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Spirals Are(n't) Just For Fun

I invite you to participate before reading: stop and focus on this GIF for a time: 20 or so seconds should do, then consider the questions below it:

Do hypnotic words come to mind? Entrancing? Fixating? Do certain feelings?

Where does your focus naturally go? To the center, or following the rays?

Does your environment affect the experience? Phone or computer? Full screen or feed?

When you notice the rays look like sperm, then go back to looking at the visual, does it change your experience?

Do all spirals have the same effect, or are they different?

Typically, spirals are dismissed as either just visual fixations or part of the fetishization of hypnotic imagery. We assume that they're hypnotic only because the viewer wants to be entranced by them.

But I suspect there's more. Do spirals evoke experiences that can be used in hypnosis? Are some better than others? How do they work? How can we use them?

If you'll bear with me, I have some thoughts.

Thread 1: Art and Aesthetic Experience

Art's ability to directly evoke experience is an entire scientific field summarized here in: McCrae (2024) - "A volitional account of aesthetic experience.

The field focuses mostly on Art with a capital A, not porny hypno-GIFs, but there are a few key findings:

Artistic objects—and their viewers—have characteristics that interact to create meaningful experiences. Some art is more likely to evoke experiences generally or with specific audiences.

2. Art evokes a range of experiences.

3. Purely aesthetic objects evoke a special kind of experience: it's not judged by the action it inspires but by the feeling itself. You can experience awe and reflect on that experience without worshipping the painting (the last line in this paragraph is pure hypnokink)

Thread 2: Passion-Mapping

In Cowen et. al (2019) - Mapping the Passions..., the authors had subjects evaluate hundreds of videos and rate their emotional affect. They created this interactive graph, with "Entrancement" included as an affect cluster.

Closest to the 'entrancement' center are classic hypnotic illusions... but at the edges are videos that blur the line between entrancement and confusion, aesthetic appreciation, interest, and... boredom?

The distinctions are fascinating, and they add a possible thread:

You can design/select visuals for a range of emotional effects

Thread 3 - Public Responses

Go to r/hypnolovers or r/erotichypnosis and you'll occasionally see spiral threads of 10-20 visuals where subjects are invited to state which ones were the most impactful, and you get responses like this:

Most often, responses cluster around the same 4 or 5 images. Social pressure may be a factor—seeing others love #2 might lead you to see #2 as better—but I suspect that like with Art some hypnogifs are just 'better' and interact with a broader range of hypnofetishists to evoke experience

Also, there appear to be a few clusters of preferences: Some love 'flashy' and some hate it. Some also show strong color-intensity preferences (preferring black and white, or a few colors, over an orgiastic 🌈). You'll never 'get' everyone, but you can design GIFs to fans within a specific genre.

Thread 4 - Play Feedback

Multiple times, in text and audio play, I've tested a variety of spirals and found:

GIFs can be used as a visual focus, a third-party suggestion (subjects sometimes report it doesn't feel like suggestions are coming from the hypnotist when presented in a visual), a trigger, or...

GIFs can be used like "set pieces" in stage/street hypnosis. You encourage deep focus, send the GIF (which evokes a mild response), "mind-read" the response they're experiencing and pace/lead it deeper into a scene.

The repetitive nature of GIFs gives you breathing room to plan your next move, break up a long monologue, or change the experience.

Tailoring the image to the individual has a greater impact (this GIF apparently hits fucking hard if you're in-session and your name is Bob)

If you use hypnotic GIFs/videos in play, as a subject or 'tist, I'd love to hear your thoughts on why they work for you, and I invite 'tists to be more thoughtful in how they use them. I suspect there's a lot of missed potential in GIFs as a tool, and I'd love to see them get more creative.

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Topic bans in erotic hypnosis communities: Good Intentions, Bad Policy

A tldr: Broad topic bans on files considered higher risk is bad policy regardless if the intentions are to prevent harm.

