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Speaker: Welcome to the Slut Next Door podcast, where we dive deep into desire, unravel kinks and fetishes, and explore the deliciously naughty side of self-discovery.
Speaker: I'm Beatrix Vale, an erotic audio creator, and your guide to all things kinky and curious. So let's begin.
Speaker: I have spent years digging into the psychology of men who are drawn to beta humiliation. I am a creator of audio content and I build entire psychological environments around this specific arousal pattern.
Speaker: I've studied comments, interactions with men, the patterns of return, the language they use when they try to explain themselves to me.
Speaker: And I've noticed something that contradicts the surface level reading of this kink. We assume degradation pushes people away.
Speaker: That ranking someone low and a hierarchy creates distance. But in my work, I have found the opposite. The men who identify most deeply as beta often describe feeling closer to me than they have ever felt to anyone.
Speaker: So today we're going to unpack beta identity construction and modern femdom. How one word manages to tear you down and then hold you close simultaneously.
Speaker: And how the architecture of being placed in inferior position becomes like this strange form of intimacy.
Speaker: And why so many men can finally relax and exhale when someone names them correctly. Now, before we hop into this fascinating topic, I'm going to do my little segment called What's Currently Making Me Feel Like a Goddess.
Speaker: And this is just kind of it's turned into this accountability piece for me, almost like you're getting to watch me almost journal weekly on my goddess energy.
Speaker: So I've been really digging into my content catalog, organizing some things, looking back, you know, through the history And I'm able to see that I have produced, and I mean, these are just the files that I've released because of course there's files I've done um for private, you know, like exclusive files. So there's definitely more and it's not including all my podcasts. um But in my catalog, I have, well, at the time i had counted 444 files. That
Speaker: files that is Insane, for one. But incredible. i mean, and I'm bringing it up in this segment of what's currently making me feel like a goddess because...
Speaker: i If you know anything about me, you know that my business, my business of creating erotic hypnosis and femton files is super, super precious to me. It feels like a baby that I birthed because I did. i created it out of nothing.
Speaker: You know, Beatrix Vale is someone that I pushed out into the world. i You know I think I've talked about it on my podcast before. i thought about or I have thought about the first hypnophile that I created and how nerve wracking it was, like pushing it out. There's a lot of confidence and especially at first a lot of fake confidence when you're first starting out.
Speaker: But, you know, that is some goddess level shit right there. I didn't need a team to get me started. And, you know, because I love, I love tapping into my divine feminine. i didn't need a man to be here with me, helping me birth this brand. I did it all on my own.
Speaker: And that's some goddess level shit right there. So I am taking this moment to celebrate with you, to be proud of myself because a lot of times I can be pretty humble. um But hey, I'm talking about being a goddess. So there's no being humble around here.
Speaker: Now, let's get into this topic that I am super excited to talk about. And I've actually done a podcast episode on beta identity.
Speaker: You can go back if you haven't listened to it before, but I wanted to just dig into it some more. So first, let's talk about the historical context of this word. So where does the word beta even come from?
Speaker: So the alpha beta framework originates in animal ah distinction. I don't know the word. um But from wolf pack studies,
Speaker: Specifically from the nineteen forty s And then later, these were debunked by the very researcher who published them.
Speaker: But by then, the metaphor had escaped the lab and then it entered culture permanently. I don't know too much about that story, so definitely look it up if you're interested in that. um And so here somewhat recently in the early 2000s, pickup artists grabbed the terminology and they turned it into a weapon.
Speaker: So they said that alpha meant being worthy of sex and beta meant failure. And so the entire framework was built on entitlement to women and the ranking of men by their proximity to that entitlement.
Speaker: Now, here's what I find fascinating. then Femdom creators then took that same degrading terminology and they did something completely different with it.
Speaker: So we kept the hierarchy. You know, we kept the ranking. We kept the word beta and love you. I mean, I love doing beta content.
