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Encyclopedia > Gas mask fetishism

Gas mask fetishism is a paraphilia involving attraction to, and sexual excitement by, people wearing gas masks or other breathing apparatus, or to the apparatus itself. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Belgian 1930s era L.702 model civilian mask A gas mask is a poo worn on the face to protect the body from airborne pollutants and toxic materials. ... For breathing apparatus used underwater, see scuba sets and rebreather and surface supplied diving. ...


Gas masks, often worn in connection with rubber fetishism or military fetishism, may be a fetish fashion accessory or be used in the sexual restriction of breathing (breath control, often regarded as a form of edgeplay). The later, being potentially dangerous, requires complete trust in a partner and should never be undertaken alone. In the former case, the gas mask is sometimes used to complete a transformation or sexual objectification, but may also form part of a total enclosure fetish. Gas masks and the air hoses occasionally fitted to them can also be used to administer Nitrite inhalants (Poppers); again, this is a dangerous practice. Rubber fetishism is the fetishistic attraction to people wearing rubber, or in certain cases, to the garments themselves. ... In BDSM, edgeplay is a subjective term for types of sexual play that are on the edge of the traditional safe, sane and consensual creed. ... Drawing of a transformation scene. ... Sexual objectification is objectification of a sexual partner, that is, seeing them as a sexual object, and their sexual attributes, without recognition of their existence as a living person with emotions and feelings of their own. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


The eye covers may be blacked out to act as a blindfold, or there may be a blindfold under the mask, to increase the sense of total enclosure. Sometimes gas masks are also modified to include a gag.


As well as standard military and civilian masks a number of companies are selling custom made gas masks designed purely for BDSM play.


The film Tommy, directed by Ken Russell, features a sequence clearly intended to eroticise the imagery of gas masks. During a scene in the Blitz of World War Two, some scantily-clad chorus girls run through the wreckage of a bomb crater, their shapely bodies nearly naked while their faces are entirely concealed by gas masks. One girl runs directly towards the camera until her gas mask fills the entire frame. Tommy is a given name that is the English diminutive of Thomas and could refer to: Tommy Atkins, nickname for a British soldier Thompson submachine gun, also known as the Tommy Gun Tommy (rock opera), by The Who Tommy (film), based on the rock opera Tommy (comics) is a former... Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born July 3, 1927), is a controversial English film director, particularly known for his films about famous composers. ... Blitz, the German word for lightning, and often used figuratively as in blitzschnell (as fast as lightning), may mean any of a number of things in English: Blitzkrieg, the lightning war strategy of WWII Germany The Blitz, the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII Baedeker Blitz, the reprisal bombing... This article is becoming very long. ...


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