Before y'all rip into me I'm not saying communities should allow experience reports, or requests to encourage listening but what I am saying is that allowing people to access information, resources and to ask questions keeps people safer. Policies embracing harm reduction actually work to help prevent the harm that prohibitionist policies intend/attempt to stop. Rn communities banning discussion of those types of files puts them out of sight but it does nothing to prevent the harm people express concern about. 

I have experience in this as my abuser used files commonly banned in discussion bans as a tool in his abuse and the topic bans made it a lot harder for myself & others being hurt by the same person to reach out for help/ask questions, to counter the incorrect information he was giving us, and to reach out for support when we wanted to leave. Abuse thrives in isolation. Broad topic bans just increase that social/information isolation and make it harder for people being abused to feel like they can get help. 

Broad topic bans in online spaces often create more risks, putting people in harm's way by silencing critical discussions and driving discussions about files considered to be higher risk underground. When conversations are censored or restricted, higher risk/stigmatized files and abusive hypnotists actually gain a layer of invisibility & protection, making it harder to identify and call out harmful actions, and harder to find detailed information about why certain files or even creators are considered unsafe or higher risk. This makes it harder for people to actually make informed listening decisions which as we all know, can cause a lot of problems and lead to people being harmed.  

For people who may struggle to drop into trance or who have struggled to feel effects from the files they listen to, they may not even be attracted to the risk so much as they are attracted to the idea that maybe, finally, these files will work and they can experience trance/the things other people experience when a file works for them. After all if the files are so powerful and work so well that you can't even talk about them, they must be pretty effective, right? Banning the discussion of file sets is actually more effective as an advertisement than a warning to a lot of people.

For survivors of abuse within the scene, some people may fear being shamed by members within the community because of the stigmatized files they may have been misled about or forced to listen to by their abuser. This contributes to victims being silenced and makes it easy for predators to stay under the radar/continue abusing people within the community. 

The result of broad topic bans is an ecosystem where misinformation/abusers/unethical file creators can flourish, shielded by attitudes of silence/topic suppression that these bans unintentionally create under the guise of creating safer spaces. 

These bans don’t just suppress essential information people need to listen in an informed way, these bans also perpetuate misinformation that can also cause people to be harmed. When people can’t access accurate, open information, they often turn to less regulated spaces, that encourage riskier behavior, or intentionally spread misinformation which can lead to people listening in an uninformed way/can further perpetuate the harm those policies are intending to prevent. Without open dialogue, people lose the tools to make informed decisions about listening, leaving them more vulnerable to harm.

Harm reduction works because it recognizes that people will engage in risky behaviors no matter what restrictions are in place. Instead of punishing or isolating people for their choices or curiosity, harm reduction meets them where they are, by offering tools and knowledge to navigate risks safely. Prohibitionist policies consistently fail to create safer environments, whether talking about drugs or sexual health.

On that note: Does every newbie even know what green flags to look for when seeking out a community to explore erotic hypnosis? 

If larger, well-moderated, established hypno kinky spaces don't provide resources, allow discussions, or create space for questions about the specific safety issues of any file generally considered unsafe/high-risk, where will people go to find out that information? Will they end up in a space where people dismiss any concerns about the files in question or where misinformation about the safety of said files is passed on? Will they stumble into a space where discussion is allowed, but the files in question are knowingly/unknowingly misrepresented as perfectly safe and mostly risk free? Will they be encouraged to listen by people who don't value their safety and who want to take advantage of their lack of knowledge?

Programs and policies that provide accurate, free, and accessible information consistently lead to better outcomes for the communities those policies/programs are implemented in. 

Topic bans come from a place of good intentions but it's ultimately bad policy. Also discussion ≠ advertisement and I wish people would stop conflating any discussion of files considered higher risk with an advertisement for whichever files are being discussed.

