it inspired a scene.
Just Can't Get Enough by Jukebox (f/f, realistic hypnosis)
My Mandatory Jukebox Story. Do I even need to elaborate on what a fantastic writer he is? Anyway, I like this story because it combines a portrayal of negotiation with extremely hot trance play and a really adorable sense of humor. It's also a rare but excellent example of hypnotist's trance being described, and in a sexy fashion at that! Also, some of the similes are really golden - Nine called my attention to them, and they are seriously cute and funny.
Mandy by RC (f/f, noncon, robot fetish, sci-fi)
And this is my Mandatory RC Story. This is the first FemMech story, and by far the best. Yeah, it's a non-con story, but the gradual robotizing is hot. I also like the twist about Mandy 2542 halfway through the story - it not only foreshadows where the story is going, it hints that the setting is bigger than this one story.
I had Sluggish Twitch read this one...and while reading it, she IMed me to let me know she was getting really hot and bothered, and planned to masturbate once she finished. So with her permission, I dropped her and gave her the suggestion that she would do that masturbation as a robot as soon as she finished the story...she adored it. :)
Raggedy Anne by thrall (f/f, noncon, doll fetish, fantasy, heavy objectification/dehumanization)
Y'know, this one (with the exception of a few scattered moments) is not even that hot to me. It works for me as a sort of erotic horror story. thrall hits the objectification/transformation/control kinks really well, and it did not surprise me to learn later that this was a very personal fantasy for her. She writes with such energy - all of her stories have this grandeur, for lack of a better word, to them. Every thrall story has this sense of overwhelming power - it's easy to get sucked into her descriptions of mindlessness, helplessness, and brainwashed obedience because of how passionately she writes. She describes these things with the same kind of power that Lovecraft wrote about otherworldly horrors - except that she provokes eroticism instead of terror. Well...maybe a little terror!
Bound to Please by Jay Petto (m/f, noncon, objectification, humiliation)
Now this one...well, Jay Petto's stories tend to all fit into a single niche (marionette fetish scenes, usually involving psychic powers). And that's a good niche, because nobody else is doing them! And they're pretty good! This one stands head and shoulders above the rest, in my estimation, because it has a sense of love and energy built into it that I find really enthralling.
This one gets a particular nod for inspiring some scenes with sleepingirl - it certainly suggested the puppet strings routine that I use frequently, and sleepingirl asked that I make my strings more like the ones in this story (IE, every use of them sends a surge of pleasure through her body). At any rate, there are a lot of little bits that are strikingly hot, for both dollification elements and humiliation elements.
The Chip by Darkmind (m/f, robot fetish, sci-fi, brief in-story simulation of non-consent)
Darkmind tends to write these dark morality tale stories about abusive mind control....and here he instead wrote a sci-fi scene story. As in, portraying the BDSM and mind control/robot fetishism...of the future! It's a really sweet story, and the scene is varied in a fun way. I like how the top readjusts after several ideas don't work -I enjoy that sense of fallibility and humanity, that a scene involves constantly reevaluating what's happening in order to get the result that both people want. It's left vague whether the specific missteps were negotiated beforehand; I'd like to imagine that they were idly mentioned in a conversation about the scene, and then simply didn't work out in practice. (What can I say, if I see a gap like that, I prefer to fill it in consent culture style.)
This story came to mind when Nine drew up a really fascinating scale of autonomy for mind controlled characters - since the bottom goes all over the scale over the course of the story. I may post this scale and my thoughts on it in the future!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Puppets, Dolls, and Robots
I thought it would be useful to make a post about this, since (in my time on hypno-fetish singles sites) this has been the single most common point of confusion among other hypno-fetishists.
(I also figure, if I post every time I feel like posting, it'll keep me in gear to make sure I don't have any other half-a-year-between-session-and-post situations.)
Of note, ASFR is the hypnosis stuff that I most enjoy as a subject/submissive. Being frozen, being called a puppet, being a robot: I like. If I'm hypnotizing somebody else, I still love it, but I also enjoy blank mind, limp body, and sensation/pleasure suggestions just as much.
