Clearly, my numbering system is screwy.Clearly, my numbering system is screwy. From Nurse Jones, Well, the hypnosis is progressing. I know, I know, this is supposed to be something that only a qualified physician should do. Possibly so. I've asked around at the hospital as much as I dare, and the verdict seems to be that no lasting psychological damage could be done, even by a malicious hypnotist. I won't argue, though, we could be taking a chance screwing around with his sexuality, but all the authoritative references emphasize that it is impossible to make someone do something they really don't want to do. I read one refer- ence (by an MD, not a stage hypnotist) that said the mythology about the danger of hypnosis was started by psychologists as a turf-protec- tive strategy. References? There are hundreds. I used: LeCron: Self Hypnotism. Signet Pub. LeCron and Bordeaux, Hypnotism Today. Grune & Stratton, N.Y. Cooke and Van Vogt: Hypnotism Handbook, Borden Pub. Co., L.A. Weitzenhoffer: General Techniques of Hypnotism, Grune & Stratton. All in the local library. We read and talked it over endlessly. I am more afraid than he is. I like my men to be men. Not Arnold Schwartzenegger or Rambo, but not swishy either. Some of the most masculine men I've known were S.F. gays, oddly enough, and I don't mean the leather set, either. I guess being confident enough of your masculinity that you don't feel obliged to demonstrate it 24 hours a day is my definition of a Real Man. Which makes _them_ more masculine than the scratch-n-burp types from back home. I like to feel protected and cared for though, and ... hell, I don't know what I like anymore San Francisco, and relearned it in the hospital cafeteria recently. But I might have tendencies.... I've told J to stop reading ASB. I'll save the fun posts for him to read later, but here's where I ask for specific advice, and I don't want him to read it. |