I'm SO tired of seeing people push for these bans whenever the topic comes up. The fact that free harm reduction resources like transcriptions can't even be shared some places without risking a ban is awful. I get why these policies were enacted years ago but I think it's time people re-evaluate those polices and implement better policies that embrace harm reduction which has been shown to actually benefit people and increase safety.

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remake of woof by dizzy fae but i made it about being a bimbo domme in a hypno switch battle and it's a joke cuz in the full song i lose

my last post made me realize i never shared this clip here so enjoy <3

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I saw you had a bad experience with a hypnotist. There are a lot of good dominants like myself that can help you be a bimbo. If you want to play just answer this message Yes or No and I'll message you on my main account. If you want to be a very good girl you can respond yes sir. You looked good as a blonde and I would enjoy helping you get back to serving men like good bimbos should.

you seem to be confused so let me clarify some things!

i don't need nor do i desire to obey someone like you. i'm pretty fucking certain that just based off this message you probably have no fucking clue wtf you are even doing and that most of your experience as a dominant is in scenes in your mind that you fantasize about based off the erotica and porn you should probably slow down consuming. i say this because people in fantasies love this shit but unfortunately for you, i exist outside of the erotica you probably lost the plot in.

you want to help me be a better bimbo? how? are you going to send me some files someone else made, maybe a video/gif or two you stole from discord, and then trance me with something copy/pasted while possibly trying to sneak in some suggestions we haven't discussed relating to me getting on cam or sending you nudes? wow so tempting.

there is nothing that you can offer me that i either don't already know or that i can't learn from someone more qualified. if you spent any time on any of my pages you would see i prefer to dom and that i do that professionally.

since you decided to open with play adjacent talk without any discussion, i figured i would respond in the same manner. if me assuming things and degrading you in my response feels bad (and i hope it does) i hope you'll reconsider assuming my desires and projecting yourself into them in the future cuz that feels gross to me and tbh this shit gives me the ick. you follow people like me that you won't ever pull because you send messages like this somehow thinking it's hot.

i am assuming the other weird messages i got around the same time are also from you. i'm not sorry about this being unkind. your message felt gross and i don't owe any dominant anon with a skill for overstepping and making shitty assumptions about my desires or preferences my patience or kindness.

no.

if you have sent me a message like this or are thinking about it: read this and then read it again.

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Something is happening to Anitra...

...And she will never be the same.

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Just letting all y'all know that I do, in fact, take file commissions! I love writing and recording hypno scripts, and I'd love to help anyone who wants to lose their brain. 😁

Check out my info sheet, if you like. In addition to what's listed on this sheet, feel free to DM me here on Tumblr!

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In a group setting how would someone know if brainwashing play was bad or not? How can you tell if the brainwashing play is abusive or unsafe?

I've been waiting to answer this one cuz it's taken me awhile to type it up. This is a long one. cw: mentions of abuse/manipulation in the context of coersive control/coersive persuasion and both kinky and abusive brainwashing

The use of the word simulate below (in regards to brainwashing) is intentional as there is no way to truly brainwash someone that doesn't involve abusive coersive control and the non-consentual manipulation/subversion of someones core values and boundaries in ways that aren't sexy or fun. Actual (non-kinky/real) brainwashing and consentual kink are incompatible. With that said, you can definitely simulate brainwashing safety in kink scenes. Hopefully what I wrote out will help you figure out where things land <3

The answer:

As y'all know I was in a cult that did involve legitimate abusive mind control techniques that larger cults often use and people frequently ask me the difference between consensual brainwashing/mind control in safe & consensual hypno fantasies/scenes vs abusive brainwashing/mind control/persuasive coercion in abusive dynamics & cults. After experiencing both, I would say the best way to tell is by comparing your situation with scenarios that I've listed below. Obviously this can vary based on the type of play you are engaging in but if you find a few things to be true, I would def be careful.

