Gas mask fetishism

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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.


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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.

Gods and Monsters also features the wearing of a gas mask in a sexually charged scene, when Whale wishes to sketch Boone nude save for a WWI-era gas mask.

In the Frank Zappa film Baby Snakes, Roy Estrada is seen backstage "seducing" a blow-up doll and making her wear a gas mask.

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