Magical erotic aids
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resonantSo I've been thinking about magic (of the Harry Potter universe variety) as applied to sex.
I've seen magical sex aids in a number of stories, but mostly they're just variations on a Muggle theme. (It's like "Penthouse" -- only the pictures move! It's like a vibrator -- only it can change shapes and textures!)
But it seems to me that magic could go so much further. If a witch or wizard went to the magical red-light district (what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaos_rose cleverly named Horizont Alley), wouldn't you think there'd be a much wider variety of devices available for purchase?
How about a glove charmed to do anything a hand can do? Perhaps it could even be charmed to imitate the feel of a particular hand -- for long-distance romances, say, or to broaden the market for some particularly skilled magical prostitute.
How about erotic scenes captured in a Pensieve, so you could experience them as though you were right there in the room?
How about something along the lines of the Mirror of Erised, except that instead of showing your heart's desire, it shows the desires from somewhat lower down?
(I'm not planning to do anything with any of these, by the way, so if anyone feels inspired to write something, be my guest. Just tell me where I can read it afterwards!)
I've seen magical sex aids in a number of stories, but mostly they're just variations on a Muggle theme. (It's like "Penthouse" -- only the pictures move! It's like a vibrator -- only it can change shapes and textures!)
But it seems to me that magic could go so much further. If a witch or wizard went to the magical red-light district (what
chaos_rose cleverly named Horizont Alley), wouldn't you think there'd be a much wider variety of devices available for purchase?How about a glove charmed to do anything a hand can do? Perhaps it could even be charmed to imitate the feel of a particular hand -- for long-distance romances, say, or to broaden the market for some particularly skilled magical prostitute.
How about erotic scenes captured in a Pensieve, so you could experience them as though you were right there in the room?
How about something along the lines of the Mirror of Erised, except that instead of showing your heart's desire, it shows the desires from somewhat lower down?
(I'm not planning to do anything with any of these, by the way, so if anyone feels inspired to write something, be my guest. Just tell me where I can read it afterwards!)
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Date: 8/27/03 05:32 pm (UTC)*grin* Thoughts? I love the pensieve idea, though I think it would be kind of creepy -- rather like voyeurism.
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Date: 8/30/03 12:50 pm (UTC)I can see other possibilities, though. One character could make a masturbation pensieve scene for a lover. Or two of a threesome could make a scene for the third. Or you could put your first time into a pensieve for your current lover to watch you with your former lover ...
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Date: 8/30/03 01:33 pm (UTC)Wait....
There it is.
The Kinky Pensieve. It's /the/ shop to go to for all your Pensieve needs...
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Date: 8/30/03 01:15 pm (UTC)It's a little tricky to apply this to existing HP characters, but bear with me and I'll show you what I mean.
Suppose you (let's call you A) have a lover named B. You're older, experienced, can play his body like a stradivarius, whatever -- but your relationship has no future, because you've known from the beginning that B was going to wind up with C. (Why? Maybe B has carried a torch for C all these years. Maybe B and C were betrothed as children in some odd wizard tradition. Maybe you're a forbidden lover for B, and you've known all along that he would throw you over for someone more acceptable to his family. Whatever.)
Anyway, the time has now come for your relationship to end. And you agree to make love to B one last time, knowing that he plans to store the memory in a pensieve to show to C. "Yes," you say, "I'll do it. I'll show C everything you like, exactly how you like it. Everything to make you scream."
Now, suppose that you're secretly in love with B.
Or suppose that you're secretly in love with C.
That has potential, doesn't it?
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Date: 8/30/03 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/30/03 01:35 pm (UTC)[snicker]
I don't know. It's interesting. It's kind of outside my usual kind of thing, and I'm still not sure I could apply it to any set of existing characters, but I might play with it, if no one else gets it first.
Forgot to mention that your take on the aphrodisiac potion is deliciously subtle. I'd love to see that one in action.
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Date: 8/30/03 01:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/30/03 01:53 pm (UTC)Well, if someone had to go away for a while, he might leave a bottle of that to console his lover in his absence.
Or it would make a lovely traditional anniversary gift from one partner to another, or a slightly naughty wedding shower gift.
It's also the sort of thing that would be likely to come up if wizards played some magical variant of Truth or Dare. (Maybe it's traditional to celebrate getting an Outstanding on your Potions N.E.W.T. with a rousing game of "What's In The Little Blue Bottle? Drink It And Find Out!")
Or if someone who was a little controlled and uptight coughLupincough asked for a little help from someone who was an expert potion maker coughSnapecough , and said potion maker felt that it would be irresponsible to dispense an experimental potion without being there to observe the effects ...
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Date: 8/30/03 02:22 pm (UTC)*wicked laughter*
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Date: 8/30/03 05:43 pm (UTC)I want the Snupin!
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Date: 8/31/03 02:22 pm (UTC)Christ, I need to stop accepting challenges.
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Date: 10/26/03 05:58 pm (UTC)*
hmm. it must be water. Some of us have that experience everyday in RL. We're the ones wearing silks and velvets and touching everything in a strokey, dreamy way.
and .. wearing clothing with others can be erotic too.
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Date: 10/26/03 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 8/30/03 01:17 pm (UTC)I'd love for it to be a challenge, too. How does one issue a challenge? You feel challenged? I double-dog dare you -- how's that?
