{{short description|Garment associated with BDSM activities}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2024}} A type of '''bondage suit''', also commonly called a '''gimp suit''' or '''gimpsuit''', is a form-fitting garment designed to cover the body completely (usually including the hands and feet) for role-playing purposes. It can have an attached hood; nevertheless, if it does not, then it is often worn with a bondage hood, or a "gimp mask". The purpose of the hood, or mask, is to limit the human capacity for facial perception allowing the wearer to assume the consensually agreed upon role. The purpose of the entire bondage suit is to temporarily alter the executive functions{{vague|date=October 2025}} of all persons involved through perception.{{cn|date=October 2025}} The suit may be made from any material—leather, PVC, rubber, spandex, and darlexx are the most usual.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
Catsuits may be worn in conjunction with corsets, bondage harnesses or other restraints as part of a bondage suit.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
==Use== A bondage suit is sometimes used in BDSM foreplay to objectify the wearer, or ''fetishize'' as a form of Anima and Animus Fetishism. The role-playing ''gimp'' chooses the consensual role of a masturbatory sexual toy, doll, dummy, or automaton, as opposed to a human sexual partner with characteristics of desire and agency, throughout the duration of the foreplay for mutually agreed upon amusement. In other cases, it is simply for aesthetic or tactile reasons. In some cases, there are suitably placed openings to allow breasts, genitals, mouth, anus, or sexual toys to be directly accessible while the suit is worn for sexual purposes.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
==In popular culture== Such suits are sometimes called a ''gimp suit'',<ref>{{cite book | title=Fantabulosa: The Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang | first=Paul | last=Baker | publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group | year=2004 | isbn=0-8264-7343-1 | page=135 }}</ref> a term popularized by its use in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 movie ''Pulp Fiction.''<ref>{{cite book | title=Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink Educational, Sensual, And Entertaining Essays | author=Midori | publisher=Daedalus Publishing | year=2005 | isbn=1-881943-22-4 | page=31 }}</ref>
==See also== {{Wiktionary|gimp}} *Agalmatophilia *ASFR *BDSM *Bondage hood *Doll fetish *Foreplay *Role-playing *Sexual roleplay *Total Enclosure Fetishism
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