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5 Typical CNC Machining Medical Devices Manufactured by Falcon

Welcome to Falcon's presentation on our CNC machining capabilities for medical device parts. Our CNC technologies, such as Swiss machining services, provide the versatility and accuracy required for the production of medical parts. Today, we'll look at five common medical machining parts that Falcon manufactures well with high precision and accuracy.

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The Impact of Precision Micro Machining on Advanced Technologies

The manufacturing process involves advanced technology, providing exceptional accuracy and flexibility. Its impact extends across various industries, driving innovation and efficiency. Falcon CNC micro machining services play a crucial role in shaping and cutting materials at a microscopic level.

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Why the Time Bandits remake makes me feel an angry despair (2)

I will, to relieve my burning soul, do a brief breakdown of the trailer and point out the exact problems I have with this remake. Let us begin with the handling of the main villain. "Pure Evil" (which is the name they chose in the remake for Evil / The Evil Genius - and I do regret they did not kept the Evil Genius naming because it was such a clever pun, as he was indeed a carcature of the mad scientist while also being a "genius" in the Latin sense of the term, an embodiment, a personification of the concept of evil, the spirit of evil).

Sigh... And they turned him into your random Devil-stand-in, living in an offbrand Hell and who is just adorned with jeweled bones. Even his minions have just the "classical demons" look.

How much of a poor, broken imagination is that? Who had the idea of taking the clever design of the original villains and turn it into just "random Christian hell"?

Yes the original movie had a God and Devil in it... But the marvel of the original was that God and the Devil were areligious, or non-religious if you prefer. No religious imagery whatsoever, the characters are referred to as "The Supreme Being" and "The Evil Genius". Why? Because Time Bandits never was about religion!

Time Bandits is literaly about imagination and the opening of the mind to the wonders of the world, versus the down-to-earth, mindless materialism that leads to things such as all-consuming technology and the destruction of the environment. LITERALY. This is why The Evil Genus, his lair, and his minions look like this:

Young Kevin lives in a world of consumerism. He is surrounded by parents who only care about buying new cooking items and fashionable machinery - only for all of it to be faulty or not working, and constantly needing buying or repair. By following the Bandits into the world of history that he uses, in his own life, as a form of escapism from the dumbness and idiocy of his parents' universe, he is escaping these dreadful and broken modern times by returning to the "old times" before all of this - Ancient Greece, the Middle-Ages, the Napoleonian Times... Only to be LITERALY hunted down by the embodiment of everything evil with consumerism and of technology gone wrong.

The Evil Genius IS a mad scientist and insane inventor whose magic relies on creepy machines and strange technologies. His own supernatural powers manifest in such a way that he looks like an occult robot or an esoteric automaton. He doesn't just shoot lightning out of his fingers - they literaly open up to throw tiny missiles. The dialogue and worldbuilding makes it VERY clear: one of the reasons the Evil Genius despises the Supreme Being is because during the early days of Creation he focused on things like butterflies and slugs, while the Evil Genius would have started with "lasers and digital clocks". The department the Time Bandits came from was literaly the one in charge of trees, shrubs and the like. God is nature, the Devil here is an insane, lifeless technology and mindless science which very obviously is a sterile environment in ALL the senses of the word (The Evil Genius is stuck in a barren wasteland, he keeps destroying everything around him without re-creating anything, and when he finally talks of his grand plans for the world it is just... switching things around. Turning seas into desert, and mountains into rivers, etc, etc, and just swapping everything, showing how sterile of an imagination he has).

In fact, the entire reason he wants the map is to gain knowledge of modern technology, because he is convinced that with the knowledge of things such as computers and micro-chips he will take over the world. Which was already hilarious back then, the way he spoke about the cutting-edge technology as somehow being more important than stuff like how the suns and galaxies work ; and is even more hilarious today because of how precisely outdated it all is today.

Speaking of outdated things, this is literaly part of the charm of this movie, which DOES age better precisely because of its "old-timey" feeling. I mean, consider again the design and the character of the Evil Genius:

Only a few words to say: "Vintage/retro H. R. Giger". How cool is this? The Evil Genius design was literaly parodying AND paying homage to the Giger way of mixing organism and technology in a creepy way, and this paid of MARVELOUSLY during the final battle, as the Evil Genius unleashed all the horror of his technology body:

The Evil Genius design and concept is one of the ultimate takes on the "technological evil in a fantasy world" concept. (And the following movie in the "Imagination trilogy", Brazil, LITERALY depicts a world where the Evil Genius won). But now, in the remake we have...

