I wonder what makes the torture of women with electricity so exciting and attractive to torture fans? The trembling and dancing of the body when the current passes? The terror of the woman? The inhuman sounds she makes? The possibility of changing the level of pain by changing the voltage?
This torture is popular among interrogators because of its effectiveness in obtaining information and is almost the most common torture method in the world.
For me, part of it is simply that it is low-effort/high-reward. And I would also agree, the easy adjustability, the ability to "Dial-A-Scream" makes it unique as far as I know.
Sometimes, within certain historical frameworks, particularly more recent history, I just can’t overcome my personal horror. It’s weird, I get off on being the victim and I’m perfectly happy to go medieval and ancient with incredibly awful torture, and execution, truly horrifying stuff yet it turns me on so much.
Yet more modern concepts can extinguish the kink element for me entirely. One clear example is the Holocaust- I just cannot be anything but appalled. I’m gravy most WW2 atrocities leave me similarly nonplussed.
Modern chattel slavery such as happens in Libya or for those poor Yazidi women under ISIS - completely zero kink interest for me, the brutal reality overwhelms me.
Yet create a fictious modern sub Saharan country that allows slavery and torture to me, and I can completely love it!
Yes! That is exactly how I feel about it. Seeing this brutality in the Real World is horrific.
But I think, as always, the key difference is consent. Even people whose kink is "non-consensual" consent at some point. Of course, there are places and cultures where the consent is forced by the mores, but that is a different discussion.
Thank you, and absolutely! I'm not saying the Latin American tortures were "better" than the medieval or ancient ones, only that they've become the the modern standard in countries where torture is practiced.
But there's certainly room in my dungeon for tortures from the great eras of the past. The torture horse, the strappado, the rack, the water tortures, the thumb- (and nipple-) screws, the Pear of Anguish, the Breast Ripper... there are lots of options out there.
Agreed. All of those things will always have a place in my personal dungeon, because there is something deeply intimidating about some of them. For example, take the Pear of Anguish, open it wide in front of your victim, and say "Imagine what this will feel like in your cunt, or in your asshole."
Many toys are such that I can get the victim's imagination to do half of the work of torturing them for me.
I think you've included all the important pieces, though I'd add a couple of small things. First, it's an astonishing feeling of power (pun intended) knowing that you can make a woman scream loud and long with a single movement of a single finger.
Second, I'd double-down on the "possibility of changing the pain by changing the amperage/voltage" piece: there are not many tortures that are so scalable so easily. Sure, you can add weights to the ankles of a woman on the torture horse, but it's an ungainly process compared to turning a rheostat.
Finally, I'd add that one of the effects of electrical torture is to cause the victim to sweat a lot (which is why Dirty War instituted regular breaks for sips of water), and seeing a woman glistening on the bedframe under the harsh lighting while she writhes and screams is very sexy. One of the rare torturers who gave an interview after the amnesty took effect specific ally mentioned that women undergoing electrical torture move like their having sex, and you can't say that about many other tortures.
I had never thought that that explicitly, but once you said it, I went, "Son of a gun, he's right!"
One other attraction of electrotorture in this modern era is this: With proper sensors and control, it can be used for "unattended torture." This allows leaving a victim in agony for hours at a time while the torturer is attending to others. Or, for a budget conscious torture establishment, one torturer can handle many more clients unassisted.
But there is one point against electrotorture that I will raise. If I am torturing a victim on a wooden pony as the primary agony, I can easily give them multiple things to think about by whipping their tits, as an example. So I can easily torture several different body parts/erogenous zones simultaneously but differently. Electrotorture on its own does not offer that flexibility. Which is why it will always be just one tool in my dungeon. A favorite tool, but still only one of many.
That's great! I'll remember that phrase. 
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