- you might actually be in an abusive situation if you can't ever hit pause during play, safeword, or discuss the nature of your play with your tist outside of scenes and if there was never discussion about this aspect of the dynamic before engaging in that play. if you tist makes you feel bad about asserting a limit or boundary or changes how they show you attention/communication/shame to punish you for asserting yourself or challenging them esp out of scenes without any negotiation/discussion that's ofc a red flag.

in situations that involve cult like abusive brainwashing, the work rly begins once you have reached a limit so the person would want to bring you to a breaking point, then keep you there and actively surpass it. if this doesn't sound fun, it's not. if it sounds fun, you probably aren't realizing this usually involves limits you have that you cannot sexualize. a good chunk of abusive brainwashing will focus on things you have no interest in doing and that you don't find sexy or fun. in extreme situations this could include things that are disfiguring, or that could ruin or risk your or someone else's life.

- someone assuming you are okay with anything or making you feel like you should be in order to be a good sub is never a good thing when you consider what anything could mean to some people. i know a lot of people enjoy being like "I have no limits" but most people have a list of limits if you bring up situations like bodily disfigurement, theft of money or things that could put their housing/freedom/life at risk...it's important to remember these things don't matter to someone who doesn't care about hurting you.

- you might actually be in an abusive situation if there is no room to challenge or disagree with your tist in and especially out of scenes. emphasis on this if this aspect of the dynamic was never negotiated or talked about before. even in 24/7 dynamics, these things are generally discussed. if your tist expects complete obedience from day one and there has never been space to talk about what that means or your limits/goals etc thats generally not a great sign. if your tist tries to tell you that's what brainwashing entails, i would run cuz they aren't completely lying but that also means your safety, goals and happiness won't matter to them. if you say you are struggling with an aspect of the play and they push it harder, that can be hot in some dynamics but also that's kind of a red flag if they push harder on those things without first sitting you down to ask you about what you mean that you are struggling with a particular thing.

- in abusive dynamics/cults that use persuasive coercion, your goals/boundaries/limits etc don't actually matter and often times these things will be actively weaponized and used against you to break you. if a dominant is constantly testing limits/boundaries without discussion/negotiation or is actively violating your hard limits/boundaries.

- if your tist ONLY seems interested in the things you have clearly stated that don't want to do/have no interest in exploring/explaining things you normally consent to when you aren't in the mood to engage with those things...that's such a fucking red flag. with actual brainwashing your goal for the play doesn't actually matter and your tist is likely to start pushing you towards something you aren't actually that interested in, often using your disinterest/push back as an example of why you haven't reached the actual goal you are attempting to attain. self sacrifice is a theme in abusive brainwashing but you don't get a choice about what parts are sacrificed...which can be hot in theory until you realize you don't get any say or input and the control extends to all of your other relationships. this might start off looking like limit testing disguised as a joke.

**note: limit testing can start out seeming harmless but essentially that's only to groom you to be comfortable with having your limits/boundaries tested in bigger ways. this might look like a dominant telling you to try to eat a food you don't want to try or even a dominant buying you something you told them you didn't want them to buy you. some things they push you to do may seem ultimately beneficial as well which can make this confusing if it's happening at it may not seem as much of a red flag in the moment especially if some of the things they are pushing end up being good experiences. the problem is how this changes over time and often leads to them testing you in ways that aren't at all fun or beneficial. the reason I mentioned gifts is buying you something that you told them not to buy you/sending you money you told them not to send you is often a way to test how you respond to control/limits because it can be written off as a good faith judgment mistake/they can play it off like they didn't have bad intentions if confronted. 

- in a healthy scene or dynamic where mind control/brainwashing is simulated either in a scene or over time ultimately the sub will still always be in control and that loss of control will be simulated safely. hard limits will still be respected and there is always space made to negotiate or pause/stop a scene. the focus will be on something the sub ultimately has set as a goal/has agreed upon. in abusive situations what a sub wants/their goals don't matter, their limits don't matter, their feelings won't matter, and their safety won't matter. in an abusive situation, a lot of play slowly turns from something that aligns with the subs goals to something that aligns with the dominants goals/turns into straight up abuse/assault/sa.

