Clamps, wax, pinching

Clamps, pinching, a pinwheel, or similar small, local pain — not a counted strike.

Why people do it

Clamps, pinching and points give a sharp, local, entirely controllable pain, and unlike impact you can leave it in place and go and do something else. Coming off hurts more than going on, which is a lesson people remember.

Smallest way in

Clothes pegs on the nipples for sixty seconds. Cheap, obvious, and it tells you almost everything about somebody’s appetite for this.

What to watch

Fifteen to twenty minutes is the outer limit for anything clamped, and less if the skin goes white. Take clamps off slowly and expect the worst moment to be the removal. Never clamp anything that has gone numb.

In the planner

73 different things carry this tag, and switching it off removes every one of them. The mildest of them sits at easy.