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Welcome to Rule 34, a series in which Motherboard’s Samantha Cole lovingly explores the highly specific fetishes that can be found on the web.
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Like used panties, the customization options for used masks are almost endless. On Snifffr, a marketplace for selling used clothes—mostly panties—for fetish purposes, masks sell for between $5 and $250, but on average most are around $15. They come in a range of ways and places they're worn before they're sold; of course, strapped to the inside of a thong seems to be the most popular, but feet, stuffed into bras, and faces are sometimes options, too, depending on the seller. Disposable surgical masks are the ones most frequently posted, but people also sell simple cloth masks or ones with patterns and designs."They get to walk around with a dirty little secret.”
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