RumpusParable
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Well for me, the use of a gas mask on me or the other person isn't about not knowing them. It's about reducing the emotional/bodylanguage connection when interacting - either to objectify them or to distance myself. It's about the bondage aspect - it limits facial movements and what they convey by hiding them, it holds rubber tight against the facial tissue and compresses it, the straps around the back grip the skull, if using the hood (and depending on what type) it can limit movement or draw attention to it by the plastic shifting and catching and russling. Inside this confined space within the mask are rubber object protruding towards the lips, cheekbones and eyes. Also, the area immediately around the face is in shadow compared to the outside world and can give a feeling, itself, of bondage, restriction, separation, from the things around a person wearing one. It's about sight reduction/restriction - depending on the make of the mask it reduces visibility (larger removing peripheral vision almost completely) quite a bit with the clear openings. Add shaded eye pieces and reduce more. Add tape in various ways and you can reduce even further. It's about the breathplay aspect - even if you never touch the inflow valve the person's breathing has to be slower, more controlled. It's easy to hyperventilate in most masks. So when just walking around or sitting the person wearing it is often more aware of their breath. When engaging in intense emotional or physical play it can involve a lot of effort or focus for the bottom to continue to breath evenly inside the mask (ditto for a top wearing one). Then add that the inflow arrangement on a mask is easy to plug with the palm of the hand... almost zero effort. And when this is done -even if it's just for a split second and not actually stopping breathing - the breathing-in action with the valve blocked can cause both the normal "They are controlling my breathing!" feeling of breathplay plus inspire more intense moments of feeling bound or possibly panicking over constriction as the mask gets pulled in against the skin more firmly, being drawn in around the face tighter when there's no inflow. With things like hooding a bottom, it's again not about not recognizing them. It's reducing sensory input, for me (whether I'm the top or bottom). It's about objectifying, again, too. Masks on either are much the same, for me: again not about not recognizing the person. Reducing physical connection and facial-expression communication. Objectifying. And sometimes just for giggles.
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Relationships come and go, but plastination is forever. I generally use fast-reply. If directing my post at someone specific I will indicate so. Minimal summary: Artist, Disabled Veteran, Vegan, Pornographer, and Agender dominant female.
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