“A top psychologist gave women patients electric shocks on their privates to satisfy his bizarre sexual cravings, a court heard yesterday. Reginald Kenworthy claimed the ‘treatment’ would help them give up smoking or lose weight, it was alleged. He attached electrode clamps after massaging gel into intimate areas — then zapped the women with an excruciating current, the jury heard… Patient A went for treatment to kick smoking. Kenworthy is alleged to have produced a wooden box with dials and wires, and covered by newspaper. He then asked the woman to bend over and he took down her pants, the court heard. Prosecutor David Turner QC said: ‘He massaged her bottom and vagina with the gel. As he did this he told her she was ‘a good girl’. He put two electrodes on her vaginal area and two on her buttocks. He then asked her to start smoking and inhale deeply. She felt sharp shocks and noticed his voice was getting quivery. She was in considerable pain and screamed to him to stop. She asked him how he would like it done to him — and he then asked her to do it to him.’” —The Sun (UK)

(Thanks to alanr for the link.)

A number of years ago, when Times Square was still the pornographic epicenter of New York, PervScan took his girlfriend to some sex parlors on 42nd Street. He was on a quest for some peculiar sex toys, and this was before the internet made such things easily available. Wandering into the porn parlor that he thought was most likely to have such things, he and and the girl approached the counter. At the cash register was an Arab, and sitting on a tall stool behind the counter was another worker, an albino black guy.

PervScan cleared his throat. “Excuse me,” he said, “I was wondering if you have anything that I could, you know, shock her with.” PervScan nodded toward the girl.

“What?” said the Arab. “What you want?”

“Uh, I’m looking for something I can shock her with. You know, like, electricity?”

“Are you crazy, man?” interjected the black albino. “What you wanna do, kill her?”

As it turned out, you couldn’t buy that sort of thing in Times Square at the time — which always struck PervScan as odd, since it seemed like a pretty common thing to want to do. Why do sadism and masochism have to be all caught up in the banal repertoire of whips, chains, handcuffs, leather chaps? There are a lot of other ways to restrain and to cause pain. Ever touch a nine-volt battery to your tongue? It’s a fun shock, and it seems like a natural little pain-pleasure activity to translate to sex — safely, it goes without speaking.

All of which is to say that it’s not much surprise to see some psychologist getting covert sex kicks by administering shocks to his patients’ genitalia and breasts. It’s probably a not uncommon desire, especially among shrinks who’ve had some exposure to Electro-Convulsive Therapy — shock treatment — which, incidentally, appears to be coming back into favor as a treatment for various psychopathologies. Of course, this is not to say that any analyst has a right to manipulate his patients into letting him shock them, but at least this guy was willing to take it as well as give it. He was willing not just to shock but to be shocked too.

And if this psychologist or his lawyers have any brains, there is a very easy defense of his activities to be made: “Why,” they should say, “the good doctor here is not a pervert. He was just trying to duplicate, on a libidinal level, the infamous experiments of Dr. Stanley Milgram.” For those of you not familiar with Milgram’s pioneering work, he was a Yale researcher who discovered that “normal” citizens, “ordinary residents of New Haven, were willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks — up to 450 volts — to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to, and in spite of the fact that the victim did not do anything to deserve such punishment.” Of course, in Milgram’s work the “pitifully protesting victim” was actually a trained actor, and in the “reVOLTing” shrink’s work the victim was not. But couldn’t the pervy shrink just claim he was trying to do a more objective test, one that didn’t stack the deck with playacting?

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