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Alt.sex.bondage (also known as asb or a.s.b.) is an old, and well established mixed sex and sexuality Usenet newsgroup concerned with a wide range of SM activities including bondage.
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Bastinado is a form of torture or punishment (often used in SM sex games) involving beating the soles of the feet. Originally, bastinado was employed as a method of corporal punishment, consisting of blows upon the soles of the feet, applied with a stick, in the Far East.
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BD or bondage and discipline is a form of sexual activity involving bondage and role-playing or humiliation but, unlike SM, little or no pain.
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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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CP (corporal punishment) is a sexual activity forming a mild form of SM (sado-masochism) in which one or both partners typically spank the bottom of the other. variations include the use of slippers, belts, riding crops, spoons, hair brushes and other instruments in place of the usual flat of the hand. The positions may also be varied, though typically one partner sits and takes the other across their knee.
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In carpentry, a horse is a wooden frame used as a work bench. There are various types of carpenter's horses including the saw-horse, a frame used for supporting timber while it is sawn and the shave-horse which is a frame with a clamp or vice used for holding timber while it is shaved with a plane or draw-knife.
In military terminology, a horse was a wooden frame with a sharp ridge formerly used in armies as a punishment for delinquent soldiers who were forced to sit upon it. Similar items are used today in SM sex games.
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The Accuracy International SM is a British bolt-action sniping rifle. It is a variant of the Accuracy International AW sniping rifle, but is chambered for either the .338 LAP Magnum cartridge, the .300 Winchester Magnum or the 7 mm Remington Magnum cartridge and takes a 5-round magazine.
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The LGM-30A (Minuteman I), formerly SM-80, was an American three-stage solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile with a top speed of Mach 22 and a range of 9650 km and armed with a 2MT thermonuclear warhead. The LGM-30A was designed as a simplified second-generation intercontinental ballistic missile for firing from underground silos, and was used to equip the Malmstrom AFB in Montana. The LGM-30A was 1645 cm long.
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The Rhoner-SM 69 is a range of German bolt-action, single-shot, target shooting rifles produced in .22 Long Rifle calibre. The weapons have a 60 cm long barrel and are fitted with folding sight and bead tunnel or optical sight and bead tunnel depending upon variation, and are available with standard or match stock.
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The Rhoner-SM 75 is a German, bolt-action, single-shot hunting rifle produced in .22 Hornet and .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire calibres. The Rhoner-SM 75 has a 60 cm long barrel and is fitted with a folding sight and a mounting for a telescopic sight.
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