Saturday, October 24, 2020

"Happy" Erotic Humiliation Day 2020


 Every fourth Saturday in October is National Erotic Humiliation Day. This year shit is getting intense in my country with White supremacy operating at an accelerated rate while 200,000+ people die from COVID because no federal guidelines have been established to contain the spread. Humiliation is about vulnerability, and I'm tired of seeing people I care for harmed by people who enforce policies because they fear being vulnerable. Vote, organize, support communities, donate to grassroots organizations, march, do what you can to support those who are feeling scared and hopeless to these upcoming weeks.   

I recently attended Princess Kali's class on Erotic Humiliation and I would HIGHLY recommend. Not only did Kali provide an amazing 2-hour (with no breaks) lecture on how to ethically practice humiliation kink, she approached it from a sociocontextual cultural perspective, highlighting the emphasis on cultural factors that influence what people find humiliating. As a counseling psychology student, I am trained to understand mental health and practice from a social justice lens. This includes understanding oppression of marginalized identities and how silence or avoiding discussion of these topics can strengthen oppression. As an example, colorblindness, the idea that "race does not matter" is a way in which white supremacy is maintained by trying to say someone does not see race and as such, racism isn't there. However, racism is not just a neo-nazi spouting off racist slurs (although it's certainly happening a lot in public now that 45 has empowered them), it can also be the subtle, silent form of discrimination, like a doctor under diagnosing a health condition for a black patient. To my surprise, Princess Kali was very comfortable addressing culture through a critical lens. My experience with kink spaces is that they are predominately white and the folks in these spaces are very uncomfortable talking about culture and oppression. Princess Kali did a great job highlighting that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we may be acting on dynamics of oppression. While we cannot avoid acting on them at times, we can be culturally mindful about how we act on them. She uses sissification and servitude of men as an example, highlighting that this type of play comes from sexist, patriarchal norms and acts out these oppressive dynamics. What makes it possible to change, is how one can identify that they are engaging in these oppressive norms and ensure that they are not actively enforced outside of play or on the involved players without leaving them feeling empowered after.

Embarrassed nude females is also part of oppression. This fetish stems from misogynist themes of stripping someone without their consent. Although it was used as a comedy trope in a lot of 60s comedies, it ranges from a form of sexual harassment (peeping in someone's room) to sexual assault (ripping their clothes off). Often times, this trope was a male doing this to a female, adding to it a patriarchal theme of male dominance in a man taking control by objectifying a woman's body when she did not want to. The embarrassment aspect, requires that the person being stripped does not want to be seen, and in this lies the lack of consent. So now that I've broken down my favorite kink of all time, how on earth can I enjoy something that in reality, is horrible? The answer, is it is a kink of mine, I find it very arousing. I don't know entirely why my body reacts in a pleasurable way to these images, I do know that the history of sexism in media led to this trope in the 60s and 70s and even the 80s, so when I was growing up I was exposed to these images. We understand now that such behavior is not okay, and in reality would be harmful and traumatizing to someone. What matters now, is what we do to not enforce this harm by normalizing it in real life settings. This is why romantically, I have not engaged in any humiliation play with my partners because none of them find humiliation or embarrassment arousing. I have talked about my kink with them, but I have known that they do not want to be humiliated or embarrassed and I do not push for this because I understand that my kink is MY kink, it is not to be enforced on someone else.

My choice to write lesbian erotica stemmed from taking the male-identified character out of the equation. As a cisgender heterosexual male myself, I understand that my stories and myself can never be immune from criticism of objectifying female characters. Although my attempts to avoid the male gaze by not writing male-identified characters comes from a place of good intention, I am also writing about characters whose identities are not my lived experience. I am not free from bias or inauthentically capturing someone's story. I also must acknowledge that as a cis-het writer, it can also be harmful writing these stories as I may be misrepresenting experiences in erotica. Early on when I started, I know I poorly wrote sex scenes between women that was based on my own lack of knowledge and instead, were influenced by porn. That resulted in an overemphasis on orgasms, that sex had to end in orgasm. This perpetuates heterosexist/misogynist norms and assumptions about sex needing to be about a goal or that the only sex that is valid is one where orgasm is achieved. This is also not true and an assumption that I need to challenge. As I evolve as a writer, I am questioning the need for this to occur in stories, or for any sex at all to happen in a story about humiliation. Although enf comes from a practice of non-consent, I try to write characters where there is at least some consent between them. In Reconciling, Robin is exposed when her ex walks into her after she willingly takes her dress of to clean it. In The Suit, Riot is forcibly stripped of her armor, but the humiliation is when she consents to following The Mistress through the bank, in just her panties, because she needs to be rescued. Non-consensual stripping still occurs in this story, but the focus of the story is not about the man who strips her (he gets pantsed and knocked out), the focus of the story is between the two female superheroes. I will always be thinking about these issues as I write more stories and while I will never be completely absolved of criticism or being called out, I can choose to actively engage in this dialogue. I will always need to do this work.

