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Chapter Seventeen
Test Your Understanding

The Final Exam

And you thought you were just going to passively read a book. Hah!

Actually this chapter will be more of a learning process than an actual exam. In the following pages I’ll give you several scenarios and some questions about each scenario. These scenarios will deal with real-world situations that you may encounter during your career as an electrical player, and the questions will illustrate the ones you might think of if you understand the principles contained in this book.

Yes, I’ll also include some answers. They’ll be on the backside of the page that contains the scenario and questions and will contain reference suggestions to Chapters and pages for you to take a look at. But I would suggest you write down your own answers first before comparing them with the ones in the book.

Understand that your answers may be different from mine (hopefully not much different). There are no supreme authorities in this form of play. You are responsible for your own play and beliefs. I can only hope that in your different answer you can point to some factual, theoretical, and/or demonstrable basis for it. Remember, the object here is to stimulate your thinking process so that you can start thinking like an electrical player before you stimulate someone electrically.

Hi use the following shortcuts so that the publisher can save on some printing costs and forests won’t have to be decimated. I’ll use –

C = Chapter number
P = Page number
and F = Figure number

Thus (C5 P45 F21) would mean “Chapter 5, page 45, figure 21.”

Ready?

(By the way, if you’re a cute masochist, don’t forget the special test I’ll personally give you in C3 P26.)

Scenario 1 –

You are a total beginner at electrical play. You’ve read this book. Man you’re ready to kick some serious electrical butt! You want to do some electrical play with your partner who has also never played with electricity before. Your partner is interested in trying it.

Questions –

  1. Before even one electron is exchanged between you and your partner, what is the first thing you need to do?
  2. What toy would you select for your first electrical scene with your partner? A TENS unit? A violet wand? A cattle prod? Why?
  3. Should your first electrical scene be combined with other play? Why or why not?
  4. Should you know CPR before you do electrical play with your partner?

Suggested Answers to Questions –

  1. Before you start playing – especially for newcomers – you should discuss the play and each of your feelings about doing it. What do each of you want out of it? Don’t forget the negotiation. Even if you’ve done scenes before, you should especially review the special questions shown in C10 P77.
  2. For newcomers it is best to start slow (see C13 P98). A TENS unit has generally milder sensations and has more range of control (see C14 P107). This would be the preferred first toy of choice. A violet wand has little control (see C14 P114) and a cattle prod is too heavy for newcomers (see C14 P116).
  3. Here I would suggest just trying electrical play for your first electrical scene. Here you can better judge your partner’s reactions to the electrical play alone rather than have the reactions from other play influence it Remember here your attention to your partner and your partner’s feedback is important (see C13 P99). Starting with the second scene you can start combining different forms of play. But then again this is your choice.
  4. YES!!!! (See C10 P75.) Even though you’re both sound as the American dollar (uhh…well…) it is always good insurance. You can never be too careful.

Scenario 2 –

You have done several scenes with electrical play and you want to do a scene with your partner using a TENS unit. You want to do this by placing one electrode on each of your partner’s wrists. You’ve negotiated this with your partner. Your partner has agreed and is healthy with no history of heart problems.

Questions –

  1. What will be the path of the current you’d expect?
  2. What are the possible danger(s)?
  3. What mitigating circumstances might offset these danger(s)?
  4. What precautions should you take anyway?
  5. Would it be safer if you place the electrodes on each sole of your partner’s feet?
  6. What would your partner feel and where would it be felt?
  7. Would you personally do this scene?

Suggested Answers to Questions –

  1. The current path will be from one terminal of the TENS unit, to the first wrist, up that arm, through the chest area including the area where the heart is located, down the other arm, out the other wrist, and return to the other terminal of the TENS unit.
  2. There is a possible current path through the heart and the sinoatrial node. This might possibly be harmful under certain circumstances. There is also a very minor risk of vagal output causing slowing of the heart if the sensations are prolonged (hours). See C10 P76.
  3. First, only a very minute portion of the current going through the body might ever be seen at the heart because of the distance of the current path from the heart, the current limiting qualities of the skin (C9 P67), and the fact that the current will take the easy path rather than the other more resistive paths (C11 P86) which may not involve the heart.

