One of the ignorant clichés people keep repeating mindlessly is "never use electricity above the waist." To take a recent example, here is what a self-styled expert on tit torture says:
"I would hope that we've covered the extreme risk that you're dealing with if you use anything remotely resembling household current. Many BDSM clubs won't even allow electrical play of any kind above the waist, battery or no. Make sure you know what you're doing. Make sure you use a low voltage, low amperage device, and make sure that both your wires stay on one breast or the other. I repeat, NEVER do anything that allows current to travel from one side of the chest to the other. NEVER, NEVER EVER! Get it?!"
I D I O T !!!
This is nonsense. There is no insulator separating the upper body from the lower body. Your body is full of salt water, and no part is insulated from any other part. Once electricity gets into your body, it can go anywhere. Electrodes on your nipples are no more dangerous than electrodes on your fingers or toes or anywhere else. No, doing one breast at a time doesn't make any difference. Putting two electrodes on the left breast is exactly as dangerous as putting one electrode on each breast.
In The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, second edition, in the article on Grounding, there is a discussion of this point. The article says that there is very little difference between hand-to-hand shocks and foot-to-foot shocks. As long as electricity is flowing through the body, it's equally dangerous, regardless of the contact points. The same principle would apply to nipple-to-nipple shocks, but for some reason (I can't imagine why) the encyclopedia doesn't mention that possibility.
So how dangerous is it?
Let's apply a little common sense to this subject. Electrical torture is used routinely in hundreds of police stations all over the world. It happens to thousands of prisoners, all the time. When the cops are torturing a woman, you can bet they don't follow any rules about staying below the waist. Breasts are perfect for torture. Nor do they follow any rules about only doing one breast at a time. The prisoners don't die, even though the cops use much higher voltage than anybody would use in an S/M scene. In all the reports I have read (Amnesty International, etc.) I have never seen any reference to prisoners dying from shocks. One of the "benefits" of electricity, from the cops' point of view, is that it's relatively harmless. They can torture prisoners for a long time - days or even weeks - without killing them.
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I don't want to overstate my case, so let's apply a little common sense in the other direction. Obviously, electricity is dangerous. If you already have an irregular heart rhythm, it could kill you. If you are standing on a wet floor, or a concrete floor, it will probably kill you. That could happen regardless of where the electrodes are attached - one breast, both breasts, genitals, toes, whatever.
Some of the prisoners who are tortured with electricity probably die. When you torture hundreds of prisoners, with no limits, sooner or later somebody is going to have a heart attack. It may not happen very often, but I'm sure it happens. That's why some jails have doctors advising the cops on how far they can go. The point is, with most people you can go very far without killing them. The exception would be somebody who has a pre-existing heart problem.
The fact that you are tempting death is part of the excitement of it. I'm not into the "safe and sane" bullshit that you get in politically correct S/M scenes.
However, you aren't tempting death very much.
When prisons execute prisoners by electrocution, the prisoner does not usually die instantly, even though he is in an electric chair that is designed to kill him. Killing somebody with electricity is not easy. It's a messy operation that usually takes some time.
I have been using electrodes on nipples - both nipples, with the current running across the chest - for more than 20 years. I have done it more than a thousand times. Nobody has died.
And yes, if you're wondering, I have clipped the electrodes to my own nipples, with an electric train transformer plugged into a wall socket, and lived to tell the tale. The feeling is indescribable. To say that it "hurts good" doesn't begin to do it justice. Subspace is something men can't really experience, but I have some idea what it's about. Sometimes I wish I had tits so I could really do it.
Strangely, the same women who are afraid of electrical shocks have no qualms about needles. If you look at Web sites such as Torture Galaxy or Becky's Dungeon, or the "expert's" site mentioned above, you see picture after picture of breasts with needles in them. Needles don't really hurt that much. It's like getting a shot at a doctor's office. It looks scary but the feeling isn't particularly erotic. Puncture wounds are a lot more dangerous than electric shocks. Puncture wounds get infected.
These women are perfectly willing to have needles stuck into their breasts, but they are afraid of electricity. Go figure.
As long as we are on the practical, safety aspect of this subject, I should point something out for the benefit of beginners: you must use A/C current, not D/C.
What I am really interested in is the erotic aspect of it.
I think the ultimate form of torture is self-torture. Only you know the exact line between pleasure and pain. Only you can turn it up to just the right level. Women who clip electrodes onto their own nipples are venturing into one of the most secret spaces, something very, very few people know about.
A master who really knows what he's doing can take you into almost the same space, and there is the added thrill of having it done to you, out of your control. Not to mention the added thrill of fucking. But as far as torture itself is concerned, I'm not sure there is any need to bring anybody else into it, just like you don't really need a partner when you are doing yoga.
Other pages on this site:
cigarette breast torture - the torture blog
The Treason link is particularly important
if you wear a badge and/or a uniform!
