Meanings
- uncountabletorture involving electric shock
American and Argentinean police forces used electrotorture in the 1920s.
2008, Laura L. Finley, The torture and prisoner abuse debate, page 292 more examples
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.
2003, Simon H. Sheppard, Kinkorama: dispatches from the front lines of perversion, page 93Why 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?
2009, Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, page 194
Origin
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electrotorture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/electrotorture
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