Electricity: Erotic Uses

By Officer Wes

Standard disclaimers apply: Do at your own risk

1. SM basics
   
2. Electricity basics
   
3. Electricity resources
   
4. General device information
   
5. Manufacturers
   
6. Dealers / vendors
   
7. Products: Pictures & prices
   
8. Presentations through the years, and
   presentation notes for Power Play: High End Electrical

SM basics

• Safety
• Know your partner -- to stay alive. If the person is a stranger to you, make sure someone knows with whom you are leaving.
• Heart health is particularly important with electrical play. Neither Top nor bottom should have a pacemaker, as stray electrical current has the potential to disrupt it.
• Basic first aid information is helpful for any dungeon accidents that might occur. Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) skills are especially important for electrical play. The American Red Cross at www.redcross.org holds "Community First Aid & Safety" training which includes CPR. In Houston the course was just $31.
• Roles
• Dominant/submissive ("D/s") & Top/bottom -- often one-time encounters
• Daddy/boy (& "boi") -- a D/s relationship where often the boy has some input
• Master/slave -- a D/s relationship where the slave strives to conform the will to his/her Master's
• Flagging -- where are this person's keys, flogger, and/or handkerchief?
• Left = Top, right = bottom
• "Handkerchief code" colors: black = SM, gray = bondage
• Safewords -- a means of helping the Top know what's going on

Electricity basics

• Electricity likes to go from point A to point B.

• Electricity can force muscles to contract.

• You never, ever want to send a current where it can pass across the heart (or brain). That can interfere with the heart's natural pulse and stop it. Shorthand: "No contact above the waist." (See also medical TENS further below, however.)

Electricity resources

• Paradise Electro Stimulations ("P.E.S.") at www.peselectro.com has helpful information under its "Information" tab (check out both "General Information" and "Erotic Effect"), and also several DVDs/videos available in their Products / Films and Movies section.

• sextek at www.sextek.com has a concise E-Stim FAQ page.

• A deliciously detailed discussion of electrical play is available at: www.sexuality.org/l/bdsm/elecplay.html

• An $11.95 paperback book on electrical play called JUICE: Electricity for Pleasure & Pain by "Uncle Abdul" came out in 1998. It is pretty comprehensive though a bit heavy reading. Sometimes I see it at a BDSM conference. Expensive copies are available through Amazon.com.

• The author of the above book provides Unc's E-Play & E-Stim Website at www.UncleAbdul.com.

General device information

• Violet wands (technically, "master high frequency units")

  • There is a big intensity difference in "regular" violet wands sold new through beauty supply stores and used through flea markets versus the units that were made by Erotec (which stopped producing them circa 2001). Each have their place.
  • To me, the Lightning Hands TM attachment was a must-have, even if you already had a violet wand and purchased it separately. After being one of two users I know who were afflicted by nerve problems, though, my personal experience is that it will at least exacerbate preexisting neuropathy. I wonder if it will create nerve damage where none previously existed.

• Medical TENS ( transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation ) units are different from the power box devices discussed below, though one could use many of the attachments discussed below. See the separate TENS page at www.westom.com/leather/electrical/tens.htm for extremely important further discussion

• Pulse signal generator (PSG) / electro-muscle stimulation (EMS) power boxes

  • many models...
    • Eros Tek at www.erostek.com makes remote and audio controlled units, including units with programs. The units with programs are amazing, yet also remove some of the direct knowledge of what the unit is doing (for example, the internal program may be running through an increase in intensity independently of the external hands-on intensity adjusting knobs) -- though the moans and screams fill in a lot.
    • Folsom at www.folsomelectric.com/products.html makes the PSG-202 and PSG-MAX
    • Paradise Electro Stimulations at www.peselectro.com makes the P.E.S. Power Box
    • Relax-A-cisor TM (no longer manufactured) and other EMS units
  • ...and many attachments
    • Creative, inexpensive, metallic "pervertibles" to which current could be applied -- such as cigar tubes, spoons, and tinsel.
    • Single electrode attachments require another attachment to complete a circuit.
    • urethral insert
    • anal / vaginal probe
    • some cockrings (those with out two separated A-to-B points)
    • scroll through the Products: Pictures & prices section to see more clever variations
    • Dual electrode attachments do not require another attachment to complete a circuit:
    • specialized buttplugs
    • vaginal plate
    • some cockrings (those with two separated A-to-B points)
    • again, scroll through the Products: Pictures & prices section to see more clever variations
    • Many attachments (urethral insert, anal / vaginal probe, cockrings, specialized buttplugs, vaginal plate) require conductive gels with electrolytes to conduct electricity adequately. (You can use KY with salt mixed in, but the sensation is not nearly as clean and even. It tends to have an unpleasant bite.) Ask for "ultrasound gel" at your local medical supply store, or online. Note that www.peselectro.com warns that silicone is an insulator, and as such should not be used as a conductive gel. They also warn that silicone lubricants should not be used with silicone gear, as the lubricant will attach to the product, which would make a formerly-smooth product rough.
    • You can also use special "sticky" conductive pads to transmit the current directly between areas without an attachment. (Relaxicisors worked this way. TENS units are prescribed for muscle groups this way. But the principle will work with PSG / EMS power box units also.)
• Other
• Electronic dog collars
• Cattle prods (and their immobilizing cousins -- stunners, zappers and tazers)
• Hand crank generators
• The Auto Erotic Chair TM

