Has anyone written a Mind Control story?

[Lovepotion69]

I was browsing the top list, and ended up on mind control. Most stories seem to be about hypnotists.

Has anyone here written anything for this category, and what was your take on the subject?

/LP

 

[KillerMuffin]

Yep. I surely did.

I just gave the guy the mental powers to control others. I didn't explain it, didn't give him a background or a history to show how he might be supernormal. I just did it. I think a lot of people go this route. You can also do things with machines, drugs, divine intervention, whacks on the noggin, whatever makes you happy.

Of course, they didn't care for my ending much and they sure as hell let me know it.



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[Lauren Hynde]

I am currently working on one. It should be ready within a couple of weeks.

It is not about hypnotists or ancient talismans that turn their bearers into ravenous lust beasts.

I think this category is the perfect ground for erotica with an edge, including Cyberpunk...

 

[Lovepotion69]

Nothing wrong with that ending Killermuffin.

Lauren, looking forward to reading your story. I haven't read much in this category. Just copied a few stories now, and will read later on.

Honestly, the first thing that pops into my head when hearing the words "mind control", is some psycho freak who messes with my head. Kinda like some bad boy who treats the girl like crap, but she still sticks with him. After that I think of hypnosis and such.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

In every seduction is a certain degree of mind control. In every erotic/pornographic story is a certain degree of exploitation of another human being for our own primordial benefit.

Mind control stories can very well simply push those concepts to the edge, feed on very real if ruthless processes. I think it has a lot of potential, done the right way...

 

[KillerMuffin]

You could approach it as you would any other conflict. What would someone do if they suddenly had the paranormal ability to control other people? What would happen if s/he's always had this power, but kept it under control, and someone forced him/her to use it in some way?

Try out different characters. A priest, a cop, a hooker, a pimp, a waitress, an executive secretary, the quiet guy in the cubicle.

 

[raphy]

Is this something you're considering writing and don't know where to start, LP?

 

[soupwarsproject]

Mind-Control...

Well...

Having survived some rather awful shit that left me brainwashed for years until I was deprogrammed, I've had a rather weird fascination with the topic, but not necessarily as a turn-on. Then again, my main interest is dark erotica. That type of erotica is not necessarily about being satisfied so much as it is about the dark side of arousal. That's my opinion anyway

One of my first dark erotica short stories to be published, "Piano Gren*Dahl" explored different forms of mind-control and their power to civilize or dehumanize a person. The mind-control methods I used in that story were:

1- Storytelling: The story itself illustrates how the author's internal dialogue on how she is attempting to manipulate the reader's emotions. She also comments on fairy tales and their historical role in socializing children.

2- Media: The author superficially rails against the exploitation of human emotion by television and the media. At the same time, it is obvious that she is obsessed with a rather violent sexual crime story that follows on TV for several months. At several points, she even fantasizes and speculates about the relationship between the serial killer and one of the victims with voyeuristic glee. Mind-control for ratings!

3- Sexual Violence: The villain of the author's fantasy uses non-consensual sexual violence, bondage, et cetera to control the victim at the begining of the story. At first, the mind-control works, but eventually the victim becomes numb to it, as it often happens in real life.

4- Religion and the supernatural: The villain of the author's fantasy uses religious imagery to control his victim's mind long after the efficacy of violent actions has worn off. Eventually the victim becomes so brainwashed that his beliefs actually become "alive" in her mind. Her faith supercedes the fear of her captor and turns against him, while at the same time becoming just like him.


I also did a rather creepy mind-control scene for the multi-book Soup Wars Project. The sequence involved brain implants that basically caused twelve women to become seductive human "robots" whose job consisted of grooming their masters. Eventually, they women were all released from their mental binds. One of them, however was so brainwashed by the end of her service that she was still a willing slave even after the implant was disabled. It's not a happy story, but I did find the psychology behind it to be rather interesting.

Anyhow, I'm rambling here... I uploaded both to Literotica and hopefully if they get published, you might want to dissect them yourself. Maybe, they achieve what I want them to achieve, or maybe I'm just egotistical and full of shit. I don't know for sure. Hopefully, I'll get some feedback and find out.