- if more than one kinky friend approaches you concerned about how you changed or the safety of your play, huge red flag. when you are being brainwashed in an abusive situation everything is so normalized that it's hard to see the abuse. trust your besties. trust your other partners. trust the people who have nothing to gain from confronting you about their concerns.

With all of that said, with actual abusive brainwashing, it's all about overhauling your limits and boundaries and getting you comfortable being very uncomfortable all the time. In any brainwashing scene, you are likely to feel overwhelmed, destabilized, unsafe, afraid etc but those are feelings people often want to feel in a kink scene so it can be hard to put your finger on when things might be crossing a line. I hope this helps the anon/someone gain some clarity.

When I was in the cult I was in, I was convinced over time that I needed to be more comfortable being uncomfortable and that my limits were self-limiting, that the person abusing me knew my limits better than I did, and that I should default to him for what those limits are. This can be hot in theory, but I promise you the reality is super unsexy when the person who is doing this doesn't actually care about your life, safety, relationships, goals, or well-being.

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description: my internal dialogue when writing a script. no actual hypno/this is a shitpost.

cw: hypnotic language.

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It's 2024 can people pls reflect about how they engage with porn online?

This shouldn't be something I have to type out first thing in the morning but:

I rly fucking wish people would stop just stealing and sharing porn without any attempt at sourcing. Being tagged in a video (that I wasn't even in) on discord that was taken of people I care about by our abusive tist at the time when the consent of people agreeing to being filmed was questionable is not the best way to start out the day!

Creators should get a say in how their work is distributed and where.

Just saving random shit and adding your own captions/filters is really fucked up because you can't verify if the people in the video consent to it being shared on the platforms you are sharing it/still want the video distributed, you can't verify that peeps want to be sexualized in the way you are sexualizing them, and you can't even verify if everyone is of age or if what's in the video was taken with consent of all parties/without coersion. Some creators location block certain states so they aren't outted to family/to protect their job and when you share someone's porn without their consent you literally put their safety, housing and support systems at risk.

This is a huge problem in general but esp in the hypno kinky community and it would not fly at all in a lot of other spaces.

Also if you see a creator adding captions to other people's porn and using it for their own adverts/file visuals/compilations, pls say something.

Creators that do what I mentioned above are contributing to a problem of unverified, unsourced, unethical, exploitative porn...and I use the term porn loosely here. If you give a fuck about esp small queer/trans/femme creators who often have their work stolen/if you want your fave small creators to keep making porn this should be an issue that matters to you! Banning people sharing unsourced gifs any one place won't solve the issue but if enough people call this stuff out, it might actually help change the culture/attitudes around porn/how it's shared in the community.

It's wonderful this community puts such an emphasis on the importance of consent but I really wish that attitude was reflected in how people engage with their porn.

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i'm looking for a slut in latex, brainwashed, thick thighs, dazed eyes <3

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Helplessly hypnotized Tumblr user says what

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does anyone else ever just wanna have a group of bimbo/doll friends to be dumb and horny with? it would be so fun to just giggle and make each other worse <3

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Unsafe Hypnokink Creators and Hypnotists List

And other unsafe persons

This list is to lead to the posts that I come across that detail credible (and I am using my own definition of credible; I'm not a lawyer nor a court of law) accusations of wrongdoing by hypnokink creators, and therefore people to Avoid. The article names here are going to be the names of the people who are detailed in the linked article, and where parenthetical attribution is given that is to indicate that the post is not written by me. I'm doing a Read More in order to make sure that as I edit the content below the cut (the list of creators), it updates the text that appears on Reblogs.