So, here are my thoughts on the Big Three sub-fetishes of ASFR:
On "Puppet":
I LOVE the word "puppet." However, I don't find puppets particularly sexy. When I use the word in my fetish play, I'm not thinking about what a puppet is. I'm thinking about what the word "puppet" implies: a being completely under the control of somebody else. This can relate to hypnotized-to-be-a-marionette scenarios (like this one and around 4:09 in this video); however, while I enjoy those (ESPECIALLY being on the receiving end), they're not a very big Thing for me. And speaking of the receiving end, if I'm going to be a marionette, it has to be a human marionette, I don't really want to be hypnotized to feel like I'm made of wood or whatever.
(One of the reasons they're not a big Thing for me, it should be noted, is that it's difficult as hell to make them work in a satisfactory way. Either the hypnotist has to painstakingly describe every single movement of the "strings," or the subject has to be able to see every movement of the hypnotist's hands, or only two body parts can be moved at once, ARGH, it's more trouble than it's worth.)
So, to sum: it's the word, and its accompanying metaphorical concept, that I find sexy as hell.
On Dolls:
OK, doll fetish is a little different. I do occasionally go nuts for "doll" clothes (one of my Fet friends has a Raggedy Anne outfit; I'm a big fan, even though she uses it for age play instead of doll play) and doll makeup.
However, like "puppet," I primarily enjoy "doll" as a metaphorical concept. In this case, it implies not only a being under control, but a being that exists to be played with. "Puppet" implies this, too, I suppose, but I tend to use "doll" in a more playful sense.
This word also has some personal significance to me, because in my early days of hypno-playing, I found that the word resonated with many of my hypnosis play partners in an unexpected way. I started using it at first because I personally thought that "doll" described freezing-and-posing better than "mannequin" (which is more commonly used on hypno-porn sites) - I mean, most mannequins I see aren't very poseable, so "life-sized doll" always seemed like a better description when explaining the concept to a play partner.
I found, to my surprise, that this description seemed to awaken a new turn-on in several of my partners. Obviously, this is not the case with everybody, but it happened often enough that the word gained a strong positive association for me.
"Doll play," as a fetish, often has a distinct objectification element. I'm REALLY not sure if that's part of my own doll kink. When I use the word (and when it gets a positive reaction), my mind turns to the idea of a doll who actively enjoys being played with and posed. I like to see a subject's reactions to being posed. And I always give my hypnotee the choice of being able to speak or mute when they're frozen - I often enjoy having a conversation while posing somebody. But the idea of reducing a thinking, conscious person to a thoughtless object IS appealing to me, if only on a fantasy level (or on a "happening to me" level - my submissive fantasies tend to be less inhibited than my dominant fantasies). And I also enjoy frozen expressions and blank stares indicating mindlessness, which seems inherently dehumanizing. My doll scenes tend to emphasize being frozen more as a kind of bondage than as a dehumanizing experience...but that word, "doll," and its objectification implications, remains.
Long and short on objectification: I could probably come up with an awesome objectification scene if I were playing with somebody into that kink, but I can discard it in a heartbeat and have never pursued it actively.
On Robots:
I know exactly where I stand on robot kink, which is awesome!
I enjoy robot play purely on a superficial level. Stiff, monotone, holding still unless obeying a command, not reacting to outside stimulus, speaking only when spoken to - these superficial aspects are all incredibly sexy to me. I often get the same thrill out of non-robot scenes - like blank mind scenes.
I'm also interested in trying a "mad scientist turns the captive and bound victim into a robo" role play. It seems like it would be a more fun "mad scientist" scenario than a straight brainwashing or a mind control ray.
But I'm not really turned on by robots. I'm turned on by people (or myself) acting like robots as a result of hypnotic suggestion. I also have strict preferences: I like monotone voices, I HATE stilted voices. Perky robots just aren't my thing.
Metaphorically, "robot" also makes a good metaphor for someone under control, but I prefer to keep it separate since I enjoy the specific role play.
As for other robot trappings: I like clockwork/wind-up toy suggestions, although they're sometimes awkward to make work (much easier than marionette scenes, though). I would love to do a remote control scene, but it either involves doing some very complicated things with a Bluetooth headset or describing what button the hypnotist is pressing and what it does each and every time - so it's a bit too much work considering I like vocal commands just fine. I'm not into full robot costumes, but a silver one-piece bathing suit would be hot for robot scenes. If I'm the subject, being nude would be preferable to any kind of outfit.
Perhaps notably, the robot trapping I most enjoy is some kind of object - a collar, a headband, a helmet, a ring - that stops the subject's thoughts and turns them into a biological robot (see: the infamous "Ring Around Gilligan" MC scenes).
