Sol's birthday: part 2: electrical play

On Saturday evening we headed out to a play party organized by two friends from Sydney.

I had previously obtained permission from our hosts to hold the kind of wax / fire scene I’d planned at Black Sash, with sol covered with three dozen tiny cupcakes with candles. Mistress Dee from Uber was going to join in the fun, bringing some of her amazing new Japanese candles, as was our friend A, who was going to bring some shiny baubles to decorate sol’s wax covered body…. but sol was feeling cold, tired and a bit flat so we postponed that particular scene for another evening….

He was unaware I had another present planned...

At the last party held by these friends we’d been fascinated by an electrical play scene, something we’ve long wanted to try. Ever wanted to try electrical play yourself? This blog entry is of course about a particular scene, not part of my BDSM For Beginners series ... I'm too much a beginner myself to post anything other than directions to some good sites online that deal with this topic. But we were especially interested in the violet wand. Violetwand.org (which has lots of great info plus details on where to buy wands, as does violetwand.com) has a good page outlining the differences between violet wands and TENS units. Here is a little of the device's history:

"In the late 1800s with the spread of the use of electricity and the proliferation of inventors, electricity was touted as a means to cure many physical and mental ailments. Respected medical science developed electricity therapies in the treatment of many diseases, including in mental institutions. It became common for many individual households to have an electrical shock box as part of their inventory. These were lovely well-made wooden boxes that contained galvanic shock apparatus powered by the newly invented dry cell battery. Many of these old electrical shock treatment devices can be found in antiques stores, museums, and among quack medical collections today.

"Nikolas Tesla was one of the pioneering inventors of the century, (though largely unheard of today) and among his inventions was what was known as the Tesla coil, a coil that disrupted electrical flow and transformed it. Combined with the electric shock medical box apparatuses in use at the time, his coil was employed in subsequent devices. This next generation of electric therapy devices diffused the electric shock into charges of strong DC electricity. When the electrical charge travelled through gas-filled glass tubes, it excited the gas and caused it to glow. It was purported at the time that the smaller particles would be absorbed more readily by the body than it had with the old drycell shock boxes.

"The violet therapy devices became very popular as a cure-all, especially during the 1920's and 30's, when health became a greater concern among the population. There were at-home kits with very basic attachments, and Doctors-only kits with a multitude of attachments meant for insertion into bodily orifices. Some manufacturers of early wands went out of business during the depression, and wands by these manufacturers are highly sought by collectors. World War II also had an effect on the violet wands as metal parts were needed by the war effort and wood went into building. Boxes for devices made during this period of wartime shortages are usually made of heavy cardboard. New technology made further improvements to wands manufactured during this time. However, their success was fleeting and consumers stopped buying them when the promised medical cures never came and all they got was shocked by sparks. Because the devices were thought to improve circulation, they found their way into beauty salons for scalp and facial treatments too after they were discarded by the medical community for having only limited medical uses...."

You can read more here. But what about BDSM play? In another interesting article "Information on Electrical Play" on sexuality.org, Sparks describes the violet wand as using:

"a high-frequency circuit similar to a Tesla coil to build up a static charge in a gas-filled glass tube. If you hold the tube near your sub's body, Each time the charge builds up enough to jump the gap, a spark jumps from the tube to your sub's skin. Unlike shuffling across the rug, though, the Wand can spark many times a second. You can adjust the intensity and rate of sparks depending on your purpose. The nature of the body's response to this type of charge is such that you can use the wand anywhere on the body except for the eyes.

"One of the best scenes I've seen with the wand involved a male sub who had never experienced it before. After the top made it clear that he was dissatisfied with the sub 's performance, that it was time for an exceptionally severe punishment, he was tied to a cross spread-eagled in a standing position. naked except for a leather cock and ball harness. He was gagged but not blindfolded. The only light in the room was a small blue nightlight. The Top brought out the Wand and selected a small straight tube. When it was switched on, the nightlight was eclipsed by the purple glow from the tube and a sputtering, crackling sound came from the power unit. With the tube a few inches from a metal wall plate the slave got to watch the bright, blue sparks jump from the tube to the plate for a few moments while the top made some adjustments to the power unit (which comes with simply an on-off switch and a power control, so a couple of knobs and dials were added to make it more sinister). The slave was left alone to contemplate the glowing tube for a few minutes.

"When the top returned, the slave was sweating and seemed rather pale in the purple glow. After stroking his erect cock a few times (he was terrified, but loving every second), the top suddenly gripped his cock firmly in one hand and started bringing the wand slowly closer to the bead of cum on the very tip of his cock. When the tip of the wand was about 1/2" from the tip of his cock, a stream of sparks began to jump the gap. His screams were audible around the gag as he began to writhe and strain against his bonds. The wand was pulled away before he could realize that it didn't hurt nearly as much as he thought it did. He spent the next few minutes receiving brief zaps to random places, especially on the tip of his cock, the spot right at the base of the glans, his nipples, navel, and ear lobes. Each zap brought a renewed writhing, although the screams had dropped off to whimpers, and his cock was hard and his breathing heavy.

"Finally tired of this game, the top began alternating tongue and wand on the end of his cock. Of course, the wetness from the top's mouth made the zaps sting more, and the rapid changes between the caressing tongue and the sting of the wand left him not knowing what to expect next.

