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| | {{Electrical play}} involving a {{TENS unit}} that causes the current flow from any body part to the penis, or vice versa, may result in thermal burning of the prostatic tissues (i.e. the tissues in the prostate gland). Prostatic secretions are highly conductive, and a significant rise in the temperature of these fluids due to electric play can cause burning, or '''septic prostatitis'''. Risk seems to be the highest in men who have had previous prostatitis (an inflammation of the prostate gland), in which case a flareup caused by the bacterial presence in the resultant damaged tissues becomes a serious [[Urinary tract infection]]. These infections can be extremely drug-resistant and hard to get under control, and continued play causes a chronic condition. Plan the route of current flow carefully so that it does not involve the prostate gland. A short course in male anatomy would not be unwise if you're going to play like this. |
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| <th colspan="2"> <i>Doug Malloy</i>
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| <td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Birth Date</b> </td>
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| <td> <a href="/index.php?title=1915" title="1915">1915</a>
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| <td> Evanston, Illinois
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| <td> <a href="/index.php?title=1979" title="1979">1979</a>
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| <td> piercer
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| </p><p><b>Doug Malloy</b> (born Richard Simonton), was a Muzak executive who led a double life as an early pioneer of the contemporary resurgence in <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Body_piercing" title="Body piercing">body piercing</a>. His work in promoting <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Body_piercing" title="Body piercing">body piercing</a> in the late 1970's was key to the development and popularity of the practice.
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| <table class="toc" id="toc"><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
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| <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Early_life_and_professional_career"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life and professional career</span></a></li>
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| <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Public_personal_life"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Public personal life</span></a></li>
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| <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#The_American_Theatre_Organ_Society"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">The American Theatre Organ Society</span></a></li>
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| <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Double_Life"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Double Life</span></a></li>
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| <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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| <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Reference"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Reference</span></a></li>
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| <p>He was born in Evanston, Illinois in reputably poor conditions, as was common for those growing up during the Great Depression. His father died when he was three, and he and his mother subsequently moved to Seattle. As a young man, he was trained as an audio engineer and eventually made his way to Southern California. There, he became an executive at the Muzak Corporation, and was responsible for the Southwest region of the United States during the 1940's. In <a href="/index.php?title=1958" title="1958">1958</a>, Simonton purchased a controlling interest in the Mississippi riverboat Delta Queen, rescuing the enterprise and turning it towards profitability. Upon finding success in the music business, he built an elaborate home in Toluca Lake, California, where he lived until his death in <a href="/index.php?title=1979" title="1979">1979</a>.
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| <p>Richard Simonton had a wife, Helen, as well as four children; however, not much is known about his family or married life because much of the public information about him comes from the gay <a href="/index.php?title=BDSM" title="BDSM">BDSM</a> sub-culture he was an active participant in in his later life. He was a close personal friend of silent film star <a class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516001/" rel="nofollow">Harold Lloyd</a>, and was the executor of Lloyd's estate when he died in 1971. His professional life brought him into contact with many individuals in the Hollywood entertainment industry, and he hosted many gatherings at his Toluca Lake house which was centered around the 99 seat theater he had constructed in the home. Simonton claimed to have suffered minor brain damage at some point in the early 1960s, which forced him to largely retire from his professional life.
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| <p>As a tremendous fan of theatre organ music, Simonton arranged a gathering at his home on February 8, 1955, where he and several other organ enthusiasts founded the American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts, later shortened to the American Theatre Organ Society, which is still highly active today. During the remainder of his life, he was extremely active in the preservation and promotion of theatre organs and the music played upon them. His home contained two organs, a church style organ upstairs and a Wurlitzer theatre organ downstairs in the theatre, which was equipped with professional recording equipment. Film showings at his home were often accompanied by live organ, played by some of the great theatre organists of the day, including Gaylord Carter, Jesse Crawford and Korla Pandit, all of whom performed and recorded at the house.
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| <p>During his lifetime, Richard Simonton maintained a double life, as a highly successful businessman and as a participant in the Los Angeles gay BDSM subculture, where he was known as Doug Malloy. It is presumed that his immediate family had some knowledge of his interest in body piercing, as he had several <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Genital_piercing" title="Genital piercing">genital piercings</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Nipple_piercing" title="Nipple piercing">nipple piercings</a>, which would be difficult to conceal from one's spouse. His home was a center of activity for individuals involved in both the <a href="/index.php?title=BDSM" title="BDSM">BDSM</a> and body piercing sub-cultures. Other members of these sub-cultures also appear to have attended events at the home that were also attended by family or business associates, so it also seems likely that his interests, or his homosexuality, was an open secret.
