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mp072004 -> RE: Tens Units...Advice? (3/14/2007 6:37:11 PM)
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One of the ways you can use a TENS unit in play is, I am told, exactly the same as the way it's used in therapy. You put the pads on large muscles. Your chiropractor will be a great source of advice on this form of play.
Your chiropractor may not be so useful when it comes to genital play--the "other" use for TENS. You might put pads on the base of a man's penis and just below the head of the penis, so a circuit is completed along the shaft. Behind the scrotum is another place. If you have clip electrodes, they concentrate the sensation more, and they are especially useful for genital play on a woman's clitoral hood or labia. If you're experienced with impact play, you might think of the pads as "thuddy" and the clips as "stingy." Testing the electrodes on the web between thumb and index finger works well. If the unit has different "settings," essentially different wave patterns, you can cause varied sensations. You should familiarize yourself with the sensation patterns so you can use them most effectively.
There are also insertable electrodes, and in my experience, people have higher thresholds and tolerances for insertables than for clips or pads. Some insertables are bipolar, meaning that they complete a circuit all by themselves, and others are unipolar, meaning that you need to put another insertable, a pad, or a clip somewhere nearby to complete the circuit. Using just one "half" of a circuit doesn't work.
Safety issues: don't complete a circuit across the chest, or across the head. The tongue is possible, but it's not a great place to start, and you should have some idea of how electricity works before you do that. Don't use it at all on someone with a pacemaker.
Kara, do you have more specific questions? If so, and if you follow up on this thread and don't get an answer, please feel free to email me. I'm not an expert, but I use my TENS unit a lot, and I'm enthusiastic about others using electricity in SM.
Monica
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