What I like about Princess Kali's approach to kink is that she approaches play through emotions. She encourages you to ask less about what the activity is and instead, what emotion are you trying to tap into? Embarrassed Nude Female for me is less about seeing a naked woman, and more about how a female identified character achieves vulnerability. You can find Princess Kali's book on erotic humiliation on her website. I would highly recommend you check it out in celebration of Erotic Humiliation Day.

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Featured writer: Mirandapanda84

Minrdapanda84 is an enf writer who has been working on a long ongoing fantasy enf saga called James the Peasant Knight, a story about James, who travels to fight his sister Nina, who has turned evil and wishes to take over the world. During his travel he comes across various enemies, sorcerers, witches, sellswords, soldiers, monsters, all of whom suffer the fate of being stripped naked to some degree. I found Miranda's stories on a forum and immediately became hooked when she wrote about my favorite type of enf, being stripped in battle. I find fighters losing and then being stripped naked is a particularly delicious humiliation. Their identity is tied to their ability to defend themselves and seeing them stripped down as they cover their privates leaves them defenseless.

Miranda is one of the (apparent) smaller population of female enf writers out there (for others, look for NoComeupance, NaughtyKittyVicki, and K.C. Silkwood). A few weeks ago Miranda asked a question about the differences in approaches to writing enf stories between men and women and I thought that was a great question. To pick her brain a bit more, I reached out to interview her and she was nice enough to give some informative and personal answers to her process. 





1. How long have you been writing stories?
hmmm I think I started writing after college so I guess that's over a decade of writing now 



2. When did you first discover the enf fetish and what about it appealed to you?
I think it was actually an enm first, I think it was a cartoon and it didn't show anything, but the villain was attacked by a dog and the good guy said something like "Oh he's wearing polka dot underwear" and then the sidekick said "not anymore." So its implied that the dog ripped his underwear off, so he was defeated and naked. I was taken aback and intrigued to say the least. Cartoons have a lot of EUM moments, and I liked to imagine women in such situations, and there are a few hehe.





“No! Stand back!” But it was too late as James slashed off Elisa’s armor. “Eeek!” Elisa screamed as a pink lacey bra and panty set came into view for all to see. Her skin had an amber glow to it and was more slender and elegant than James had ever seen.

“Wow I didn’t expect such fancy smallclothes on you. Where are you running off to?”

Elisa attempted to run in order to keep as much dignity as possible. “No! Stay away! I yield!” This never happened in the adventure stories! “Our swords are yours, we are yours to fight, but please I YIELD!” She ran as fast as she could with her behind bouncing back and forth as she attempted to flee, showing a little more than she expected."




3. Was there any particular image/clip you saw that“clicked?”

I'd say this clip always spoke to me hehe. She just seemed all so powerful up until the dinosaur ripes a hole in her dress exposing yellow underwear. And then she starts screaming in terror and runs away with the dinosaur trying to bite her bottom, all power and prestige lost in an instant. That its rather comedic just makes it even better. I just wish I knew what they were saying.

4. You created a massive saga with James thePeasant Knight, tell me about the genesis of this story and why you wanted to write a fantasy series.

I've always been a fantasy fan, I like Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, you name it I like it. There's something so majestic about the genre. And I thought it would be fun to create ENF situations in a fantasy realm, so I went for it, and after more than 100 chapters it is drawing to a close

5. There are many enf tropes used in the series,what was your process in choosing what humiliating fate to write about for eachchapter? Was there any thought about things that might seem “stale” or “overused?”