In the 1950's and 60's, torture was everywhere. There were pictures of torture in the Sunday comics. There were stories about torture on Cowboy-and-Indian shows addressed to boys. There were magazines with titles like "Man's Action" which showed women being tortured (drawings, not photographs). These magazines were available in any drugstore, and anybody could buy them - there was no age limit. They were Jewish magazines, and the torturers wore Swastika armbands or Nazi uniforms. These Jewish lies defined National Socialism for the postwar generation. Of course I didn't understand that aspect of it at the time. None of us did. Even now, most people are just beginning to catch on about the pervasiveness of Jewish lies.
Then about 1968 or 69, torture became an "adult" thing. That was when adult bookstores started opening, and you had to go into an adult bookstore to find pictures and stories about torture.
In the 1990s, when the internet became available to the masses, bondage porn became easily available to anybody with a modem. However, it was still sort of an "adult" thing. The internet has an ambiguous status. It's not part of public space in the same way that magazines and TV are. Nevertheless, that was when torture started to emerge into the open again. People could look at pictures in their homes - even if they lived in small towns where they didn't even have adult bookstores.
After the invasion of Iraq, they discovered Saddam Hussein's torture chambers, and showed them on TV. That's a whole different level than the internet. They showed the torture chairs where the victim is strapped in, and you could see the electrical wires... This was on the network news. Since then we have had the Abu Ghraib scandal, which doesn't seem to have upset too many people. Those same torture chairs and electrodes are still there, and still being used, except now the cops work for the Americans. And everybody knows it. Torture is once again a public thing.
Does anyone seriously think they stay below the waist when torturing women? Does anyone seriously think they only use electricity on one breast at a time?
No. When they are torturing a woman, they clip the electrodes to both nipples. Obviously.
I saw an article in Playboy a couple of years ago which said two thirds of today's college students are into S/M in some form. That doesn't mean they are doing it, but at least they are intrigued by it. Apparently torture is an idea whose time has come.
Now there is a new site that shows what it's really about. The following pictures come from http://www.wiredpussy.com. Unfortunately you have to use Internet Explorer to see the pictures on that site. I think the site is safe, but as always you should turn ActiveX off and make sure you are logged on as user, not administrator. (No, wait a minute - you can use Firefox. Go to Tools --> Options --> Content, and under Load Images, make sure "for the originating website only" is not clicked. That should work.)
Obviously these girls are having fun. They are flying. This is subspace.
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Here are some torture stories that cross the line - not play torture - not fun
El alacrán - the recruitment of Carmen
At waist height in front of her was a metal bed frame. Lying on it was her friend Diana. Her arms were stretched over her head at an angle tied to the corners of the bed and her legs were similarly tied at the bottom of the frame. Her body was in the form of an X. Carmen saw that metal clips with toothed jaws had been attached to her friend's nipples. Wires led from these back to a box on table next to the bed where a grinning man sat. More wires led from this box to a socket on the wall.
The stillness was broken by a rattle of equipment and the girl twisted her head, staring frantically to her left to see what was happening. Her eyes opened wide and a soft, muffled scream came from her throat as she saw the polished wooden box with its side handle and brass terminals, the coiled wires and the plastic tray of clips, probes and needles on the battered top of the trolley.
Interrogation One: The Electric Crab
Juanita's hands were behind her back. Broad straps, the leather dark with sweat, had been cinched tight round her upper arms, dragging her elbows together and forcing her shoulders back whilst a single nylon tie bit viciously into her wrists. A single rope, leading from the wrist tie to a hook in the ceiling, was holding her up. The rope had obviously been deliberately over tightened, lifting Juanita's arms agonisingly up and away from her back, forcing her to bend forwards so her large, round breasts now dangled away from her body.
Please note, these stories are not realistic. Don't try this at home, kids. Remember what I said about wet floors and concrete floors. The same thing applies to metal bed frames. That's the last thing you want for electrical torture. Diana is not going to live long.
The stories are also unrealistic on a psychological level, like all porn. Here is a young woman whose trust has been betrayed, whose hopes for her future are disintegrating, whose life is being destroyed... what is she thinking? She is probably praying, desperately trying to find some solid ground somewhere. Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven... Deliver me from evil... Deliver me from evil!!
That's what she does at first, as long as she can maintain a train of thought at all.
Then she loses it. I read a report about someone who entered a torture chamber in South America and found a woman with electrodes clipped to her clitoris and labia. She was totally out of control, crying and laughing hysterically. She was incoherent and having convulsions. But people who write torture stories just tune that out and pretend it doesn't happen. According to them, a woman can be tortured endlessly without ever losing her reason. She can still say "Oh no, please don't, I told you I don't know anything..."
She may even be able to say this in a sex-kitten voice. In these stories, the girls don't even cry. What bullshit.
In the discussion above I mentioned that when prisoners are electrocuted in an electric chair, the prisoner does not usually die instantly. If the executioner wanted to draw it out longer, that could be done. Just give him or her a jolt for a few seconds, then turn it off, then another jolt... this could go on for hours, and then it could happen again the next day, and the next day. That's what happens in a real torture session. When they do that to men, after a while the testicles swell up to the size of cantaloupes, but it still goes on. I don't know what a woman's tits look like after several hours of not quite fatal shocks, not to mention several days of this, but it's certainly a long way from anything described in these stories. As for what her mind would look like, well, I'm not going there.
