01-13, 11:30–13:00 (US/Eastern), Mainsail West / Dungeon
The mind can be the most powerful toy in your toybox, and hypnokink allows you to engage with it directly during play. With hypnosis, you can explore the sensations of riskier play like hypnotic dismemberment or breath play from the safety of your own mind, alter the experiences of your sensations, and work directly with your brain to get deeper into headspaces. This class will demonstrate some ways to incorporate hypnosis into traditional dungeon play, such as impact, rope, electricity, and pet play. While we will demonstrate the basics of different types of play, this is not intended to be a comprehensive “how to” on any specific type of play.
CW: Hypnotic language, demonstrations, consensual non-consent, pain, partial nudity, bratting, knives
Kiwi is a graduate student with the Science of BDSM research team. They have been practicing, studying, and presenting on kink-related topics for six years to academic and BDSM audiences including Kinky Kollege, the Master/slave Conference, Leather Leadership Conference, and the Charmed!, and serve as a member of the Beguiled Conference Committee. Academically, they focus on consent and identity from an intersectional queer perspective. In practice, they identify as a switch who enjoys hypnosis, anything to do with leather, and discovering new fun ways to titillate the mind and body with pleasure and pain.
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Moonie has been with the hypnosis community for a bunch of years now, and has taught and demo bottomed at various conventions across the states. They love squeeing over people's reactions and finding interesting new ways to mess with the mind. In practice, they identify as a genderfluid sadomasochistic switch who enjoys hypnosis, exhibitionism, objectification, genderfuckery, boots, leather, and anything to do with control.