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Originally Posted by milktoaste
Well, Mr. Grand Inquisitor, I would have to guess the person in question would have to move, maybe to some place sunny and warm, and change his name. Which is why when dealing with pedophiles, I still firmly believe the offended and all who love them should be given five minutes alone with the perpetrator. You can't run away from the fact that your Grandmother or first born was force fed their own fingers because of some crime you committed. You also can't run away from being beaten to death or crippled by an angry mob.
However, when strictly speaking of torturing a person, public humiliation is only a small part of an extensive field. Pick up any book of torture, and you're certain to read of public executions and torments. To torture someone in secret or in a dungeon is almost wasteful when done by a governing body.
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The CIA torture of waterboarding's nothing new. Its just a variation of a similar methond in which the victim was tied down to a table with a flannel over their face and water poured onto it so the flannel entered their mouth to make them feel as if they were drowning. Over hear in the UK we have a phrase 'give somebody a grilling' which comes from the old torture of tying somebody down to an Iron gril and lying it over a fire and then questioning them and to be 'in hot water' means to be in trouble and comes from the execution method of boiling people alive but here's a few books for reference if you want to go into it further:-
A History of Torture* by George Ryley Scott
Rack, Rope and Red Hot Pincers*
The Book of Execution*
Severed Heads*
* by Charles Geoffery Abbot, a former beefeater at The Tower of London.
My interest in Torture is entirely for fictional use and research purposes only (honest).
Thanks for the input.