electrotorture

English

Etymology

electro- +‎ torture

Noun

electrotorture (uncountable)

1. 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?