Why is Erotic Hypnosis Feared So Much?
Fear is a frequent response to whoever or whatever is believed to be “not normal.” Anybody or anything assumed to be abnormal is usually put in one of two categories: sub-normal or super-normal. sub-normals and super-normals are feared for very different reasons.
If someone is classified as sub-normal, they are feared because it is felt they can or will infect, corrupt, poison, or in some other way(s) diminish or destroy any normal person who is influenced or touched by them. Contagious, hazardous, infectious, and deadly are accurate synonyms for sub-normal.
Have you ever heard of the old schoolyard malady called the “cooties”? Anyone who was said to have the cooties was to be avoided at all costs. If somebody with the cooties touched you at any time in any way, then [like some irresistible and at times incurable disease] the cooties were injected into you. Throughout the centuries in all too many cultures, fears and beliefs like these have been attached to those assumed to be sub-normal.
Fear of any super-normal being or life form usually does not arise from the notion that the super-normal one will make any normal person they encounter like themselves. Rather, fear of super-normals most often stems from the idea the super-normal individual(s) will use their advantages to attack, overwhelm, conquer, enslave, or eliminate the normal ones. Giants, monsters, supernatural beings, magic wielders, and extraordinary humans are frequently dreaded because of their status as super-normals.
Even those who know little or nothing about it, often accept that hypnotism is an effective tool for exploring the mind and the emotions, and for influencing behaviors. The power of beauty, sensuality, and pleasure to influence, control, dominate, and inspire humans is well known definitely in many, probably in most, and perhaps in all civilizations. Now suppose mesmerism’s capabilities are combined with the potency of eroticism. This combination would yield a brand spanking new, super-powerful whole which many subconsciously accept is even more irresistible than either of its potent parts. And anyone able to control and unleash this combination of unstoppable forces will certainly hold an advantage over plain old ordinary normal people they interact with. With such conclusions and speculations being as widespread as they are, it is not surprising that erotic hypnotism is assumed to be creepy, weird even dangerous by so many who have so little firsthand experience with what it truly is.
Normal people have tended to presume they are superior to anyone they deem sub-normal. But how might a normal person communicate the opinion that they are in fact superior to someone who has desirable abilities or characteristics the normal one lacks?
“Turning the table” is synonymous with the phrase “flip the script”. One way for a normal individual to flip the script on a super-normal one is to refer to the super-normal person in a way which turns the super-normal individual’s asset into a liability. A genius might be called an egghead or a bookworm, a nerd or a geek. A superb athlete could be labeled a dumb jock, a muscle head, or a gym rat. An exceptionally attractive person may be renamed as a clotheshorse or a trophy. So then, saying erotic hypnotism is freaky, unnatural, and so forth is a way of indicating that its power is not something which should be embraced.