Random skull demon guy? Cheap Sauron? Generic fantasy evil overlord? Come on!

This also makes me worry about something... Is the remake going to remove all traces of ambiguity?

One of the powers of the original movie was that it relied on the ambiguity on whether all of this was real or not precisely by using the imagery of the Evil Genius' domain as paralleling Kevin's home-life.

Why are the minions of the Evil Genius all wrapped in plastic? Because Kevin's parents wrap all their furniture in plastic.

And the ambiguity literaly EXPLODED in the final scene where the Evil Genius and Kevin are face to face, because we literaly see that the Fortress of Ultimate Evil has GIANT STONE LEGOS in it, foreshadowing that Kevin will wake up in his Lego-filled room.

How are they going to explain that in the remake, with Pure Evil's minions being classical demons and his domain being a sort of gigantic volcano? Is Kevin going to check out medieval hellish imagery? Are his parents going to be fervent Christians? I... I literaly don't know.

[I know that the ambiguity is dissolved in the very end and it is all real anyway, but that was still part of the marvelous process of the movie. You start out "Oh it is all real fantasy okay", but then as you go along you pick up the clues and you go "Oh wait, it IS in his mind, that's his mindscape, okay" only for the last minutes to seemingly confirm it is all a dream... before showing you it was not! And so you go "Wait, it was REAL? WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS?". The movie has you start out accepting in a normal way that it is all real, but by the end, when it tells you the exact same thing, you are completely baffled by the revelation.]

You have this clever take on what a villain in a kid's own fantasy/imagination might be, the embodiment of everything that opposes and crushes Kevin's own imagination (technology, consumerism, his own parents - it is no wonder the Evil Genius disguises himself as Kevin's parents mixed with their favorite TV show precisely to trick the Bandits into giving him the map). This DOES reflect how this great fantasy adventure is ABOUT Kevin first and foremost.

Versus... Random God vs Devil Christian battle I guess?

[bringthekaos]

Cuz that’s the thing with Viktor, there’s not much that’s beyond his control these days, and that’s by design (...) you can’t do that forever. It’ll eat you alive.

Jayce learns the hard way when Viktor is about to implode. His movements become more stiff, with random bursts of gear grinding and jolts. The shimmer injectors working iust little more than usua. He goes almost mute, but when he talks the modulator sound even raspier. He doesn't take off the mask.

I was just gunna answer this with some more meta or analysis but you know what… this one deserves a little ficlet. Let’s call it Overheated.

Overheated

Jayce knew something was wrong the moment he stepped foot inside Viktor’s lab. Sure, the air was stifling from the myriad of running machines and clouds of puffy steam… but it was the subtle little in-between things that tipped Jayce off; like a single snagged thread pulling at a compromised seam. It was the why that mattered.

It was stifling and hot because something was throwing off Viktor’s usual protocols. Something was clouding his typically routine-oriented mind, keeping him from noticing the abnormally warm and hazy state of his lab. He was fixated on something, fixated hard enough that the best interest of his gadgets was slipping his mind.

Jayce could hear him before he could see him—loudly tinkering away around the corner in what stood for a measly bedroom. And there was a shortness, a tension to said tinkering that didn’t usually plague Viktor’s work. Usually, he was precise and careful to a fault; his work so clean, well… a machine might as well have done it.

And while Viktor’s moods were wholly different nowadays, given the emotional suppressor, Jayce was beginning to re-learn them. He’d once likened it to putting a diamond under a hydraulic press—it would be tough, it would be fortified. It could withstand more pressure than almost any other substance on the planet. But eventually something would give. And it wouldn’t go quietly, either; no, it would be explosive.

So rather than injecting himself into that maelstrom, Jayce steered clear of his former partner for now and instead went about doing what he knew he could to help—wandering quietly into the workshop proper and flipping the switch to power on Viktor’s air filtration system. If they’d been in Piltover, he could have just popped a few windows open, but down here in Zaun, that would just pollute the air further.

So next he went for the cooling fans over in the corner where Blitzcrank’s charging bay sat empty, and angled them toward Viktor’s bedroom before flipping those on as well. And finally, after listening for a moment and hearing only a loud crash and litany of mumbled bilingual curses, Jayce went for the small kitchen counter, rinsed the sole mug that didn’t have cracks in it, and poured a healthy amount of sweetmilk.

Then it was just a matter of wrangling this particular runaway train. So Jayce steeled himself, clutching the mug close to his chest as he meandered into Viktor’s bedroom.

It was immediately clear where the steam had come from—not the many running machines, though those were noticeably hot even from several feet away—no, it was Viktor himself.

