EMCSH: A Proposal to the Central Humanate
This post discusses and links to fetish fiction that features sexually explicit writing involving mind control and violations of consent as well as misogyny and transphobia.
Last time on the The Erotic Mind Control Story Hour I talked about Nice to Men by Limerick and this time I am sticking with with erotic horror dealing with patriarchy and misogyny, but in a very different form. A Proposal to the Central Humanate by calledbyflowers is an epistolary story that takes the form of a policy proposal to a fascistic, patriarchal regime that seeks to “[wreath the world] in language until it can be held in one hand and seen at one glance,” and suppress and destroy anything that falls outside of its narrow understanding.
The document, written in an academic style with citations to other fictional papers, wishes to propose, during a period of increased dissent and “degeneracy”, an extension of current social control methods to “underconditioned populations”. It talks around its central point, first seeking to define womanhood and pointing out that the sociological concept of a woman is actually quite recent, dating back only about fifty years before the time of writing, when the female population started being put through mental and medical conditioning to render them docile slaves. The word woman is never capitalised, even when used at the beginning of a sentence or as part of a proper noun, and the document does not use the term man as the counterpart to woman, but “human”.
As the proposal goes on it sheds some light on the hierarchical nature of the Humanate, with the author adopting a more and more deferential and servile tone, talking around their actual point as to not suggest that their proposal would mean that they are questioning their betters or the current system, as those who question the Central Humanate are questioning the will of humanity itself and thus declaring themselves to be non-human, not of the Volk. The Humanate distils fascist and patriarchal ideals to their purest form: The rendering of dissenters and divergents into subhuman objects coupled with the belief in the correctness of the exploitation of all objects for the benefit of those deemed to be human.
It is in this that document starts to lay out its proposal more plainly and in which the kink aspects of the piece become clear: Those who have proven themselves to be degenerate and non-human could be potentially rehabilitated into society by fitting them into the category of acceptably exploitable humanoid objects: i.e., they should be made into women. This is a forced feminisation story, one that takes the trope of “failed men” or “sissies” being forced to act as women and exaggerates it to an extreme political end.
Forced feminisation as a fetish can be a complicated thing. Many men enjoy it as a form of humiliation—there is after all, an intense stigma in society (our real one, not the Humanate) against men being perceived as feminine. Even today it is one of the most shameful things to be accused of being for most men. Forcefem play and fiction also often uses exaggerated ideas of femininity and feminine and submissive roles. Not just women’s clothes but lingerie, maid dresses, collars and
But it can also, inversely, act as a safer-feeling way to explore gender and sexuality—exploring femininity as a form of play bound to a specific context. Many trans women, even before realising that they wish to transition, use forcefem fantasies it as a way to experiment with gender and sexuality. If the idea of being a woman is shameful or unthinkable, then these kinds of sexual fantasies can be used to sublimate those desires into something that can be enjoyed while still holding them at arm’s length, both by pushing them into the realm of fantasy and also justified in a narrative where someone else is at fault for forcing one into these things that one cannot admit to craving. Hypnokink can operate in a very similar space and the two are often used together—“sissy hypno” is an entire genre onto itself.
The characters subjected to being forcibly feminised in fetish fiction are often happy about and thankful for what has happened to them in the end, and increasingly such fiction is written by trans authors and often explicitly incorporates the idea of the victim being a closeted trans person or an “egg”, someone who experiences gender dysphoria but has not consciously realised yet that they are trans, and sometimes genuinely has their life improved by it.
And within the fiction of A Proposal to the Central Humanate the author of the report is also engaging in directing shameful desires into sexual impulses and, in this case, a policy proposal. Once the author has finally laid bare their proposal to process degenerates as women they propose a test case on a willing subject: Themself. They confess to various crimes of degeneracy, homosexual activity and fantasies of sexual submission and continue to try and argue for their own subjugation in language that attempts, at first, to keep a neutral and academic tone but quickly devolves into obvious sexual fantasy and then just drops the pretence altogether and in a reverie begs for this to be done to her, preferring some happiness in living as a subjugated woman than facing the misery and alienation as living as a man in a sick and crumbling society. Which is, as they say, a mood.