Gas mask

A gas mask is a mask worn on the face to protect the body from airborne pollutants and toxic materials, and also known as a respirator. The mask may cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face, and will always form a sealed cover over the nose and mouth.

Sexual fetish

A small but significant number of people, particularly in the United Kingdom, have a sexual fetish about gas masks. It has been hypothesized that this may be because of childhood behavioral imprinting when these devices were issued in World War II. However, this does not explain those who share this fetish who were not children during World War II. One possibility is that gas masks are for them part of a wider rubber fetishism, or that the dehumanized appearance of a person wearing a gas mask leads to erotic objectification fantasies.

Related Topics:
Sexual fetish - Behavioral imprinting - World War II - Rubber fetishism - Erotic objectification

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The movie Gods and Monsters featured a scene of gas mask fetishism implying, within the fictionalised events, a relationship between director James Whale's sexuality and trauma experienced in World War I.

Related Topics:
Gods and Monsters - James Whale - World War I

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