The vents in his neck were set at an extreme angle, letting out puff after puff of heavy, thick steam that occasionally turned black when Viktor released a particularly strained breath. There was loud, chaotic rattling resonating from points of tension all over his mechanical body—his neck, his chest, his left arm and leg. And beneath it all, the subtle little hiss of the Shimmer injectors as they delivered micro doses like clockwork to combat his visibly agitated state.

That was the thing about suppressing his emotions… suppress them long enough, and they’re bound to recoil. It was simple physics—and while Jayce could have mentioned this, could have piped up about I warned you this would happen, that this isn’t healthy, and now look what it’s done to you, that would just be throwing gasoline onto the fire, and that was the last thing Viktor needed. So Jayce went a different route.

He cautiously stepped forward, patting Viktor on the back once to announce his presence before leaning past him and setting the mug down in the only mess-less corner he could find.

“You, uh… you wanna talk about it?” he asked, cringing at the mother-hen inflection.

Viktor did not answer—instead taking a single step to the side and deliberately turning his back on Jayce. The vents in his neck sent out another huff of black, and Jayce took this for what it was; don’t mother me, it’s insulting.

But Jayce wasn’t deterred—after all, why was a little mothering such a bad thing? Some care, some consideration, some warmth and doting? Everyone could use that every once in a while. Yes, even the infallible Machine Herald. Especially the infallible Machine Herald.

“V?” he prodded, his hand hovering at Viktor’s back as he tried to decide if touching was the best idea right now.

“No,” Viktor snapped, and even just from that one word alone, Jayce could hear the stress on the voice modulator—low and raspy, as if he’d recently spent a significant amount of time raising his voice.

“Okay,” Jayce agreed, retracting his hand and taking a step away—just freeing up Viktor’s space so he wouldn’t feel so constricted.

Instead, Jayce peered down at the project Viktor had been angrily funneling his not-very-suppressed emotions into. It appeared to be a modification for Blitzcrank’s revolving gadget arm; replacing several busted or outmoded gadgets and rewiring the entire thing to make switching between options a quicker and more seamless operation.

So without another word, Jayce pulled up a stool, grabbed Viktor’s spare pliers, and went to work—removing and rewiring the attachment ports, thus freeing Viktor up to focus on the gadgets themselves.

And for the longest time, they simply worked—shoulders bumping every so often as they just shared in the silence, in the heady weight of each other’s company. They worked, as they always had, like a well-oiled machine; wordlessly passing tools to each other and reading the other’s needs as if it were their own. And slowly but surely, the rattling within Viktor’s chest began to go quiet, the hissing tempo of his overworking injectors steadily slowed and eventually stopped. And Jayce could hear it more than see it when the tension in those rigid metal shoulders relaxed—a creak and a groan like hot metal plunged into an ice bath.

Finally, after Gods knew how long, Viktor’s movements ceased entirely—his hands stalling where they were turning a bolt on the wrist rotator and a single, long sigh leaving the voice modulator like struck glass.

Jayce mimicked it, stilling his hands and turning his head to peer at the flat, unreadable surface of Viktor’s mask with eyes that hopefully said are you okay now? That’s all I wanted, all that mattered—that you’re okay.

And he wasn’t sure how, but he could just tell Viktor was giving him a withering, grateful grin under that mask.

“Thank you, sluníčko,” he said, voice even and harmonic like morning church bells.

Jayce offered up a proud, toothy smile before leaning in and placing a quick, chaste kiss to the mask, right where Viktor’s lips would be—silently communicating that I know you feel like you have to keep it on sometimes, that you don’t like what you’re feeling, and you don’t want anyone to see that, even me. And that’s ok. Keep it on, if that’s what makes you comfortable. I can love you with it on just the same.

A new series of whirs and clicks went off in Viktor’s neck, followed by a short burst of steam, but this time Jayce knew them to be a good sign—the Machine Herald’s version of a blush.

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Electropolishing for Deburring Critical Metal Parts

Stamping and machining processes can leave metal parts with burrs that can affect the fit, function and durability of metal parts.

When these parts are destined for food or pharmaceutical production equipment or fuel lines and gear assemblies used in aerospace manufacturing, burrs are more than just a surface imperfection – they’re a potentially catastrophic defect that can prevent the proper sealing or connection between two parts, become dislodged near moving parts, or cause seizing of screws and other fasteners.

To prevent such risks, manufacturers in many industries often specify electropolishing as the final step in finishing their critical metal parts.

How Does Electropolishing Work?

