There are many ways to kill a man. There are many more ways to hurt one. So...

Q: What is your preferred method of torturing a person?

C Breakr@aol.com:
put a blind person in a round room and tell him/her to sit in the corner.

MeTmbg25@aol.com:
the average person can hold their breath for 2 minutes before passing out.........i would choke the person for 1 minute 59 seconds, then let them breath, and keep doing that because suffacation is like the worst way to die.

chorder@stackers.org:
Tie up in plastic, self tightening ropes, covering in honey, in all orifices, throwing in red ant pile, slow, painfull death of poison overload or dehydration.

Matt Man65@aol.com:
personally, i'd have to say putting them on the rack, and stetching out their lims. no scratch that. I'd go for the Chinese water torchure, where you strap them down and slowly drip water on their forehead till they go insane. yep thats always fun to do on weekends

Lepracan@aol.com:
Oooohhh torture that's always intresting.....

Well if i really wanted to torture someone I's lock them in a plain room and tell them i'd fill it with something that will suffocate them, but i wouldn't tell them what that something is, or when i'd fill the room with it. Then after they sweat a little bit i'd fill the room halfway with sand and dirt that had fire ants in it. Then eventually they'd die because no new oxygen was going into the room.

Vivid enough for you.
Well now i'm gonna go get my lucky charms back, bye
-Leprachaun

MkDgBoy17@aol.com:
Well, being raised in an environment where tradition is pretty closely followed, and being born in Hong Kong, I'd have to say that the Triads' methods of torture are the best.

Materials & Equipment:
1. Those hooks you see in Chinatown that hank the whole roasted pigs on Restuarant windows.
2. A really strong arm.
What to do:
Disembowel with hook. Just shove it in with strong hand and pull it out. A lot more will come out that you put in, trust me. That's about it. If the victim doesn't die from shock, he'l never be able to eat solid foods of shit again. I love Hong Kong.

Vibe526@aol.com:
Strap em to a chair, read X- Factor to them, Dress LOUDLY, make them eat their least favorite food, and making them watch Riverdance, Over and over and over and over and over.....

Nikki Tyr@aol.com:
There are a few good ways. Chinese water torture, the old 'stick some copper wire up his urethra, then slowly heat it up' trick, etc. Here's an old favorite: Hang someone up by their wrists and attach weights to their feet, then drop them very fast to the point where their feet/the weights almost but do not touch the floor. Repeat as desired. The Drow method of skin-stealing. Tie 'em down and make 'em watch many, many episodes of various soap operas, in no particular order. Same as the last, but with a recitation of goth poetry. Going shopping with my Mom. The rack. Tie 'em down in the desert with a soaking wet band of leather tight around their neck. As the water evaporates, it will choke them. Needles under fingernails. Tickling. That digestive tract on Star Wars. Personally, I tend to favor many, many iterations of forced(ie. at gunpoint) auto-erotic nigh-asphyxiation.

dhg5@cornell.edu:
You must understand that the infliction of physical pain is quite often enough to make most weak-willed people crack. (There's a neat trick with a blowtorch and an ice cream bar I'll teach you sometime...) But your question made me think up an intricate psychological torture for someone who won't break even under the most intense pain.

First, I lock them in a cell, with total darkness, and deny them all human contact. After a few days of this, without laying a finger on the person, the door opens suddenly. in comes a nurse, who prepares electrodes or some esoteric device to stick on the victim. While she's doing this, she'll pause and look at the victim, and say, in a very low voice, "You really should talk. It'll go easier for you."

The nurse, by the way, must be female. If the victim is a man, his own instincts will push him to her. And if the victim is a woman, the nurse will be seen as a potential friend.

Anyway, the same nurse will always attend to the victim after each beating. She will sometimes talk to them, or perhaps bring them a crust of food or a bit of water. At first, she will only speak in short sentences to the victim, but as she grows more certain that she has evaded my security, she will stay longer and speak to the prisoner. Once they become friends, and the prisoner depends on her for emotional supoport, the trap is sprung.

I will wake the prisoner in the middle of the night. The nurse will be tied up, crying, having suffered vicious beatings at my hands. I will not even give the prisoner a chance to reveal secrets in exchange for her life. Kneeling the nurse down beside him, i will blow her brains out and force him to watch.

But don't worry, the nurse doesn't die! She's actually working with me! By befriending the prisoner, she was actually opening up a chink his mental armor, guaranteeing his demise. if the shock of seeing his only friend in this hell-hole die before their eyes, interesting tricks can be arranged with the nurse's "ghost"....

Don't ever get on my bad side. Anybody.

-David "I Never Felt the Knife Go In" Gold

Fey Piper@aol.com:
Wow, so many choices...

Well, for sheer physical nastiness, there are always the old medieval favorites, such as the thumbscrews, the hot pokers, the bastinado, flaying and such... but let's see...

If you just wanna hurt the guy, how about hammering tenpenny nails into his skull, with long, significant pauses between hammerblows? Or there's always the nasty one where you castrate him and then make him guard the harem, going for a more psychological tack, or tying him over a rotary saw blade with weights attatched to his feet, or locking him in a room full of mosquitoes... I always shuddered at the chinese practice of tying you in an uncomfortable kneeling position with bamboo stakes at your throat, so that if you fainted, or fell asleep, or cramped up, the blades would jab you. Or cutting off your hands, feet, nose and ears, cutting out your tongue, and returning you to your family. For the more modern, try cutting off the eyelids of the subject and placing a strobe light in front of them.

If you wanted to extract information, there's always the one where you take a seesaw, hang two people (preferably friends of each other) from it, and set it just far enough off the ground that neither will strangle if both stand on their very tippy-toes. Of course, one or the other will soon have to come down on their feet, thus lifting the other into the air, and the other will flail down eventually, lifting up the other... you get the idea. A more modern idea based off of this was the practice of strapping two people (again, preferably friends or better- family ties a plus) into chairs facing each other, with electrodes attatched, and run a slight electrical current through one. That same person will have a button, which, when held down, will make the current run through the other person. Every time it is pressed and released, the button increases the current.

For just sheer horrid things to do to people, I hear pathans used to lock people in small cages filled with rats. American indians used to hang cowboys upside down from trees and light small, intense fires inches from their faces while gaily dropping scorpions down their trousers. A more mental type of torture would be bloodily killing four out of five people in a tent, and leaving the last alive and well to wake up. Of course, the nastiest I've ever heard of would have to be those practiced by certain east coast indian tribes; namely, forcing prisoners to eat parts of themselves or their children, or beating the prisoner senseless, making a small incision in the abdomen, extracting the intestines, tying them to a tree, reviving the unconscious prisoner, and telling him he is free to go. Whereupon the prisoner gets to his feet, turns and runs a few yards, and is yanked off his feet, incidentally yanking out his own internal organs in a neat pretty chain behind him.

That's about all the creative stuff I can think of right now...