Safety:Electricity Play

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Electrical play can be broken into several, major components:

• Acupuncture
• TENS unit
• Violet Wands
• Safety:Electricity Play See article below

• Juice: Electricity for Pleasure and Pain (Book)
• Uncle Abdul's Electricity website (external link)

Safety:Electricity play

Information from Officer Wes's website

• E-Stim is generally considered to be unsuitable for anyone with a pacemaker, or medical infusion device; a heart disturbance; during pregnancy and should never be used above the waist.
• Safewords -- a means of helping a Top know what's going on, though not universally used. Common ones are the traffic light colors, “green” for everything’s great, “yellow” for it’s getting a bit too intense, and “red” for stop.

Types of gear

Violet wands (technically, "master high frequency units") & neon wands

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) and others manufactured specifically for kink use. Each have their place.

To me, a body contact pad attachment was a must-have, even if you already had a violet wand and purchased it separately.

Make sure to prevent any current going to ground while wearing this attachment.

(Suggestions: Don't sit or have your sub partner sit on a first story floor of a building.

Do wear rubber-soled footgear.) I am one of two users I know who were afflicted by nerve problems immediately after using these in 1998. For me, it created neuropathy in my arms and legs. For the other person, it exacerbated preexisting neuropathy.

The Violet Wand Store manufactures the Nova Violet Wand®, "the most popular violet wand in America."

Neon wands are less powerful devices that also throw electricity; but are solid state instead of mechanical and come at a more reasonable price point (about $150 vs. $230-$400).

• Power boxes

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.

Examples

• E-Stim Systems at http://www.e-stim.co.uk (UK)
• ElectraStim at http://www.electrastim.com (UK)
• ErosTek at http://erostek.com, which 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 Electric Company at http://www.folsomelectricompany.com
• Fort Troff at http://www.FortTroff.com
• Paradise Electro Stimulations at http://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. P.E.S. makes the P.E.S. Power Box.
• Relax-A-cisorTM abdomen exercise setup (no longer manufactured) and other EMS units
• Rimba at http://www.therimbastore.com/wp/electro-sex (scroll down) is a manufacturer of lower cost gear. I have no experience with it to give an opinion.
• Zeus Electrosex at http://www.zeuselectrosex.com [not a secure https: Web site] is Rimba gear re-branded for Extreme Restraints. They have a nice Education section for their gear. I would not use the Electrosex (Nipple) Clamps out of concern for the heart, including possible death. (See warning at Electricity basics.)

...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 without two separated A-to-B points)

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)

Other

Electric/Electronic dog collars

Cattle prods (and their immobilizing cousins -- stunners, zappers and tazers)

Hand crank generators

Reference material

Points 1 & 3 are from [document formerly at] www.fda.gov/cdrh/ode/300.pdf pp. 3-4: ( X Site down 03/21 R/ )

III. OUTPUT CRITERIA

A. Monophasic pulses. (not exceeding 1 millisecond)*

Charge/phase (mC) [microcoulombs]

Minimum for effectiveness 3 (ref.2)

Maximum for effectiveness 7

Safe through chest (ANSI/AAMI NS-4--1985) 20

Hazardous through chest 75

Cardiac threshold for pacing 100 ±25

Point 2 is from [document formerly at] www.fda.gov/cdrh/ode/300.pdf pp. 4-5: ( X Site down 03/21 R/ ) V. Labelling

C. Contraindications -- Labeling statements must exclude the following:

1. Any electrode placement that applies current to the carotid sinus (neck) region. Point 4 is from [document formerly at] www.fda.gov/cdrh/ode/300.pdf p. 5: ( X Site down 03/21 R/ )

D. Warnings. Must include:

8. If the device is capable of delivering a charge per pulse of 25 microcoulombs (mC) or greater, there should be a prominently placed statement warning that stimulus delivered by this device may be sufficient to cause electrocution. Electrical current of this magnitude must not flow through the thorax [chest] because it may cause a cardiac arrhythmia.

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20160609113333/https://officerwes.com/electrical/ Officer Wes website archived

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