electrotorture
English
Etymology
electro- + torture
Noun
electrotorture (uncountable)
- torture involving electric shock
- 2003, Simon H. Sheppard, Kinkorama: dispatches from the front lines of perversion, page 93:
- And there's a long-established school of S/M, I discovered, where folks of all genders and orientations matriculate in piss play and electrotorture.
- 2008, Laura L. Finley, The torture and prisoner abuse debate, page 29:
- American and Argentinean police forces used electrotorture in the 1920s.
- 2009, Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, page 194:
- Why then, one may ask, does stealthy electrotorture appear first in the colonies and foreign wars of democracies and not in the colonies and foreign wars of authoritarian states?
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