# Female Stimulation via a 9V Battery
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 26, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318 "2004-02-26T18:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Shaggarito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaggarito)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/1 "2004-02-26T18:33:24Z")
I was over at my neighbors house last night. We were drinking and bullshitting.
The conversation turns to sex. My neigbor says that the best way to get his GF off is with a 9V battery. He says he just folds the uh… “flaps” back and just lightly touches her with the battery. Apparently, she loves it.
My question is: Anyone else hear of this? Is it safe?
I tried to google for something about it but only came up with pages about vibrators.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/2 "2004-02-26T18:37:38Z")
Whatever floats her boat!
The amperage is too low to cause any damage, and the sensation can be…stimulating. Press a 9-volt battery to your tongue to get a “taste” of the sensation it provides.
I have had students who really love doing that. The tongue one, not the other! At least as far as I know…
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/3 "2004-02-26T18:41:44Z")
I don’t see why it would be dangerous, assuming it works. I often test 9V batteries by touching them to my tongue to see if I can feel the current. A fully charged one is quite noticeable, but not painful. However, I would imagine the genitals to be much more sensitive than the tongue.
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### Author:  [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/4 "2004-02-26T18:46:46Z")
There’s a whole genre of sex toys that use mild electrical stimulation of the genitals. IIRC, [Blowfish](http://www.blowfish.com/) carries a lot of these toys. (warning: not a worksafe link which is why I can’t provide a specific link to the toys page) Never tried one but they seem to be popular in some circles…
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### Author:  [@hroeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hroeder)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/5 "2004-02-26T18:47:29Z")
Last I heard the tongue was one of the most sensitive organs in the body.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/6 "2004-02-26T18:53:31Z")
Wow. Doesn’t anyone out there just have sex anymore?
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### Author:  [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/7 "2004-02-26T20:04:22Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#):
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> Wow. Doesn’t anyone out there just have sex anymore?
Other than me and the women I keep tied up in my basement? Few, if any.
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/8 "2004-02-26T20:10:34Z")
Well if that rocks her boat, tell her to buy a tens unit if she can. It’ll take the nine volt battery and modulate it to far more stimulating effect.
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### Author:  [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/9 "2004-02-28T16:40:28Z")
Some evening you should plan a romantic candlelight dinner at home. Maybe some champagne. Soft background music. Eventually you two wind up in the bedroom…where you have a Sears DieHard sitting on the bedside table.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/10 "2004-02-28T18:12:47Z")
> [@vetbridge](#):
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> Other than me and the women I keep tied up in my basement? Few, if any.
[Jaime Gumm]
\*\*It rubs in the lotion to keep its skin soft.
\*\*
[/Jaime Gumm]
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Cartooniverse
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### Author:  [@hansolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansolo)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/11 "2004-02-28T18:39:25Z")
my girlfriend was into electrostimulation via a 9 volt battery, its not uncommon
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### Author:  [@bonezzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonezzz)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/12 "2004-02-28T19:08:53Z")
I have to say that is the first time I have heard of that and I get an Adam and Eve catalogue! I will just stick to nonelectric stimulation.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/13 "2004-02-28T21:02:19Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#):
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> [Jaime Gumm]
> \*\*It rubs in the lotion to keep its skin soft.
> \*\*
> [/Jaime Gumm]
> :eek: :eek: :eek:
I teach high school and right now I’ve got one of those students who is just kind of strange. Nice kid, really, but often has a dark sense of humor. So one day I’m giving some instructions to the class and I hear him quietly throw out this non-sequitur,
“It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
:eek:
It had nothing to do with anything we were talking about. I asked him why he said it and he couldn’t explain, other than he was just trying to be ‘funny.’ Creeped me out for the rest of the day.
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### Author:  [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/14 "2004-02-28T21:22:01Z")
> [@Tangent](#):
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> “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
South Park - Cartman playing with his dolly. 😃
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/15 "2004-02-28T21:29:40Z")
I’m dying to know how many people are trying something new because of this thread.
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### Author:  [@hansolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansolo)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/16 "2004-02-28T21:34:29Z")
if you go to [stockroom.com](http://stockroom.com) they have elaborate electrostimulation boxs (the kind used for muscle recondiitioning) with all kinds of kinky add ons instead of the usual contact pads. they have anal plugs, scrotum straps, speculums,catheter electrodes. its quite amazing.
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### Author:  [@miss\_smartypants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_smartypants)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/17 "2004-02-28T22:24:34Z")
Good God, what next? Last night I measured my areola after finally finding the right kind of ruler. So tonight will I be taking the 9volt out of my smoke detecter???
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### Author:  [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/18 "2004-02-28T22:33:39Z")
> [@Tangent](#):
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> Creeped me out for the rest of the day.
I wouldn’t worry too much, it is a well known quote from the film “Silence of the Lambs”. The line belongs to one of the villans, a rather unpleasant gentleman, but the quote has taken on a life of its own.
That having been said, put the fcuking lotion in the basket!!!
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-stimulation-via-a-9v-battery/231318/19 "2004-02-28T22:42:36Z")
> [@Iteki](#):
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> I wouldn’t worry too much, it is a well known quote from the film “Silence of the Lambs”. The line belongs to one of the villans, a rather unpleasant gentleman, but the quote has taken on a life of its own.
😛 Ummm, yeah, I know it’s from Silence of the Lambs–I guess I didn’t make that clear. It’s still pretty damn creepy to hear one of your students quoting “Buffalo Bill” for no apparent reason.