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Gimp is a usually derogatory term used to refer to a (male or female) sexual submissive person, typically dressed in a black leather or rubber costume (often known as a "gimp suit"), and wearing a bondage hood or mask of the same material. This apparel emphasises sexuality by drawing attention to the crotch and chest, and also sexually objectifies the wearer. Sadomasochistic practice often features in the notion of the gimp, with a partnership of power exchange between gimp and dominatrix or dominant. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... In human sexual behavior, a submissive is one who enjoys having any of a variety of BDSM practices performed upon them by a Dominant; or one who holds a submissive position within a relationship based upon Dominance and submission (Ds or D/s). ... A woman in chains with bondage hood A bondage hood (also called a gimp mask) is a fetishistic hood. ... Sexual objectification is objectification of a person. ... Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... French dominatrix Maîtresse Françoise. ... In human sexual behavior, a dominant is one who enjoys performing any of a variety of BDSM practices upon a submissive; or one who holds a dominant position within a relationship based upon dominance and submission (DS). ...
Use in pop culture
The term "gimp" achieved widespread notoriety thorough its use in the movie Pulp Fiction in the famous "pawn shop" scene. In the scene, the "gimp" is dressed in a black leather costume, featuring spiked bracelets and a mask. Pulp Fiction is a 1994 film by director Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote the film with Roger Avary. ...
Zed: Bring out the Gimp.
Maynard: The Gimp's sleepin'.
Zed: Well, I guess you're just gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?
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GIMP is considered by some to be proof that the free software development process can create things non-geeks can use productively, and as such psychologically paved the way for such efforts as KDE, GNOME, Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and various other applications that followed.
This allows the writing of scripts and plugins for GIMP which can then be used interactively; it is also possible to produce images in completely non-interactive ways (for example generating images for a webpage on the fly using CGI scripts) and for batch color correction and conversion of images.
GIMP was intended as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, which is the dominant bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries.
Their purpose is the sexual objectification of the wearer, and often to provide the wearer with sensory deprivation.
They are frequently made of materials, such as leather or rubber, that some find appealing - see gimp (sadomasochism).
Others, (usually men) participate in Female masking, a form of Cross-dressing that involves the wearing of womens' clothing and a latex mask that gives a pseudo-real representation of a female face.
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