Erotic hypnosis

Her enthusiasm for hypnosis, her obvious enjoyment of the trance, and her relaxed, happy, 'starry-eyed' appearance after awakening from each trance suggested that she was deriving more gratification from the hypnotic experience than would be likely just from the relief of symptoms and the gaining of insight.Hypnosis fetishism has a large overlap with mind control fetishism, which in addition to typically unrealistic, fantasy depictions of hypnotic control, may include magic (e.g., telepathy, vampirism) or fictional technology (e.g., brainwashing machines, robotization) as plot devices. Psychologist and author Devon Price has discussed having a hypnosis fetish, writing, "Even in its most stagey and sterile forms, I find it inescapably erotic." == Society and culture == === Cinema and stag films === Hypnosis had a link to perceptions of erotic and criminal transgression in mainstream cinema, particularly in the early to mid-twentieth century, popularising the idea of the "evil hypnotist" and the "scientific brainwasher." These tropes were replicated in stag films at the time, such as the 1930s stag film *The Hypnotist*. === On the internet === ==== History ==== Hypnosis and mind control fetish content has been shared on the internet since its early years, as in a 1997 survey of stories from alt.sex.stories which found that "five percent of stories involved some kind of mind control (such as hypnosis, the use of mythical mind control machines or drugs)". Erotic hypnosis content on the internet has appeared as audio files, videos, and literature. ==== Modern day ==== Erotic hypnosis is now somewhat prominent as a niche on the internet. As of 2025, the r/EroticHypnosis subreddit on Reddit has over 179,000 members. Videos consisting of rapidly edited sexual clips combined with text or audio that caters to fantasies of being brainwashed, for example into feminization, have gained in popularity. A 2023 study in *Sexuality & Culture* found that "sissy hypno" content is viewed by cisgender men, as well as transgender women who may use the media "as a tool of sexual identity affirmation and further sexual exploration." Another article in *Transgender Studies Quarterly* found that for transgender women, these videos "create space for viewers to experiment with gendered embodiment through imagining a future-oriented transformation into a trans* subject." ==== Controversy ==== Erotic hypnosis (sometimes branded "Hypnokink") content has been subject to restrictions on pornographic websites for a combination of reasons, though particularly due to concerns about sexual consent. In 2019, subscription platform Patreon banned erotic content depicting non-consensual hypnosis under its policy against "glorification of sexual violence," particularly what it called "coerced consent" content. Proponents of hypnosis pornography argue that it is an example of consensual non-consent, and that many examples of hypnosis in fictional media portray it as non-consensual, leading to the belief that hypnotized performers do not fully consent to the experience in real life. In 2023, an article from BuzzFeed News alleged a series of recordings known as *Bambi Sleep* had eroded and violated the consent of their hypnotic subjects by supposedly creating "obedient, feminine, dim-witted, sex-obsessed people" who could not recall the incidents afterwards. Other practitioners of erotic hypnosis criticized the article, agreeing that the files were "unsafe," but arguing that the article portrayed the community as a "monolith," and that "*Bambi Sleep* is a tiny part of an intensely broad hypnokink space." ==References== {{Reflist|refs= }} [[Category:Hypnosis]] [[Category:BDSM]] [[Category:Sexual fetishism]] [[Category:Paraphilias]]