Hi! Follow-up to previous anon, if you wouldn't mind. :]
Where do you personally draw the line between SFW and NSFW? I feel like it's a really blurry one around these kinky parts. Can be hard to know what even counts as NSFW sometimes, which makes many such disclaimers tough to interpret.
Especially for the type you mentioned, who doesn't necessarily need (or even desire) all the "sexy/touchy" stuff to get off... Yet who can get amazingly hot and bothered from the softest scenarios or most inconspicuous triggers. (Not me or anything...)
Ah, asexual confusion. đ
Asexual confusion, indeed, anon.
Sorry for the delay in answering this one! Iâll preface this by saying there is not a correct answer to this question. I think thereâs also a lot of⌠if not bad faith, then less-than-good faith perspectives about this from folks with axes to grind.
Also, this is gonna get long. Sorry.
So letâs address one thing: âsafe for workâ and ânot safe for workâ donât really mean what they say. Is it safe to listen to a relaxation file while youâre working? Not in most jobs. So hypnosis content is kind of all not safe for work on some level.
In essence, as the ask kind of gets at, SFW and NSFW, especially in hypnosis spaces, are shorthand for âhow adult-oriented or kink-oriented or sex-oriented is this going to get?â
In theory, this is a question purely about the content itself. Every file is tagged differently by the creator based on their read of its content. This means that (as anon observed) - the definition of SFW/NSFW is pretty relative to the experiences of the person saying which one it is.
I think, in general, that if something is labeled SFW in a hypnosis context, you can (or should) be able to assume that the file isnât going to have any overt or strongly implied sexual or kink content.
If it says NSFW? Then itâs more likely to have those things in it. The spectrum of for much of that content will be there is very wide indeed.
Iâm personally of the mind that SFW/NSFW should be a binary state. If youâre shopping for a file based on that, you should be able to count on an SFW file meeting that mark.
âThatâs all well and good, butâŚâ
The other wild card is what you mentioned, anon, about the fact that for many of us, hypnosis that would be to the average listener/viewer very tame hypnosis can *feel* very different for us.
I donât like most adult content generally. Itâs boring and kind of weird to me in most ways. Especially as someone on the ace spectrum, it just⌠doesnât hit. (And for folks who are sex-repulsed it can actually be pretty bad)
But I also can feel very turned on when a pretty voice tells me to go to sleep. Not always, but it can happen. Even more so, for a lot of folks, hypnosis is *inherently* sexual. For them a PMR induction can code as very sexy.
The solution? Tag your damn content. Tags help solve these problems. Describe what a file says/does and donât make people guess on their own.
Giving people more information to make better choices is a good, right thing, and it helps alleviate this issue altogether.
Anon, I want to dig into the whole ace/hypnosexual thing more in another post!