Harry Bradford reports on illicit recreational spending at political conventions (here), particularly looking at recent research that demonstrates conservative conventions spend much more on illicit recreation than liberal conventions. In particular, research has shown that in the United States, Republicans spend more on strippers and prostitutes than their Democratic counterparts. Since Republicans typically campaign on…
Monthly Archives: June 2012
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Culturally Based Psychological Optical Illusions
by Brian David Phillips •
The following Psychological Optical Illusion is a neat optical illusion, that will be seen differently by different cultures. The perception of the scene in the photo is largely determined by your culture and what part of the world you live in. So what did you see happening in the above picture? Tests were done with…
Special Features
Facebook Changed Your Email! Here’s How to Get it back.
by Brian David Phillips •
Facebook just removed everyone’s email address from their profile and replaced it with an @facebook.com email address without asking you. Here’s how to easily fix the problem. Facebook launched its own email service back in 2010, which was promptly forgotten by everyone. This morning, Forbes noticed that they removed everyone’s email addresses from their profiles,…
Animations
Yep, That’s Pretty Much the Way of Things
by Brian David Phillips •
Influence, Special Features
Pheromone Parties
by Brian David Phillips •
Amy Taxin has discovered a new trend in dating parties . . . nope, not speed dating . . . nope, not key parties . . . smell parties . . . that is, pheromone parties, to be specific. Students in my social communication course this year may recall our discussion of studies that looked…
imagines
Minimal
by Brian David Phillips •
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Cat Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
Look Into Meow Eyes
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Psyvibe Webinar Audio Recording
by Brian David Phillips •
On 17 June 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online workshop on PSYVIBE: Hypnotic Psychedelic Remote Control Vibrator Orgasm Conditioning via online webinar chat. The PSYVIBE online webinar session is an introduction to concepts related to hypnotically stimulating very intense positive states imbued with psychedelic characteristics and conditioned vibrational orgasms along the lines of guided…
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Erotic Hypnosis Psyvibe effects in the Public? Some Positive and Negative Example Videos
by Brian David Phillips •
Okay . . . it’s just a few hours before we being our next webinar, a very special topic that I know a number of folks are looking forward to . . . be sure to check out the event description and most certainly do join us for PSYVIBE: Hypnotic Psychedelic Remote Controlled Vibrator Orgasm…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnosis 911 as Second Hypnotist Rescues Students Stuck in Trance
by Brian David Phillips •
First off, while the story of Maxime Nadeau and his problematic hypnosis show in which he failed to emerge a few girls from hypnosis at the end of the show and had to call in an expert hypnotist for backup is fascinating, it’s also to impress upon folks that this is not a typical event…
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Massive Psyvibe Erotic Hypnosis Preview
by Brian David Phillips •
So, here’s some more erotic fun with vibrators in public as part of our preview of concepts that can be adapted to hypnotic contexts using methods from the upcoming PSYVIBE: Hypnotic Psychedelic Remote Controlled Vibrator Orgasm Conditioning on 17 June 2012, a Free Online Webinar. See https://briandavidphillips.net/2012/04/22/psyvibe-17-june-2012-free-online-webinar for details. First up, let’s have some fun…
Religion
Why are there Gay Men and Gay Women?