I just kind of went with what would cause the most distress to the victims ego. For instance Samira tries to act nonchalant and zen, so I have to chip away at those two until she's totally not nonchalant (chalant?) and unzen. While with the Witch I tried to slowly build up her ego until it was at maximum extent and then wanted to give her every possible humiliation with a few new ones such as classroom humiliation and woman vs brat. While for Tshara it was building up her horniness at the mere thought of getting stripped and when she does get stripped she can't help but pleasure herself. I tried to make everything go with the character, but sometimes its just well you're getting naked, deal with it the best that you can hehe.

"The reports that Tshara’s intelligence network was bringing in were beyond disturbing. The chatter was all over the place and the captain found it hard to believe it all. The Three Terrors of the Witch were defeated by this James the Peasant Knight. And according to some of the reports all three of the acolytes were stripped naked and paraded around town in disgrace. Could that possibly be true? Such chaos brought down on three agents of the Witch? Would that happen to…….her if this James were to defeat her in battle? The captain was surprised to feel a warm dampness between her legs. That was….odd…..why did she feel a strange thrill from thinking of herself in that situation. Regardless Tshara had one of the brightest strategically minds in the entire WIF, so this should be a non-issue. But still her strange reaction to thinking of herself stripped naked worried her. "

6. Panties are a big factor in humiliation for manyof the characters, why do you think they make an effective storytelling evicein regards to humiliation?

As a woman I can tell you that the most private possession that one has is your panties. Guys just buy whatever, but I for one take a long time looking for what I like, so panties say a lot about women. If they are lacey, if they are goofy, if they have a flag on them, etc. Its an intimate choice that we usually only show to our lovers, or we might just show one kind to our lovers (fancy sexy kind) So if it is exposed publicly it adds to the humiliation, especially if they are goofy or extra sexy because it says something about you that you didn't want the world to know.

"A flash of light blasted through the entire palace of the Titan Soul as Izra's thousand screams echoed across every room in the highest of pitches. Esmeralda covered her eyes from the blinding blast and it took her a while to open them again. She slowly made sure that all of her body parts were still attached and then burst out laughing when she looked towards her foe. All light energy had drained out of the ArchTitan and he wore one of the most dumbfounded faces Esmeralda had ever seen with his mouth hanging open with drool dripping down, his formerly perfect blond hair was in utter mess with some pointing up, left, down, and right. Unfortunately for the ArchTitan the large amount of energy he drew in also caused most of his expensive clothes to evaporate, leaving him in only a very revealing pair of pink panties with a purple bow on top. His pale lanky frame was totally exposed, his arms were lean with only a small amount of muscle, he had only a couple of blond chest hairs with the rest of his pale chest completely exposed, he certainly would not be considered muscular, but there was an elegance in his form, almost feminine."


7. As an enf writer who also reads enf stories,what do you like out of an enf story?
I've always been a fan of villianeses getting their comeupance. I really enjoy the moment they are on top of the world and the instant of realization that its all about to go to hell for them and then they become powerless, naked, and completely vulnerable. It's that turn from arrogance to humiliation that I love.

I generally like women that aren't conventionally attractive, for instance I have a thing for skinny pale characters with small breasts (it might be because well that's my body type lol), but also enjoy chubby characters, big booty characters, and a variety of characters. I guess I have a thing for writing redheads as I notice I have a lot of redhead characters (Nina and Elisa)

This might make some people angry, but I was never into the kind of ditsy blond with big breasts and a beach tan character, they tend to turn me off of the ENF story hehe.


“Okay your turn Ivana.”

“Alright fine…..I’ll run away with you losers…..” Ivana gave her hand to Elisa and they both suddenly vanished.

James swerved to the side as Elisa suddenly phased in next to him. “Wow you scared me there Elfy…..where’s our local rebel?”

There was sweat running down Elisa’s forehead as she pointed next to her and spoke with a tired voice. “What do you mean? She’s right……oh……oh no……” The High Elf was only pointing at a pile of clothing. There was the wide brimmed hat, the dark cloak, and the form fitting boiled leather outfit that Ivana always wore.