Speaker: However, compared to the pickup artists in the early 2000s, the femdom world kind of stripped out the misogyny and replaced it with something i don't even think the original users of the term intended it to be.
Speaker: Devotion. Because, and and especially in my space, not the website. Yeah. MySpace meaning um my world of content creation. um So in MySpace, beta doesn't technically mean you're denied access to women. That's part of it. um It just means...
Speaker: It's structured, structured access through submission. um Because if I have a beta male underneath me, i actually give him attention.
Speaker: So he still has access to me. I may be telling him that He's pussy free or he doesn't deserve pussy or whatever, but he actually gets specialized attention in a way.
Speaker: but here's the biggest part, though. i think that being beta means you're being seen by a dominant woman precisely because you have accepted your place beneath her.
Speaker: And so that ranking system that was designed to exclude men from feminine attention now organizes men into receiving it just on very different terms.
Speaker: And I will say that If you've ever, you know, consumed beta, especially beta humiliation content, you know that a lot of creators are really going to hit hard on you're a loser, fuck you, you know, blah, like all the really degrading stuff, which I say the same degrading things, but it ah it is also delivered with this...
Speaker: quintessential mommy dom care that I think makes my humiliation so special. So, you know, there is content out there where you're you aren't really going to get that feeling of being seen and appreciated. So, i mean, I'll say that, like, I know that some beta content doesn't hit what I'm, especially what I'm talking about. So just keep that in mind too.
Speaker: Now, let's move into something I'm calling dual function. um And I'm really going to break down what that means because this became the core of this whole episode.
Speaker: So when I call someone a beta, say in my audio files, I'm doing two things at the same time. So first, I am degrading him, like explicitly, because beta means lesser.
Speaker: i may even be saying the phrase beta bitch, which means even less than lesser. There may be the word loser, bitch boy,
Speaker: my bitch, you know, you get the you get the point. I mean, they're all less than terms. And these terms are cruelty because they land as cruelty.
Speaker: The listener feels the sting and that's the point. But here's the second thing happening at the exact same moment. I am naming him.
Speaker: I am placing him inside a category that has definition and boundaries and almost like a membership, like a beta membership.
Speaker: So You know, when I'm using those terms, he's not floating in some vague a soup of shame.
Speaker: You know, it's very clear. He is a beta. There are other betas. And there is a beta experience. There is a beta relationship ah with me and so he now belongs to something. There's a name, there's a category, there's a container.
Speaker: And this is kind of like the paradox because the degradation that isolates him from traditional masculine status is the same degradation that includes him and this special place in my world.
Speaker: So you can think about how often people in kink will say they felt broken before finding their label.
Speaker: And i mean, I just have to go on a tangent like... I absolutely like that, that thinking right there comes from my experience. um When I found BDSM, I was like, it was world changing for me because it gave me vocabulary for the things that I was craving sexually. Like it gave things meaning.
Speaker: And some of the terms were not like lovely little terms like princess or anything, you know, there were terms like slut and submissive slut and, you know, that didn't matter. Like now I had this term for how I felt. And so the same thing I think can be found with men that are into beta humiliation.
Speaker: And receiving that kind of label just names the thing. And naming it kind of helps you situate this identity and maybe even makes you feel like you're not alone and your perversion anymore.
Speaker: So when it comes to betas i think The same, that function is happening exactly how I just explained. i think that it tells the listener who is into this type of feeling that,
Speaker: you are not like uniquely pathetic. You are a type of pathetic. And i recognize the type of pathetic you are. i've seen this type before. I know how to handle your type. And guess what? I might even actually be fond of your type because I love to play around with beta boys. You know, so that's the idea.
Speaker: and I think that that fondness is what keeps my particular betas very close to me because that's something they don't get to experience a lot, that feeling, that kind of fondness from me for them being beta. And it's it's really hard to explain. i hope I'm coming across and making sense.