Manufacturers

• Eros Tek at www.erostek.com sells only through dealers, but sextek is one of their dealers.
• Folsom at www.folsomelectric.com/products.html sells only through dealers.
• Paradise Electro Stimulations at www.peselectro.com is "... the original creator of erotic electro stimulative devices" and holds 11 U.S. patents. My first electrical purchase was a broad array of P.E.S. gear in 1992. The P.E.S. Web site describes intimate uses for their gear, and supports secure online ordering. While competitors have allegedly copied many products -- leading to litigation -- the amazing Auto Erotic Chair remains a P.E.S. exclusive.
• sextek at www.sextek.com sells both through dealers and directly; and also handles Eros Tek gear.

Dealers / vendors

• Extreme Restraints at www.extremerestraints.com offers Eros Tek, sextek, (European) Rimba, and accessories (with a particularly nice collection of adapters), 866-4MY-BDSM.
• Kinky Medical at www.kinkymedical.net, (877) 537-1495.
• Leather Masters at www.LeatherMasters.com, (800) 417-2636.
• Mr. S Leather at www.mr-s-leather.com, 800-746-7677. Richard and Tchukon Hunter and their folks provide excellent service. I highly recommend them.
• Paradise Electro Stimulations at www.peselectro.com (See description, above.)
• sextek at www.sextek.com.