James covered his mouth in surprise as he dug through the pile and pulled out a rather skimpy set of panties. “Oh dear….I think our local rebel will be missing this a lot at the moment.”

Elisa searched left and right. “I….I….I….oh no…….I was too low on magical strength…..she could have been sent anywhere!”

James couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “Are you telling me that at this very moment…..our little rebel is somewhere around here…..butt naked?”

“Well…..technically speaking…..that is correct….”

“But where is she? Wow….wait a second….” James found Ivana’s bra and noticed something very interesting. “She……she…..she stuffs her bra hahahahahaha!”

Elisa rolled her eyes. “I knew those looked unnatural…..”

Then a high pitched voice started to yelp out in the distance. “PUT THAT DOWN THIS INSTANT!”

The three searched the area to find the source of the sound and then looked up at the roof of the Tesla manor. Hanging on to the lightning rode at the very top with wind blasting her dark luscious hair left and right was a very naked Ivana Hellsing. James had never seen someone as pale as Ivana as she huddled next to the lightning rode showing only her round and full bottom. "
 


8. We recently had a discussion about enf storieswritten by authors identifying as men, which seem to be the majority of enffans, and stories written by women. Is there anything you’ve noticed in enfstories written by men as they typically write from an experience that is not their own.

I actually can't say that I have seen a difference. I think it's mostly each person's individual style. Perhaps men writers write their characters to be more attractive in their strip while I write them to be more embarrassed? But that is probably not true across the spectrum. I imagine most female ENF writers imagine the situations happening to them, which I think is different from male writers, but I don't think that's reflected on the writing.

9. How is it to come to the end of the James thePeasant Knight series? What projects do you have in the future?

Well I'm currently writing the last chapters and we shall all see what happens :) I guess I tried to up the stakes and have the whole "the universe is at stake!" type of thing going on. Which might be kind of prosaic, but oh well, I wanted big stakes for the end.

I'm bouncing a few projects in my head. I'm thinking of one set during the Roman Empire, one set in the Overwatch universe, finishing up Commander Calisto, and probably more stuff hehe.


10. What would you like to see in the enf community moving forward?

I'm really happy with the enf community tbh. I'm not sure what else I'd want, perhaps an interactive one where the writer posts a pic in their underwear like I did hehe. I think there were a couple other girls that did that, someone called Ticktok that liked to poss as Captain Hook and a French girl that had rabbits on her panties...I think those are two good examples hehe.

11. Also,fun question, Fiora from League of Legends is your avatar, is your reason forusing her enf related?

It's actually how I imagine Lucia would look like, so I made her my avatar.

12. About other female identified writers: Do you ever talk with them about their process or just love of enf?

I would love to chat with other female ENF writers, but I'm not connected with any active writers. Perhaps I'll take a look around deviantart and be sociable. I'd like to know more about their writing process. 

13. About your recent pic that you posted: I know you took it down, but i was wondering about the actual embarrassment you felt and what that was like for you after it was posted, just as someone who has written about it so much, it was so brave of you to put yourself in that situation even for a little bit.

Writing a story and posting a picture that went with it was rather thrilling. I actually thought of it after checking out Helena's gallery and I said "I would never be brave enough to do that." But then I started asking why not and started getting more and more excited about the prospect. Finally I said, you know what, people go to the beach just like this, so I decided to go for it. And it was interesting just waiting to see peoples responses as my readers got to take a look at my behind hehe. Then I thought that it was enough time for it to be up, because I don't want it to go all over the web or anything like that, just a little thank you to the readers hehe.

You can read Mirandapanda's stories here








Sunday, May 10, 2020

Featured artist: HitchToons


If you would've told me back in 2003 when I first discovered enf that artists would be creating their own animation, I wouldn't have believed you. Enter HitchToons

HitchToons is a UK artist who creates enf artwork and animation. His enf content is focused on scenarios where the person is unaware that they are naked, such as stripping my telekinesis, paranormal forces, or invisible clothes coming to life. A noteable things about HitchToons’ work is that he is now starting to create animation, something that used to be rare in the enf genre. Like many artists, I found HitchToons’ work on DeviantArt and became an avid follower. His animation clips are great quality, from the vibrant colors of the art, to the use of voice actors and sound edited in. As more animation in enf becomes popular, I wanted to feature HitchToons’ work and listen to another UK artist talk about enf. Enjoy!