Cheers,
Vas of the SoupWarsProject

 

[soupwarsproject]

I actually liked the ending. It's not happy, but considering the protagonist's frame of mind...

Yep. I surely did.

I just gave the guy the mental powers to control others. I didn't explain it, didn't give him a background or a history to show how he might be supernormal. I just did it. I think a lot of people go this route. You can also do things with machines, drugs, divine intervention, whacks on the noggin, whatever makes you happy.

Of course, they didn't care for my ending much and they sure as hell let me know it.



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[Lauren Hynde]

About a year ago I read an erotic novel by Nicholson Baker called The Fermata. It's not exactly Mind Control, but close enough. It was about a man who had the ability to stop time more or less at will. Like KM was saying, this too makes us wonder what would any of us do if we suddenly found out we had this kind of power?

He often would undress a particular woman that had caught his attention, or run to her apartment and snoop around. He would never force himself sexually, and always returned everything to normal before the time flow was restored, so the "victims" were unaware anything had happened. However, we was then prepared to approach them knowing exactly what type of people they were, what to expect. He'd also use the extra time to write erotic stories...

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

I've been thinking a lot about my next project, I had an idea for a current-day sci-fi story involving a serial kidnapper who uses mind control. I was maybe gonna tackle it from an X-files type perspective, following the two agents trying to track down the kidnapper before he strikes again...

With all this current talk about cyberpunk, maybe I'll use a c/p flavour. Would make for some interesting action scenes (I hadn't planned any of those, but...)

ax

 

[dr_mabeuse]

There's an entire site dedicated to this:

http://www.mcstories.com/


The most basic Mind Control story line is also probably the most basic human sexual fantasy: what if I could make him/her do whatever I wanted? That's what it comes down to, and how can you hate something as direct as that?

I read a lot of MC stories but have never written one. They run the gamut. The victim might be reduced no more than a zombie, or they might be fully conscious but find themselves doing things they don't understand.

I guess the reason that I've never written one is simply because the most interesting thing to me is the psychology of the characters, and few of these stories pay much attention to that. They usually concentrate on the physical side of sex. The woman (and the victim is most often a woman) is really not much more than a sex dummy.

A cool subgenre is where the story's told from the victim's point of view.

---dr.M.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I guess the reason that I've never written one is simply because the most interesting thing to me is the psychology of the characters, and few of these stories pay much attention to that. They usually concentrate on the physical side of sex.

That means the stories you're reading are usually crap. The expression Mind Control should be enough to give authors a hint.

 

[Guest]

Mind Control should be enough to give authors a hint.

Ah, Lovely Lauren, that is so dear of you. You've convinced me to read The Fermata.

Perdita

 

[TheEarl]

Most of the people who I know on Lit don't like mind control stories, because quite often the characters end up as brainless fucktoys. I think it was Bridgetkeeney (Although I'm almost certainly wrong, so feel free to correct) who said that a lot of mind control was like snuff because one of the characters was effectively dead.

I do write a lot of mind control, but most of that is aphrodisiacs. I like to get my characters horny, not braindead.

One of the better mind control stories that I've read is written by JustJohn1, called Mental Telepathy. The title may sound like a bit of a tautology, but it is a very good story and one of my favourites on Lit. It's different, because the mind controller can't actually control his power and it comes as a surprise to him when he discovers it: http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=112257.

The Earl

 

[KillerMuffin]

I don't like mind control because to me, it's the worst kind of rape there is. Not only are you violating the person's body, but you are violating the mind--the sacred place where a person is solely a person and belongs solely to the self--in a way that's indefensible. This is why I made my mind-controlling protagonist a serial killer.

The nice thing about mind control is that it really doesn't exist the way fantasies present it.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I wrote a Mind Control story for Survivor Contest last year, and it was one of my worst stories EVER. I just can't relate to people who have sex without both parties being 100% consenting, and atleast 200% eager.

I wrote about a weird magician, who created a potion that turned the princess into his sex slave.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I don't like mind control because to me, it's the worst kind of rape there is. Not only are you violating the person's body, but you are violating the mind--the sacred place where a person is solely a person and belongs solely to the self--in a way that's indefensible. This is why I made my mind-controlling protagonist a serial killer.

