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xssve -> RE: Hypnosis, Psychology and NLP in D/s relationships. (2/15/2013 9:07:50 AM)
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Like a lot of stuff in BDSM, mind control often means mind control play, as opposed to in depth experimentation, I often note the same thing about "training", and mind control is another form or training - the idea of it can be a real turn on, in praxis, it raises questions about the line, i.e., the line between good dirty fun and abuse which is, of course, different for everybody - it's hypothetically removing your last vestiges of self control, so it can be very scary stuff for the subject if they haven't been trained from birth more or less, i.e., religious indoctrination, etc.
When it comes to BDSM, probably one of the more valid applications of mind control is overcoming all the neurosis, distortions, and inhibitions that culture lays on people that prevent them from forming healthy adult sexual relationships, it's a system of social control that churns out a lot of sexual/emotional cripples, even if they are otherwise socially functional.
i.e., there is sex as a reproductive act (utilitarianism), and there is sex as a social act (political-economy)and then there's just Sex: anoetic, Dionysian, the zipless fuck, without thought or remorse.
i.e., the last thing you really want to be doing when you're having sex, is thinking about sex, or anything really, ideally, all the risks that can be contained have been, all the potential externalities accounted for and dealt with or at least put on the back burner, and you can just cut loose - D/S offers ways to make you, uh, stop talking - or thinking - or doing anything but gettin' your freak on - "gettin' into your hindbrain", as one Domme put it.
But it's constant cycle between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, you can't be having sex all the time, a constant conversion of energy from one to the other, and NLP for example can be a useful tool for assimilating raw, often traumatic or borderline traumatic experience and turning it into something manageable, contextualization.
Properly done I think, in the end, you can give the subject more and better tools to deal with their own internal states and uncertainties about sex or anything else, than the converse, i.e., just eradicating or submerging all inhibitions - a lot of them are there for good reasons, and they are sensible in context, culture often just takes opportunistic advantage of that to trick fuck you with all their little mind control games.
In some ways we are confined by language, it's harder to relate to or describe a thing when you have no words for it, or the words you have are all loaded with political/economic baggage, which is definitely the case when it comes to sex.
But the Pentagon has probably spent billions on mind control research, every ad agency and right wing think tank in the world right now is paying PhD's to figure out ways to control what you buy, and where you buy it, who you vote for, who you listen to, etc., etc. Mind control is all around you, and if you can't control your own mind, somebody else is just waiting to control it for you.
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