Previously published in Surrender and Submission. Digitally remastered.

Machine Sex. Bound and helpless, at the mercy of an implacable machine. For adults only: sexually explicit language and audio imagery combined with guided suggestion.

What might DEV be like? Your mind is very powerful, yet it goes about its business largely unnoticed by us in our everyday lives. Directed Erotic Visualisation works with the mind to access an altered state of awareness that takes you into an erotic, sensual place of physical and mental pleasure and stimulation.

We use altered states of mind in our daily lives to help us focus on what we are doing - watching TV and being engrossed in a movie, listening to a good book and really getting into the story, freeway driving and seemingly waking up as we near home, not recalling the journey, daydreaming. All these are altered states of concentration; some people prefer to use the word trance.

Directed Erotic Visualisation is merely another altered state. During DEV you become first relaxed and receptive, then very aware of yourself and your own sensuality. You are able to recall physical pleasures and erotic stimuli, becoming aroused as though you are fantasising towards an orgasm. Then there is the overlay of erotic story and scene, with detailed sensory description that fools your mind into thinking that you are actually experiencing those sensations. Your mental sensory filter is triggered by virtual signals not arising from anything real. These become indistinguishable from reality; in fact they become your reality for the time you are in the bubble of DEV. You feel the touch and caress, the kiss and bite, the penetration and skin-on-skin excitement. The sex feels real, the bondage feels real and the scenes in which you are placed all feel real at the time. The memories after the fact are as good as real memories, but you are usually always aware of the difference between the virtual and the real. (The virtual is often better!)

Directed Erotic Visualisation is a combination of simple techniques - easy breathing for relaxation teamed with gentle suggestion to promote visualisation. Together they work to help create a subjective reality where virtually anything is possible. Quality writing enhanced by expert narration generates an experience within that reality of sensuality and high erotic tension. The prerecorded audio experiences have proved to be very successful. Based on extensive listener feedback, reactions range from warm relaxation and freedom from stress to more than one third of experiences culminating in highly satisfying emotional releases.