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Hemostats

Hemostats is an abbreviation of hemostatic clamps. These are medical instruments that are sometimes used in BDSM as toys to temporarily clamp skin or tissue together. They are originally used in medicine to clamp blood vessels during surgery, but in an erotic context they serve to cause controlled pain stimuli or pressure.

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