Nitpick - Senses

[g42]

"The nearly complete lack of sensory stimulation sharpens my senses."

I'm sorry if I'm picking on Ladyvet, I certainly don't mean to. This is something I've seen again and again.

It goes way beyond litporn. I think television has given us the idea that sight and sound are the two most important senses. I have no idea if humans are naturally centered on these senses, although I have heard that scent is the most easily remembered sense (or something like that). If anyone happens to have information about a time before TV and maybe even radio, I'd love to hear^H^H^H^Hknow about it.

But I digress. This is just me being an asshole again. Don't mind me if you don't want to. Like I said, Ladyvet, certainly nothing against you in particular. It just bugs me.

Like, I've seen authors talk about having all their senses cut off with a blindfold... left only with hearing, taste, touch and smell. agh.

Oh it's late and I might not be too lucid right now... :/

[GaryWilcox]

We're living in a world where nobody alive remembers what it was like to fear night.

In medieval times, the world dreaded sunset. Fire is a hard thing to control properly, and when the darkness did hide threats, firelight rarely softened the menace unless used as a weapon.

Sight is a hugely important sense, as is sound. Definitely. Without the two, we have touch as the next most reliable sensation, and when mobility is also stripped, touch is effectively taken away as an exploratory sensation beyond the immediate area.

Scent would fall next to last. Although natural human instinct is often tied to scent (when to have sex, run when you smell smoke, run when you smell death, etc), that's one of the only two sensations she has much reign over currently-- smell and taste-- and considering the protagonists's position, perhaps the story needs greater concentration on what she smells as she lies there, but most people in that position would consider sight, sound and taste as the big three key to independence and, as a result, assured survival.

So, in summation, while I agree with you that the olfactory sensations are important, I think that most of us, if tied up in a nonconsensual way and our sight and hearing taken fromus, would go a little nuts not knowing what was happening around us. I think that smell is instinctual and that touch would be far more important to her-- what litle she has of it.

However, I do NOT think that you resemble an asshole, Mistress Spatula.

:p

[bbwolf]

I´m (again) not quiet sure what this is about, but I´ll tell my opinion anyway. Well, okay. I tell you a poem which aroused my intrest in some certain devices and how to play with the senses of my "victims". Cause theý only got two senses left. Not just only removing sight, but taste and hearing, too. All that´s left is touch´n smell. I found it in a paperback with
Illustrations by "Bishop". [wow]


Heaven is a helmet

by "Nob"

Pull the laces harder master,
Make my helmet tight.
It´s so sexy when I´m cut off
From both sound and sight.

Once I´m snug inside my helmet
All my senses spin-
My attention´s focused solely
On my tender skin.

I can´t tell just how you´ll touch me-
Hard or soft or lazy;
All I know is that I love it
When you drive me crazy!

Fix my bondage so I´m fully
Under your control:
Tease my helpless body sweetly_
Tantalize my soul!

Finally, Master, when your finished,
Don´t just leave me tied:
Put it to me hot and heavy-
Leave me satisfied!



The first two paragraphs contain the key to a higher room of play fer me. After reading that I couldn´t stop thinkin about it. One time I had a partner which enjoyed breath play and we started tryin out different ways of almost complet sensor deprivation. Wow. And I often used earplugs and additional insulation plus, of course, blindfolds. Smoke from herbs ( no drugs;) ) and other scentsources helps to create a whole new world for the passiv player. An old stone and wet dust outa old basement can create
a real dungeon atmosphere in a cozy livingroom if you can only smell. Is that what you had in mind, Gwen?

:cool: