Aswad
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ORIGINAL: YSG The iron maiden is not a torture device, it is an execution device (and quite a brutal one at that). It's perfectly possible to adapt it to torture. So long as the spikes don't penetrate the body while one is perfectly aligned, it will force the person inside to remain perfectly still. Then they get sleep deprived and start nodding off and get started awake by the pain from the small pricks. And develop cramps that cause jerking motions that cause additional pricks. If the interior is sterile and the spikes are dense enough, without too sharp points, this will not inflict sufficient damage to kill in the short term. It will, however, qualify as interrogation level torture. A modern improvement to the safety would, as SexyThoughts commented, be to use electricity or other means to cause the same effect. There are a million different ways to prevent electrical shocks from resulting in a problem, so long as one actually knows what one is doing. Far safer than using rounded or flat points to the spikes, and far more painful (which extends how long it can inflict sleep deprivation and unexpected shocks from twitching, jerking and nodding off). For someone looking to stick to spikes, though, I would recommend threaded spikes so that it will be possible to adjust a single enclosure to multiple users (as well as changes in body mass and the like for a single user). A simple paper maché cast or the like can be used to gauge how the spikes must be positioned, and the device is obviously closed carefully the first time. One supposes a smart person would include a means to safeword, or at least something which will detect serious injuries (e.g. blood on the floor will conduct electricity, and ECG is getting to be affordable now). I don't think a lot of people here plan to execute their subs, save as a fantasy sim thing. What its original purpose is, thus becomes less relevant. If you want brutal executions, the brazen bull strikes me as far worse. To say nothing of the half dozen "improvements" I can think of off the top of my head, using modern technology and a bit of knowledge about the body, its limitations and the manner in which it senses pain. Humans are able to experience far more suffering than its converse, unfortunately. And, even more troubling, far more inclined to inflict suffering than to alleviate it, let alone cause pleasure. Ironically, the former is uncensored in the news, while the latter rarely is, it seems. IWYW, - Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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