What are some forms?

Question

Ok well in my history class we're talking about ancient civilazations. The part we're covering now is crime and stuff like that and the consequences. Well in the textbook, it says some places used torture. So my teacher gave us assignment of coming up with 5 tortures (tortures on other people) and 5 self-tortures (torture on yourself). I can't think of any, and I looked all online and couldn't find a single thing. So I need some help. Do any of you know of 5 tortures and 5 self-tortures for my assignment?!

Answer 1

Tortures
1. Suffocation
This is a type of torture that the Chinese police and prison guards (referred to as "torturers" from now on) frequently resort to when interrogating practitioners (about where they obtained the materials containing the facts about Falun Gong, and who helped produce them). The torturers would seal a practitioner's head with a plastic bag to suffocate him while punching and kicking him, or shocking him with high-voltage stun batons. The feeling of being suffocated is horrific. The torturers would open the plastic bag after a while and ask the victim if he is now willing to provide the information, which would surely cause his fellow practitioners to fall into the hands of the torturers. If the victim refuses to do so, the torturers would repeat the suffocation until the victim passes out or dies.
2. Hanging with a Weight on Their Ankles
This is another cruel torture that the Chinese police and guards often use to torment practitioners. The torturers would hang a practitioner about one foot above the ground at first, and ask if he will provide the information of his fellow practitioners. When the victim refuses to do so, the torturer would bind the victim's ankles with a rope and tie a weight, such as a brick, to the end of the rope. The weight on the ankle adds additional pain to the victim. The torturers would repeat the same question every several minutes. Each time the victim refuses to betray his conscience in exchange for the cessation of the torture, the torturer would add an additional brick to the victim's ankles until the victim passes out or succumbs to the torture.
3. Typing the Ropes: Hanging in the Air with Hands Tied Behind the Back
"Tying the Ropes" is another torture method that the guards often use. With both arms tightly tied behind the back, both feet off the ground or only the toes barely touching the ground, the victim is hung from a high place with rope. When the rope is tightly fastened, the rope will cut into one's flesh, which is extremely painful. As a severe punishment, this torture is only applied twice at most to criminals who try to escape from the detention centres. But the guards often subject Falun Gong practitioners to this type of torture eight to nine times. It is really inhumane.
4. Chopping Practitioners' Buttocks With the Edge of a Board
This is a type of torture that the prison inmates would subject to each newly-imprisoned practitioner. They first strip off a practitioner's clothes and make him bend over with his head in between the two metal bars of a ladder on a bunk bed. Each "mattress" is made of several boards of one inch in thickness and four inches in width. Then an inmate would chop away at the practitioner's buttocks violently using the narrow edge of a plank. The inmate would thereby inflict severe bruises and injuries upon the victim's buttocks in no time. It takes more than a few days for the victim to recover from the wounds and injuries. The camp guards can see the entire torture through the surveillance camera, but they have always turned a blind eye to the torture, silently approving the prisoners' crimes.
5. Flogging Practitioners' Shins with Metal or Rattan Bars
This is one of the flogging tortures that the camp guards apply to Falun Gong practitioners. The torturers violently flog practitioners' shins using a metal or rattan bar as thick as a finger. Because there is less flesh in the shin, the victim would suffer painful injury. Many practitioners have been handicapped by this torture.

Self-Torture
"Fifth, self-hatred may be manifested as self-torment or self-torture. Although self-torment can exist in each of the other forms of self-hatred, it becomes a separate category when people's main intention is to inflict harm or suffering on themselves. Some people attain masochistic satisfaction by anguishing over a decision, exaggerating the pain of a headache, cutting themselves with a knife, starting a fight that they are sure to lose, or inviting physical abuse".

People also burn themselves, starve themselves, inject various drugs into themselves, and some view body piercing as a form of self torture.

Answer 2

Well, the Nazis used to use electrocution, they cut off fingers and hands to name a few. Starvation, whipping, beating, Chinese water torture, keeping people awake. They use the cane in some parts of Asia today. Killing family members, genital or body mutilation, slavery are other forms of torture. Self tortures would be body modifications, or prostitution but I can't think of any others. Burying people in the sand up to their necks while bugs crawl all over their heads. Sexual abuse/pimping.