Potentially Unsafe Hypnokink Creators:

Nimja (via FetLife and his website): Dealing with underage partners, mistreating partners, dubious content in files. A list of red flags in Nath's dealings with him, which I also find to be credible. Evidence. Evidence. (by @writtenbynath)

Blueberry Empire (via Discord and YouTube): Transphobic and homophobic attitudes by creator as well as a history of allowing underage persons on her NSFW server. The Tumblr post is written by me, but that comes from a Twitter post written by someone else.

Inventive Mind (via Discord and FetLife): Highly abusive and non-consensual brainwashing and cult leader-like behavior, all laid out here. (note: link removed because someone was using the linked page - and my link to it - for nefarious purposes. Suffice to say it supports my prior point.)

NeuralNets (On FetLife, Reddit, and as AKAs DeepDreamStates, NeuroPlex here on Tumblr. Probably more places also): Since he basically asked me to, here's a basic primer on NeuralPlex's history of misdeeds and abuse. The essentials of it is that he doesn't directly create himself, but he sets up the structures for and allows to flourish, a culture of abuse and dangerous parasocial relationships - that is, a cult of personality with them at the center - on his Discord server and takes an attitude toward safety in his files that is at best perfunctory ("this is what I have to do in order to get to the good stuff") and at worst performative ("be careful with this file because it's really powerful!" is NOT a legitimate content warning, except to them it sometimes is). While I'm sure there are a lot of people who like that sort of content, you should know that if things go bad - and that's a nonzero possibility - then he is not going to be there to help you after and is going to sweep you under a rug after. It has happened before.

Dr. Headcrash: This one is most directly supported by a sort of secondary accusation, but that speaks back to a larger pattern. So, Headcrash is known to have abused past partners and there have been issues with conventions out on the West Coast for that reason, and so I feel the need to add him here as an unsafe creator/hypnotist. He doesn't have a Tumblr so far as I'm aware, so this links to his Twitter, but I'm sure he also has a FetLife as well.

Professor Mesmer: This person used a combination of recreational drugs and hypnosis, most especially b*mbi content, to condition and abuse a number of people across several (at least three) years. Because of a combination of safety and ethical concerns with the specific pieces of evidence to which I was linked I will not link them, however I find based on those links that the accusations are credible. All I'll do by way of substantiation is say to contact Bubbles for more, if you have questions. But, be polite. Update: This is one of the rare events in the hypnokink community to break out of the hypnokink community and get noticed by the wider world. Here is a Buzzfeed News article about Professor Mesmer. Yes, he is "James."

Vassalreturns: This person has an admitted - by them - history of serial (in the dozens of past partners/victims) abuse and consent violation. I do not know the precise details, but they describe violating limits, gaslighting, emotional manipulation, and other classic abuse tactic in broad terms without specific details. I take them at their word. They are a creator of b*mbi-themed bimbo hypnokink content, and with their admitted history of abuse (which was shared with me on the condition I not broadcast it publicly, but I have vetted it and found it to be authentic) the fact they focus on "extreme" BS content is especially concerning. Also concerning is their language around their history, which shows less a genuine desire to change and more a belief that they are not capable of it coupled with a desire to fail to change and thus indulge in what is to them a forbidden fruit. Here is my post on the topic.

Other potentially unsafe people:

Ernesto / -stealth-; a photographer who advertises a willingness to take pictures of especially young, attractive women in his area for free. He buys dinner and transportation and then holds the pictures hostage in exchange for a glowing review, and uses the shoot as a chance to take advantage of his prospective model while emotionally abusing and threatening her. This is a pattern of behavior. It's also not new, but I was just made aware of it and it's ongoing.

savagemadeink: For harassing and aggressive behavior toward a content creator.

The Whack-a-Mole Rogues' Gallery:

This is the place where I will link to the rogues' gallery of predatory hypnotists who I come across on Tumblr, as I come across them. These are people who almost always delete their blog within a week or two of being called out, but reappear a month or two later under a different pseudonym (hence the name, based on me playing a never-ending game of whack-a-mole with them). I'm going to link their blog even though the link will almost certainly go dark, and link to the evidence. Since all of the accusations are basically copypasta of one another - disregarding consent, bad safety practices, treating subs poorly, etc - I'm not going to detail them. Read the evidence links for more.

