Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.
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When I was in grad school, a bunch of us were at the house of a guy with an invisible fence for his dog. Someone wondered if it was cruel and that led to each of the grad students there except me putting on the dog's collar and then crossing the fence. (The consensus was that it really hurts, but it isn't agonizing.) At the time I knew that not shocking myself was, in some sense, the smart thing to do, but in retrospect I regret being a boring dork.
I once voluntarily shocked myself with a dog collar at a party. It was kind of fun, so I did it about 20 more times and shocked other people with it too. In my defense, I was drunk.
There's a whole sexual kink associated with those collars. I'm just sayin'
If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren't wearing shoes. Just FYI.
We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter. Good times!
I'd love to be judgemental about this, but I'd absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.
The best part is "at least one". What's the breakdown of more than one shock?
I'm going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?
Bored people give themselves a bunch of painful shocks and when that isn't enough to feel alive they increase the amperage of the shocks. Really the perfect metaphor of all of us using doomscrolling on social media.
If I’m reading this right, the average bored person shocked themselves every 2 minutes?
If I know that I'm in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.
Yeah, totally right. Although I would like to know, whether the instructor giving them the 'this button is for shocking yourself' was a woman or a men. Just ensuring not for any Interviewer bias. ...
Anyway, I am recruiting some people for a unique experiment to test something out.
I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They're the real heroes of this study.
One guy shocked himself 190 times

That guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.
He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.
All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.
From: https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.
I licked a 9 volt from the beeping smoke detector the other day to see if it was dead. Nobody was around to impress and it wasn't for fun, just wanted a quick result.
Would probably shock myself if stuck alone for 15 mins too. Heck, I find those shocking handle games to be hilarious fun.
Note: have ADHD which may or may not be related since I keep forgetting how much getting shocked hurts. Burns leave a mark and are more memorable so I wouldn't touch anything hot for fun.
"Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?"
"Not so bad now that I'm expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less."
Can't believe they shocked themselves :o
Meanwhile millenials:

Trying to figure out what that is.
(In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)
Gen X here and I didn't know it wasn't a sex toy until I saw your comment.
'Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well, that's because he's a guy,
— Once-ler, 2012
Honestly, I would do it in the first 5 minutes.
I'd wait until they're out of the room just to be polite, but that's it
Screw that. I'd shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren't lying.
I'm really surprised no one here said they would pull down their pants and start violently jerking off while intently staring at the researchers through the one-way window thing.
Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it's to the prostate.
I need to see a chart of how many times they shocked themselves
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.



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