...so, I think that's all I have to say about my ASFR kinks, unless I feel like editing this post sometime. I don't know what kind of feedback I can get on this - maybe from my previous play partners who have their own perspectives on how these kinks play out - but anyone who wants to start a conversation with me about this will likely make me happy, because I'm really interested in teasing out the intellectual aspects that this kink holds for me (since it's all tied up in words and concepts as much as types of play).
Later, all!
(I also figure, if I post every time I feel like posting, it'll keep me in gear to make sure I don't have any other half-a-year-between-session-and-post situations.)
Of note, ASFR is the hypnosis stuff that I most enjoy as a subject/submissive. Being frozen, being called a puppet, being a robot: I like. If I'm hypnotizing somebody else, I still love it, but I also enjoy blank mind, limp body, and sensation/pleasure suggestions just as much.
So, here are my thoughts on the Big Three sub-fetishes of ASFR:
On "Puppet":
I LOVE the word "puppet." However, I don't find puppets particularly sexy. When I use the word in my fetish play, I'm not thinking about what a puppet is. I'm thinking about what the word "puppet" implies: a being completely under the control of somebody else. This can relate to hypnotized-to-be-a-marionette scenarios (like this one and around 4:09 in this video); however, while I enjoy those (ESPECIALLY being on the receiving end), they're not a very big Thing for me. And speaking of the receiving end, if I'm going to be a marionette, it has to be a human marionette, I don't really want to be hypnotized to feel like I'm made of wood or whatever.
(One of the reasons they're not a big Thing for me, it should be noted, is that it's difficult as hell to make them work in a satisfactory way. Either the hypnotist has to painstakingly describe every single movement of the "strings," or the subject has to be able to see every movement of the hypnotist's hands, or only two body parts can be moved at once, ARGH, it's more trouble than it's worth.)
So, to sum: it's the word, and its accompanying metaphorical concept, that I find sexy as hell.
On Dolls:
OK, doll fetish is a little different. I do occasionally go nuts for "doll" clothes (one of my Fet friends has a Raggedy Anne outfit; I'm a big fan, even though she uses it for age play instead of doll play) and doll makeup.
However, like "puppet," I primarily enjoy "doll" as a metaphorical concept. In this case, it implies not only a being under control, but a being that exists to be played with. "Puppet" implies this, too, I suppose, but I tend to use "doll" in a more playful sense.
This word also has some personal significance to me, because in my early days of hypno-playing, I found that the word resonated with many of my hypnosis play partners in an unexpected way. I started using it at first because I personally thought that "doll" described freezing-and-posing better than "mannequin" (which is more commonly used on hypno-porn sites) - I mean, most mannequins I see aren't very poseable, so "life-sized doll" always seemed like a better description when explaining the concept to a play partner.
I found, to my surprise, that this description seemed to awaken a new turn-on in several of my partners. Obviously, this is not the case with everybody, but it happened often enough that the word gained a strong positive association for me.
"Doll play," as a fetish, often has a distinct objectification element. I'm REALLY not sure if that's part of my own doll kink. When I use the word (and when it gets a positive reaction), my mind turns to the idea of a doll who actively enjoys being played with and posed. I like to see a subject's reactions to being posed. And I always give my hypnotee the choice of being able to speak or mute when they're frozen - I often enjoy having a conversation while posing somebody. But the idea of reducing a thinking, conscious person to a thoughtless object IS appealing to me, if only on a fantasy level (or on a "happening to me" level - my submissive fantasies tend to be less inhibited than my dominant fantasies). And I also enjoy frozen expressions and blank stares indicating mindlessness, which seems inherently dehumanizing. My doll scenes tend to emphasize being frozen more as a kind of bondage than as a dehumanizing experience...but that word, "doll," and its objectification implications, remains.
Long and short on objectification: I could probably come up with an awesome objectification scene if I were playing with somebody into that kink, but I can discard it in a heartbeat and have never pursued it actively.
On Robots:
I know exactly where I stand on robot kink, which is awesome!
I enjoy robot play purely on a superficial level. Stiff, monotone, holding still unless obeying a command, not reacting to outside stimulus, speaking only when spoken to - these superficial aspects are all incredibly sexy to me. I often get the same thrill out of non-robot scenes - like blank mind scenes.
I'm also interested in trying a "mad scientist turns the captive and bound victim into a robo" role play. It seems like it would be a more fun "mad scientist" scenario than a straight brainwashing or a mind control ray.
