Violet wands: Everything you need to know
by Violetwanda
CEO of Eclectic Electric, and happily married wand user
Updated 11/2006
A while ago someone had written a basic introduction to violet wands to give electrical play beginners a familiarization-level understanding of violetwands and their uses. But technology advances! What was true yesterday can quickly be out of date today. Just as computers have evolved (and the way that you use them) so have violet wands. And new information continually develops. So this article was written to make the most up to date information available on a regular basis. I'll keep a 'freshness' date on it, so that you can get an idea if THIS article gets to be too old to be useful. And if any new information surfaces, I'll see that this article is refreshed in a timely fashion.
To put it simply, a violet wand is used by many people for sexual, erotic, sado-masochistic, BDSM, or kinky stimulation purposes. If you've blindfolded a partner or tied them to the bed, then you have engaged in kinky sexual practices. Violet wands are part of a broad range of electrical 'play' devices. Electricity in play is certainly not for everyone. Many of the same people who will embrace a single tail whip, won't even consider electricity. Largely, that's due to the dangers we know that electricity can present, and to our natural fears of things we don't understand. After all, electricity is edge play, can be heavy play, and there's almost a genetic-memory dread of that crackling, fizzing, sudden lightning bolt of an arcing spark that makes us want to lope back to the safety of our primal caves.
But violet wands are the safest 'electrical play' toys there are. They are perfect for beginners who just want to spice things up a little, all the way up to the kinkiest user. That's because they do everything from give you lush little fizzing sparks that feel like champagne bubbles, all the way up to sharp shocks, and you control the output.
What can you do with a violet wand? You can enhance any kinky play technique. ANY kinky play technique. There are three basic techniques which you can learn within 5 minutes, but dozens of advanced techniques. Did you know about these violet wand techniques?:
Basic
- Direct -- Using Violet Wand Electrodes, the wand charge is applied directly to the skin for stimulation
- Indirect -- The top partner uses their electrified 'touch' to stimulate or using wand accessories
- Reverse -- The bottom partner is electrified and wand toys are used to stimulate
Advanced
- Violet Wand Fireplay
- Violet Wand Cupping
- Violet Wand Internal play
- Violet Wand Branding
- Violet Wand Flogging
- Violet Wand Caning
- Violet Wand Suspensions
- Violet Wand Needles and Piercings
- Violet Wand Singletails
You name it, you can do it with a violet wand!
Even though violet wands are electrical toys, there are all types of electrical 'toys'; even vibrators constitute electrical toys! Some types of electrical toys act on your muscles to provide involuntary contractions which can lead to orgasm (stim boxes), or to pain (such as cattle prods.) Violet wands on the other hand, provide a stimulus to the skin and nerves. I think everything from 9 volt batteries to train transformers has been perverted to some extent. It probably didn't take long after the advent of electricity for the more adventurous to start perverting it. We have a number of inventors to thank for electrical toys in general, and the development of the violet wand in particular. Among the most notable inventors contributing to the violet wand was Nikolas Tesla, who developed similar electrical coil configurations. Tesla was the quintessential 'mad scientist', science was rapidly evolving, and a number of simultaneous discoveries led to the development of 'violet rays'. Take Tesla's disruptive discharge transformer coil configuration, and add it to the isolation of noble gases which glowed when excited by electricity, and violet wands were born not long after Edison's incandescent lightbulbs.
The early grandparents of violet wands (called violet rays) showed up before 1920 as miracle machines thought to cure every ill and disease with electrical energy. Some of the better early devices have some collectible/antique value. While you can still find some of them at flea markets and yard sales, great care has to be taken with them if you plan to actually use one of these old 'finds' for playing. You wouldn't use a 70 year old lamp without rewiring it, so do take care to have any old violet ray device checked for safety before use and preferably rewired. Never use any old electrical device that shows signs of deterioration or corrosion in its wiring or electrical cords!
Even today, there are proponents who use violet ray devices for alternative medical therapies due to their high frequency electrical discharge. In fact, if you visit a full-service aesthetic spa or salon today, and ask for a high frequency facial, you'll receive a violet ray treatment for its benefits in stimulating skin. Of course, the violet ray treatment you receive in a spa won't have anywhere near to the output you expect from a 'violet wand' as the technologies have diverged somewhat from their shared beginnings.
Related technologies today are still used in plasma televisions, neon signs, and even stealth antennas! But of course, our main interest is violet wand technology and how it is used to erotically, or kinkily, stimulate a willing partner.
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