The automagic presumption that ALL hypnosis nowadays is nothing but tainted with erotic/lesbian/gay/what-the-fuck-evar is not a good one but sadly that's what's happened. As I stated above in >>34836 I am for most intents and purposes pretty vanilla, straight, with no tendencies I'd consider alternate other than the fact that I've been a practicing hypnotist for 40+ years now.
Over the past 15 years or so I've noted that the majority of people either being introduced to hypnosis since the dawn of the Internet age in the mid-1990s or even newer (in the past decade or so give or take a few years) has pushed it clear out of the norms - typical trancework for fun and games, learning and yes even some therapy when required - into what I myself personally just consider to be "oddworld" in many respects. Like I said, I'm vanilla for the most part with a little deviation in there sometimes but honestly, I mean look at the threads here related to hypnosis:
How many of them are about basic hypnosis skills and learning, and how many of them are about some strange off-the-wall sexually related concepts, desires, and whatnot?
Years ago I could go someplace, find a thread or topic about hypnosis, and have good conversations with people about actual hypnosis, uses, stuff to try on new subjects, etc, and nowadays it's all gone awry in my opinion, but then again because I've been practicing for so long I suppose I'm just not hip enough to get into all the strange twisted and fucked up (again, my opinion) ways that it apparently has been deemed useful.
But then again I think humanity itself on this planet is nothing but a festering swamp anymore so no surprise there I suppose. I miss the good old days where discussions could happen and it didn't dissolve into one person fucking everything up and causing problems (ironically, this one post I'm making could theoretically make me that one person given the arena I'm in here at 8ch).
As for the "closet homo" thing, that's something the OP will have to decide for himself, as I said above I don't have any issues with male hypnotists overall but then again I'm not listening to files (the vast majority of them as I'm trying to point out) that purportedly would turn me into a girl, make me eat my own cum, or whatever other weird fucking thing the hypnotist had/has in mind.
154b3||4 V4|3nt1n3 is a really talented and skilled hypnotist, seriously, and many MANY years ago she had a lot of promise, with a fairly nice voice and her style originally was quite nice but then someone made her realize she'd make more profit catering to the alternate side of things and voila, 99.9% of her files nowadays are just some pretty strange things. She did one video years ago, I wish I still had it, was free on her site, where she spent like 15 minutes discussing hypnosis with the viewer and it was quite nice, very nice actually, and she showed off some skill with a great deal of Ericksonian style permissive content.
But that was long ago, and times are different now.
Things have twisted back on themselves so much that I, vanilla old bastard that I am, now find myself considered the weird one because I'm so not into the rather strange things that others find interesting. I had a girl chat me up a few days ago, she knows I'm an old school 'tist, and she started in about hypnotic knife-play and I put the brakes on almost instantly and what happened? She got pissed at me 'cause I wouldn't trance her and allow her to feel like I was cutting her with blades.
Seriously? I'm the one that's fucked up now? :(