History Main / ElectricInstantGratification

* In the "Big Wheel" issue of ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'', the rampaging SuperSoldier driven AxCrazy by his extensive [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cybernetic modifications]] mentions at one point that, on top of all the other traumatic alterations to his body, his genitals have been removed and replaced with a wire in his brain that [[SexIsViolence simulates sexual pleasure when he kills people]].

* ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' features a machine that records a complete sensory experience, and a young man wears it during sex. An older man gets hold of the recording and splices the orgasm into a loop. They find him still hooked up to it a day or two later, and he becomes violent when they switch it off.
* ''Film/StrangeDays'' takes the concept and puts it on the black market, complete with {{snuff|Film}} [[TransferableMemory experiences]] called "Blackjack".

* In one of the early ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novels by Ian Watson (before the background fluff had been set in stone) the Imperial assassin Melindeh has been conditioned to withstand any form of torture, but she is helpless when the villain takes to overloading the pleasure centers of her brain.

* In ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', Jefferson is able to [[ShockAndAwe manipulate the human body's electrical fields]] and Lynne seems to find it quite pleasurable.

* In a {{downplayed|Trope}} (for once) version, it's hinted techpriests in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' don't mind getting electrical shocks from the exposed wiring all over the place, or actually enjoy it. Literature/CiaphasCain suspects that as cyborgs, it's a tasty snack to them.

* [[https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5k6sk7/dear_people_with_youtube_channels_that_have_an_8/dblwduo/?sh=41f51603&st=IX4OD5HG This Reddit thread]] that earned first place on r/jesuschristreddit's best posts of 2016. Warning: NotSafeForWork.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': The episode "Stimpy's Invention" is built around this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': The villainous audio engineer Shriek has invented a tuning fork that uses soundwaves to stimulate the pleasure centers of the mind. Instead of paying his mooks with money, he allows them to spend time with it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}
** In the'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E9HellIsOtherRobots Hell is Other Robots]]", we find that strong electric currents have [[MushroomSamba a powerful hallucinogenic effect]] [[AIGettingHigh on robots]], which leads to Bender developing a habit of "jacking on".

* Literature/TakeshiKovacs encounters a couple of characters who have become addicted to this in ''Literature/BrokenAngels'', including ThePoliticalOfficer of his mercenary unit who was forcibly wired up to keep him in line. The results are not pretty.

* Literature/TakeshiKovacs encounters a couple of characters who have become addicted to this in ''Broken Angels'', including ThePoliticalOfficer of his mercenary unit who was forcibly wired up to keep him in line. The results are not pretty.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E9HellIsOtherRobots Hell is Other Robots]]", we find that strong electric currents have [[MushroomSamba a powerful hallucinogenic effect]] [[AIGettingHigh on robots]], which leads to Bender developing a habit of "jacking on".

* One such device is central to the Creator/SpiderRobinson story "God Is an Iron", later expanded into the novel ''Mindkiller''.

Contrast with AgonyBeam and {{Orgasmatron}}.

* ''The Young Unicorns'' by Creator/MadeleineLEngle has a young-adult-friendly version of the trope: a Micro-Ray that can directly stimulate the pleasure center of the brain. The experience is described as feeling like flying.

** Being a multi-talented spy, Garak from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was given a device in his brain that releases good-time feeling juice in order to counteract torture. Turns out life with the Federation sucked so hard, he turned it on manually -- and eventually he stopped turning it off. Addiction swiftly followed.

The concept of the "pleasure center" was based on research on rats done in the 1950's, and those studies have been [[ScienceMarchesOn partially discredited]] since, but there is still some TruthInTelevision here. Scientists developed an orgasm device for women by accident when the doctor inserted a spinal cord electrode he was using to relieve the woman's chronic pain into the wrong place and got an unexpected reaction. Although further tests showed that less than 2% of women would actually get that effect from it.