Speaker: And because I'm not like I am dismissive, but I'm not totally dismissive of betas. Like I'm not going to be neutral. Like, oh, you're a pathetic beta.
Speaker: Get away from me. Because I actually have feelings about betas. And i in my work, those feelings can be complex because i will mock you, but I'll also keep you as mine. So like you get the feeling that, oh, she likes this about me.
Speaker: And it's something that maybe you feel a little shameful of where you keep like tucked away or you try to fight against it. But here I am saying, I actually love you for it. I love how much of a loser you are. So guess what's going to happen?
Speaker: Like the things that make you feel like a quote unquote loser, you're going to have a space where i get to be good at being a loser. Yeah.
Speaker: Um, so that's the special thing I think is I get to call you a beta loser. And in the same breath, I'm calling you mine. and like I said, I, I, and I know that my style of humiliation is super unique. I think it is super unique because i will, and I will say things like,
Speaker: I will say the most degrading things like um you are nothing but a worm beneath me, like under my feet. You are such a beta bitch that is so pathetic, but I love you for it.
Speaker: you know like So I'm like using an album while also like bringing this pretty degrading language. And it's it's very unique. I will say it's very unique. um But yeah, so it's creating intimacy through those feelings for the beta of feeling inferior.
Speaker: So let's go deeper into that. And this is probably going to sound... counterintuitive. Okay. So the idea that lower status position creating more intimacy, not less.
Speaker: So in traditional relationships, like we're told that intimacy requires equality. You know, we're at the same level. We have the same power. We have the same footing. i mean, we can all agree that that's how relationships should function in the real world, right?
Speaker: But anyone who has done a power dynamic and you know, dominant and submissive dynamic for more than five minutes knows that this is not true. I mean, that's the whole point of power exchange. You are creating that ah playing field that's not equal at all.
Speaker: And so power exchange then creates its own form of closeness and sometimes that closeness is more intense because of the gap so immediately if I put myself way up here on the scale like my position is way up here I'm doing my hands you you can't see them but imagine my hand is way up high and you're way down low
Speaker: If you're into being submissive, um just the fact that I'm way above you is going to make you feel those feelings of smallness. And if and particularly if you feel super devoted to me, like that that gap of power where you are way less than makes you feel even more devoted.
Speaker: Okay, let's talk about it some more. So if, and we'll say hypnophile. If I'm making a hypnophile and I have a beta listener deep and trance in that, I am not meeting him as an equal in that file.
Speaker: okay I am above him and I am inside his mind from a position of authority. But that position then lets me study him more closely than an equal ever could.
Speaker: So in that file, I'm going to monitor responses or suggest certain responses are happening. um I'm going to trigger him I'm going to use words that make him leak and pacing that makes him sync and tone that makes him feel owned. And so it becomes like this surveillance. And And I think that's, I have this file called beta pre-jack virus.
Speaker: And I think why it's done so well is because of that surveillance thing. So it's got this laboratory kind of setting. And that actually works really well because i am surveilling You you know i am making suggestions or they actually are happening of responses that are happening when I'm reprogramming these beta training ideals into you, for example.
Speaker: Now, when this kind of surveillance, if we want to call it, is done with a little bit of care sprinkled in there to that, like with that, it it then it feels like you're being taken care of. And you're being held all the while at the same time I'm calling you a loser.
Speaker: And so from the beta side, the feelings of being inferior can create a kind of relief because then that man does not at all have to impress me.
Speaker: They actually are... are encouraged to be less than or even worse than than they are. Like, as in you know, you better prove to me how much of a loser you are, for example.
Speaker: Because you know, in this situation, you've already been ranked. You get to stop performing competence. You get to stop pretending you are anything other than what you are or what you're wanting to feel in that moment. And then the pressure of masculine performance completely collapses and what's left is just you like leaking and feeling all desperate and seen.
Speaker: And I actually have line in one of my files where like when I say that lines are chosen for specific reasons, I really mean that.