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| </p><p>As Doug Malloy, he was an instrumental supporter and patron of the early body modification scene. By <a href="/index.php?title=1975" title="1975">1975</a>, he had published a short, largely fictional autobiography entitled <i><a class="external text" href="http://runningthegauntlet-book.com/BME/jimward/20040315-pf.html" rel="nofollow">Diary of a Piercing Freak</a></i> under his assumed name, which was sold to a fetish publisher and released in softback under the title <i>The Art of Pierced Penises and Decorative Tattoos</i>. He had also established contacts amongst <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Body_piercing" title="Body piercing">body piercing</a> enthusiasts both in Los Angeles and on a global scale, including London tattooist <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Alan_Oversby" title="Alan Oversby">Alan Oversby</a> (also known as <a href="/index.php?title=Mr._Sebastian" title="Mr. Sebastian">Mr. Sebastian</a>), <a href="/index.php?title=Fakir_Musafar" title="Fakir Musafar">Fakir Musafar</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Viking_Navarro&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Viking Navarro (page does not exist)">Viking Navarro</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Sailor_Sid_Diller" title="Sailor Sid Diller">Sailor Sid Diller</a> and <a href="/index.php?title=Jim_Ward" title="Jim Ward">Jim Ward</a>. He was also an organizer and active member of the <a href="/index.php?title=T%26P_Group" title="T&P Group">T&P Group</a>, an association of <a href="/index.php?title=Tattoo" title="Tattoo">tattoo</a> and piercing enthusiasts based in Los Angeles.
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| </p><p>The upsurge in interest in body piercing had created enough interest that Malloy advised <a href="/index.php?title=Jim_Ward" title="Jim Ward">Jim Ward</a>, who had previously worked as a designer, that he should start a body piercing business. He advanced Ward the money to start Gauntlet, originally a home based business, and Jim began to produce body piercing jewelry. His experience as an amateur piercer formed the basis of the primitive techniques used at the time, and his network of contacts was instrumental in spreading the popularity of body piercing, especially genital piercing. By <a href="/index.php?title=1978" title="1978">1978</a> <a href="/index.php?title=Gauntlet" title="Gauntlet">Gauntlet</a> had a retail location and the world's first <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Body_piercing_studio&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Body piercing studio (page does not exist)">body piercing studio</a> was established. Doug also provided extensive notes that were ghostwritten by Ward into full articles for <a href="/index.php?title=Piercing_Fans_International_Quarterly" title="Piercing Fans International Quarterly">PFIQ</a>, the first magazine devoted to the subject of body piercing, a <a href="/index.php?title=Gauntlet" title="Gauntlet">Gauntlet</a> publication.
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| </p><p>One of Malloy's other notable contributions to the development of body piercing in contemporary society was his pamphlet <i><a class="external text" href="http://www.bmezine.com/news/jimward/20040315-p.html" rel="nofollow">Body & Genital Piercing in Brief</a></i>, which is responsible for a large portion of the myths surrounding the origins of many piercings, most notably genital ones. His personal enthusiasm for body piercing as an erotic practice and his love of the fantastic came together in this document, which is almost entirely fictional or highly speculative. Many of the theories regarding the practice and origins of various piercings historically have been distorted by the excellent circulation of this document or later documents which quote it.
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| <ul><li><a class="external text" href="http://www.atos.org/Pages/Journal/hifi/HiFi.html" rel="nofollow">The Wurlitzer that Made Hi-Fi</a> American Theatre Organ Society article
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| </li><li><a class="external text" href="http://www.bmezine.com/news/jimward/20040315.html" rel="nofollow">Who Was Doug Malloy?</a> <a href="/index.php?title=BME" title="BME">Body Modification E-Zine</a> article
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| </li><li><a class="external text" href="http://www.bmezine.com/news/jimward/20040123.html" rel="nofollow">In the Beginning there was Gauntlet</a> <a href="/index.php?title=BME" title="BME">Body Modification E-Zine</a> article
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| </li><li><a class="external text" href="http://www.bmezine.com/news/jimward/20040315-pf.html" rel="nofollow">The Adventures of a Piercing Freak</a> full text of Doug Malloy's autobiography
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| </li><li><a class="external text" href="http://www.bmezine.com/news/jimward/20040315-p.html" rel="nofollow">Body & Genital Piercing in Brief</a> full text of Doug Malloy's pamphlet on the origins of various piercings.
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| </li><li><a class="external text" href="http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:2GWqBvctKPUJ:www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1346/is_6_46/ai_74869829/pg_6+richard+simonton+korla+pandit&hl=en" rel="nofollow"><i>The Many Faces of Korla Pandit</i></a> June 2001 Los Angeles Magazine article
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| <ul><li> <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Modern_Primitives" title="Modern Primitives">Modern Primitives</a></i>.
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| | :"I'll cite at least two personal experiences with septic prostatitis following electric play. Both resulted in prolonged hospital stays, several months of very nasty antibacterial treatment, and painful systoscopic examinations. It took over ten years after the last incident until I was symptom free. |
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| | :My current route was from cock head to balls, via a TENS unit (remember that the penis travels completely into the pelvic region, so any electrical connection to it routes the majority of the current along the penile shaft through the prostate gland, and thence into the surrounding tissues (i.e. the testicles). Superficially, it does not look as if this could happen, but a little thought about the penile structure shows it is highly probable. |
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| | :I would confine any connections to the penis to shaft only, both connections made to the shaft without involving other parts. I can't certify this as safe, but it would seem to leave the prostate out of the path of the current. I'm not a doctor, so ask yours if you must be sure." |
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| | ==Entries related to this risk== |
| | *[[Electrical Play]] |