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Playing with electricity
So, I have been doing E-stim since 2007 and I was on watch fighters today and someone was doing an electro torture scene and this really really needs to be called out. Our brains, our spine, and our heart use electricity to function. Electricity on the head or near the spine can cause issues like seizures or nerve damage. That isn't very common but what is is people not considering the path of electricity. If I put the + side on your right hand and the - on your left, even if your hands are down by your hips the path of travel the electricity follows goes across your heart. If I do a similar set up over your nipples, it more directly goes over your heart. If I do right foot to left hand, again, your heart can get zapped. Most people use heart attack for all kinds of heart failure, this is not the case. A hart attack is caused by blood not getting to your heart often because of an obstruction and the heart starts to die. Cardiac arrest is when there is an electrical issue with the heart. If electricity crosses the heart it messes with the flow of electricity and can cause cardiac arrest. If you do CPR you're not likely to get someone to a place where they are ok again. What CPR does is it buys time but I don't personally know how effective it is with cardiac arrest, with that we need a defibrillator which DOES NOT START THE HEART. What an AED does is it bitch slaps your heart into stopping with the hopes that it starts again in a natural rhythm. If it's stopped by the AED and you start CPR you may keep circulation going long enough for the paramedics to be able to introduce drugs to get it going again. You may get enough oxygenated blood into the heart that I suppose it could do it on it's own. But please consider this, when you shock the heart it can fibrillate or it can stop and when that happens there is no guarantee that you can get it going again. If you must shock the nipples use a clamp that has both the + and - on either side of the same nipple. Electricity should stay on the nipple but please do not use the same channel for both nipples because the path of travel is fatally dangerous. I'm not saying bi-polar clamps are safe but I do believe, especially with a low level of current, that they are safer and I am saying that allowing that current to cross the chest is a very very bad idea. Electro on the head, btw, can induce seizures and doing it on the spine can interrupt control signals to important systems like the heart and lungs. The safest way to do electro is below the waist only.
synxiec (88)
15 days agoAs always, I appreciate (1) how thorough this is and (2) that someone vocalized this. I'm at least aware enough of what electricity can do and so I've wondered about similar things for a while, but that's also not my zone of bliss, so I don't know enough to say what you have here.
Glaslyn (0)
14 days agoVery well said! As I understand it it's basic safety knowledge to avoid current flow across the heart with TENS or estim kind of stuff, so it's concerning that some people are doing it WITHOUT that knowledge.
ChrisWrestling (58 )
14 days ago(In reply to this)
It's on watchfighters and it's in porn and I wish people who have the potential to influence others were more responsible about it.
JobberGiant (21)
14 days agoKink is very dangerous without research or considering safety: untrained electro, breathplay without a partner, poppers without knowing about interactions, bondage without safety scissors....
Stay safe out there, folks. For every kink there's a resource on precautions.
ChrisWrestling (58 )
13 days ago(In reply to this)
Yes, but I saw someone else do it and they were ok on the video which may or may not have been staged so therefore it must be safe....
People need to be more vocal about safety and not assume people are doing actual research before they play. 20 years in the kink community and I can pretty confidently say that maybe only a quarter actually know what they are doing or practice appropriate safety precautions and while that may be closer to 50% of teachers most people never get instruction before engaging in play. I didn't start learning til I was already collared and had already topped several scenes in my early 20's. You cannot trust that people are going to look for resources so sometimes it's good to put it where people will stumble on it.