Speaker: And I hope, and I'm always hoping that they they are absorbed in the way that I hope, you know, or or programs or conditions or they hit at a at the level they're supposed to. But so this one in particular I was thinking about is I say, I've watched so many gooners come and disappear, come and disappear, right? And that is an example of the surveillance piece. so like me watching, me being all knowing, omnipresent.
Speaker: And that is me saying that I see this pattern. And then it's, so that's also, that's also saying that the listener is really not special in his weakness of coming and disappearing, coming and disappearing.
Speaker: it It's pointing out to him that actually you were very one of many. And then I'm hoping that that becomes comforting because then they can know that they are not alone in being beta, that they're part of this beta collective and that I'm watching all of them. I know what they do and they're going to keep showing up anyway.
Speaker: And now here's the biggest, I think the biggest message and something that means the most to me and I would imagine what means a lot to my listeners, especially listeners that are into ah beta humiliation, for example.
Speaker: So the feelings of being inferior inferior to me and to other women becomes this container, a very special container for intimacy.
Speaker: So that gap between us, remember I was doing my hands, showing you how high I was and how low you are. um That gap between you and me or me and the beta um is not this empty space. It's actually then filled with attention and structure and this super strange tenderness of being known as exactly what you are.
Speaker: And that it's really hard to paint this picture. And I hope i really hope that it is coming across in this episode because this is something that I have seen with men, especially in this topic of, you know, being beta and being less than.
Speaker: And I'll say too that i I come across men that say like, I am a beta. Like theyre I am in my real life. I am in kink. I am in porn. Like they totally own that identity.
Speaker: And then I see men that... are only beta when they are consuming porn or even more rare than that, like they'll, they'll go to beta content when they have a particular taste for it. Um, and,
Speaker: All of those paths, there's nothing wrong with either of them. Like, you know, the man that says, hey, I'm beta and I'm owning that. It doesn't make him better than the guy that's just wanting to visit it every now and then. I think that just proves how different we all are, how unique our tastes are.
Speaker: But regardless of how you show up to the content, I think, What men are looking for when it comes to beta humiliation humiliation content is having that gap between them and say me or them and woman being filled with something unique, which is the specialized beta attention, the the structure meaning pussy free. I um am denied. I am... um
Speaker: not worthy of seeing women naked, like whatever it is um that fills that container. And then sprinkle in there that tenderness that I can bring to those files where I'm telling you that you're such a good boy because you are such a loser. um then it's just filled with so many wonderful things swirling around. So now let's move into a really special segment. um So before i did this episode, asked
Speaker: asked my I hate using the word fans. I asked my listeners ah if they would respond to some questions about ah beta, being beta, beta content, you know. And I received 12 anonymous responses.
Speaker: And what struck me immediately was the consistency of a specific emotional pattern So ah almost every respondent described the same paradox, which is degradation and belonging, occupying the exact same space.
Speaker: So like one listener wrote that beta feels like both degradation and endearment. And even akin to being called a puppy.
Speaker: And another described it as a description rather than an insult. Like being beta is not a bad thing. And several even use the word relief.
Speaker: Relief. And they all really confirm what we explored earlier in this episode, that the hierarchy does not push away, but rather organizes.
Speaker: Because I think that in the responses, several of them noted that beta functions as this kind of umbrella term.
Speaker: And I think that one respondent explained it perfectly. And really fascinating, actually. He says that Beta and encompasses cuck, pre-jack, loser, gooner, bitch, all at once. like And then said as separate terms, he could hide behind one And deny the others, but beta contains them all.
Speaker: I found that so fascinating. I've never really thought about it like that. Love that response. So I definitely saw a lot of responses on the whole decision fatigue.