Hypnotica2: Evidence

I will add to this as needed and as more come across my dash. This list is also still under construction.

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Ava here! This is circulating again and I just wanted to mention that I started the process of reporting James to the FBI last summer. The process has absolutely been hell in every way I've imagined (and then some) and my lil acab brain was already dreading it. I'm not trying to dissuade people from reporting but for people who have dmed asking for an update, my lack of response is because I'm completely overwhelmed. Also if the comments that are often found under this article on other sites (not rly so much here) haven't made it clear, dealing with what some people in the community have said about this, the victim blaming, the assumptions, and the constant debates about the validity of my abuse have made everything a lot harder overall.

Reporting him was a last resort for me. I received a couple of longer apologies after the one I posted about and they made me really concerned because he refused to take accountability, only focused on how his life had been disrupted/his depression and showed little care to how his actions effected any of us. His apologies scared the shit out of me because I realized he probably wasn't going to stop what he was doing/was still trying to manipulate me and that's what finally led me to report.

Some people who know I've reported him have asked for an update and I will eventually (after the case brings whatever result) write about the process/my experience reporting a crime involving hypnosis/kink and useful advice/tips from lawyers/legal cases involving hypnosis I've compiled to reference for anyone thinking about reporting their abuser. I want to create something to help other hypno kinky people through this process cuz it's confusing af and there is a lot I've learned that would have made my life easier if I knew it from the start.

One thing people seem to rly miss with what happened is that what James did was (not sexy or fun) behavioral modification and he engaged majorly in coercive control in the ways that cults like scientology and other larger groups do. The files were a tool/just an aspect of what he did. I've been told that what he did to me personally would literally be considered torture if it happened in a different context and wasn't a domestic violence thing so like pls keep this in mind. I'm mentioning this because a lot of people still see this and are like "hypno can't make you do anything you don't want to do" and aside from my normal critique of that statement and how it oversimplifies concepts that shouldn't be oversimplified...people can be made to do many things when they are in a situation where their agency has been stripped from them and when they are being severely abused in any way regularly for an extended period of time.

I really appreciate all of the people who have been supportive and I can't express how much it means to me like y'all have literally kept me sane during all of this so thank you <3

Welp, hypnokink broke into a relatively mainstream news outlet, and in a not-great way.

I don't love this article for a lot of reasons, but I do recognize that at its core it is about a legitimately hurtful experience that needs to be seen and understood for what it is. However, that being the main focus or the lens through which the whole kink and kink community is viewed skews the entire article in a distinctly negative direction.

Also, there are just some silly parts to it, like "In an email sent to BuzzFeed News after his interview, [a practicing hypnotherapist] said he was impressed by the audio quality and production of the Bambi Sleep files" -- there might be things to praise about it, like the cultural following it has gained or its effective use of earworm-y mantras that get stuck in your head. Its audio quality, though? Have you not listened to something professionally made by someone far more skilled, an ASMRtist or hypnodomme or whatnot? Anyway, that's just me being petty.

I thought people should know about the news article, so we can as a community digest it and deal with it. There will be people - not many, because I don't think that niche of that niche news site is widely read, but some still - who see that and respond to it, and we ought to be ready in case there's a reaction.

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I think I'm finally ready to film stuff in my brainwashing room! Been working on the setup for awhile and now it's at a point I'm happy with things. Idk why my brain is the way it is but I sometimes don't feel like stuff is finished even after it's technically finished and I def put a lil more work into my setup than I was originally planning.

video is of my vtg 1960s spiral machine made by schneider instruments co to assist with hypnosis and relaxation. they made some hypnosis adjacent machines for licensed medical professionals and the general public.