I read an article in Financial Times about girls in Thailand who are sold into slavery and work as prostitutes in Bangkok. One of them tried to escape, and the pimps tortured her to make an example for the others. They shocked her breasts with a cattle prod, and kept doing it until it drove her crazy. Afterward she didn't know who she was or where she was from.
This is not erotic. A girl who has been tortured to the point that she doesn't know her name is no more interesting than a girl who has been run over by a truck.
Is is possible to have real art about torture?
There is a scene in The Brothers Karamazov where one of the characters says that another character is a natural martyr: "She would have smiled when they burned her breasts with red hot branding irons." This is about two thirds of the way through the book, and at that point the reader knows those characters very well. But this is just a hypothetical statement about what she would do. Even Dostoevsky shies away from zooming in on it. In fact, she would not smile. Nobody would smile in that situation. Thinking about it, maybe. Doing it, no.
On second thought, if they worked up to it in the right way, if they got her far enough into subspace, she might smile when they burned her. I know some girls smile when you burn them in lesser ways, with hot spoons or cigarettes. It would be a big step from there to branding irons. The torturer(s) would have to have almost infinite tact to get her to that point, and most torturers are not even trying to do that. But a few torturers are trying to do that. Even in a real dungeon, in the Inquisition or in South America, there are some torturers who don't want to kill you or drive you crazy. They want to make you fly. When they get a woman who is a natural martyr... I wonder if it has ever really happened. Has Marilyn met Lyle in a real dungeon, and have they have taken subspace that far? If you look at the whole history of torture, in all the thousands of places where it has happened over the years, Marilyn must have met Lyle at least once, probably many times...
... and we have reached a space almost no one knows about. I have changed my mind about what I wrote above, that self-torture is the ultimate. No, there are a lot of things a woman can't do to herself. This kind of yoga requires a partner.
The cool thing about electricity is that you can skip the branding irons. You can take her as far into subspace as you want, without doing any real damage.
Commander Amanda Nightingale is the only book I know of that shows torture happening to a real woman. Amanda and her friends are fully developed characters. George Revelli describes Amanda's experience and shows the whole constellation of forces, i.e. who is doing what to whom, and why, and how it fits into the whole scheme of things. However, what they do to her is play torture.
The next step would be to do the same thing with real torture. That would be a hard story to write. In any case that's not the story I want to write, and not the story I want to live in. I think I have said enough about it, but I do want to add one more thing: it is a strange fact that torture happens. If you think about it, it's weird that the universe is set up in such a way as to allow it to happen.
When a prisoner is being tortured - feet in the fire, or almost fatal shocks to sensitive body parts - he or she must be thinking "This can't be real. This can't be happening." But then the pain drills through all such thoughts and establishes its own reality. Yes, it is real. Yes, it can be happening. It is happening. It is always happening somewhere - at any given moment, right now, somebody somewhere is being torn apart by pain which cannot be comprehended, but which must be comprehended, because there is no escape. It goes on until it destroys your mind or your life itself - insanity or death. Torture is a permanent part of the universe, and if you get into that space, you're on your own. There is no circuit breaker. There are no limits. God did not create angels whose job is to step in and stop torture. God does not perform a miracle to stop it. He lets it happen. And it does happen.
The fact that the universe contains torture is a lot more weird than quantum physics.
It's also weird that my mind is set up in such a way that the idea of torture turns me on. Why???
On another part of the site I have a page which might be of interest to any writers who are reading this - or to anybody who knows who Dostoevsky was. Anybody who cares about real art, as opposed to bowdlerized art, politically correct art, dumbed down art, Muzak, etc.
Finally, on a lighter note, I want to mention the best tit torture sites on the internet:
http://www.gerardtitsman.com/CD.html
http://www.miop.com/menu.html
These sites are operated by the same man, known as "Gerard Titsman." This may be a little bit off topic, since Gerard doesn't use electricity (as far as I know), but his stuff is so good it deserves a plug. Especially since I have borrowed a couple of his pictures... In the last few years, I'm afraid Gerard has lost his touch. Some of his new models are just ugly. But in the nineties, he took S/M to a whole new level. At his best, his stuff has a level of sensuality that isn't found anywhere else. I would particularly call your attention to two of his videos, "La Lettre 2" and "Hard Exercises," both featuring Isabelle. "La Lettre 2" is, simply, the best S/M movie ever made, better than "Four Lives of Cindy," better than "The Misadventures of Lois Payne," better than "The Sadistic Adventures of Annie and Maria"... It's the best, period. However, there is one scene in "Hard Exercises" - the whipping scene at the end - which reaches an even higher level of eroticism. It's the most amazing thing I have ever seen, and I have seen it all (and done it).
If you are a connoisseur of tit torture - or maybe I should say tit play - these videos should be in your collection.
Not only that, Gerard is a good guy. He's not a typical porn site operator. He doesn't do it for money (although I guess he makes a comfortable living), he's just doing what he loves to do.
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