Speaker: Like one listener writing about the ability to switch off from decision-making um consuming beta content or owning that identity um takes the need to make decisions away and that's very calming and another one noted that it helps him feel small seen and affirmed
Speaker: Okay, I'm going to say those words again. Feel small, seen, affirmed. And all of this, all of this ah just kind of proves the intimacy through the feelings of feeling inferior that we discussed earlier in the episode. So that collapse of masculine performance it creating space for something else.
Speaker: And one of you described it in the Google form as a way to explain yourself to yourself.
Speaker: I love that too. And so the term helps articulate something previously unnameable for him.
Speaker: And so another one noted that he first imagined being beta while listening, like when he first consumed the content, but then over time actually wanted to be one.
Speaker: so it shifted from costume to it him wanting it to be a ah core identity.
Speaker: And i think that was truly fascinating because like first it shows how I mentioned like I run into men that are like, hey, I'm beta like to the core. Or I just like to consume this content every now and then. um Very fascinating.
Speaker: So another thing that I found in the responses I collected was several of them recognized that recognition moment.
Speaker: So like for example, one listener encountered the term beta and femdom porn and like years ago and he noted it did like it didn't feel like this revelation it just felt right like as if from the first mention he knew it was correct and he is and always was a beta.
Speaker: And so he's finding identity through porn, through kink. um Another particular listener found it um kind of recently through some premature ejaculation fetish hypnos.
Speaker: And he described it as this click in his mind. So this behavior was proper of a beta mindset.
Speaker: And so this suggests that the identity is not constructed from nothing, that it can be discovered, and uncovered, even like named.
Speaker: And I've absolutely recognized that that, especially when it comes to humiliation and content, I've recognized that that's why a lot of men will come back over and over again because the humiliation, if they're into it, becomes that moment where they can just relax.
Speaker: Like they don't have to perform. They're seen. They have that identity. um The responses I received were so good and I'm not surprised because my listeners are truly the smartest men.
Speaker: They are just the best, like literally the best. And we're going to leave the the responses with one thing that...
Speaker: just really stuck with me. i will carry this with me for a while. So he offered a final metaphor that, like he so he says, he works in software development.
Speaker: And he noted that in his field, Alpha is the original, I'm sorry, not the original, the initial release. And it's full of bugs and far from perfect.
Speaker: And the beta is the version with the bugs fixed, close to being ready for release. So in the erotic world, the definitions invert, but perhaps they should not.
Speaker: Perhaps the beta is the refined version, the debugged self, the one that actually functions.
Speaker: I loved it. and like I loved it. I thought that was fascinating and so smart. I'm telling you. I'm telling you guys. I will find some kind of...
Speaker: competition where you submit like who has the best fans. I i do, obviously. I have the best. But I want to thank you. um Thank all the ones that replied to my Google form. Thank you so much for submitting. Like your vulnerability truly does shape my work in so many ways, but really brought this episode And made it made it real. You you essentially just proved, if we think of this as my thesis paper, you proved my thesis. So thank you.
Speaker: See, betas, they have such a special place. They're so helpful. And now I'm going to wrap up this episode, but... I want to leave you with something to sit with, of course, wrapping this up.
Speaker: um First, I want to say that I never use the term beta lightly. I'm going to use it precisely, especially if I choose to call you my beta.
Speaker: um i use it knowing that it's going to sting and knowing the sting is actually part of the gift. And i use it because I have seen how many men are wandering around for sometimes years without language for what they are or how they want to feel in a particular moment. And then how much relief arrives when when someone finally hands them the right word and the right identity and the right container.
Speaker: So thank you so much for listening and letting me unpack this with you. I hope that I was able to shed some light on this particular kink that I...
Speaker: I, for one, I just love, I love working with men that are into beta-Hemiliation or even identify as being beta. um So until next time.
Speaker: And that's a wrap for this episode of The Slut Next Door, where we dive deep into the raw, unapologetic truths of human desire.
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Speaker: Click the link in my bio where you can find lots of juicy content and options. Until next time, I'm Beatrix Vale, your Slut Next Door.
Speaker: And I'll see you in the next episode.
