Gimp

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A Gimp

A gimp is a sex slave or submissive, usually male. Such a person may be forced to wear a gimp suit and a gimp mask.

The use of the term gimp to mean a submissive seems to have originated with the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, in which there was a character referred to as the Gimp and use of the phrase "bring out the gimp". The term is rarely used by members of the BDSM community. The word gimp has a much longer history of being used as a pejorative term for a person with a limp. It may be that the phrase "bring out the gimp" was originally intended as a slightly shocking term of general abuse (like calling someone a spastic). This was then misinterpreted by the audience as meaning a sex slave because the character was wearing a zipped hood. A gimp mask, as it blocks the eyes and/or prevents speech, also has connotations of disability.

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