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Hypnofetishism

''Hypnofetishism''' is the linking of hypnosis (or other forms of mind control) to sexuality, sometimes known by other names such as ''erotic mind control''.

History

It has a long history, stretching as far back as the ancient world. Our culture (and many others around the globe) are filled with early myths of seduction by some form of mind control, the Sirens of the Greeks, the witches of the Middle Ages all had a hypnotic aspect in their sexuality.

Erotic Hypnosis began to surface in the popular imagination over the past fifty years. Many books on hypnosis contained open sexual themes, as well, many cosmetic advertisements use the theme of hypnosis.

Hypnosis on the Silver Screen'

On the silver screen the fetish began to make inroads into the mainstream, films such as The Hypnotic Eye, Flash Gordan, and The Manchurian Candidate exposed the public the hypnosis en masse.

''A B&W thriller about Desmond, a suave, handsome French stage hypnotist who hypnotizes and seduces beautiful women and then lets them be disfigured by Justine, his jealous (of their beauty) assistant. Acting on Justine's prompting, Desmond exclusively selects pretty young women for the final segment of his act, giving one a post-hypnotic suggestion to return to his dressing room at the theatre later that night, where he re-hypnotizes them into a compliant but normal appearing trance state and takes them out with him on the town. When he is finished and they return to their home, his assistant Justine takes over, suggesting the women perform some apparently innocuous act (like taking a shower) that will actually disfigure them (the water being scalding hot). ''

A second example of this can be seen in 1936 "Flash Gordan"

''In the second chapter of the series, 'Tunnel of Terror', Dale Arden is ordered placed in a hypnotic trance by Emperor Ming's 'dehumanizing' machine, which projects a flickering light onto Dale's face, entrancing her. The machine's operator's instructions are to ensure that the hypnotic trance lasts only as long as needed to perform the ceremony. Ming plans to marry the entranced Dale, but Flash rescues her in the nick of time. ''

In both these films an evil male hypnotist is using woman to his own ends, but in the Manchurian Candidate the situation is changed dramatically. Here a soldier is manipulated by others with little sexual connotation. What is important about this movie however is that the idea of mind control is no longer a fiction resting on outer space or improbable assaults but on the perceived real world activities of the communists? Mind control arrived as a possible reality.

''The premise of the film was that, in the 1950s, the Soviets had developed a technique based on "brainwashing" and akin to hypnosis, whereby a person could be snapped into and out of a trance, ordered to do things with full compliance, and have no memory of such actions afterwards. United States soldiers fighting in the Korean War were thus captured, taken to the People's Republic of China to be brainwashed, then covertly released back to the American forces. To cover their tracks, the Communists would implant false memories in the American soldiers' heads and provide a subconscious trigger whereby the soldier could be snapped into and out of hypnosis. Even after full reintegration with American society, they would have no knowledge of their having been brainwashed or the triggers which set them off.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchurian_Candidate

Practice

Currently, this fetish can be experienced on its own or in a cross-over with others. On its own this fetish involves the outright submission of one mind to another, most often through the use of hypnosis. The 'Dominant' can go by many names as can the 'Submissive' although the basic language of Sado-Masochism is the norm. It is usually crossed over with other dominance oriented fetishes such as Sado-Masochocism or feminization.

Online Community

There are predominately three ways that the fetish's online community manifests itself - Stories, 'Image Manips' and commercially.

Stories

Many people learn of the fetish from the massive amounts of literature available online. Ranging from dark tales of mental erasure to lighter tales of consensual experimentation, the web has become a storehouse for thousands of fantasies.

Some methods of mind control include -

Subliminal Messaging - Borrowed from the popular culture fixation on this mind control technique stories often include the use of televisions, music, and PC's (as seen in the "Master PC" series) to send hidden messages.

Telepathy - Sometimes given a supernatural edge many stories feature a telepathic controller sometimes even a whole society of telepaths. A major work called "The Book" used telepathy.

Drugs - Many stories also feature the use of drugs and also tend to be of a more 'clinical' setting.

Hypnosis - Simple hypnosis is featured extensively with long or short inductions and styles.

Image Manipulations

This is the common practice of creating fetishistic images from scratch or modifying an existing image. The original images are as wide-ranging as the stories, from bizarre alien abductions to more mundane images of subjects listening to music. The modified photos are mostly of celebrities doing vaguely hypnotic things (odd expressions, whitened eyes primarily). These images almost always have some subtitled text explaining the eventual submission of the subject.

Commerce

Hypnofetishism is increasingly becoming a commercially viable service as many providers (predominantly in Britain and America) are setting up shop on the web. With services ranging anywhere from fantasy descriptions to S&M, the industry is beginning to rapidly expand. This may mark the beginning of the fetish's acceptance in wider consumer culture

Extract taken from Wikipedia