Products: Pictures & prices

"Violet wand" (master high frequency unit) Okay for use above the waist (since the electricity does not travel through the body cavity, where it could interfere with the heart), but avoid the eye area. Ultra Violet Wand Set (7 attachments, including Lightning Hands™) approximately $398.95. Ultra Violet Wand Set Small (1 Glass Attachment) approximately $229.95.
P.E.S. Power Box and Folsom PSG-202 (Folsom unit shown.) ==> Do not use above the waist! The P.E.S. Power Box was my first power box unit and remains the one most capable of controlling sensation. Approximately $245.
Eros Tek ET312 programmable power box "The World Class Standard In High-End E-Stim!" ==> Do not use above the waist! This unit ships with 18+ programs ("Waves", "Stroke", "Intense", etc.), audio controlled stimulation, the highest output intensity of any box, rechargeable power and has a 32 character lighted LCD display. For audio control, the set includes a microphone, and an external input jack for connecting to a portable tape player, CD player, stereo, TV, computer, or any device with a headphone jack. The audio signals are converted into a [ not-a-medical-TENS ] TENS-style modulated output. The louder the sound, the more intense the stimulation. Using either method, the creative possibilities are nearly endless. Stimulation can be based on music, speech, moans and more. Comments: We use this in conjunction with a PHOTOSONIX Nova Pro 100 (about $399), Bose acoustic noise cancelling headphones (about $299), and special light-encoded CDs 1 to provide a total audio/visual/physical experience. See Officer Wes' presentation notes for Power Play: High End Electrical for more information. Approximately $459 (without the above add-ons).
Eros Tek ET232 portable unit ==> Do not use above the waist! Similar to the ET312, above, but in a smaller hand-held package. The ET-312 offers more features such as LCD display, much longer battery life, a rechargeable battery, higher power, higher frequency and more. Approximately $349.
Eros Tek ET301R & ET302R remote control power boxes ==> Do not use above the waist! ET301R (top right) has one channel ET302R (middle right) has two channels Both have built-in microphones to enable triggering via voice, moans, etc. and are controlled by a keychain remote (bottom right) with selectable intensity. Approximately $369.
Folsom PSG-MAX ==> Do not use above the waist! (See Bipolar Contact Clips exception, further below.) This unit is good for piggies and for its random setting, though it doesn't have the nuances of the P.E.S. Power Box Approximately $350.
Acrylic buttplugs from P.E.S. and Folsom (P.E.S. products shown; dual electrode attachments.) (Note: P.E.S. also has Electro-Flex™ buttplugs made from a conductive silicone elastomer.) Approximately $150 each (small, medium, large).
Anal Tubular from P.E.S. (a single electrode attachment) " specifically designed to deliver the stimuli to precise areas within the anal and rectum regions. The Anal Tubular Electrode is the perfect electrode for those who are not normally anally active. " Approximately $59.95.
Prostate Stimulator from P.E.S. (a single electrode attachment) Approximately $129.95.
Folsom Insertable Electrode and Mr. S Leather Silver Bullet (a single electrode attachment) Approximately $69.
ElectroPlug, only from Mr. S Leather (a dual electrode attachment -- read description below) "The butt plugs are wired two-pole, with positive side on large part of the plug and the negative pole on the base of the butt plug. The sensation is fantastic especially at the opening where the most nerve endings are located. Slip the comfortable plug into your butt, plug it into an electric box, and feel your butt hum!" Sounds delicious. Approximately $145-165 each
Flexi Ball (1" ball) from Mr. S Leather and FlexProbe from sextek (a single electrode device) Approximately $99.
Electro-Flex TM band from P.E.S., E-Band from sextek, and Electro Band from Mr. S Leather (P.E.S. single electrode unit shown. Single and dual electrode devices available from the other two vendors.) $35 each ($49/pair) for single electrode configuration. $40 each for dual electrode configuration. Comments: I'd buy a pair of these rather than the inflexible Folsom cockrings shown further below, because their leads can snap off.
Testicle Tubular from P.E.S. (a single electrode device) " ...designed to conform to the soft tissue mass of the scrotum sack, while at the same time encapsulating each testicle separately. " $49.95.
ElectroCup 2 from sextek (a single electrode device) Approximately $149.
Acrylic cockrings from Folsom (single electrode or double -- a double electrode style is shown) Approximately $39.95 each (1 1/4 ", 1 1/2 ", 1 3/4 ", 2", 2 1/4 ").
Folsom Electric Cock & Ball Torture Boards Approximately $199.95.
P.E.S. Sparkler and Folsom Electric "Catheters" (P.E.S. unit shown.) (a single electrode device) Approximately $59.95.
Extreme Restraints bipolar urethral sound (a dual electrode device) Approximately $74.00.
P.E.S. Deep Throat (a dual electrode device) What a beautiful piece of gear. Go to the P.E.S. site to read how cool the configuration options are -- and see it in action with a couple of other pieces of cock gear that look fun, the single electrode Mid Ring and Base Ring! Approximately $149.95.
P.E.S. Corona" Cockhead" Stimulator (a single electrode device) Approximately $79.95.
Mr. S Leather Vacuum Electrode Set Used with most any type of existing vacuum pump. These twin electrodes are designed to attach directly to both channels of any power box with isolated channels. Approximately $105.
Folsom Bipolar Contact Clips The Bipolar Contact Clips are constructed so that each side of the jaws are electrically isolated from each other. This configuration allows for the electrical signal to pass between whatever is placed between the clips' jaws. NOTE 1: Folsom had written that "the Bipolar Contact Clips should not be used on the nipples with any source of power EXCEPT the Folsom Electric Company PSG-MAX. The PSG-MAX is the ONLY box designed to operate safely with certain Folsom Electric Company toys on the nipples." [The design is supposed to create a circuit on two sides of one nipple at a time, and then do the same to the other nipple. I am not sure how the left and right are isolated from each other to prevent mishap, however.] NOTE 2: ErosTek saw the above and added "We would like to point out, however, all our products have fully isolated outputs just like the Folsom Max and are equally as safe as the Max for use above the waist." NOTE 3: Meanwhile, P.E.S. states "NEVER use any electrodes above the waist. Our research has shown that all electrodes applied to the nipple and breast areas can be dangerous. Whether isolated or non-isolated, ALL electrically stimulated breast electrodes can cause fluctuations in heart rhythm. While many people may experience no difficulties, those with diagnosed or undiagnosed cardiac problems may experience mild to severe complications, including possible death." See the medical TENS page for more discussion. Approximately $85 for a pair.
P.E.S. Vaginal Shield and Folsom Vaginal Plate (Folsom unit shown.) (a dual electrode device) Approximately $73.95.
P.E.S. Samurai "The Samurai" More cool stuff for intense female action. Approximately $399.95.
P.E.S. Little Big Man " a conductive rubber ball connected to a rubber base platform... designed for maximum electro stimulation of the vaginal and clitoral areas " Approximately $184.95.
P.E.S. Auto Erotic Chair TM " ...hand-crafted aluminum-titanium chair weighs only 52 pounds and is completely collapsible in minutes... Pneumatic pumps operate the two Electro Stimulative devices that come with the chair, one in front and one from below. ...The Auto Erotic Chair comes complete with the P.E.S. Power Box, two ankle and two wrist leather restraints, anal and vaginal pneumatics, a P.E.S. Vaginal Plug and P.E.S Electro-Flex TM Anal Plug " $4,000.
Hand crank generators The interrogation tool of choice of South American dictators. This particular variation has combined both a 110 volt generator along the right, and a 170 volt generator along the left, inside one handy carrying case. The top photo shows the exterior where the cranking handles are. The two knobs along the front lip are potentiometers. On the right and left of the back lip are bicolored LEDs that show frequency and intensity for their respective generator. Also along the back lip are two output jacks for each generator. Frequency is controlled by speed of cranking and is indicated by blinking speed of LED. Intensity is controlled by the potentiometer and is indicated by the brightness of the LED. A shop called "Acme Leather & Toy Company" from Cincinnati offered these at Living in Leather VIII in 1993 for $269.
Cattle prods Use only shorter 2-3 cell units, more are too intense. Do not use stunners, zappers or tazers, which are high-voltage, high frequency items designed to temporarily immobilize a victim.	Picture not available.

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