The bimbo is a classic stereotype of women who are dim-witted and sexually compliant.
What Is Bimbofication?
Light on intellectual and academic strengths and heavy on the hot and horny, the bimbo is also known as the dumb blonde, girly girl, or airhead. “Bombshell” is not far off but a bombshell is not necessarily a bimbo.
Many very smart women have made their own empires out of the bimbo stereotype. Dolly Parton is an artist as talented and ambitious as they come, but has played the “backwoods Barbie” tongue in cheek from the get-go. Pamela Anderson has played the beach babe. Marilyn Monroe dumbed herself down and made her hair bigger to land her starring roles. Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie acted the parts on The Simple Life. Anna Nicole Smith had a big heart and bigger curves, but may have been the real deal.
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Bimbofication is a fetish of hyperfemininity, at least, stereotypical femininity. It is a fetish driven by the desire to turn from an intelligent, accomplished, autonomous person into a superficial and vacuous, sexually compliant sex machine.
A bimbo in the bimbofication kink transforms from an independent individual to an air-headed slut. The fetish is about the process as much as the end result. It’s all in the becoming.
Bimbofication and Barbie
The bimbofication fetish has been a thing long before the Barbie movie. But Rolling Stone magazine has written an article—”Why Are So Many People Searching for Barbie Fetish Porn?“—about how cultural interest in the concept has escalated since the film’s release. It gives some interesting social, political, and cultural context to the increasingly popular bimbofication fetish.
“Whether it’s linked to the press circus around the upcoming Barbie movie or not, it’s possible that the increasing popularity of the bimbofication trope could be prompted by plain old fatigue,” muses EJ Dickson.
“With everyone so exhausted by the mundanities of everyday life, maybe we all want to be rigid, mindless, gorgeous, polyvinyl chloride dolls with nary a thought or care in our empty little heads.”
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Bimbofication: His, Hers, and Theirs
The bimbofication fetish appeals equally to men and to women, as well to other genders. Women may feel social pressures to achieve or dominate and neglect supposedly unimportant aspects of their nature, such as beauty and sex, and relaxing from the responsibilities of work to play at bimbofication can provide tremendous relief and release.
Men may indulge a desire to be embodied by the feeling of femininity and to be submissive to a femdom or an alpha male. Transgender people or nonbinary people may enjoy role play, cosplay, and gender transformation elements of the bimbofication fetish. It is also a gender play fetish for any gender person.
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Bimbofication and Sissification
The bimbofication fetish can be similar to the sissification fetish for men. Where submissive men who want to serve femdoms may get off at the erotic humiliation of emasculation and sissification, bimbofication is more about personifying the sexual and beautiful in service of a sexual and beautiful woman.
This can be degrading—”You’re such a slut!”—but may not be inherently emasculating. Both fetishes are similar in serving a femdom (although gay males may be submissive to an alpha male dominant) and in getting off on the process of transformation.
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Bimbofication as a Transformation Fetish
An important aspect of the bimbofication fetish is the transformation, whether from smart and prudish librarian to hot stripper or from football-playing male to a hot slut. This is a fetish that is a process, not a one night stand so to speak. For many people, it is a transformation fetish.
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Bimbofication and BDSM
While a number of people with the bimbofication fetish find it liberating and empowering, it is most often a manifestation of BDSM. The bimbo is a vehicle for the sexual pleasure of another, specifically the dom. A male bimbo generally derives sexual gratification from serving a femdom.
There is an aspect of erotic humiliation and erotic degradation, not just submission, in a power exchange relationship, for most bimbos.
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Bimbofication and Hypnosis
Erotic hypnosis is part of BDSM submission for those who want to be under the full-time power of their lover, and it is part of some kinds of fetishes, especially transformation fetishes. The idea is that you give your body AND your mind over to your dominant or the subject of your transformation.
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Controversy and Consent
Like all BDSM and fetishes in the kink community, consent is key, again and again. If it isn’t consensual, it’s not kink.
Bimbofication is a fetish that can sometimes be a CNC kink, or consensual non-consent. This means that a person consents in advance to their dom or femdom, to agreed -upon and desired acts.
Some people are really turned on by force fantasies or doing the bidding of their dominant, but they must give fully informed consent from the start.
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Some transformation kinks and some BDSM kinks are elaborate and include full-time physical and psychological submission. These are sometimes played out by erotic hypnosis. Hypnosis is part of sissification training and other submissive trainings.
There has been controversy in the bimbofication fetish that you may have heard of, called The Bambi Files. These recordings were hypnosis for those who wanted to become more like Bambi. Apparently they were very powerful and people who used them felt they were brainwashed or part of a mind game. Issues of psychological manipulation of women came up and raised a number of questions about kink, psychology, and coercion.
Be aware that hypnosis is sometimes a full-time game, not just a relaxing evening. It can be very powerful, especially if you are vulnerable, but you can be anyone!
Make sure your dominant is someone you trust. Make sure you understand what you are getting into and that you decide for yourself how deep you want to go.
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Bimbofication Training 101
Bimbofication training begins with a mindset of service and submission and the desire to become more stereotypically feminine and receptive. A bimbo longs to become sexually desirable, sexually insatiable, and of service in her looks, actions, and body.
Bimbo training involves everything from voice training to be more breathy and high pitched to how to walk in high heels. It involves wardrobe and makeup training and submission tasks. For those who want to transform into a seductive, hot, horny, pretty slut, the bimbofication training process can be incredibly arousing and rewarding.
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