Isn't the entire Talisman series Mind Control, really?

 

[Lovepotion69]

Is this something you're considering writing and don't know where to start, LP?

Actully, I started a new story the other night. I'm writing it more in script style, than my usual story style. I just started playing around with different writing styles, and ended up with something like a movie script. The main reason I'm keeping it up (apart from the fact that it's going strangely easy), is that I need to practice dialogue.

I haven't planned anything in the plot, have no clue what's gonna happen, but slowly starting to get some ideas. For some reason I have an idea of a man who gets possessed by the thought of a woman. Think femme fatale. Think psycho girlfriend. Think a female player.
I have a vision of her messing with his mind, and emotions. Soupwarsproject has pointed out pretty much what different types of mind control there are.

I'm mainly just asking as I'm curious who has written for this category, and if everyone has stuck to the whole hypnosis and super-natural angle. Heck, I'm not even sure if my story will end up in this category.

 

[raphy]

I haven't planned anything in the plot, have no clue what's gonna happen, but slowly starting to get some ideas.

Yay! Best way to write! Let us know how it goes, hehe

 

[oggbashan]

I have written one story "Hypnotic" which you can find in the link to my stories below.

I tried to explore the issue of consent to mind control for a good reason that is then taken too far.

Og

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't like mind control because to me, it's the worst kind of rape there is. Not only are you violating the person's body, but you are violating the mind--the sacred place where a person is solely a person and belongs solely to the self--in a way that's indefensible. This is why I made my mind-controlling protagonist a serial killer.

The nice thing about mind control is that it really doesn't exist the way fantasies present it.

Well, they can be that way, and that's probably the most common type of mind control story, but they don't have to be that way.

Mind control can work both ways. What if you've got a man who believes he can control women's minds? How might he act that would be different from normal? What if a woman wanted to pretend she was under his control? How would he act then?

I played in a SRP game in which the gimmick was a drug that everyone believed had aphrodisiac properties. People were running around trying to be with certain other people when they thought the drug was going to be administered. That was fun.

Then there's imagining what it would actually feel like to be made to lust after someone by mind control. Would you wonder why you'd never noticed how beautiful this person was before? Why you suddenly wanted to do things that had always turned you off before? Would you maybe know that you were being manipulated, but found that you still wanted to do these things anyhow?

As in anything else, you're just limited by your imagination. Unless someone's controlling your mind and making you write the story in the first place


---dr.M.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Good point, Dr. M. I should say that I don't like bad mind control smut that's just in it to get off on victimizing the victim. I'd say woman, but they do it to men, too.

 

[Icingsugar]

I dunno. Mind control seems to bee a bit too...simple. I might consider writing a MC story, if I could find an interresting angle to the wole thing. I mean, it's either "A meets B. A makes B's body do stuff that B don't wanna. A and B do the stuff." or "A meets B, A makes B think she wanna do stuff. A and B do the stuff."

If I could find an approach that wasn't just that, or a slight variation of above examples, then sure.

One of my dormant story ideas might be just that. It involves a cupid figure gone renegade. Pairing pepole up for his own amusement more than for the sake of universal love and whatnot. "A Midsummer Night's Dream part II, The Return of Puck" or something like that... Would that qualify as MC?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I dunno. Mind control seems to bee a bit too...simple. I might consider writing a MC story, if I could find an interresting angle to the wole thing. I mean, it's either "A meets B. A makes B's body do stuff that B don't wanna. A and B do the stuff." or "A meets B, A makes B think she wanna do stuff. A and B do the stuff."

If I could find an approach that wasn't just that, or a slight variation of above examples, then sure.

I don't think the subject appeals to women the way it appeals to men. Men are just so physical that most of them probebly wouldn't mind screwing a zombie. I don't think a woman would find that the least bit appealing, though 'd be willing to be proven wrong.

In fact, now that I think of it, I can't remember ever seeing a story where a woman controlled a man's mind. I've seen women write stories where other women have their minds controlled, but never where they get to call the shots. I would love to see something like that: just what a woman would have a man do if she had total control of him.

---dr.M.