WOW! I loved watching the Price is Right as a kid when I was sick and staying home from school. And being a kid with an already burgeoning hypnokink, I did imagine the Price is Right spokemodels being hypnotized.
Not that the following thing will make the last sentence seem any less strange (well, less strange to someone other than the hypnokinksters that are the members this forum), I remember some probably-early-to-mid-1980s paperback book called _Hypnosis: <some subtitle I forget>_ that claimed hypnosis was very commonly used on TV shows to prepare spokesmodels like the _Price is Right_ ones and dancers like the _Solid Gold_ dancers. (I'm pretty sure _Solid Gold_ was explicitly name-dropped. I don't think the _Price is Right_ was.) Now, I must admit even as a kid who read all the hypnosis books he could find (and read quite surreptitiously, I might add... I knew I was doing it for strange, naughty reasons, not legitimate, academic ones), I thought that claim was weird. I knew models and dancers can professionally *choose* to look a little plastic and vapid since that, alas, is what societally-prevailing beauty standards are. (I grew up in a progressive household.) But, man oh man, did that book cause me to stare at many a spokemodel and dancer on TV fantasizing "Wait, is she hypnotized? She sorta looks hypnotized?? Maybe?! God, I hope she was hypnotized."
And that's how I became the man you know today. The moral of the story is: don't let your kids read! Reading is dangerous!!
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