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[naamah_darling]

FOR ART! Involving MAD SCIENCE!

Anyone have any experience with electroplay? Anyone know anyone into electroplay?

Are y'all/they willing to answer questions about what that feels like?

Stuff I have experienced:Mild charge from a hand-held defense device (I hesitate to call it a taser, because it was nowhere near that scary). Felt like tattoo

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[warclaw]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_%28science_fiction%29

Sci-Fi, yes, but check out the references to actual experiments involving this principle.

AND:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stimulation_reward

Why fool around with the peripherals when you can just go straight to the pleasure centers?

[naamah_darling]

They actually have remote-triggered "neural-induction conditioning collars" that provoke pleasure or pain, which is great for not having to touch them to reward/punish them, but not so great for directed stimulation.

I'm specifically looking for BDSM-style electroplay mixed in with sex.

Brain probes = cringe-inducing. I am filing that away for the really crazy doctor. That'd be a deeply unpleasant threat.

That aside, I wish to fuck I could have a brain implant to stop the depression. That'd be swell. At one point I would have said it wasn't worth having a hole drilled in my skull. Now, I'm thinking it sounds pretty good. DAMMIT, FUTURE, WHERE ARE YOU?!

[warclaw]

Research in that area is ongoing, with some researchers reporting remarkable results. If I was looking at that sort of depression myself, I might even consider looking around for a study to volunteer for as a lab-rat

[naamah_darling]

AHAHA! I believe you have it EXACTLY.

I actually DID look for studies recently. Nothing closer than, like, Bethesda. >:(

[warclaw]

:) I've always preferred the urbane and polite but utterly ruthless villains.

Any malign thug can break bones and burn orphanages, it takes a true Villain to do it with STYLE.

as for studies....there's this: http://www.broadenstudy.com/

Looks to be a national study, with one of the centers being in Dallas, Texas. Not so far away from Oklahoma as Bethesda.

I don't know if this is something you could do, or would want to, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

[wetdryvac]

Dunno about lab-ratting, but a couple of the studies that hit my radar a bit back - I was digging at electro-stim via acupuncture, and ran across some of the fibromyalgia studies which were turning out some tangential effects in reduction of depression:

(Suggestive of effect)
1) http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993%2812%2900273-0/abstract
2) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01292.x/full

(Suggestive of non-effect)
3) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2042-7166.2012.01151_2.x/full

[wetdryvac]

*glares at the internet generally*

I know there was a non-pay-for option to that one. Hmph.

*keeps digging*