Q. how long have you been creating art?

A. Most of my life really but I'd say in my teen years it started to kick off, I started doing comic books in High School and I would spend my time in the Library doodling.

Q. how did you first discover enf and what about it appealed to you?
What inspired you to create enf art?

A. I think when I started watching B movies in my teens it expanded my imagination, Invisibility was the thing that interested me the most so I started doing art relating to that.

Q. It seemed that for the longest time, enf in animation was rare unless it was commercially done. What was the genesis of you creating the animated shorts you've been making?

A. Well I've always wanted to do animation when I went to College but I couldn't hack it (this was 2006) but I have been self teaching the tools and in recent history I was able to create them. I always looked for ENF animations but not many out there so I decided hey why not make my own and I can direct the scenes myself.



Q. Enf tropes usually involve the setup to the stripping followed by the resolve of the person lodging their clothes and their reaction. Does this dynamic differ in animation vs still art? If so, how does it differ?

A. Yes I see alot of the surprised reaction type ENF like the "Benny Hill" style but I like the unaware strippings and reaction at the end or none at all. I like this idea as I love casual nudity so it fits with both. It also has a paranormal element to it i.e hypnosis or ghost stripping.



Q. I've noticed a lot of living clothes fetish pieces on DA lately, where a character's clothes come to life and walk away. What about the living clothes trope do you enjoy in enf?

A. Oh the paranormal angle works very well with living clothes especially with Ghost or telekinesis. There is a big fanbase out there. I think the popularity stems from the uncontrollable situation that the ENF crowd love and the Embarrassment that follows, it can fit into any scenario.



Q. ENF is not a common fetish, once you discovered it, did you feel alone/ashamed of your kink or did you know of others who shared an interest?

A. I felt non of those really I just did it and see if anyone liked my style and ideas, it could be said about writers of ENF too.

Q. how did you discover other enf lovers on the internet and how did you find your "community?"

A. DeviantArt was the platform I uploaded my adult content as not many other Art websites would allow it. I started posting ENF stuff in 2017 with alot of reaction and comments which brought in a conversation. I was able to find a community on DeviantArt, one of the first artist to reach out to me was a DA member called TrippingEther, since then we livestream together and we set up a Discord and I even met Him when I visited the United States. I'd recommend checking out His channel too.

Q. I'm seeing more animation vids being created using 3d models as well as animation. how do you see Enf art evolving? where would you like to see it go?

A. The 3D model stuff is amazing. I've seen animation become popular too as it's light hearted slap stick. I'd like to see more Sci/Fi, paranormal ENF in the future such as Invisibility and magic stripping i.e clothes disappear in the middle of a meeting. These's so much creativity from the community and I would urged more artists to explore it and don't feel "Embarrassed" doing Embarrassment content.



 Q. Regarding your focus on Invisible/telekinesis/ghost stripping, what B movies or any other media are your favorites that you remember?

A. I remember movies like the Invisible Maniac and Tales from the crypt had some good ENF scenes, I've also seen some Japanease B movies which no longer can be found on the internet, lost in history.

Q. I think this might be the first time I’ve heard someone talk about artists feeling embarrassed about embarrassment content. Is this a common concern artists have shared? What is the embarrassment about do you think?

A. I think it boils down to ridicule , some artists feel like they can't create things because of negative feedback same goes for any artistic medium. My advice to any artist who is Shy ..."never pre judge what your audience will think, let them view the work. Also never feel like you have to justify your work, we are all different that's what makes us unique. Whats the worst that could happen?". I've seen some amazing artwork and comicboks in the fetish artworld from breast expansion to tickling feet.



Q. How can people best support your work?

A. You can find me on deviantart under HitchToons where you can buy some of my E-Comics via the HitchToons store Gallery , if you want to donate to me you can do via the link www.paypal.me/hitchartuk . Also I have a Patreon www.patreon.com/HitchToons where you can become a patron and get exclusive content not found anywhere else. I do commissions too , more info here https://www.deviantart.com/hitchtoons