Psychology of Role Play

The notion of a role play for me relates to the ability to create a scenario where the patient has to become the receiver of medical interventions. I find the aspect of being submissive to be crucial. However, there is an art to creating a situation or scenario that invites this without using aggressive or overtly sexual tactics. It's the psychological aspects of engagement and exercising one's authority over the patient in a way that he or she will comply. It doesn't matter whether it is a male or female conducting the exam. It matters that the person uses language and mannerisms to convey what is to happen. When this happens, it is extremely powerful and likely rewarding since it is a role play. What I don't think is effective is to make the opportunity an adventure into porn or use of language that is course or rude. The aspects of domination and submission for me involve a much more subtle application of psychology and interaction that can lead to feelings of vulnerability, sensitivity, and humiliation as well as physical reactions. Curious what you might think?

You mention very interesting aspects of role-playing here. I think it's mostly about power and powerlessness. Personally, I prefer a more realistic scenario that is more subtle about this powerlessness gradient. Unfortunately, many here can do little with this realistic aspect. Pity!

The idea of role play in each occasion, can be different, there may be times that the dominant person needs to take a more accretive, position or the submissive, may want to act out such as having a tantrum refusing to cooperate. The concept needs to be worked out (somewhat) a lot has to be left to the act itself and where it leads you to. So before the scenario begins, there should be some basic ground rules, and always a safe word. You cannot put a one size fits all on this kind of play, if you do then the spontaneity will be lost and what each may have wanted to get out of the game also may be lost. If this is a continuing situation where both parties are in sync, then let the game begin I usually know by the other persons demeanor just what I am being asked for or what the other person wants from me, Just the opinion, of someone that has been on both sides of that type of play.

For me an enjoyable examination rests on how the authority in the scenario is worked out. I am usually a submissive patient in a play exam, but have some experience playing the doctor role. The authority figure is always the doctor, both in real life situations and in play ones. The “patient” is in charge of what happens to our bodies, but we acquiesce to the doctor's requests however embarrassing they may be because, in a real life setting we understand this is for our own good; in a play exam we submit because we long to hand over control and experience having someone transgress our normal everday boundaries. It isn't everyday a stranger sticks his fingers up my bottom, but put a white coat on and ask authoritatively and I'm up on all fours. Personally I hate the swab in the urethra I get during an STI checkup, but I do it because I should for my own health. I also submit to it in a play exam because it is realistic and one of those things that makes me uncomfortable, it adds to the experience. I really have no time for medfet as foreplay. Sex and medfet strum different chords for me. Also my sex life is very egalitarian taking turns and switching roles, but in medfet I'm either patient or doctor and stick to either sub or dominant. There is no need for sexual language or casual chit chat in an exam. Small talk like one gets with the GP is fine, but everything else is technical and clinical- “anus” not “arsehole”, “penis” not “cock”. This makes it all sound and feel much more realistic. There's nothing I enjoy more than a gently dominant doctor who is polite, a bit reserved and detached, but knows and acts as if he will have me do his bidding simply by asking. The authority is his and that's the way I think it should be. Others may disagree but it works for me.

Role playing is about being a decent enough actor who is capable of suspending disbelief in the scenario you are trying to recreate, either as a dominant giver of ‘medical’ attention or as a receiver of ‘medical’ attention. Both have to be able to play the part.

Basically I'd say there is little more involved in creating successful role-playing. That is all it is, along with having a physical space to use and some medical instruments/props.

The main problem with role-playing of any kind, not only medfet stuff, is that not everyone is very good at acting and sustaining a role.

For me Role Play should be as realistic as possible, that in itself creates the psychology of the situation, as the OP suggests, the dominance of the medic over a fully submissive patient, has a deep effect psychologically, add that to a clinical examination room setting, builds the anticipation, that is exactly the scenario of examinations and treatment i crave myself.

Hmm. This is an interesting question; the answer, for me, is multifaceted.

My husband and I have RPed in an online/in-game setting with various conventions of one type of another since we were newly married almost 30 years ago. So in some ways, it is about escape.

As for role-playing medical or D/s scenes, it is different. On some level, of course, there is an element of escapism. In my professional role, I am a director and have a lot of responsibilities, and a lot of decisions fall to me. I was the eldest child in my family and married a youngest child, so it is not a stretch that I tend to naturally settle into the more dominant role.

So if I get to experience a play exam (an honest-to-goodness one, as it is NOT my husband’s kink at all so he does not particularly slip into the role when I ask), I want the fantasy on an examination table… and that is to not be in complete control. This is not to say I relinquish consent, however.

Another facet, though, is the exploration of the turn-on, and the boundary pushing (again, within the parameters of prior agreed scenario consent). Would I be turned on, in a play exam? Or would I be too shy and chicken out?

Too, is the opportunity to concentrate focus and sensation on a pick-a-body-part/any-body-part for an extended amount of time and even an extended amount of dis/comfort.

Power, sure. Tip-toeing over the line of secret divergence from a norm, something for myself also comes in to play. Curiosity, definitely. Facing fears and slaying them. Exploration and/or escape above all. Multi-faceted.

The psychological aspect in role play is crucial. Each person has his or her own psychological reasons for feeling certain emotions in precisely those specific stuaations. If the two partners know each other well, if there is complicity, and if they know each other's vulnerabilities, the play can be extremely exciting, otherwise it might become a different aspect of a porn game.