Every month in Cambridge, Massachusetts I help to run a low key get-together for erotic hypnosis enthusiasts, under the banner of the New England Hypnosis Group. If you're not familiar with the concept of munches, the idea is that it's a way to meet people face to face who may share similar kinky interests, in a nonsexual, public setting. In our case, a table at a restaurant. I think this is a brilliant invention that helps to overcome a lot of the justified nervousness people might have in making first contact with strangers who are into some freaky shit (even if it's the same freaky shit that you're into!)
But it still takes a lot of courage just to show up for the first time. I know, I remember how nervous I was my first time going to the Prudential munch, way back in November 2012. I passed the entrance to the food court 2, maybe 3 times before I got the nerve to go in. We had a bunch of new people last night, some who had never been to a munch of any kind before, and I really applaud them for stepping into the unknown. To make it a bit easier, here's some information from the hypnomunch we had last night, to give you an idea of what to expect. There have only been 5 so far, so it's hard to say what's typical, but this didn't seem so different from the others I've attended.
We had a long table at the back of an italian restaurant (with appetizers paid for by our sponsor organization NELA!) Eventually there were 15 people, including 7 male-identified people, 6 female-identified people, and two folks who identify as gender fluid or gender queer (this is my best attempt to characterize based on people's FL profiles). There was a wide age range, with the median probably being around 30. It was a great mix of hypno tops and bottoms, people who do hypnosis online or not, and people with a lot of experience, a little experience, or just curious.
The munch starts at around 5 pm, and we chatted and ate food until around 7 or maybe a bit earlier. The conversation around me was about half hypnosis stuff and half everything under the sun: medieval playwriting, how Harvard square used to be cooler, Canadian accents.
A new thing we are trying to get going is the option of some low-level play after the munch, i.e. hypnotic trances without a sexual component (except in how all hypnosis is sexy to hypnofetishists like me). The idea is that you can peel off at that point, the official end of the munch, or continue if you have the desire to try trancing with someone or seeing it done. In this case, 10 people elected to continue. The actual space for this to occur is a problem: we all walked to another local restaurant where there was supposed to be a meeting room we could use, but it turned out they don't formally book it, so there were people already in there eating who they couldn't displace. So, no privacy.
Instead we wandered into a local park, and split into two groups at the picnic tables. I did one trance and PhotoJoseph did another, with suggestions including a freeze trigger, a giggle trigger, and the sensation of a feather brushing the nose (all temporary).
So, simple and fun stuff - both because of the setting and the mandate of the post-munch, we didn't get too far into it. The park worked out ok, except for some mosquito bites, but rest assured we are working hard to find a better space, where you don't have to go into trance sitting on a wooden board. The post munch ended around 8:30 due to darkness, and we all walked back to cars/subway together. Lots of great talk on the way back about hypnotic technique (and fun periodic deployment of the freeze trigger).
I feel so grateful to be living here at the moment, which has to be one of the best places in North America for erotic hypnosis, thanks in no small part to PhotoJoseph's efforts in getting this munch off the ground.
If you're in the area and any of this sounds good to you, you should come check one out. We would love to meet you. The next one is on Saturday, November 23rd at 5 pm (Fetlife event link)
and you can always get updates about them from the New England Hypnosis Group fetlife group.
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