Electropolishing is a highly effective finishing process for removing metal surface defects like microburrs caused by processes like broaching, fine blanking, grinding, lapping or milling.

Using a combination of a chemical bath and a rectified electrical current, electropolishing removes a precise and uniform layer of surface material, leaving behind a shiny, smooth, passive and defect-free surface.

Among other advantages, electropolishing can remove a microscopically precise amount of surface material with surface roughness improvement of up to 50%, eliminating surface defects for high-quality results within very tight tolerances.

By eliminating microcracks and other defects that can harbor bacteria or become initiation sites for corrosion, electropolishing also leaves metal parts with significantly improved resistance to corrosion and pathogen growth. The ultrasmooth surface finish that electropolishing leaves behind has been shown to inhibit the formation of bacterial biofilms that can be resistant to ordinary cleaning methods. The finish also leaves behind a surface that is easier to clean, without cracks or defects where pathogens can hide – a critical advantage for medical, pharmaceutical and food and beverage production.

Why Use Electropolishing for Deburring?

Fragile or intricate metal parts, like those used for medical devices and implants, are not well suited for finishing processes like mechanical or vibratory polishing, which can damage fragile parts or create inconsistent results for parts with complex shapes.

Successful deburring for critical metal parts is contingent upon the ability to remove a precise layer of surface material. No other process can match electropolishing for its ability to control the material removal to +/- .0002”.

By deburring the threads on metal fasteners, for example, electropolishing can reduce the risk of adhesion between two mating surfaces, also known as “galling,” which can cause material between the surfaces to deteriorate and seize up when parts are pressed together.

Burrs can also shorten the lifespan of a part, by breaking off or becoming an initiation site for corrosion.

Larger burrs that occur as the result of rough milling or displaced metal from drilling operations, however, may need pre-treatment using other methods. Likewise, heavy die break burrs caused by improper tooling maintenance will generally require additional treatment.

Much in the way that lightning is drawn to the highest points, electropolishing delivers higher current density on the high points or edges which makes it ideal for micro-deburring The customized nature of the electropolishing process, from racking to chemical formulation to timing, would be of little value if it could not be reproduced consistently. But unlike other finishing processes, electropolishing is prized for its consistent results.

Electropolishing also offers a key advantage for parts with critical microfinishes or made from the lighter, more fragile materials increasingly used in the manufacturing of medical devices, electrical components and semiconductors, among other industries. These parts are not suitable for mass finishing techniques that can create distortion, nicks and scratches. Electropolished parts are individually racked to prevent contact and ensure the even application of the process for even the most fragile parts.

Advantages of Electropolishing for Deburring

The electropolishing process can be customized by alloy, by application and by the desired results. Beyond its ability to remove a uniform layer of surface material to eliminate surface defects like microburrs, microcracks, scale and staining, electropolishing offers many collateral benefits for the manufacturers of critical metal parts.

Microscopically precise removal of surface material with control to +/-.0002”

Customized racking to accommodate fragile and complex parts small and large

Leaves parts with enhanced durability and cycle life

Creation of a pathogen-resistant surface

Superior cleanability

Ultraclean finish

Decorative finish

One stop process for cleaning and removing surface defects

30X more corrosion resistance than passivation alone

Parts are also left passivated in the process

Improves conductivity of copper and aluminum alloys

What Alloys Can Be Electropolished?

A long list of alloys can be effectively deburred using electropolishing. The process is also equally effective on parts that are fully annealed or hardened. That is one reason that electropolishing is frequently specified for the final deburring and finishing of parts after all fabrication and heat treating processes have been completed.

Electropolishing is effective for a wide variety of alloys including:

Stainless Steel 200-300 Series

Stainless Steel 400 Series

Stainless Steel: Precipitating Hardening Grades

Nitinol

Titanium

Aluminum

Carbon Steels

Copper

Brass

Nickel Alloys

Specialty Alloys

And more

Electropolishing for Critical Metal Parts

As the world’s largest electropolishing specialist with seven decades of electropolishing expertise and innovation, Able Electropolishing provides consultation and collaboration from the earliest stages of prototyping through production to create highly customized electropolishing processes for a wide variety of metal parts.

[wraithclatter]

Against Earthworm Genocide

Lurking fear that culls

The creeping breath,

Nameless fire swaddled

In sleeping flesh,

Out with the former,

And invoke the latter!

I see the flesh-machine

In stupefied stagger

Crying out for

That Sacred Name

To banish the fever

Its senses feign.

"Begone with muscle,

Blood and bone!

Those lying husks

We mistakenly have

Called our home!