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* In the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' miniseries, it was revealed that the long-time Franchise/{{Batman}} foe, the Mad Hatter, long known for his mind-control hats, had worked out a way to ''reverse'' the mind-control effect. This stimulated his pleasure centers and led to him becoming a "hat addict" (and even crazier than he was originally).
* In the "Big Wheel" issue of ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'', the rampaging SuperSoldier driven AxeCrazy by his extensive [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cybernetic modifications]] mentions at one point that, on top of all the other traumatic alterations to his body, his genitals have been removed and replaced with a wire in his brain that simulates sexual pleasure when he kills people.

* The ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' GadgeteerGenius Tom Thumb weaponized this into the [[TheParalyzer Pacifier Pistols]], which incapacitate with pleasure, so cops wouldn't need lethal weapons. How he's going to keep them from [[PowerPerversionPotential sitting around shooting themselves in the head all day]] is not addressed.
* This is the special power of the titular character in the {{Hentai}} series ''Demi the Demoness''. She can fire a bolt that makes the target [[OutWithABang orgasm so hard they explode]].
* Fuji from ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' is an EnergyBeing who's kept in a containment suit so that he doesn't dissipate into nothingness. Due to the conditions of his suit and the constant buffeting of his nervous system by his own energy, he has an orgasm every five minutes. No wonder he's so happy.
* Milo Manara's erotic graphic novel ''Click!'' is about a noblewoman fitted with a wireless version of this. She is followed by a voyeur who turns it on at inopportune moments, compelling her to stop whatever she's doing and have sex with anyone nearby. [[spoiler: At the end of the story it is seemingly revealed that the device, which the voyeur stole, was a total fake and the woman was simply a closeted sex-crazed slut all along -- but the sequel, the imaginatively-titled ''Click 2'', {{RetCon}}s this by showing beyond doubt that the device ''does'' work, and that the revelation was fabricated.]]
* The story arc of ''ComicBook/FallenAngels2019'' is about Kwannon seeking to break an international FantasticDrug trade of an electronic device placed on the head that manipulates the brain to stimulate a high. Because it doesn't actually chemically alter the brain, there are no physical risks like overdose, but there is still the risk of psychological damage. It's difficult for conventional authorities to trace and regulate, as it can be assembled through blueprints from perfectly legal electronics that are very common. There's also the little issue that the drug lord behind it is a sentient AI with a god complex that wants to use it to assimilate people's minds.

* In ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton Captain Proton]] and the Planet of Lesbians'', the DeathRay of the evil Queen Sapphia is changed via ReversePolarity to provide this trope, ending the final battle when everyone experiences a simultaneous orgasm. Proton then gets an irate call from the President of Earth, demanding he arrest the nefarious villain who just shot a sex ray at the United States, starting a nationwide orgy.
* Played with in "WesternAnimation/TeenTitans" fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6263444/1/Transition Transition]], Jinx and Raven end up stranded on an alien planet that has this effect, initially it only works on Raven, making her act [[LoveFreak happy, calm, sympathetic and lustful toward Jinx]]. While it isn't harmful both Jinx, and later the both the Teen Titans and the Justice League initially find Raven to be [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness creepier than usual]]. It later turns out the alien planet is [[GeniusLoci alive]] making it GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul instead.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily'' has Easter -- a SplitPersonality/living lightning bolt currently in Specter's body -- get shocked in the Shock Street Car when in "Shockro's House of Shocks". Insetad of screaming in agony, they just moan and gasp in ecstasy.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings''. After delving deep into [[TooBrokenToBreak Tom]]'s memories, Temrash 114 sets off his pleasure receptors as a "reward" for not resisting, which only makes Tom feel worse. [[spoiler:Later, Visser Three does the same to Alloran when they're "reunited" in the splinter universe.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'': Harley Quinn gets excited to use the electroshock therapy [[spoiler:to destroy Waller's bombs]]. In fact, while everyone else is getting shocked with gags in their mouths to keep them from screaming, Harley spits hers out and starts laughing.