    Secondly, your partner is in good health with no history of heart problems. While that is no guarantee, it does give you a better chance.

  4. As with any electrical play you want to continuously monitor your partner’s responses. Your partner should give you feedback (C13 P101). You should also take your partner’s pulse. Of course, by now you have already taken a Red Cross CPR course and have close access to a phone so you can dial 911 in the unlikely event you need to do both (C10 P78).
  5. Yes, the anticipated current path would be farther from the heart, but it’s no certainty. With prolonged play (hours) you could have a possible body chemical slowing of your partner’s heart (C10 P76).
  6. Your partner would feel a tingle (C13 P107) generally at the location of the smaller electrode (C9 P73).
  7. I personally would not do this scene, and would urge anybody I cared about to avoid it. However, you’re a grown-up: if you choose to take such a risk, that choice, and the responsibility for its outcome, is also yours – yours and your partner’s.

Scenario 3 –

You are a bottom at a party. You see this one hot dominant doing electrical play on another bottom, and you feel excited by the thought of having the same thing done to you. You see all sorts of neat toys that the dominant is using, and they seem to be used with great effectiveness. After that scene is finished, you strike up a conversation with the dominant There seems to be a mutual interest and so you scan negotiating to do a scene. You describe the kind of scene that you’d like to have done.

Questions –

  1. If the dominant asked you the regular health questions except if you had any heart problems, what would you do?
  2. The dominant tells you, “I’ve done electrical play a lot. It’s perfectly safe even with nipple to nipple play.” What would you do?
  3. The dominant seems reluctant to do so but accedes to your request to look at the toys that will be used on you in the prospective scene. What is one impression you might get about the dominant? Why?
  4. Would you do the scene with this particular dominant at this time? Why?

Suggested Answers to Questions –

  1. I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little leery about that dominant’s knowledge. I would certainly volunteer that information in the negotiation if it wasn’t asked of me (see C10 P77).
  2. I don’t know about you, but to me this wouldn’t look so good. See C3 P19 and C11 P86.
  3. Again, your call, but to me the dominant seems like he’s not very concerned about your concerns and questions. You need to pay attention in negotiations to the things that don’t seem right as well as those things that seem positive and promising.
  4. All partners in an electrical play scene have a responsibility (C13 P99). This is your body that you will be putting on the line – as it is with any scene. Now there might be mitigating circumstances, like you have seen this dominant do scenes before and believe him to be safe, or you may have a desire to do this despite the things that don’t seem right. But unless you see the balance tipped heavily in favor of going ahead, you really may want to consider not doing the scene. Trust is an important issue here (C13 P97 F32). Your satisfaction is also important. You are responsible for yourself.

Scenario 4 –

You are a top in a long-term relationship with your partner. You’ve done many electrical scenes before and both of you enjoy them. You know that your partner is a masochist who can take heavy pain.

The two of you will be going to a private party soon and you want to do something really special with your partner.

Your partner seems to be turned on by fantasies of being tortured with household AC current – direct out of the wall socket. Both of you know that this is too dangerous to do in reality, but you devise a way to make it look like you’ve going to shock him with household current. You have a stick that looks like it’s got the exposed bare ends of an electrical extension cord. The extension cord is not really connected at all, but the wire ends are connected to a cattle prod that you can operate but that he can’t see. The scene is really a mindfuck, and a pretty good one at that.

Questions –

  1. You’ll be doing this at a private party. What precautions do you think you’ll need to take considering that there’ll be other people there? What other precautions should you take?
  2. What are you trying to maintain with your partner to make this scene work? How can you accomplish this?
  3. On what parts of your partner’s body might you use this disguised cattle prod? What parts would you stay away from? What need you watch for in doing this?
  4. When might your partner call the safeword? What would you do?
  5. What aftercare would you give your partner after such an intense scene? Why?