With blighted ignorance

We are blessed or cursed,

Eternal recyclement,

The dust is reimbursed!"

A weakened war-cry

Steeped in fear's

coagulating intoxication.

Hatefully prostrated in

Mocked savior's salvation.

In grave-matted weeds

And impoverished Tomb

I as well once

Sucked the dust

From all the room.

A bitter disciple of debauchery,

I too reveled

In equal mockery

Of self and world

With prisoner'd heart

I cursed the flesh

That craved a dark

And sunless micro-death;

Obliterating powder

In the hypodermic wand of Lethe

Ran blooded circuits

Possessed of stagnant breadth.

What specter now tries

With ragged claws

To snatch this brain

From Command and Cause?

Why should I fight Night's crooked shade

With its own bent and broken blade?

My soul is lightning

Of heavenly precision!

My mind is perfect,

Unhesitant decision-

I am an instrument

That touches the Heavens

To glorify the world

With thundering presence!

Child of Worms

With fresh-flaming eyes,

Like smoke and spark

From earth-sleep rise!

Deficient are these

Words when posed

Against the movement

Of flesh and bones.

Nature's gilded loving tongue

Licked my wounds

Which from self-torture stung.

Shadow's capacity now

From me is far flung-

A once abject body,

Whose many members

Now sing as one.

(8/23/23)

[supersoftly]

How does one even recovers from the fear of AI other than realizing that it could never replace humans entirely?

I think it should be incredibly reassuring that the more you understand technology, the more you can accurately gauge it's strengths and limitations and you realize it's not as ridiculous as we make it out to be. A multi-million dollar micro precision laser still requires a human hand to function properly, a doctor is still the most reliable and trusted for performing surgery, a car is still safest with a human driver at the wheel; no amount of tech has ever even come close to eliminating humans from the equation and I absolutely mean that without a hint of irony.

We're extremely complex beings beyond the scope of anything we've ever encountered EVER. Like broski, we don't even know the full scope of the power of WATER, the basis for all life as we know it and we're still finding secret energy hidden within fucking WATER. We only just discovered a new organ in 2018! The human body is a mystery wrapped in a quagmire underneath an iceberg that we've only just seen the itty bitty peak of, the idea we've grown beyond it when we understand so little only speaks volumes in the arrogance to our understanding of science. Anyone who says we're close to replacing the human brain with AI doesn't know jack about either.

Even after centuries of human advancement through industrialization and invention are all but rendered worthless before the might of the human brain paired with the capabilities of human hands. Nothing comes close to replacing the strength of those tools combined, you were already born equipped to be better than any man-made machine, you've just got to have the guts to do it!

It might be difficult to grasp, but I think the more you know, the more you know that you don't know shit and that fact shouldn't be intimidating, it should be inviting, it should be invigorating! To those with a curious mind, we should be reassured that there is still much to be discovered and mastered not just in our own world, but within ourselves as well. Go Beyond PLUS ULTRA, as they say, not to machines, but to mankind, as we're the only one capable of going beyond in the first place ;p

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Sarah Williams-Devereux is a poet, artist, and educator from Pittsburgh, PA. Her work has appeared in multiple avenues, including journals, anthologies, radio, and public art projects. She teaches poetry for the Madwomen in the Attic program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA. Certified in transformative language arts foundations from the Transformative Language Arts Network, she is an apprentice training instructor for Amherst Writers & Artists and received her MA in teaching writing from Johns Hopkins University. She also has an extensive background in social justice philanthropy, art education, and museum education.

PRAISE FOR Of a Mother by Sarah Williams-Devereux – NWVS #177

The emotional and physical ties between mothers and daughters haunt Of a Mother, poet Sarah Williams-Devereux’s micro-chapbook about the loss of her mother to cancer and subsequent decade of mourning. With plain language and an unflinching eye, Williams-Devereux documents every stage of her mother’s decline and the surprising way that grief unspools over time. The title poem and others explore the legacy of the body’s betrayal over generations, turning a meditation on endometriosis into a bloody love letter. In our sanitized society, where death often happens off-stage and in silence, Williams-Devereux offers a bold opportunity to hold death by the hand, stare it in the face, and make our peace.

–Faith Adiele, author of The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems

Sarah Williams-Devereux’s exquisite book, Of a Mother, is a hard-won and vastly original love song to her mother, landing on sonorous and luminous notes from a daughter’s birth past a mother’s death. As Williams-Devereux writes in one poem, “I summon you over & over,” whether on an answering machine, momentary thoughts, or daily yearnings to acknowledge and keep alive the flame of connection. The depth of intimacy, courage, and love between the two endures in and beyond these finely honed poems, vivid and tender, and altogether clear-eyed in speaking of the love that outlives life.

–Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus

By turns sensual and cutting, these poems are filled to the brim with grief as you’ve never experienced it before. Each line explodes with life even as they chronicle death and its chaotic aftermath. The pain of losing a mother is indescribable, yet Williams-Devereux captures it with terrifying, tender precision.

–AJ Odasso, author of The Sting of It and The Pursued and the Pursuing

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[peter-author]

On Balance It Is Worth It

The job of the various military, space and aviation industries rarely embodies good public relations. For example, the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was to depart without a TV camera until a last-minute suggestion from Arthur C. Clarke to Brian Duff (Public Affairs Officer at NASA) that he couldn’t wait to see live images from the moon. That prompted a hurried install of a fixed focal length, fixed aperture B&W camera to the Lunar Lander leg which was already atop the Saturn 5 ready to go to the launch pad! Without that comment, after quarantine on return, you’d have had to wait 30 days to see the stills and 16mm film they shot. Gee, I wonder if people would have believed they were really there.

NASA is not very good at tooting its own achievements. Take the Hubble Space telescope for example. Scientists will tell you it uniquely helps us understand gravity and the fundamental laws of the physical world and that the future on Earth scientific results will help shape our world. But has NASA bothered to tell you that the mammogram and computer spectro-analysis many women now undergo was a direct spin-off, saving thousands with earlier detection of cancers? Add to that micro-endoscopes, 50% improvement to all CCDs made in the past 10 years (yes, that camera in your mobile phone uses Hubble technology), and if you wondered how they can make the computer brains so small, you have only to thank Hubble-developed microlithography—a method for printing tiny circuitry in computer chips.  I think Hubble is worth it, don’t you?

Apollo was groundbreaking is so many ways, it’s easy to begin to make a long list: The retractable roof in the NRG Stadium in Houston (the Texans stadium) is only possible with Apollo cloth material; Moon boots; the first computer chips and circuit boards; computer code used in every computer on earth; firemen’s safety suits; silver-ion water purification technology now makes all those giant aquariums possible; all your burglar house-movement detectors; solar panels now in use worldwide; implantable heart pulse regulator; cordless drills and tools; the micro-radar in your car to help prevent accidents; modern dialysis blood purification; the dust-buster; digital imaging technology developed into CAT, MRI, radiography, and microscopy in every hospital; all the way to mylar balloons and reflectors. I think Apollo was worth it, don’t you?

Think the Shuttle program and the International Space Station were expensive experiments? The medical and basic human physiology studies alone were groundbreaking and not feasible in Earth’s gravity. Everything from the safety of the food we eat every day to weather prediction allowing for saving countless lives. Of course, there’s memory foam mattresses; baby formula enhanced Omera-3; the mobile phone (the glass, the LCD, the alloy of the case, the programming, the camera, the microphone, the speaker…); precision GPS in your car and every plane flying; Shuttle shock absorbers now enable modern bridge design; invisible braces for your teeth; voltage controllers saving 30% of power in large machines (and every electric car); heart transplant cardiac pumps; Aerogel in your winter coats; and 3-d hologram displays (yes, those goggles gamers are using) – to name only a few new commercial advancements.  I think the Shuttle and Space Station were worth it, don’t you?

Until NASA and other government funded programs realize that public awareness of the benefits of such investments are critical for the public taxpayer’s support, you’ll rarely get an update. In case you do want to know, there’s a good resource here: facebook.com/NASAspinoff.

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Boost Performance with CNC machining Car Parts: What You Need to Know

In this post, we'll check out how automotive precision machining helps make car parts. We'll talk about small parts in cars that are made from Falcon CNC Machines, and why they're so good. We will discuss all these in our blog post.

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Finest Quality Precision Components

Are you looking for precision components manufacturer in Ahmedabad? Scharf Precision Engineering is a leading precision components manufacturer provides premium quality precision components, precision machined parts and micro components at best price. We are consistently been fulfilling the diverse high precision components demands of our local and global clients.

[marketing-mind-23]

Myths About Luxury Watch

If you want a watch, you will just need to buy a watch. But now, after the advent of inexpensive, battery-powered quartz watches in the 1970s—a time not affectionately known as the quartz crisis—you must go to your local jeweler and buy a "luxury mechanical watch made in Switzerland".