But I'm not really turned on by robots. I'm turned on by people (or myself) acting like robots as a result of hypnotic suggestion. I also have strict preferences: I like monotone voices, I HATE stilted voices. Perky robots just aren't my thing.
Metaphorically, "robot" also makes a good metaphor for someone under control, but I prefer to keep it separate since I enjoy the specific role play.
As for other robot trappings: I like clockwork/wind-up toy suggestions, although they're sometimes awkward to make work (much easier than marionette scenes, though). I would love to do a remote control scene, but it either involves doing some very complicated things with a Bluetooth headset or describing what button the hypnotist is pressing and what it does each and every time - so it's a bit too much work considering I like vocal commands just fine. I'm not into full robot costumes, but a silver one-piece bathing suit would be hot for robot scenes. If I'm the subject, being nude would be preferable to any kind of outfit.
Perhaps notably, the robot trapping I most enjoy is some kind of object - a collar, a headband, a helmet, a ring - that stops the subject's thoughts and turns them into a biological robot (see: the infamous "Ring Around Gilligan" MC scenes).
...so, I think that's all I have to say about my ASFR kinks, unless I feel like editing this post sometime. I don't know what kind of feedback I can get on this - maybe from my previous play partners who have their own perspectives on how these kinks play out - but anyone who wants to start a conversation with me about this will likely make me happy, because I'm really interested in teasing out the intellectual aspects that this kink holds for me (since it's all tied up in words and concepts as much as types of play).
Later, all!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
A Brief Update, and Some Erotica Recommendations!
Georgie was gently bugging me to do another blog post...and while I certainly have done a lot of things with her lately that she probably wants me to write about [>:)], I'm feeling oddly uninspired to blog about them right now. I do have a blog post in mind about some of the things she and I did the other night...
I did go to my first play party recently! I got to indulge my exhibitionist streak a little by hanging around in the nude for a little bit of time here and there. I also did some brief hypnosis scenes, although I have not obtained permission to blog about them. (If I do get that permission, I will!)
SO, right now, I will post something that's been on the backburner for a while - a list of some of my favorite hypnosis erotica! There are a lot of recurring themes - freezing and extended induction scenes especially - but I tried to go for a range of stories that show different things. There are two brainwashing stories on this list, one story that rings true to the BDSM community, a high school fantasy, two scene stories that take place in hotel rooms (which are strikingly opposite one another in many ways), and a fun little gem about a couple's introduction to hypnosis.
These stories are also exclusively female-sub stories, oddly. Despite my call for more male-sub hypnosis porn, I'm not much of a consumer of it myself. Jukebox and RC have both produced some that I like, but I tend to like f/f best both because of the usual male pig reason (IE, I find all parties equally sexy in all roles - and I like to switch my identification from hypnotist to subject frequently), but also because I find it weirdly difficult to relate to male viewpoints while reading erotica.
Prequel by 8-Bit (f/f, questionable consent)
8-Bit is generally an excellent author, with stories that sometimes have...problematic elements for me. This one has the "nonconsent that continues due to consent" type of set-up, which is less than ideal for a guilt-free bit of hotness. It also has a high school setting, which is a little uncomfortable even with the clear acknowledgment that the characters getting kinky are 18. There's one or two scenes in here that are a bit uncomfortable, including the rather unsatisfying ending.
...it's also BLAZINGLY HOT. The inductions have just enough detail to make it feel like a real hypno story without dwelling on them to the point of tedium. The amount of detail is also perfect for adding to the sense that the hypnotized submissive is so wrapped up in the control that she isn't quite sure what's happening to her. There are so many amazing little bits, and a first person viewpoint that has a combination of helplessness and consensual lust that just works for me. The hypnotist and hypnotee also both come across as people I'd like to hang out with, which is a major plus.
Freeze-Frame by Jukebox (m/f, f/f)
I decided to go for one story per author for this post...and, well, with Jukebox it's incredibly hard to pick just one. My favorite Jukebox story changes often. This one's a keeper, though, because I love the character dynamic of the BDSM meet-and-greet. It's an excellent use of what I call an "unaware" freeze trigger - usually this leads to a brief pause in the action, but here there is so much going on around the sub that the gaps in perception add to the story instead of simply creating a speed bump. I love how Jukebox fleshes out the characters without taking too much time away from the sexiness (Jukebox's writing is very streamlined, one of his greatest strengths), and it honestly feels like the kind of environment I find in the community.