Suggested Answers to Questions –

  1. Because others at the party might intervene if your play appears unsafe, you probably want to inform them of your plan. You’ll need their silence and cooperation to make this mindfuck work (C13 P97). Of course you’ll also need to keep it a secret from your partner. At a more public party, this conspiracy might be more difficult to carry off.

    You’ll also need to to assure yourself that your toy is really no more dangerous than the cattle prod that you’ve used before (assuming that the wire ends are no closer together than the electrodes on the prod). It should be tested on you before you use it on your partner (C15 P126).
  2. You need to balance his fear and fascination so that his trust in you is maintained (C13 P97 F32). You’ll especially need to gauge his reactions the first time you show your partner your device. You should know by now whether he still trusts you to continue the scene. Some bottoms, especially in a long-term relationship, will feel confident enough that you won’t intentionally harm them that they’ll let themselves participate in their darkest fantasies. But even here the line can be crossed. It is very important to gauge and be able to interpret their reactions properly. Of course your safeword agreement should be scrupulously honored.
  3. Cattle prods should only be used on the large muscle mass portions of the body: the buttock area and the backs of the legs. All other parts should be considered off limits. You’ll need to watch for the muscle jerk reaction and plan for the possible limb movements (C9 P71 and C12 P91 F31).
  4. Your partner might call the safeword if his fear level exceeds his fascination level (C13 P97 F32). You would of course stop the scene immediately and bring him down from scene space (C13 P102).
  5. Aftercare is always unique for the partners involved. You are responsible for bringing your partner down from scene space (C13 PI 02). He might feel some embarrassment about being taken in by the mindfuck. You’ll need to reassure him that you are proud of him and that he did very well.

Scenario 5 –

Two partners who had experienced some play with electricity before have just purchased a new violet wand. They so far have stayed away from playing with electricity above the waist,“ but they’ve heard it said that you can use a violet wand to do nipple play because. “…it’s just static electricity.” They’ve heard that you’ve studied this book, and so they ask you if you think it safe to do nipple play with their new violet wand.

Questions –

  1. What would you advise these people? Why?

Suggested Answers to Questions –

  1. Once you get past the very strong suggestion to them about reading this book, and you’ve decided to take on their question (you can beg off, you know), you might want to apprise them of the following:

    Because of the possible heart effects with electrical play, ask them if they’ve discussed the health issues during their negotiations. Does the bottom have any known heart problems? (See C10 P75)

    Does the top know CPR, and can she easily phone 911 – just in case? (See C10 P75)

    You may want to explain to them the operation of the violet wand (C8 P55 P21-25) and how it does not really operate by static electricity. Also talk to them about the possible current paths that the current from the violet wand spark takes through the body and how the currents in the region of the heart might be mitigated (C8 P59).

    You should also give them the lecture about the risks and responsibility of electrical play (C1 P3).

    Perhaps better yet, tell them that they should get their own copy of this book and read it through. After all r electrical play is edge play; they should understand what is happening in their electrical play.

Scenario 6 –

You’re a top who plays with electricity. You have all your toys at a party, and you do a scene with one partner. During that scene you notice someone looking at it with rapt fascination, You suspect that she’s a bottom who might want to do a scene with you. After you finish up your first scene, you talk with this person. Sure enough, she is a bottom and does want to do a scene with you.

Questions –

  1. During the course of negotiations with that person, what additional health questions would you ask her?
  2. What past experience questions might you ask her?
  3. If this person were a complete beginner, what general level of scene and what precautions might you consider for your scene with her?
  4. If this person were experienced, what general level of scene and what precautions might you consider for your scene with her?
  5. Is there an element of fascination on the other person’s part? If so, how should you play with it?

