Is "hypnosis" a four letter word?
This is a thread I've wanted to make for a while, and it deals with some content creators and a strange aversion to a certain word. That word being, as the title suggests "hypnosis". I began to notice about a year or so ago, that certain hypnosis porn video-makers go out of their way to avoid using the actual word "hypnosis".
I think it started when someone told me that Steve Steele (that's his name, right?) had seemingly erased all uses of the word from his site and replaced them with another word that I can't remember right now and am too lazy to look up. At first, we just sort of laughed it off as him being forbidden from using the word or something. But then I began noticing that Steve wasn't the only one. For example, the very softcore hypnosis fetish videos made by Fresh Frozen Females all refrain from saying "hypnosis" in their descriptions, instead using the very non-descriptive "training". Seriously, they used "train" and variations thereof for any word associated with hypnosis or trance. Example: "Training - the girls are put into the trained state."
A much more notable example is Hypno-Pimp, which now goes by the name Robo-Pimp. Aside from changing the name of his production studio to completely remove "Hypno" from it, he also auto-replaces any instances of the words "hypnosis" (and all similar words) and "trance" with a different word. This time, it's "program". This leads to absolutely bizarre sentences and phrases like "Enjoy watching her slip into a PROGRAM state of being, receptive to anything I tell her!" (actual snippet from a video description). Also, the capitalization in that sentence was not done by me for effect. All uses of the word "program" in Robo-Pimp's descriptions are both all-caps and bolded, as if to draw attention to the fact that it was pasted in there in place of "hypnosis", "hypnotized", and "trance".
Not only that, but the word "hypnotized" is literally censored out of some of Robo-Pimp's video descriptions. For example, in some videos, he has girls repeat phrases like "I am hypnotized, and you are my master", but in the description, the phrase is written as "I am ___, and you are my master." Yes, seriously. (And in case you were wondering, none of these people seem to mind saying the word in the videos themselves, but in all text sites, they avoid it like the plague.)
It's also worth noting that categories for these videos include things such as "female training", "woman following orders", "magic control", and "erotic magic". The only category to actually come close to saying "hypnosis" is "mesmerize".
So, what are your guys' thoughts on this? Do you think there's a reason these content creators are afraid of using the word? Do you know of any others like them that avoid using it?
I think it started when someone told me that Steve Steele (that's his name, right?) had seemingly erased all uses of the word from his site and replaced them with another word that I can't remember right now and am too lazy to look up. At first, we just sort of laughed it off as him being forbidden from using the word or something. But then I began noticing that Steve wasn't the only one. For example, the very softcore hypnosis fetish videos made by Fresh Frozen Females all refrain from saying "hypnosis" in their descriptions, instead using the very non-descriptive "training". Seriously, they used "train" and variations thereof for any word associated with hypnosis or trance. Example: "Training - the girls are put into the trained state."
A much more notable example is Hypno-Pimp, which now goes by the name Robo-Pimp. Aside from changing the name of his production studio to completely remove "Hypno" from it, he also auto-replaces any instances of the words "hypnosis" (and all similar words) and "trance" with a different word. This time, it's "program". This leads to absolutely bizarre sentences and phrases like "Enjoy watching her slip into a PROGRAM state of being, receptive to anything I tell her!" (actual snippet from a video description). Also, the capitalization in that sentence was not done by me for effect. All uses of the word "program" in Robo-Pimp's descriptions are both all-caps and bolded, as if to draw attention to the fact that it was pasted in there in place of "hypnosis", "hypnotized", and "trance".
Not only that, but the word "hypnotized" is literally censored out of some of Robo-Pimp's video descriptions. For example, in some videos, he has girls repeat phrases like "I am hypnotized, and you are my master", but in the description, the phrase is written as "I am ___, and you are my master." Yes, seriously. (And in case you were wondering, none of these people seem to mind saying the word in the videos themselves, but in all text sites, they avoid it like the plague.)
It's also worth noting that categories for these videos include things such as "female training", "woman following orders", "magic control", and "erotic magic". The only category to actually come close to saying "hypnosis" is "mesmerize".
So, what are your guys' thoughts on this? Do you think there's a reason these content creators are afraid of using the word? Do you know of any others like them that avoid using it?