This story also has a sequel. (Totally doesn't count toward one-story-per-author!)
Outcall by Trilby Else (f/f, m/f, noncon)
BEST. BRAINWASHING. EVER.
...OK, maybe that's a bit much, but seriously, the enslavement scenes in this story are to die for. The story starts squicking me progressively more as it goes along (once it gets to the scene where the sub/victim is overwhelmingly turned on by bad macho pickup lines, the story completely loses me). That's how Trilby Else writes, though...his stories always bring the non-con hard after a certain point, and I always lose interest once I get there. But that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy those early scenes.
It's also a story that portrays sex work pretty well, I think. The main character is a prostitute, and the non-con really comes into play when she is dragged outside of the bounds she sets for herself in that profession. There are lines that she doesn't cross as a prostitute - which humanizes her as a character. After all, Trilby can't bring that non-con element in unless his characters are well-rounded enough to have limits...
Face to Face by Robotdoll (m/f)
If you need to have your characters established as people before the sex starts...um...skip this one. "Face to Face" is a pure scene story, and it works in that regard. The D/s dynamic suffers a touch from that lack of depth, but it's a great sex scene for freeze and robot fetishists. I'm not even into a lot of the sex acts in this story - I just plain love the way that freezing and robot roleplay are worked into them.
I'm also very biased because this was the first story I found that really, truly satisfied my robot kink. This is about a human acting like a robot in a completely consensual hypnosis scene. That "rb" label on the EMCSA often means a few too many other things.
The Trance Key by HypnoFan (m/f)
This story has gone unfinished for over a decade. It has no sex in it. Or orgasms. It's all foreplay, all trance play, and I love it that way. The banter is great, the D/s dynamic flows smoothly, overall it's just a joy to read. The hypnosis is also scrupulously accurate, with a lot of really fun tricks and speed-inductions worked into the dialogue. (Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my penchant for dropping narration in order to convey dialogue - I love pure back-and-forth dialogue and I enjoy mentally isolating little bits of it that happen in my scenes.) If only HypnoFan had finished his stories!
Subscription Model by Scifiscribbler (m/f, but it takes a while to get there; noncon)
This one's new and still going on, but it's pretty clear where it's going. It's also incredibly accurate to how I watch porn, making it really easy for me to put myself in the main character's head...which is a very hot place to be. The later chapters have gone in directions that I'm not so crazy about, but I am a fan of it overall.
And after that list of my faves off the EMCSA, here's one I love from an author who has left that site:
A Different Place by RC (f/f)
RC's writing was my introduction to hypnosis erotica. I mentioned in a previous post that my default induction is based on one from an RC story - and RC's inductions are always grounded in reality. Even the sci-fi robot stories on the site still use induction techniques instead of going the "sufficiently advanced technology" route. Anyway, this story is a nice, quick, freeze-focused story with a strong character dynamic. I suppose there's not much else to say except that freeze scenes rarely work quite as well as they do in this story - but that's what fantasy is all about, ne? And the fantasy is delicious.
I did go to my first play party recently! I got to indulge my exhibitionist streak a little by hanging around in the nude for a little bit of time here and there. I also did some brief hypnosis scenes, although I have not obtained permission to blog about them. (If I do get that permission, I will!)
SO, right now, I will post something that's been on the backburner for a while - a list of some of my favorite hypnosis erotica! There are a lot of recurring themes - freezing and extended induction scenes especially - but I tried to go for a range of stories that show different things. There are two brainwashing stories on this list, one story that rings true to the BDSM community, a high school fantasy, two scene stories that take place in hotel rooms (which are strikingly opposite one another in many ways), and a fun little gem about a couple's introduction to hypnosis.
These stories are also exclusively female-sub stories, oddly. Despite my call for more male-sub hypnosis porn, I'm not much of a consumer of it myself. Jukebox and RC have both produced some that I like, but I tend to like f/f best both because of the usual male pig reason (IE, I find all parties equally sexy in all roles - and I like to switch my identification from hypnotist to subject frequently), but also because I find it weirdly difficult to relate to male viewpoints while reading erotica.
