Portal:Torture methods and devices

A list of torture methods and devices includes:

Psychological torture methods

• Blackmail
• Shaming and public humiliation,
• being stripped or displayed naked,
• public condemnation
• Shunning
• Exploitation of phobias e.g.

• mock execution
• leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders

• Being subjected to interrogation for long periods
• Extended sleep deprivation
• Extended solitary confinement
• Partial or total sensory deprivation
• verbal abuse

• Racial, sexual, religious or other against any characteristic of the victim

Physical torture methods

• Beatings and physical violence
• Bondage / Predicament bondage
• Blinding with light
• Boiling
• Bone breaking
• Branding
• Burning
• Castration
• Choking / Strangling
• Crucifixion
• Cutting
• Denailing
• Disfigurement
• Drowning or Water cure see also Dry drowning
• Dunking
• Electric shock
• Flagellation
• Flaying
• Foot roasting
• Foot whipping
• Force-feeding
• Garrotting
• Genital mutilation/circumcision forced circumcision]]
• Glasgow smile
• Hamstringing
• Immurement
• Kneecapping
• Keelhauling
• Limb or finger removal
• Mancuerda
• Oubliette
• Oxygen deprivation
• Peine forte et dure
• Picquet
• Pitchcapping
• Pressing
• Rats
• Sexual assault
• Scalping
• Scaphism
• Sensory deprivation
• Sleep deprivation
• Sound (Extremely high volumes, dynamic range, low frequency, noise intended to interfere with rest, high pitched, cognition and concentration).
• Spanish donkey
• Starvation (forced)
• Strappado / Squassation (also known as "reverse hanging" and "Palestinian hanging")
• Stress positions
• Ta'liq (hanging from a metal bar)
• Tarring and feathering
• Tickle torture
• Tooth extraction
• Water boarding
• Water torture
• Whipping

Torture devices

Note that the line between "torture method" and "torture device" is often blurred, particularly when a specifically-named implement is but one component of a method. Also, many devices that can be used for torture have mainstream uses, completely unrelated to torture.

• Boot
• Brank
• Brazen bull
• Breaking wheel
• Choke pear
• Crocodile shears
• Cattle prod
• Electroshock weapon
• Foot press
• Gulag
• Heretic's fork
• Instep borer
• Iron Maiden
• Jiá gùn
• Judas Chair
• Kia quen
• Mancuerda
• Parrilla (torture)
• Pau de Arara
• Picana
• Pillory
• Rack
• Scavenger's daughter
• Scold's bridle
• Spanish boot
• Stocks
• Tablillas
• Tean zu
• Thumbscrew
• Tucker telephone
• Zánzh?

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