* The orgasmatron from Woody Allen's film ''{{Film/Sleeper}}''.
* ''Film/DemolitionMan''. Sexually-transmitted diseases like AIDS have turned everyone off physical sex, so when Huxley offers to have sex with John Spartan, they put on devices that connect their minds into an erotic virtual reality. Spartan stops the procedure before it reaches its conclusion. When he suggests doing it "the old-fashioned way" instead, she is not pleased and orders him to leave the room.
* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'' is put into a machine that does this, ''and overloads it''. '''Damn.'''
* ''Film/{{Orgazmo}}'', an early project by Trey Parker, is about a young Mormon boy forced to act in a porno movie where he plays a superhero who wields one of these devices. ''Then'' he gets one in real life...

* ''Film/StrangeDays'' takes the concept and puts it on the black market, complete with snuff experiences called "Blackjack".
* In the 1994 film about UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein ''Film/{{IQ|1994}}'', [[Creator/StephenFry James Moreland]] is doing the experiment with the mouse. There are two switches the mouse can press: one that gives him food and one that gives him this trope. The mouse hasn't eaten in three days. Moreland asks Einstein how this could possibly be the case, and Albert simply gives him a look.
* Discussed in ''Film/LovePotionNumberNine'' where a woman told about a male Chimpanzee hooked up to such a device.

* The "Pleasure Chamber" in the cheese-fest, ''Film/RobotHolocaust'', where Valeria stands around and shows us her boobies (cut from the Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 version). [[DullSurprise She doesn't appear to be getting much pleasure out of it]], even though the Dark One reprimands her for using it as a habitat instead of a reward.

* This was done in the radio version of ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', as a reward for a student learning about the Shoe Event Horizon. Also sort-of done by Ford to a security robot in ''Mostly Harmless''. He captured the robot and disabled the chip that controls access to its "happy module", so the robot was happy doing anything at all. Including intervening between Ford and a missile.
* Semirhage in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' finds that stimulating the pleasure centers of a subject's brain works better than stimulating the pain centers for torture. But it bores her.
* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' books, such as ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' and the Gil the Arm stories, feature the droud, which trickles current through a wire implanted in the pleasure center of the brain, and the tasp, which does this from a distance, and is seen to be an extremely dangerous weapon (since the victim can get addicted). In ''Ringworld'', the Pierson's Puppeteer Nessus, in charge of the ''Lying Bastard'' mission, has two tasps, one implanted in each of his hand-mouths: one for Kzinti (to control Speaker-to-Animals) and one for humans (for Louis Wu and Teela Brown). In the following book, Louis becomes a droud addict, explaining that it all started with someone hitting him with a tasp at a low point in his life.
* A similar device is central to the Creator/SpiderRobinson story "God Is an Iron", later expanded into the novel ''Mindkiller''.
* Creator/NormanSpinrad wrote a story where there are booths that do this in a New York subway station, 200 years in the future. There are skeletons in them--they stayed in them so long they starved to death.
* Creator/BernardWerber's novel ''Literature/TheUltimateSecret'' turns out to revolve around it. The ProfessorGuineaPig used one to motivate himself to accomplish high feats, but after his accidental death his partner was fully intent on using it to enslave the protagonists (who were investigating said death).
* Used by [[AxCrazy Taylor the Crazy Yeerk]] in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' (though it only caused the victim to remember happy memories). Presumably it was put into an otherwise-standard ElectricTorture rig just 'cause they could, but it turned out to be useful for breaking Tobias (whose hawk-form mind was incredibly resistant to torture) through sheer MoodWhiplash.
** A milder form of it was used in ''The Escape'', where the yeerks were trying to use sharks as aquatic soldiers. Through the use of electronic chips in the sharks' brains, they replicated the sensation of having just caught prey to encourage them.

