My Exwife fed me chicken for 5 years straight. Ask Answer Bagger Davoomac, it's scarred me for life.

Reality TV.

Well http://www.medievality.com/torture.html has the answer, I think. They say it's the rack: http://www.medievality.com/the_rack.html. Very painful if you ask me.

Being boiled alive feet first.
To watch a loved one being tortured would have to come in at #1.

The ancient Roman practice known as the radish and the fish ("percurrent raphani mugilesque," Catullus), reserved for adulterers. The victim was suspended by the thumbs from a horizontal bar, and then had inserted into his anal cavity first, a large radish, and then, a spiny mullet (fish). He was then force-fed rich, oily foods until his abdomen was bloated, and left in that condition until his innards ruptured and he literally exploded. This usually took three or four days.

The Russian Soviet tyrant Nikolai Bulganin reportedly dealt with his political enemies by splitting their feet open with an axe, packing the wound with rock salt, tying it up with a dirty rag, and then forcing them to run twelve miles. How many of them survived is not known, but it can be safely assumed that they never walked again.

Has to be japans History of unit 731, you'll find it on youtube It is soooooooooooo shocking and disgusting what they did to those people. you gotta watch it.

I agree that a psychological torture can be as bad as physical.

I read once where in the Middle Ages, a corrupt, sadistic ruler - for whatever twisted reason - sentenced the small child of a woman to death. She was forced to watch as they used the cat-o-nine-tails to flog the child to death (like they did to Jesus in the movie "The Passion"). Having to hear the piercing shrieks of one's precious child as his/her back is brutally ripped apart by inhuman animals must be sheer torture, especially when the child is begging for the mother to stop the agony, but she's powerless to stop the proceedings.

I'd have to go with the rack because you can control the amount of pain and prolong it. Also, it wasn't meant to kill, but to cripple for life.

Reading your posts.

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