Y HELO THAR Mr. TENS Unit!

[serinde]

Last night, sweh and I went to a TES panel on "Electric Sex", which is to say, playing around with TENS units, Folsom boxes, and whatnot.

Now, we have several TENS units amongst us, mostly for naudia's back problems, and also sweh has a black-box which we've mucked with a bit; but mostly I was aware of the potential of these purely as pain generators, which was of limited interest to me. The thrust (fnarr fnarr) of this panel, however, was supposed to be more towards the sexual end, and I was curious to see what the deal was.

They'd also announced that volunteers were needed to be practiced upon, so we got there when the doors open as advised to see if that was still the case. They definitely had a male volunteer, so Stephen was out of luck (which, in the event, may have been as well, since some of the things that were done on the male side might have been outside my comfort zone, though I think he still would have loved it), but at that time the presenter didn't know if any females were lined up, so I was in the on-deck circle.

But then the organizers came in with their already-arranged female volunteer, so I was also out of luck. And it was a vast quantity of luck I was out of, because--well, let me not get ahead of myself.

The talk started with a basic discussion of electrical play, the do's and don'ts, available equipment, etc. Then, the first demonstration was on a man's arms, so that the audience could see exactly what it is that the device is doing; she hooked it up using the little sticky pads, two on each forearm (TENS units have two sets of independent leads), and showed how, as you increase the current, the muscles start spasming and twitching. (She also noted that this aspect is really useful in control scenes, e.g. ordering the bottom to hold their arms still and then forcing them to move.)

Then came the female volunteer. She stripped from the waist down and got on the padded table so everyone could see what was going on. The presenter started by putting the same kind of sticky pads on her pubic mound, bracketing the top of the slit as it were, and ran low current through that. (Report: "Feels nice.") Then came out a sizeable insertable whatsit. It's one actually intended for anal play, but the presenter said she wasn't personally impressed with the one that's sold for vaginal--narrow and smooth and dull, we were told--and that in her opinion this worked far better. So the other pair of leads from the TENS were connected into the base of that (while the other leads were still on her mound), and in it went. And as the power to the plug was increased, the volunteer started twitching something fierce, and you could see visible vibrations in the plug; and the presenter described this as the plug literally fucking her.

So, we are half naked on a table in front of fifty people being fucked by a machine that's under the control of a wickedly sadistic domme. How many of my kinks can you find in this picture, kids? AND IT WAS ALMOST ME BUT WASN'T ARGHGHGHGH *flail scream* not fair!. I sounded new depths of envy.

Anyways, after while the demonstration moved on to the male volunteer. The presenter began with a cock ring that has sockets for your electro-item, which you can connect both leads to that and just run the current through the ring, but she instead put a medical-purposed cuff around his scrotal sac and connected the other lead to that, so the current was running through all his genitalia. He seemed a little too complacent about that (they are, apparently, old friends) so she switched to some bigger magic, namely putting a urethral sound down his cock, and then a long probe up his ass, and connecting THOSE to the leads. (It should be noted that only the tip of the probe is conductive.) This seemed to have a very salubrious effect, aheheheh, go figure.

We had to leave at the break rather than staying for the roundtable discussion, due to the evil of transit. But I really enjoyed the evening; it's opened up a whole area I hadn't even considered (and we even have a good part of what we'll need, though the electric-enabled plugs are Not Cheap), and it's given me a lot of food for pervy thought.

Comments

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

Might I suggest a big discussion forum and media-sharing zone (http://www.smartstim.com) on the subject?

It's mostly men, but there's a good balance of gay'n'str8 (or, well, gay'n'bi most likely), also a good deal of discussion between women about using the Damned Devices. And best of all, lots and lots of advice on making yer own plugs and rings and suchlike.

Including tips on which metals are best (max conductance, minimum leaching of metal salts into the skin, NO LEAD!, etc.), where to get cheap high-conductance rubber tubing, cheap stickypads, how to avoid electrocuting yourself, how to rig a battery-powered pair of computer speakers into an electrostim box so you can "play" custom mp3 files into your tender bits, you name it.

Sure, there are a few ueberfreaks on the site that carry it, perhaps, a teensy bit too far... but weren't it ever thus? *grin*

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I've always lingered on the ES section of Blowfish (http://www.blowfish.com/catalog/toys/estim.html), but it's really too much money to spend on something that sounds cool but i might end up not liking (or liking enough to justify the expense).

[lunchboy.livejournal.com]

Now I keep hearing Johnny Cash singing "Folsom Box Blues": "I shocked a man in Reno / Just to watch him writhe..."

[crypticgirl.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Some of this sounds like it would be really interesting to at least try. Short circuiting my hearing, however, is not on my To Do list...

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Bytesize (http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/misc/Bytesize) has a TENS setting. ;)