* In ''Literature/TheTerminalMan'', Harry Benson receives a brain implant to control his psychomotor epilepsy, which caused him to severely beat two people during seizures. The implant induces euphoric feelings by running a current across a grid of electrodes on his brainstem. His doctors then realize that Benson might be psychotic. Before too long his subconscious mind learns he can induce seizures by assaulting people, triggering the "pleasure" shock originally meant to halt the seizures. Things go downhill from there.
* Used in a truly horrific fashion in the novel ''Literature/{{Neuropath}}''. The book's villain, who aims to prove that free will is an illusion created to cover up the mass of cognitive processes that take us through the day, abducts a porn star and uses direct nerve stimulation to put her in the throes of pleasure. [[spoiler: Then he switches the pathways that register pain and pleasure, and gives her a shard of glass...]]
* The fury-crafted collars from ''Literature/CodexAlera'' also qualify as this; when the victim does what the controller wants them to they get pleasured. If they refuse, things get bad.

* Used with thematic significance in Creator/DavidFosterWallace's ''Literature/InfiniteJest'', where one character describes the example of the starving rats, then mentions that when a laboratory wanted to do human testing, with it being well known that it could turn the subjects into drooling automatons who live for nothing but the next fix, they were overwhelmed with volunteers. The character considers that to say something very frightening about humans.
* "The Euphio Question", one of the short stories in Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/WelcomeToTheMonkeyHouse,'' was about a group of people who had a machine that instantly saturated people in its proximity with an overwhelming sense of euphoria. The problem was that this caused everyone to be mellow, calm, and relaxed to the point of inactivity, making the machine ''very'' hard to turn off. The even ''worse'' problem is the short-sighted fellow who intends to ''mass-produce'' the devices... and who is ignorant of [[ApocalypseHow the likely outcome]] (whether willfully or not isn't clear, though he doesn't seem to actually ''want'' to destroy humanity).
* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer calls this device a "fornixator" in his amazing ''[[Literature/DangerousVisions Riders Of The Purple Wage]]''. They drill a small hole in your skull and you have a box with a needle. It delivers a series of tiny electrical jolts to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornix_of_brain fornix]] area of your brain. The pleasure of this activity is supposed to be even ''better'' than sex, or anything else.
* Discussed and averted in the ''Literature/MaridAudran'' series. When Audran gets a brain socket installed, his doctor explains that he's gotten an advanced version with some experimental features. One of the features he ''could'' have gotten was a direct wire to the pleasure center, but his patron decided that Audran would be too likely to abuse the privilege, so instead he got a wire to the ''pain'' center.
* ''{{Literature/Deathstalker}}'' has a religious sect called the "Ecstatics," who had their brain modified to be in a continual state of orgasm.
* Literature/TakeshiKovacs encounters a couple of characters who have become addicted to this in ''Broken Angels'', including the PoliticalOfficer of his mercenary unit who was forcibly wired up to keep him in line. The results are not pretty.
* A new device in ''Literature/ANightmareOnElmStreetTheDreamDealers'' allows people to experience the dreams of others, including sexual ones.
* In one of the early Warhammer 40,000 novels by Ian Watson ( before the background fluff had been set in stone) the Imperial assassin Melindeh has been conditioned to withstand any form of torture, but she is helpless when the villain takes to overloading the pleasure centers of her brain.

* In ''Creator/RobertSilverberg'' ''Literature/ToOpentheSky'' the protagonist's wife slips into this addiction, which he doesn't even notice. On the other hand, his vice is floating in isolation tanks.

