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Often accidental, which overlaps with [[Too Kinky to Torture]].
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Excel from ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' is [[Too Kinky to Torture|Too Kinky To]] [[Electric Torture]].
* Ruby from ''[[Rosario
* In ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', Stocking is obviously enjoying her electrocution in "One Angry Ghost".
** Stocking seems to enjoy pain anyway, as the [[Beach Episode]] had her [[The Immodest Orgasm|moaning in pleasure]] from being crushed in a giant octopus's tentacles.
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* The ''[[Squadron Supreme]]'' [[Gadgeteer Genius]] Tom Thumb weaponized this into the [[Stun Guns|Pacifier Pistols]], which incapacitate with pleasure, so cops wouldn't need lethal weapons. How he's going to keep them from [[Power Perversion Potential|sitting around shooting themselves in the head all day]] is not addressed.
* This is the special power of the titular character in the [[Hentai]] series ''Demi the Demoness''. She can fire a bolt that makes the target [[Out with a Bang|orgasm so hard they explode]].
* Fuji from ''Stormwatch'' is an [[Energy Being]] who's kept in a containment suit so that he doesn't dissipate into nothingness. Due to the conditions of his suit and the constant buffeting of his nervous system by his own energy, he has an orgasm every five minutes. No wonder he's so happy.
* Milo Manara's erotic graphic novel ''Click!'' is about a noblewoman fitted with a wireless version of this. She is followed by a voyeur who turns it on at inopportune moments, compelling her to stop whatever she's doing and have sex with anyone nearby.
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* This was done in the radio version of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', as a reward for a student learning about the Shoe Event Horizon.
** Sort-of done by Ford to a security robot in ''Mostly Harmless''. He captured the robot and disabled the chip that controls access to its "happy module", so the robot was happy doing anything at all. Including intervening between Ford and a missile.
* Semirhage in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' finds that stimulating the pleasure centers of a subject's brain works better than stimulating the pain centers for torture.
** But it bores her.
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' books, such as ''[[Ringworld]]'' and the Gil the Arm stories, feature the droud, which trickles current through a wire implanted in the pleasure center of the brain, and the tasp, which does this from a distance, and is seen to be an extremely dangerous weapon (since the victim can get addicted).
** A similar device is central to the [[Spider Robinson]] story ''God Is an Iron'', later expanded into the novel ''Mindkiller''.
* [[Norman Spinrad]] wrote a story where there are booths that does this in a New York subway station, 200 years in the future. There are skeletons in
** Experiments with rats prove that this is [[Truth in Television]].
*** The rat experiments were featured in the movie ''IQ'', as mentioned above.
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* Used by [[Ax Crazy|Taylor the Crazy Yeerk]] in the ''[[Animorphs]].'' Presumably it was put into an otherwise-standard [[Electric Torture]] rig just 'cause they could, but it turned out to be useful for breaking Tobias (whose hawk-form mind was impressively resistant to torture by dint of not knowing it could end it) through sheer [[Mood Whiplash]].
** A milder form of it was used in a book where the yeerks were trying to use sharks as aquatic soldiers. Through the use of electronic chips in the sharks' brains, they replicated the sensation of having just caught prey to encourage them.
* Used in the works of [[Cordwainer Smith]] as a recreational device and painkiller.
* In ''[[Terminal Man]]'', Harry Benson receives a brain implant to control his psychomotor epilepsy, which caused him to severely beat two people during seizures. During the course of the book, however, concerns come up that Benson might be psychotic, and before too long his subconscious mind learns how to induce seizures in order to trigger the "pleasure" shock originally meant to halt them. [[It Got Worse|Things go badly from there.]]
* Used in a truly horrific fashion in the novel ''[[Neuropath]]''. The book's villain, who aims to prove that free will is an illusion created to cover up the mass of cognitive processes that take us through the day, abducts a porn star and uses direct nerve stimulation to put her in the throes of pleasure. {{spoiler|Then he switches the pathways that register pain and pleasure, and gives her a shard of glass...}}
* The fury-crafted collars from the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' also qualify as this; when the victim does what the controller wants them to they get pleasured. If they refuse, things get bad.
* In [[Daniel Keys Moran]]'s ''[[The Last Dancer]]'', David Castanaveras (brother to Denise, and a fairly powerful telepath) is addicted to "electric ecstasy", by which he is (at least semi-)controlled by Sedon. Sedon later uses [[Electric Torture]] on Dvan, who is somehow able to ignore it and obey the commands of Denise.
* Used with thematic significance in [[David Foster Wallace]]'s ''[[Infinite Jest]]'', where one character describes the example of the starving rats, then mentions that when a laboratory wanted to do human testing, with it being well known that it could turn the subjects into drooling automatons who live for nothing but the next fix, they were overwhelmed with volunteers. The character considers that to say something very frightening about humans.
* ''The Euphio Question'', one of the short stories in [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Welcome To The Monkey House]],'' was about a group of people who had a machine that instantly saturated people in its proximity with an overwhelming sense of euphoria. The problem was that this caused everyone to be mellow, calm, and relaxed to the point of inactivity, making the machine ''very'' hard to turn off. The even ''worse'' problem is the short-sighted fellow who intends to ''mass-produce'' the devices... and who is ignorant of [[Apocalypse How|the likely outcome]] (whether willfully or not isn't clear, though he doesn't seem to actually ''want'' to destroy humanity).
* [[Philip Jose Farmer]] calls this device a "fornixator" in his amazing ''[[Riders Of The Purple Wage]]''. They drill a small hole in your skull and you have a box with a needle. It delivers a series of tiny electrical jolts to the [[wikipedia:Fornix of brain|fornix]] area of your brain. The pleasure of this activity is supposed to be even ''better'' than sex, or anything else.
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Lab rats have been hooked up to electrodes that stimulate what is colloquially referred to as the "reward center" of their brains. When placed in a cage with two buttons, one that dispensed food and the other activating said electrodes. [[Nightmare Fuel|The rats typically starved to death if they didn't first die from exhaustion.]]
** The effect on humans, however, seems to be significantly less dramatic.
*** Note one woman actually wore a hole in her finger from pressing the button so many times. The reason why they even had such an implant is that it was a medical device to treat epilepsy. The whole 'stimulating the pleasure area of the brain' part was a rare side effect in some people.
* [[wikipedia:Vibrator (sex toy)|Vibrators]], indirectly.
* E-stim fetish.
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