Suggested Answers to Questions –

  1. There would be the questions asking if she had any heart problems or a pacemaker (C10 P75). You might also want to inquire if they’ve had any abuse experiences, especially with electricity (C13 P99).
  2. You’ll want to determine what level of experience she’s had with electrical play. Is she a complete beginner or has she played before? If so, how often? What kind of toys did she play with? Was she top or bottom when she did this? What was her experience of that like? If she is a total beginner, you would want to ask her either what her fantasies about electrical play are – or, if she has no fantasies, ask her what fascinated her about the electrical play that she watched you do. You should also find out what her pain tolerance level is. Does she only like light stimulation or really heavy shocking?
  3. Go slow and light (C13 P99). Watch her reactions carefully (C13 P101). Instruct her to give you feedback during the scene (C13 P101). Monitor her pulse (C10 P77). Be prepared to abort the scene if you feel or she feels that something is not right (C13 P102).
  4. Same as with #3 above, except that you could do heavier play (within negotiated limits of course). If this were the first time you’d be playing with this particular experienced partner, it would probably be wise to do somewhat less play than you’d do with partners you’ve played seweral times with. This allows you some margin – just in case.
  5. Your first guess was that there was some fascination. This can be confirmed during your negotiations (see #2 above). You should also assess her fear level of electricity during your negotiations. Generally a beginner will be more apprehensive than an experienced bottom, but I’ve certainly seen examples of a reverse of this. You should then balance the fear and fascination to maintain the trust s/he has in you so that the pleasure of the scene can be maintained (C13 P95 F34).

Scenario 7 – EXTRA CREDIT for those who have read and understood Appendix Two (P. 167)

Someone has a bright idea about doing nipple to nipple play. They want to use a TENS unit and two special nipple clamps. The two nipple clamps will have each of its sides connected to a different polarity of the TENS unit output (see fig, 34 – I also don’t claim original art on this. It was posted on the Internet.). This they figure will avoid any currents going through the heart. They ask you to evaluate the idea.

Questions –

  1. How would the damps need to be designed?
  2. Assume a 10 volt battery used in the TENS unit, 10,000 ohms for skin resistance, and 2,000 ohms for internal body resistance. Can you show a full equivalent circuit for the scheme? (Hint: for inside the body, see C5 P33 F11).
  3. What would be the current through each nipple?
  4. What would be the current(s) inside the body in the region of the heart?
  5. Do you think it might be safe? Why?
  6. Is it safer than if you put one terminal of a TENS unit on one nipple and the second terminal on the other nipple? Why?
  7. How would you state your answer? Why?
  8. Would you play using this scheme? Why or why not?

Suggested Answers to Questions –

  1. The clamp could not be a solid metal piece or made from all metal. There would need to be two metal. Parts separated by an insulator, thus preventing the two terminals of the TENS unit from shorting out. See figure 33.


    2. Figure 33

  2. The full equivalent circuit for the scheme is shown in figure 34.


    3. Figure 34

  3. With this scheme the current through the inside of the nipple would be about I ma (milliamp) through each nipple (see R1 and R2 in figure 34).
  4. The currents are already down to I microamp in Loop #8 in each of the lattice networks (see fig. 35). Whether this represents the actual currents across the heart is not really known at this time.


    5. Figure 35

  5. It probably might be from a current standpoint, but the heart also speeds up or slows down to the body’s chemical signals (C10 P74). The models don’t show anything about that. lt also doesn’t show what might happen if a pad or each nipple makes a poor connection so that the current runs across the chest.
  6. The equivalent circuit model for one terminal on one nipple and another on the other nipple is shown in figure 35. Here the lattice resistance network is almost entirely due to the inner part of the body across the chest. Even though the current would be less than 1 microamp at Loop #8 it would be across more area of the chest. This could mean that the heart might see more current. Then again, maybe not. But, to answer the question, the other scheme might appear safer.
  7. For me it would depend on how the other people will use the information. If they want to use your answer as an authority, you should have them read the book and make up their own minds based on under- standing the material. There are many more things to understand in electrical play than just a simple answer to this relatively simple question, The other people are responsible for their own safe play.
  8. Now that you understand electrical play, gentle reader, that decision is entirely up to you and your partner. Play safely.

Now that you answered the questions in this final exam, you may have found some areas that you need to restudy. Please feel free to do so.

As I’ve said repeatedly (sometimes, I dare say, in the minds of some readers too much) YOU CAN PLAY SAFER IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE DOIN