* Garak from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' Being a multi-talented spy, he was given a device in his brain that releases good-time feeling juice in order to counteract torture. Turns out life with the Federation sucked so hard, he turned it on manually -- and eventually he stopped turning it off. Addiction swiftly followed.
** In an expanded universe novel, set in the MirrorUniverse, Agent Seven of Corps Nine (i.e. Seven-of-Nine's EvilCounterpart) has one as well, also being an Obsidian Order agent.
* Referenced in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', where Xander informs Willow that since they're fiddling with a 'Blaster', that randomly hitting buttons is not high on his agenda. He then adds that if it were called the 'Orgasminator', that would, in fact, be his desired approach.
* The story about the accidental women's orgasm device is in ''Series/MadMen'', where the men who built a vibrating "relaxeciser" can't understand why all the women seem to love it. Then Peggy tries it...and she understands ''perfectly''. She's assigned to develop an ad campaign for it; one of her first. This being TheSixties, it relies a lot on subtle DoubleEntendre.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Game", Riker unknowingly brings aboard a game that ''rewards'' the user for advancing in the game. The entire crew, except Wesley and his girlfriend (who have not played) and Data (who was deactivated), quickly become addicted and willing to turn over the Enterprise to the bad guy of the week.

* On ''Series/BlackLightning'' Jefferson is able to manipulate the human body's electrical fields and Lynne seems to find it quite pleasurable.
* ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. The crew demonstrate a "pleasure hat" that the occupants of Britannia Seven will use to entertain themselves during their sixty-year journey to another world. As Mrs. Noah's favourite sport is [[GuyOnGuyIsHot wrestling]], they place it on her head and she starts acting like a rowdy spectator in the ringside seats.
-->'''Carstairs:''' We have encapsulated the whole conception of recreation; separating the pleasure from the activity.
-->'''Cunliffe:''' After sixty years I would have [[AwfulWeddedLife thought that was automatic]].

* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' devices that do this can be used to aid in interrogation just as effectively as ElectricTorture.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'':

* In ''{{TabletopGame/Planescape}},'' this is the classic trap for members of the Society of Sensation. Sure, a Sensate can just sit around the Hall all day "listening" to sense-recordings of hedonistic delights, or go to their off-plane headquarters and experience the real thing. Sensates who actually show promise within the organization, however, are those who value the ''negative'' experiences as much as the positive ones, and go out into the multiverse to find them.
* [[TabletopGame/OverTheEdge Al Amarja]] has a subculture of drug dealers called "Sandmen." Their drugs are manufactured while a "donor" is sleeping; whoever takes the drugs experiences the donor's dreams as a hallucination. There's a good market for pleasant dreams, but truly jaded users (and Al Amarja is full of them) seek the kind of dreams that give the drug its name: Nightmare.
* In a downplayed (for once) version, it's hinted techpriests in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' don't mind getting electrical shocks from the exposed wiring all over the place, or actually enjoy it. Literature/CiaphasCain suspects that as cyborgs it's a tasty snack to them.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'', Guybrush notes the Marquis de Singe's simian lab assistant Jacques seems to enjoy the electrocution device used to motivate him to move about the lab a ''little'' too much.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' there is a reference to a "nerve stimulator" built into a quarian's suit. Something that "any responsible adult should have." Followed by, "Here, let me turn it on right now... excuse me, human, private conversation!" Tali also mentions nerve stimulators during her romance. She says she'd rather have the real thing, thanks. However, a review of her finances shows her having purchased ever more expensive stimulator variants in the meantime.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Party banter between Anders and Isabela reveals they visited the first game's brothel during their time in Ferelden, and Isabela was there the night Anders (a mage) did ''something'' [[PowerPerversionPotential involving electricity]].
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Sundowner mentions before his boss fight that when the brains of the soon-to-be [[spoiler: TykeBomb]] cyborgs kill in their simulations, they get a nice jolt to their pleasure center to help them associate massacring soldiers and civilians alike with feelings of joy.
* ''VideoGame/TheTuringTest'': According to Mikhail, [[spoiler:the MindControlDevice works that way: it conditions the mind through Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning, eliciting feeling of euphoria when the wearer is obedient and dyshoria when the wearer is disobedient.]]