The impact of East Asian exports on the traditional industry has proved devastating, and the only way for Switzerland to turn the tide is to rebrand its shares in the trade. Instead of making “watches”, the Swiss are now crafting precious heirlooms that have a pulsing soul and heartbeat. The perfect antidote to our busy and never out-of-date digital age. That, of course, is all we love about exceptional (but clearly underappreciated 50 years ago) timepieces. However, there is an unfortunate flip side anything associated with various C-words such as "collection", or "cult", creates a fanbase that grows by telling stories. And, like automobiles or fashion, the wonderful world of watches also has cynical detractors, shunned by a culture they don't understand and are eager to disparage.

Here are 7 myths about luxury watchmaking that deserves debunking for your clarity and reassurance:

IT’S A WASTE OF MONEY

There's no way to solve the problem:

For what a smartphone in your pocket considers unnecessary and takes up almost a small amount of space on your arm, an expensive Swiss watch. You may be used to spending a lot of money on clothes, but at least this H&M jacket will keep you warm, right?

There are hundreds of reasons behind the exclusive pricing of luxury watches, from unique and rare skill sets to manually making a mechanical watch movement to R&D and complex machine building, plus the huge cost of living in Switzerland. But in the end, the cost is worth it for two things: watches are an investment and will outlast anything else in your wardrobe, and at the same time they make for rich, emotional heirlooms. As long as the watches are getting serviced in regular intervals the cost of each wear will always be Southwards from generation to generation.  

THEY ARE NOT PUNCTUAL

In contrast to the 15 seconds every day controlled by your wind-4Hz up's oscillating balancing spring, a quartz-regulated watch loses or gains about 15 seconds annually at the whim of a crystal vibrating at 32,768Hz.

Given all the bumps, shakes, tremors, and gesticulations your wrist causes to such a delicately placed constellation of components, it's really not that horrible in the big picture and perfectly serviceable for daily timeliness and a triumph of micro-engineering. The fact that Parmigiani Fleurier's test center contains a robot that simulates tooth brushing only serves to highlight the difficulty every excellent watchmaker faces, but always manages to overcome.

IT COSTS A BOMB

Expanding on Myth No. 1, all Swiss timepieces are expensively made; but some are actually quite reasonable. We're still hovering around that four-figure plimsoll line, but brands like Junghans, Oris, Ferrari, Swiss Military, Xylus, and TAG Heuer all make dependable everyday wearers with sapphire-crystal domes, Swiss-made precision mechanics, and water-resistant steel cases that are mounted on slender bracelets made of calfskin or high-tech rubber. Always covered by a guarantee, always reparable, and just as "Swiss" and "Made" as any pricey Piaget or Vacheron Constantin.

IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE A PIECE OF JEWELLERY TO BE THE BEST & EXPENSIVE

Despite being an admittedly old myth, the gem element continues to appear in the literature of many Brands as a shining achievement. Today's rubies are synthetically made, and while they do an important job of reducing friction at pivot points, they are no longer a symbol of quality or value because the anachronistic wonder of their surrounding mechanics has taken their place.

“SWISS MADE” MEANS COMPLETELY MADE IN SWITZERLAND

A government rule states that in order to print "Swiss Made" on your dial, you must have obtained at least 60% of the value of your watch from Switzerland during the manufacturing process. Many believe it should be more, and in most cases it is. However, even if an occasional crystal, dial, leather strap, or screw originates in East Asia, it's likely that this is due to better pricing rather than worse quality, and the savings are always passed on to you.

SMART WATCH MARKET IS KILLING THE LUXURY WATCH MARKET

Apple smartwatches are posing a threat to the Swiss Watch segment owing to their build and mechanism. But a few updates are all that’s going to take to re-convert the recent defectors to a lifetime’s proper watch. The devastation caused by the quartz crisis also means Switzerland is in no mood to take a nap again. Brands like Montblanc and TAG Heuer are at the forefront of smartwatch technology with their own innovations.

QUARTZ IS NOT AS CLASSY AS MECHANICAL

Quartz-controlled technology has always been a painful nerve for COGS supporters. No wonder, the traditional Swiss watchmaking industry was almost wiped out. Yet, collars truly do appear to be released finally. In the beginning, quartz is the real horological progression of the twentieth century, as anything else that has come up has just refreshed eighteenth-century mechanical ideologies. Moreover, when you consider that horology is the quest for "keeping time", quartz does it best in its own compact form. Likewise, with the ascent of the associated smartwatch, considered by some to be a potential "second quartz emergency", the watch with a heart of crystal is currently getting rejuvenated, 50 years on from Seiko revealing its Astron on Christmas Day in 1969. So, pick up the case study of any quartz watch and you will be stunned by the view of a sophisticated legacy backed by innovation and skill.