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Date: 8/30/03 02:14 pm (UTC)::shakes fist of fury at Google:: Evil spying machine!
I'd love for it to be a challenge, too. How does one issue a challenge? You feel challenged? I double-dog dare you -- how's that?
ahahaha! Well, not very effective, because I wouldn't trust myself to write anything worthy of that particular challenge. But how does one issue a challenge? I imagine you could, you know, make up a few rules (because you CAN!), make up a deadline, make a cool graphic for it and slap it on your journal and say, "Look! I made a challenge! If you write it, I will host all the stories and much fun will be had!" You can also advertise it other places, of course. Then, the really fun part comes when it's getting closer to the deadline and you get to watch everyone on your friends page who signed up freaking out. bwahahahaha!
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Date: 8/27/03 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 8/30/03 01:20 pm (UTC)("Hagrid topping" is making me think of something you'd put on your dessert.)
As for the sexy pensieve, help yourself. Come back to the comments page, if you want to -- up above, I was doing some more thinking about it in my replies to Sam.
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Date: 8/27/03 06:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/30/03 01:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/27/03 09:00 pm (UTC)I actually stumbled across this while doing something entirely different, but it sounds like something Madam Pomfrey might prescribe for a couple having marital difficulties...
Sensuali Tea (http://www.dragonherbarium.com/bulktea-ing.htm) (enhances sexual vitality)
Ingredients: Rose Petals, Muira Puama, Cinnamon, Spearmint, Licorice, Ho Shou Wu, Damiana, Hawthorne, Sarsaparilla, Coriander, Nutmeg, Cloves
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Date: 8/30/03 01:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/31/03 03:50 pm (UTC)*squee*
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Date: 8/28/03 12:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 8/28/03 07:00 am (UTC)I vaguely recall that the fic was Hermione/Draco in nature but can't recall the author/title. I could probably track it down if anyone was interested, there are only a few places in which I've devoted the HP part of my fandom brain.
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Date: 8/28/03 07:11 am (UTC)<a href="http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Cassandra_Claire/"</a>
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Date: 8/28/03 07:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/3/03 04:16 pm (UTC)I don't know how well the scene stands alone, but it's in Chapter 12, for reference.
Have you read The Witching Hour (Ann Rice)
Date: 8/28/03 10:00 am (UTC)Hmmm... Take whichever HP character you consider to be the most repressed and subject them to something like that and what would you get?
First line
Date: 8/28/03 10:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/30/03 01:25 pm (UTC)Depending on how badly the character wanted to hang onto his/her repression, that might be a pleasure or a torture.
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Date: 8/28/03 12:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/30/03 01:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/28/03 02:40 pm (UTC)i mean, they're wizards having sex, but they're still using their fingers to lube up, still unbuttoning things by hand, still using wash cloths to wipe ups, etc etc. where's the magic in that?
in her "transfigurations" they did all the above and more with magic. now that's cool; that's really thinking about it.
and i know that's all suck-up-y, but it's true, so what the hell.
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Date: 8/28/03 05:14 pm (UTC)-brodie
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Date: 8/30/03 01:28 pm (UTC)I have seen lubrication charms used in a lot of places, and a few undressing charms, too. And Scourgify has gotten lots of post-sexual use.
My favorite approach to the clean-up spell is still
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Date: 8/29/03 09:22 am (UTC)As far as an Erised-style desire monitor, I figured Albus' (and Snape's) Legilimens training should be sufficient.
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Date: 8/30/03 01:33 pm (UTC)Suppose you could cast one of those hand charms from a distance, to console your lover when you're far away? (or to liven up staff meetings?)
(Come to think of it, a diary like Riddle's could have real potential, too. You could buy a diary with a certain personality in it -- maybe you'd choose from a list -- and it would write you the equivalent of interactive live chat sex. For the terminally bashful, the logosexual, or the underaged.)
As far as an Erised-style desire monitor, I figured Albus' (and Snape's) Legilimens training should be sufficient.
But the punch, in my opinion, isn't that someone else could find out your deepest sexual desire. It's that you could. And it might (probably would) be something you didn't expect at all.
Hm. Now I remember that Seeker's "Treats" (http://www.bantrim.net/Treats.htm) made interesting use of a scrying mirror -- a rather similar concept.
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Date: 9/1/03 03:27 am (UTC)Like, She looks real! She feels real! She'll tell you everything you want to hear, do everything you want her to do, and all for the cost of 999.99! Call today!
Man, I can just see the twins selling those...
And, OT-ishly, someone mentioned the Riddle diary, which made me wonder if some lonely, too-clever-for-her-own-good girl ever made herself a best friend, literally. Which could also go as a lonely boy of the same criteria making a girlfriend he can't really bring to meet the parents.
On a more related note, there're bound to be magics that make a person seem better looking (not actually improve his looks, just give any lookers the impression that he *is* good looking). Those had better involve Veela hair. Although I don't think anyone would use that as a sextoy unless they're *really* insecure.
An interesting idea is Stamina Spells (pardon my capitalization, couldn't resist) - a guy can go all night long with just one flick of the wand.
Also, while we're at it, what about something that causes simultaneus orgasms? Like, an enchanted metronome that puts both (or more) participants on the same, uh, wavelength. And you can control the thing to change the pacing of the lovemaking session, if you want.
Persephone the Ignorant