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Gas mask
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
objectification, but may also form part
of a total enclosure fetish. Gas maks
and the air hoses occaisonally fitted to them can also be used to
administer Nitrite inhalants (Poppers).
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.Asbestos Safety
The filters in older gas masks often contained asbestos. The Imperial
War Museum website (http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.2789)
recommends against wearing old gas masks. Many of Britain's asbestos
fatalies have been attributed to gas mask manufacture during WW2 (e.g.
see http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/63/12/85....
That advice is specific to British gas masks, but other countries
certainly used asbestos - even beyond the war - and it can be difficult
to find specific product information on foreign masks.
Aside from the filters, the other parts of the mask won't contain
asbestos and *unopened* masks from the 1970s and later (e.g. the popular
Israeli Mark V and Russian GP-5), are therefore 'low risk'.
Whether they contain asbestos or not, gasmask filters perish very
quickly. It is possible to buy new filters for masks with NATO attachments.See also External links
(This entry in the BDSM Dictionary incorporates text from the
Gas
mask article in Wipipedia.)
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