Depending on how 'respectable' they claim to be naming and shaming is one of the WORST punishments I could think of or you could always sentence somebody to gassing but not tell them when and put them in a room and never let them see another person again with no contact with the outside world. But their room has a hole to let the gas in and the worst thing is, they don't know WHEN it's going to happen or as I put in a bit of fiction i'm working on...
Put them beneath the pendulum but give the pendulum a CHAINSAW blade and set them both in motion (but in the tae I'm working on, the poor bastard justs gets left there) with a chainsaw/pendulum in motion....
But:-
do you talk first?
Go mad or....

Has no one mentioned torturing the subjects' loved ones? Works great mixed with some humiliation.

The Chinese have something similar in which the family of somebody condemned to death by shooting (bullet through the head) HAVE to pay for the bullet themselves. But (I'm being hypothetical here and this bears no resemblence to anybody alive) just picture the scene can't you? Mister Jackson, a nice respectable family man, christian, Area manager for a bank/president of the local golf club, coaches the local youth team, volunteers for the scouts, goes round in a suit all the time gets exposed as a Paedophile/gets caught with a prostitute and has his porttrait, name, offence and punishment put in the newspapers or the walls of public places and how can he face his friends and neighbours as a result?

Well, Mr. Grand Inquisitor, I would have to guess the person in question would have to move, maybe to some place sunny and warm, and change his name. Which is why when dealing with pedophiles, I still firmly believe the offended and all who love them should be given five minutes alone with the perpetrator. You can't run away from the fact that your Grandmother or first born was force fed their own fingers because of some crime you committed. You also can't run away from being beaten to death or crippled by an angry mob.

However, when strictly speaking of torturing a person, public humiliation is only a small part of an extensive field. Pick up any book of torture, and you're certain to read of public executions and torments. To torture someone in secret or in a dungeon is almost wasteful when done by a governing body.

I think pedophiles should be hypnotically regressed to the age of 7, then raped. Daily.

What a job that would be. Dude would be a hit with the ladies... "So what do you do for a living?".

There's nothing humoous about a lack of spelling skills.


But I'm a fan of being torn apart by horses...

The CIA torture of waterboarding's nothing new. Its just a variation of a similar methond in which the victim was tied down to a table with a flannel over their face and water poured onto it so the flannel entered their mouth to make them feel as if they were drowning. Over hear in the UK we have a phrase 'give somebody a grilling' which comes from the old torture of tying somebody down to an Iron gril and lying it over a fire and then questioning them and to be 'in hot water' means to be in trouble and comes from the execution method of boiling people alive but here's a few books for reference if you want to go into it further:-

A History of Torture* by George Ryley Scott
Rack, Rope and Red Hot Pincers*
The Book of Execution*
Severed Heads*
* by Charles Geoffery Abbot, a former beefeater at The Tower of London.
My interest in Torture is entirely for fictional use and research purposes only (honest).
Thanks for the input.

I'd pull their finger/toenails off and sandpaper under there.
I'd periodically hammer nails into their non-vital areas and put a stungun to the nails. I'd cut them with scalpels between all the fingers and toes, and remove the nipples that way. I would then apply bi-carb to the wounds, followed by a mixture of caustic soda in vinegar.
I'd probably douse them in something like hair spray/mousse, something that would burn off quickly but not too quickly and set it on fire.
I'd then put a gas mask onto them with stink bugs in it one time, ammonia the next, allowing fresh air for 1/3 of the time.
Perhaps, I'd insert a large acupuncture needle into their eye, and leave it there.
Every time they made a sound, I'd kick them in the balls.
I'd break and re-break their nose again and again. punching would do.
I'd record their cries, and play it back to them all the while, and feed them only on their own excrement.

Sounds more like you're fixing something to eat.