Chapter 23, Page 55
[Archived Broadcast – 5 Months Ago]
Real Talk with Nina Kline – NetRadio Program
[Transcript]
NINA KLINE: We’re back from the break with Evie Brayer, author of Sinister Urges: Drugs, Crime, and Justice. We’ve been talking in-depth about various illegal substances, including pleasure drugs. We’re going to take a few calls now, starting with Bethanie who’s calling from Sonnet City. Do you have a question for our guest, Bethanie?
CALLER: Yes, I do. Uh, so, back in college I had a friend who tried Euphoria, and she had a really bad experience with how sensitive it made her body feel. I mean, instead of just being pleasurable, I guess she felt a lot of pain too. Is that common?
EVIE BRAYER: Hi Bethanie. We need to remember that everybody’s different and some people may naturally have higher or lower pain-pleasure thresholds. Typically, under the influence of Euphoria, a user’s sensitivity to pain will actually be dulled, since the pleasure receptors are kicking into overdrive and overriding the body’s other senses. They become hypersensitive to feelings of pleasure, to the point where even uncomfortable sensations may be gratifying. There’s even a number of incidents where people accidentally harmed themselves while on Euphoria because they didn’t feel pain, or the brain simply misinterpretation pain for pleasure, which resulted in injury.
KLINE: But, as you said, some people have radically different experiences.
BRAYER: Absolutely. Heightened sensations of pain while on Euphoria isn’t common, but there are a minority of users who may experience it. Rapture, a similar drug, is actually notorious in that regard. A large number of Rapture users describe feelings of pleasure being amplified but, often, they feel a greater sensitivity to pain.
KLINE: Really? I’m curious, then why do people use Rapture?
BRAYER: It’s a cheaper alternative to Euphoria and it’s stronger than Aphrosia. Also, some users prefer those intensified sensations, strange as that may sound. Disturbingly, I’ve even read reports of Rapture being used during torture—members of organized crime, third world governments, or terrorists would inject those being tortured with the drug to increase suffering.
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.
Even in an utterly corrupt city kidnapping, raping, and presumably killing a cop is going to get all of them after you. Our villains are not great at long term thinking
True, but does anyone even know where Madison and Belanie are? Madison was following her own lead unofficially and Belanie followed her.
We don’t know if Belanie told anyone what she was up to or if her car has a tracker. What we do know is that that shock treatment is going to burn off the drug faster than Beavis and Butthead expect.
Yeah, but the article says that Euphoria tends to dull the pain of most people due pleasure being drastically increased. So while the drug may end up being burned through Madison’s system faster due to the shocks, the pain of the shocks is not going to sober her up.
The way Belanie stormed out of the locker room to follow Madison a few chapters back, and how she didn’t even tell Sera where she was going, kind of indicates that she didn’t tell anyone. At least that was my read on it. I could be wrong.
Oh, man. Madison’s in real knee deep crazy torture trouble now! And it’s hardly being pleasurable for her at this point………….
Clearly judging by panel five and the how Euphoria is described to work in the written entry, it’s all too pleasurable for her.
The written entry/article says Euphoria tends to dull pain for most people because their sense of pleasure is drastically increased that even something that would be painful normally would be pleasurable. So, if anything, Madison probably had an orgasm or close to one.