by Brian David Phillips •
Okay, this isn’t some big diatribe about rights or religion or anything of the sort . . . I’ve written plenty of those so you can go check them out on your own. Instead, here, we ask the question as to why are there gays and lesbians in the first place? Seriously, if the primary…
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Baby Worship and Ecstatic Trance
by Brian David Phillips •
You may have seen the animated gif above before or even the videos below. The little girl in these images is Ava Grace, her mother Rosie Cafarelli was shooting in-church video for a news story and caught Ava Grace in these worshipful moments. Now, there’s no way to know for certain if little Ava Grace…
Eroticatrance
Orgasm: the Cure for what Ails Western Women
by Brian David Phillips •
Nicole Daedone presents a TEDxSF talk on what she characterizes as . . . Orgasm: The Cure for Hunger in the Western Woman. Daedone is a public speaker, author, and educator focusing on the intersection between orgasm, intimacy, and life. She is the founder of OneTaste, evangelizing what she believes to be a new definition…
Hypnosis in the News
Guide to Hypnotic Language
by Brian David Phillips •
Shaahin Cheyene provides a simple guide to hot to use hypnotic language in an entry at the Huffington Post but starts off with a a misstatement. The bit starts off fine with an example I use quite a bit: Don’t think of a pink bunny. No, seriously don’t. Whether you like it or not, you…
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Engineering Sensual Hypnotic Remote Vibrator Effects
by Brian David Phillips •
So, I’m pretty sure you know what a remote control vibrator does . . . if not, the concept is pretty simple . . . a small radio controller is used by one person to trigger an intimate vibrator device usually inserted into a woman’s panties – positioned to rest gently against the clitoris –…
Eroticatrance
Does Extramarital Sex Cause Divorce?
by Brian David Phillips •
Robert Hughes Jr takes a look at current and past research on whether or not extramarital affairs are at cause when it comes to divorce. It used to be pretty clear to most sociologists – not backyard gossips, but academics who study these things – that while it is clear extramarital affairs are often a…
Music
Tripod vs the Dragon
by Brian David Phillips •
Lorraine, Kaye, and I just watched TRIPOD vs the DRAGON and had a wonderful time! It’s a full-on musical comedy delight as Tripod and special guest Elana Stone play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. I wasn’t familiar with Australian musical comedy troupe Tripod until stumbling across a couple videos on youtube and now I’m…
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Creative Problem Solving
by Brian David Phillips •
Using transcranial magnetic stimulation to stimulate certain areas of the brain and suppress others, researcher claims to temporarily turns one into a savant. Test subjects score three times better on math and problem solving tests. They also have greater artistic ability. Note that the judgement on some of these characteristics are obviously highly subjective. I…
Eroticatrance
Study Shows Women Lose Interest in SEX while Men Do NOT
by Brian David Phillips •
In her piece at the Mother Nature Network, Jennifer Abbasi discusses recent studies demonstrating that the longer a woman is in a relationship, the more her sexual desire decreases. Men reported no such decrease. This is pretty much what many people claim to have already known from experience: Women lose interest in sex over time,…
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Mr. Burns, Bart Simpson, and Post-Apocalyptic Awesome
by Brian David Phillips •
If you like, you can say this is not awesome . . . if you like . . . you’d be absofuckinloutely wrong but you can still say it. Yes, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is a stage drama that takes place just after the apocalypse with a group of survivors who amuse themselves by…
Hypnosis in the News, Special Features
Exercise may not be the Answer but Meditation or Focused Trance Lowers Heart Risk in Black Teens . . . and Pretty Much Everyone Else
by Brian David Phillips •
A whole lot of news blogs and more are abuzz about the recent controversial new research on adolescents and obesity that demonstrated that exercise is not as beneficial for black girls as it is for white girls in that while exercise had an obvious effect on heart disease for white teen girls it did not…
Eroticatrance
Listen as Gilbert Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades of Grey
by Brian David Phillips •
Famed “voice actor” Gilbert Gottfried reads the “mommy-porn” novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” and creates a living tapestry of erotic audio prose unlike anything you’ve heard before. Seriously, give it a listen here . . . you might be glad you did . . . either way . . . you can never unhear it.…
Eroticatrance
Hysteria, Vibrators, and Why Women Should Just Touch Themselves
by Brian David Phillips •
Brandi Megan Granett is upset about vibrators . . . or, rather, she is upset about what she thinks vibrators mean and she’s not happy about it . . . she writes in Hysteria, Vibrators, and Why Women Should Just Get in Touch With Themselves about the recent film Hysteria which explores the invention of…
Eroticatrance, Special Features
Sliding Pleasure
by Brian David Phillips •
Here’s a fun video pair . . . pleasure anchoring via an arm slide. Later, I played with the slide while she was in the audience. This was taken during a course I taught in India and is part of our Engineering eXperiential Ecstasy video course: SLIDING PLEASURE And the sequel . . . PASSIVE…