by cardigan » January 4th, 2006, 11:49 pm
[quote="feardesire":/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i335795d]If I obey by choice, where's the "fun" -- for lack of a better word -- in that? If I obey b/c I THINK I have no choice, I either am CHOOSING to THINK I have no choice... (back to where's the "fun" or arousal?)... or I finally have NO CHOICE to THINK OTHERWISE. I MUST think X, and will also, then, be compelled to DO X.
No?
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Hypnosis can be a lot of fun. But it cannot make a slave out of anybody, and it cannot make a straight gay - and so forth.
But if the straight were in fact a little bit bi, this could be utilized to get him out of the closet. You can give somebody a push with hypnosis, but not in a direction they don't want to go.
If however the subject is under the impression that hypnosis is very powerful (which it is), and that the hypnotist could make him do things against his will or morals, and the subject still CHOOSES to want to be hypnotised by the hypnotist, THEN the hypnotist might be able to break his will - because the subject thinks he has no power to refuse and has willingly subjected himself. But I'd call that very unethical behavior of the hypnotist!
[quote="feardesire":/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i335795d]I have read some hypno-erotica -- one in partic. -- where a girl sends her boyfriend to a hypnotherapist to cure his smoking, but he implants a suggestion in him, and from there on, he is reduced to absolute servitude -- no more legal identity, job, or finances -- and sold to an ugly woman for her use/abuse. That's dramatic hypnosis! Kind of an exciting story. But, in reality, I would never want that; but I guess I do seek being under hypnosis to the extent that I might feel the "potential power" of having that control exerted over me.
Does anyone else relate to this difficulty: you want it, but you don't want it, or don't seem to be able to submit to it?
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There's a lot of good erotic fiction out there, but usually it's no more than that - fiction. If that were to work in real life, the subject would have to have a hidden sadomasochistic side to him - a side he wasn't aware of - i.m.h.o.
But all hypnosis deals with exchange of power. It's really a question of how much power the subject believes was exchanged. If he believes he is now the hypnotist's mindless slave, then that is what could happen. But it'd take lots of sessions, I think :-)