Prequel by 8-Bit (f/f, questionable consent)
8-Bit is generally an excellent author, with stories that sometimes have...problematic elements for me. This one has the "nonconsent that continues due to consent" type of set-up, which is less than ideal for a guilt-free bit of hotness. It also has a high school setting, which is a little uncomfortable even with the clear acknowledgment that the characters getting kinky are 18. There's one or two scenes in here that are a bit uncomfortable, including the rather unsatisfying ending.
...it's also BLAZINGLY HOT. The inductions have just enough detail to make it feel like a real hypno story without dwelling on them to the point of tedium. The amount of detail is also perfect for adding to the sense that the hypnotized submissive is so wrapped up in the control that she isn't quite sure what's happening to her. There are so many amazing little bits, and a first person viewpoint that has a combination of helplessness and consensual lust that just works for me. The hypnotist and hypnotee also both come across as people I'd like to hang out with, which is a major plus.
Freeze-Frame by Jukebox (m/f, f/f)
I decided to go for one story per author for this post...and, well, with Jukebox it's incredibly hard to pick just one. My favorite Jukebox story changes often. This one's a keeper, though, because I love the character dynamic of the BDSM meet-and-greet. It's an excellent use of what I call an "unaware" freeze trigger - usually this leads to a brief pause in the action, but here there is so much going on around the sub that the gaps in perception add to the story instead of simply creating a speed bump. I love how Jukebox fleshes out the characters without taking too much time away from the sexiness (Jukebox's writing is very streamlined, one of his greatest strengths), and it honestly feels like the kind of environment I find in the community.
This story also has a sequel. (Totally doesn't count toward one-story-per-author!)
Outcall by Trilby Else (f/f, m/f, noncon)
BEST. BRAINWASHING. EVER.
...OK, maybe that's a bit much, but seriously, the enslavement scenes in this story are to die for. The story starts squicking me progressively more as it goes along (once it gets to the scene where the sub/victim is overwhelmingly turned on by bad macho pickup lines, the story completely loses me). That's how Trilby Else writes, though...his stories always bring the non-con hard after a certain point, and I always lose interest once I get there. But that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy those early scenes.
It's also a story that portrays sex work pretty well, I think. The main character is a prostitute, and the non-con really comes into play when she is dragged outside of the bounds she sets for herself in that profession. There are lines that she doesn't cross as a prostitute - which humanizes her as a character. After all, Trilby can't bring that non-con element in unless his characters are well-rounded enough to have limits...
Face to Face by Robotdoll (m/f)
If you need to have your characters established as people before the sex starts...um...skip this one. "Face to Face" is a pure scene story, and it works in that regard. The D/s dynamic suffers a touch from that lack of depth, but it's a great sex scene for freeze and robot fetishists. I'm not even into a lot of the sex acts in this story - I just plain love the way that freezing and robot roleplay are worked into them.
I'm also very biased because this was the first story I found that really, truly satisfied my robot kink. This is about a human acting like a robot in a completely consensual hypnosis scene. That "rb" label on the EMCSA often means a few too many other things.
The Trance Key by HypnoFan (m/f)
This story has gone unfinished for over a decade. It has no sex in it. Or orgasms. It's all foreplay, all trance play, and I love it that way. The banter is great, the D/s dynamic flows smoothly, overall it's just a joy to read. The hypnosis is also scrupulously accurate, with a lot of really fun tricks and speed-inductions worked into the dialogue. (Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my penchant for dropping narration in order to convey dialogue - I love pure back-and-forth dialogue and I enjoy mentally isolating little bits of it that happen in my scenes.) If only HypnoFan had finished his stories!
Subscription Model by Scifiscribbler (m/f, but it takes a while to get there; noncon)
This one's new and still going on, but it's pretty clear where it's going. It's also incredibly accurate to how I watch porn, making it really easy for me to put myself in the main character's head...which is a very hot place to be. The later chapters have gone in directions that I'm not so crazy about, but I am a fan of it overall.
And after that list of my faves off the EMCSA, here's one I love from an author who has left that site:
A Different Place by RC (f/f)
RC's writing was my introduction to hypnosis erotica. I mentioned in a previous post that my default induction is based on one from an RC story - and RC's inductions are always grounded in reality. Even the sci-fi robot stories on the site still use induction techniques instead of going the "sufficiently advanced technology" route. Anyway, this story is a nice, quick, freeze-focused story with a strong character dynamic. I suppose there's not much else to say except that freeze scenes rarely work quite as well as they do in this story - but that's what fantasy is all about, ne? And the fantasy is delicious.
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