"Next, the top gripped the end of the wand tightly in one hand. You might expect this to be uncomfortable, but actually the charge at that point builds up without "motion" in both the wand and the holder's body. This means that the top could reach out and draw sparks between a fingertip and the slave's writhing body! Of course, the Top felt the sparks too, but the Top knew what to expect, and a finger is a lot less sensitive than the points on the slave's body where the sparks were striking! This phase of his "torture" ended by being ungagged and kissed, drawing sparks between probing tongues. The top finished the evening by switching the small tube on the wand for a flat disk about 1" in diameter, which he used to apply a shower of sparks to the sensitive (and recently shaved) area between the back of the slave's balls and his anus, while sucking him to climax."

See how hot these scenes can be? This is why we really wanted to try the violet wand.My host kindly put me in touch with the earlier scene’s organizer, Zelka, who promised to bring her violet wand to the next party and give sol and myself a lesson. If this didn’t happen for some reason, Mistress Dee had offered access to Uber’s violet wand at Uber’s next party, so some electrical play was definitely on the cards for sol for his birthday…

However we were in luck. My host introduced me to Zelka at the party, who generously took sol and myself aside to negotiate the scene. Sol was surprised and delighted, he’d been feeling a bit flat and very tired, now he had something new to try to spark him up (sorry, dreadful pun lol). We’d been discussing electrical play with our friend MzAntonina and her sub MacktheKnife, and I asked Zelka if they could watch and possibly take part, and Zelka kindly agreed.

We moved into the room Zelka had chosen, a small one where it was easier to control the crowds watching. Zelka is a stunning lady, she was naked for the scene but for her high heels and fake tattoos (decorated specially for the evening) and looked very yummy. She was also a very good teacher. And extremely happy to have a real pain slut to play with!

I directed sol to strip down to his garter belt and stockings, then we tied him to the St Andrew’s cross, face up. I knew he would enjoy watching…


First we placed a body contact electrode in sol’s garter belt. Once his body was live, Zelka showed me how to use my own hands to effect, lightly touching sol’s nipples to raise sparks, or running my fingers down his body. I found this extraordinarily erotic, the fact that I was using my own body as a conducting agent, watching the sparks fly from the fingertips to his body...

Then Zelka moved to the violet wand, showing it to me, instructing me how to hold it, giving safety info to both myself and MzAntonina, who was watching as intently as myself.

The first attachment she placed on the wand was a glass tool called the mushroom electrode, a good one to start with. Zelka showed me how to use it on my own arm first, how moving close to, and further from, the skin caused difference sensations. A tried it on her arm too. Then we moved to sol....

Sol quickly slipped in subspace and was responding beautifully to the infliction of pain, so it wasn't long before Zelka asked my permission to turn the current on the wand up. She did this several times during the scene… At some point someone turned out the room light for a while, and the scene was flooded with brilliant streaks of violet…

We used several attachments ... the violet wand has an enormous number of interesting attachments, you should see some of the amazing ones found in antique violet wand kits, sometimes it's impossible to know what they actually were for! Have a look at some on Noel Graydon's violet wand instructional video on You Tube:

One of my favorite attachments was a glass Y shaped electrode. The curved shape was a lot of fun. It is designed to follow the body's natural contours (throats, breasts, thighs, buttocks etc) but I especially enjoyed placing this behind sol’s cock, seemingly cupping his balls … the resulting sparks and groans from sol made me very wet indeed...

After more games and much confirmation that sol was seriously enjoying the entire experience, Zelka finally attached a copper brush, what's known as a nerve brush ("the 100+ metal filaments in this nerve brush will create a profusion of sharp, stinging sparks. On low power it can feel like hundreds of ants tickling...turn it up and it can feel like your skin is on fire, since it not only concentrates the electricity into each individual wire tip, but spreads it across all the wires at the same time" says one website...)

Zelka smiled wickedly at sol and said "where would you like this" and the total pain slut just looked at his left nipple, and looked back at her ...

"You want this on your nipple???", she exclaimed in disbelief....

He raised his eyebrows ...

"Really?" ... he smiled and tried to shug, somewhat difficult when tied to a cross with arms raised lol ... we all laughed, honestly what a pain slut and tart he is!

So Zelka obliged. Then I did. Then A did. And very sore nipples did sol have the next day...

This was sol's favorite part, he told me later ... along with "there was also the small matter of an electrode on the dick as well". Ah, yes, that was definitely me, you can see how much fun I had in the photo on the left...

Sadly it was soon time to take sol off the cross, his fingertips were getting too cold, so we got him down, still with a very happy smile on his face....

Now it was MacktheKnife's turn....

During his scene MzA positioned him on the cross face up and later bum up, the latter pose having LOTS of possibilities, lol…


MacktheKnife was interesting to contrast with sol because he has a greater amount of body hair. At one point you could smell it burning!

We all had so much fun... and are now totally addicted to learning more about electrical play.... We certainly provided some entertainment for the rest of the party. At one point there were so many people in the doorway to our room that it was impossible to get in or out!

Many many thanks to Zelka for her time and expertise, to MzAntonina and MacktheKnife for sharing our magical "lesson" and sharing MacktheKnife's photos later, and to our hosts for another great party!

REFERENCES + ONLINE RESOURCES:
There is an awful lot of info on electrical play out there,
here are a few pages I've found useful:

Information of electrical play (sexuality.org)
Violet wand informational resource page
Violetwand.org
Violetwand.com
History of the violet wand
Noel Graydon's instructional video on violet wands

Thank you:
Tony + A
Zelda
MzAntonina +MacktheKnife
Noel Graydon, YouTube

Photos:
MzAntonina +MacktheKnife
and Ms160