Electrostim wrist cuffs? Safety issue!

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Browsing the cuffs and restraints, I found this item:

As we all know (and as stated on the product page itself), electrical stimulation should only be applied below the waist; crucially, current should never be passed across the chest.

These are wrist cuffs, folks. OK, the description of “beginner-friendly zings” suggests that the current provided by the control unit will be at the low end of the scale, but nevertheless, there’s no way that a wrist-to-wrist connection can be anything but “across the chest”.

I can’t help but feel that there’s an inherent safety issue in this product - or, at the very least, a serious case of mixed messages being delivered.

@Lovehoney_Brenna - I would like to flag this up for the attention of LH management.

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Completely agree, unless your wrists are restrained below your waist or they’re used as ankle cuffs, these could cause issues for those new to electric stim play who aren’t aware :scream: Even in the product warnings it says don’t use above the waist, yet they are marketed as handcuffs :thinking:

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Actually, even if the wrists are restrained below waist level, it makes no difference. Unless short-circuited by skin contact to other body parts, the principal current path will be up one arm, across the chest and down the other arm.

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Sounds like a definite safety issue then and these should probably be taken off the site, or marketed as solely ankle cuffs :sweat_smile:

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ADDED NOTE: The only way that e-stim wrist cuffs could be safe to use is if each cuff was run off a separate isolated channel, so that current could not pass between the cuffs. However, this piece of kit looks far to simple for that, and the product image shows a single mini-jack plug with only two terminals.

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I remember seeing another e-stim product (might not be on LH though) that showed a woman with pads on her nipples and genitalia. On closer examination, it looks like the connections go from nipple to genitals, but the novice player might decide to go nipple-nipple, with potentially fatal results. There definitely needs to be more regulation in regards to these types of toys as they become more popular with mainstream lovers.

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I agree, theres alot of potential for accidents with something like that. Theres even metal external elements too so im not even sure where the current is intended to run through

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Also as a thought, would having an electro zap on the wrists possibly on or close to a pulse line be even more dangerous?

On the flip side, is it any different from them zapper games people play where you put your hand on a controller and get a shock?!

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It depends on how things are wired. If the positive and negative terminals are both within the same handle, the current only has to travel a very short distance through/across your hand - the shock is entirely localized. If one handle is the positive and the other the negative and you have to grab both handles to get the shock, then - like these cuffs - in order to complete its circuit the current must pass across the chest, so would be just as unsafe.

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Yikes so in that case yes I too think this item isn’t such a good idea or it should come with full warnings as people with heart conditions would be most at risk to such a toy like this…

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They’ve been ‘out of stocked’, and currently don’t show up in Search either, so they’re probably looking into it. :+1:

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I think just renaming them as ankle cuffs with a strict warning, but you can’t always rely on people to read them :thinking:

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Are they big enough for ancles?

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They look broadly similar to my own faux leather cuffs, and I find those a bit on the big side for my wrists and quite big enough for my ankles. :slightly_smiling_face:

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This is in the product spec:

The cuffs adjust between 1.95-3.10 inches in diameter

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15.5 to 24.7cm circumference (6 to 9.7 inches)

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