My Dom and I have been in a D/s relationship for nearly a year now. We met at a munch, and we hit it off right away. We've both explored a bunch of eachother's kinks that the other was not that interested in, and every time it's been super fun and we've both really enjoyed it. Some of them have even become core parts of our dynamic!

But when it came to hypnosis, my Dom has always had a "no thanks" response to the idea. I didn't push it, I put it in the fantasy category and just forgot about it. It had always been a core kink of mine that I wanted to explore, but it was relatively easy to put it in a "not happening soon" place in my mind.

However, my Dom recently came to me about it saying that he might be interested! I was so excited! Instantly this forgotten interest in hypnosis fired up like no time had passed and I was reading stories, browsing hypnohub, and looking up advice on how to include hypnosis in a D/s Dynamic!

This was kinda a mistake :/ My Dom is very self driven, and needs to do things at his own pace. So when the first mention of Hypno led to an energetic flurry from an eager submissive, he felt super overwhelmed.

He told me to cool it, and tone it down a little. He has a major scepticism towards hypnosis and tends to think it's all a pseudo science, so he really needs to do his own research to feel confident that he can get into the idea. I totally get it. But the whiplash of not thinking about it, to getting excited, then shutting it down really hurt.

He's banned me from watching any Hypno vids or listening to any Hypno files (which is a negotiated thing) as he wants to have a "clean slate" when he starts doing things with me. I can respect the idea, but he can have a habit of his self driven projects taking months before he starts. And honestly, I don't know if I can just sit on this and wait for a second time like it's nothing.

Any advice for talking about Hypno with a skeptic? I know I'm being selfish, but what should I do? I don't want to push him, but just linking him to an article on hypnosis gets on his nerves. I know I should just swallow my tongue, but is there any way to talk him about hypnosis that won't come off needy and demanding? Is dropping it the best option? Am I an asshole just for pushing this much in the first place?

Any advice is handy! Thanks!