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* A [[TheDitz ditzy]] [[EvilMinions henchman]] in ''WebComic/TwentyFirstCenturyFox'' craved a VR variant called the O-Pod. An [[EvilVersusEvil assassin]], knowing the intensity of ten to be addictive, cranked it UpToEleven Hundred. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Thousand]]. [[http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20081117.html "You shoulda seen his face when I turned it off!"]]
* In the Website/{{Questden}} adventure ''The Sunfish'', Bucky had one such device implanted by his jailors in an effort to make him more docile. It only made him sneakier, and after escaping he handed the remote to his fellow escapees as a sign of mutual trust.

* Almost the entire human race in ''[[{{WebVideo/Starpocalypse}} Starpocalypse]]'' wears large helmets with a button that gives them an orgasm. Their usage has caused mass cultural stagnation.
* [[https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5k6sk7/dear_people_with_youtube_channels_that_have_an_8/dblwduo/?sh=41f51603&st=IX4OD5HG This Reddit thread]] that earned first place on r/jesuschristreddit's best posts of 2016. Warning: NSFW
* Fanfic/ThingsGordonIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInRescueTeamExcitementz:
-> ''1. Not allowed to use [[PowerPerversionPotential any Electric-type recruit's powers on my "pleasure center"]] to give myself [[RagingStiffie a wicked boner]].''

-->Sploooosh! It was like wave after wave, crashing ''onto'' you... and ''into'' you...
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'' episode "Thanatophobia", a one-shot character named Sybil is shot in the back. So that she isn't paralysed, Trevor fits her with some kind of prosthesis for her spinal cord that needs regular replacement. Being the somehow-lovable kinky bastard that he is, Trevor takes advantage of this each time to make her orgasm repeatedly by stimulating her spinal cord. (In the original TV broadcast, this was redubbed to show him apparently torturing her for fun, because [[ValuesDissonance that would be so much more tasteful.]])
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. The villainous audio engineer, Shriek, has invented a tuning fork that uses soundwaves to stimulate the pleasure centers of the mind. Instead of paying his mooks with money, he allows them to spend time with it.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Hell is Other Robots", we find [[FantasticDrug strong electric currents]] have [[MushroomSamba a powerful hallucinogenic effect]] on robots, which leads to Bender developing a habit of "jacking on".
* ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'': Sinestro uses a pink orb of some kind as an "incentive" to get Labella to talk. She doesn't mind at first, but [[spoiler:begs for him to stop after he ties it to her hands.]]

* While not strictly related to pleasure, personal electroshock therapy units, such as TENS units, can have this effect by providing almost-instant relief for muscle aches and related pain. So, not truly gratification, at least not when used properly, but instant ''relief''.
** A swift internet search for "electrosex" will reveal the many uses of a TENS unit and their ease of acquisition.
* There have been several instances of humans having electrodes attached to their pleasure centres for various reasons, and when given free rein about their activation have generally gone to pieces in the same way a heroin addict might be expected to. There's even a term for this... Chronic Thalamic Self Stimulation.

* In the 1994 film about UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein ''Film/{{IQ}}'', [[Creator/StephenFry James Moreland]] is doing the experiment with the mouse. There are two switches the mouse can press: one that gives him food and one that gives him this trope. The mouse hasn't eaten in three days. Moreland asks Einstein how this could possibly be the case, and Albert simply gives him a look.

* The "Pleasure Chamber" in the cheese-fest, ''Film/RobotHolocaust'', where Valeria stands around and shows us her boobies (cut from the Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 version)

* In the 1994 film about UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein ''Film/{{IQ}}'', [[Creator/StephenFry James Moreland]] is doing the experiment with the mouse. There are two switches the mouse can press: one that gives him food and one that gives him this trope. The mouse hasn't eaten in three days. Moreland asks Einstein how this could possibly be the case, and Albert simply gives him [[WhatAnIdiot a Look]].

* The ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' GadgeteerGenius Tom Thumb weaponized this into the [[StunGuns Pacifier Pistols]], which incapacitate with pleasure, so cops wouldn't need lethal weapons. How he's going to keep them from [[PowerPerversionPotential sitting around shooting themselves in the head all day]] is not addressed.

* A similar device was later used in ''Film/DemolitionMan''.