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According to Sting of the Wild, the writer spent his whole career getting stung by insects of the North American southwest including the tarantula hawks and velvet ants, and went on to feel the pain of the infamous bullet ant of central/south America.

Apparently the most painful sting in Australia belongs to the bull ant, and it was a pretty anticlimactic experience, about as or slightly less painful than a honeybee's sting.

This is the same poetic Schmidt behind the Schmidt sting scale, which was going around a minute ago for its colorful description of stinging sensations, ranging from "almost pleasant, a lover just bit your earlobe a little too hard" (grade 1, a sweat bee), to "Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?" (grade 4, the tarantula hawk)

It didn’t register for me until recently that my experiences of being forced to strip naked multiple times at the mental hospital to be ‘checked’ when I was 14 was sexual assault, because the people who did it were nurses/doctors who clearly didn’t find me sexually attractive but instead used it as a form of humiliation and control towards children they deemed as ‘unruly’ and ‘uncooperative’ (ie. children who asked to be treated like people). I thought only people who fit into this idea of a child attracted pedo could be child sexual abusers, so I thought my experience didn’t count.

my stepfather would openly sexually harass me and my siblings at dinner while also loving the fantasy of killing pedophiles. whether he personally found our abuse sexually gratifying was frankly irrelevant to whether it traumatized us. whether he would be considered a pedophile or not doesn't change that he committed sexual abuse of children

Coral Glasses in a plugsuit.