JohnWarren -> RE: Electro Stimulation tens or other e stim unit saftey (4/15/2008 10:12:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DDraigeuraid As an offshoot of this thread, what cautions should be taken with a violet wand. I used one several years ago, but don't really know much about them. Dragon To help out with this I'm going to post part of the violet wand segment of The Loving Dominant. Since this is copyrighted material, please do not repost or distribute this. Also, one toy gets to break all the rules, except you should not use it on anyone with a pacemaker. The violet wand plugs into the wall and can safely used almost all over the body. It was originally manufactured at the beginning of the previous century as a medical device which claimed to cure everything from gout to impotence. It didn’t cure anything, but hurt just enough so people felt it must be good for them. Fortunately, it is still being manufactured. It can often be located in barber supply stores where its overt purpose is to give "stimulating scalp massages." (Let's not tell them, shall we.) Because it uses exceptionally high frequency electricity that it doesn't enter the body cavity and should presents no danger to the heart. You can use it everywhere on the body except the eyes. Because the output is directed through a gas filled tube, there is no danger if the unit shorts out because the glass won’t transmit the lower frequency electricity of the line current. The machine consists of a plastic tube, about a foot long and two inches in diameter, containing a Telsa coil. One end has the power cord and an adjustment knob and the other has a cylindrical opening into which attachments can be inserted. As noted above, many of the attachments are hollow glass tubs which glow bluish violet and give it its name. When these attachments are brought near anything, a spark will jump to the object. The effect is like that from walking across a nylon rug with rubber shoes during dry weather and touching a door knob. The spark is relatively harmless. With some people, it can produce a tiny burn, particularly if the electrode is held over one place for a while, and because the output can be rich in ultraviolet, the skin can become slightly sunburned. It easily penetrates clothing, a convenient feature when one is playing in a club where nudity is forbidden. Also, if the cloth contains metallic fibers, the current will run along them, spreading the shock and making the fibers twinkle like tiny lightening bolts. A small warning: twice in all the years I’ve been playing with wands, I’ve had the submissive’s clothing catch fire. In both cases, she was wearing a fuzzy material like alpaca and had been a heavy user of hair spray which might have gotten on the sweater (heavily sprayed hair is also a risk). Neither incident caused any serious damage, but they’ve caused me to shy away from using wands near this kind of material (and for the ladies in question to shy away from me).
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