*adds info anyway*<br/><br/>Those not interested can skip this post. It's directly copied/ pasted from my PMs.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Tasers and stunguns.</span><br/>Courtesy of GuiltyLight<br/><br/>So long as it's noted in advance that I'm not a flawless authority on the subject.<br/><br/>In lieu of going on for pages and pages about the basics...<br/><br/>If I'm understanding how a taser works (and I think I am, since stunguns and tasers both require two contact points), the voltage is going to seek to flow from the negative contact to the positive contact (or the other way around depending on which electron flow theory someone subscribes to.)  Or back and forth if it's AC, but batteries are DC, so... anyway!<br/><br/>So, the contacts make... well, contact, the voltage flows through the shortest available path to return to zero potential (the other contact), which happens to be flesh and bone in this case.  While human skin is actually a phenomenal insulator when unbroken, it's not going to stop that kind of voltage from finding the easiest path.  Blood, human fat, etc are all excellent conductors, so it'll shoot through the body beneath the surface, find the other contact, hop back out (creating both entry and exit burns), and return to the source.<br/><br/>That's a little overly elaborate, but what I basically mean is that electricity isn't random.  It doesn't run rampant.  It's very methodical.  Now, to be blunt, if you were having anal sex with someone and you shocked their ass or tailbone or whatever, it's entirely likely that your dick is going to get in the "way" and take a nasty jolt.  Electricity does branch out a little, which you can see in lightning (obviously), but the very localized nature of tasers is why you can pump that much voltage into a human body and not kill them.  Because it doesn't hit anything vital.<br/><br/>A few milliamps can kill a person if it hits them in the wrong place, like the heart.<br/><br/>Again, this is all just conjecture, since I'm not a taser specialist, but I hope it helps!<br/><br/>I'm fairly sure that when people who will be using tasers end up taking a 'hit' so they aren't too quick to put a taser to use, they have someone on either side ready to keep them from falling, with hands on their arms.<br/><br/>-<br/><br/>After asking a friend, apparently tasers are high-voltage, but at a very limited amount of amperes.  -Normally- Amps are basically defined as Volts (divided by) Ohms of resistance (mostly from the human body in this case) = Amperes of current, but by whatever means a taser or stun gun can generate ludicrously high voltages without generating much amps.  I'm curious now, and I'll be researching exactly how they do that.  Needless to say, I don't deal with tasers much, but it's interesting!<br/><br/>But.  As they say, volts hurt.  Amps kill.  A stun gun or taser is going to cause severe muscle contractions and the like, but it's not going to reduce flesh to a crisp.<br/><br/>For a stungun (or any taser that doesn't fire darts), the area of effect is very controllable.  You have two metal contacts two or three inches apart.  In basically a direct line between them (with a little arcing), that's the path of the voltage.  If it fires darts, then wherever the two darts land is where the start and end point of the voltage will be.  If only one contact touches, there's no completed circuit and thus no shock.  Would be a nifty little threat, tracing only one, cold contact slowly along bare skin.<br/><br/>Now if you were to have one contact in either hand (like in the case of jumper cables) you could pretty much dictate the path of current however you wanted.