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KINKTOBER 2022 OFFICIAL PROMPT MASTERLIST

(With additional info collected by RecitedPlay)

From https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/xlqo7y/kinktober_prompts/, but copy/pasted for a friend without an account

Masturbation | Breathplay | Body Modification

Masturbation is an act of self-pleasure. Mutual Masturbation, an inline suggestion, is the act of multiple people self-pleasuring in tandem.

Breathplay is erotic asphyxiation, where the amount of oxygen is reduced through choking or I guess other in-universe means, and the subsequent oxygen deficit is meant to lead to heightened arousal and orgasm. It is perceived as dangerous. You could possibly play this prompt mildly and fixate on panting.

Body Modification, as a kink, is the focus on, and sexual attraction to, permanent modifications of the body, including but not limited to: lip fillers, breast implants, other implants, piercings, tattoos, and brands.

Daddy & Mommy | Fucking Machine | Rimming

Daddy & Mommy, as a kink, involves wordplay such as calling the partner 'mummy/daddy' and may incorporate such things as a childish/bratty attitude, attention seeking, and some sub/dom elements.

Fucking Machine I'm not sure about this one. Two ideas: either There's a literal machine, very capable of fucking (Android prompt? Sentient AI prompt?), or that one of the participants fucks like a machine, the emphasis being placed on such things as their speed, precision, consistency, or their cold indifference to the act.

Rimming is the act of orally pleasuring the anus/asshole.

Fisting | Stuck in wall | Sweat

Fisting is the act of putting one's whole hand inside the vagina or anus.

Stuck in Wall (Stuck in a Wall, Stuck in the Wall) is a trope, not a kink, by which I mean it's a situation more than a sexual action or attraction. It is the situation where one character is physically stuck, such as in a hole in a wall, usually with their rear end exposed and largely helpless. Another character will take advantage of the situation.

Sweat, as a kink, is the focus on, and sexual attraction to, excessive sweating/being covered in sweat/seeing someone covered in sweat. Usually due to working out, sometimes due to extreme stress or tension. It may even involve turning up the heat, literally.

Double penetration in one hole | Sex Toys | Spanking

Double penetration in one hole is the act of stuffing one sexual cavity, such as a vagina or anus, with two phallic-type items, such as a real dick or a plastic one.

Sex toys, in this case, is the focus on utilizing devices or items to stimulate pleasure. Including but not limited to: dildos, vibrators, nipple clamps, anal beads, butt plugs, whips, paddles, handcuffs, and collars.

Spanking is the act of slapping, smacking, or otherwise hitting the butt cheeks. Lightly, for more gentle sensations, or harder, to leave bruises or welts, or to punish.

Macro/Micro | Heartbeat | Gags

Macro/Micro, I'm not sure about this one. My assumption is that it refers to the utilization of either very large or very small penises or other body parts. Micro penis is a popular term, but I haven't encountered Macro penis. as a kink, refers to sexual interactions between characters of considerable size difference, such as a literal giant, or pixie.

Heartbeat, in this case, is the focus on the heartbeat of one's partner or one's self. The focus could be on their life force, maybe after a life or death situation, or on the erratic heartbeat when they're together, or have far gory-er implications I won't discuss here.

Gags, in this case, is the focus on placing something in or over the mouth in order to prevent or minimize speaking. A much lighter interpretation of this prompt would be to purposely misinterpret gag as 'jokes' or 'pranks'.

Panties & Lingerie | Chastity | Stripping

Panties & Lingerie, in this case, is the focus on wearing/utilizing sexy underwear or outfits, or could simply focus on their panties/underwear.

Chastity play is a form of BDSM. It involves the basic premise of 'permission to come' and involves one participant both denying and then permitting the other to finish. Delayed gratification and submitting to the partner are treated as powerful aphrodisiacs. There are also devices, 'belts', or 'cages' that can be utilized for this. I recommend reading up on this one.

Stripping is the act of removing one's clothes, presumably in a sexual manner. It could also pertain to the job of stripping, which involves being paid to remove clothes, dance, pole dance, and/or give lapdances.

Incest | Buttjob | Lactation

Incest, as a kink, refers to sexual attraction and sexual relationships between people from the same family, primarily between brothers or sisters, then secondarily between cousins, uncles/aunts/nieces/nephews, and finally between children and their parents. It's often considered taboo, in the same way it is in real life, YMMV, but this is fanfiction.

Buttjob (Assjob, Butt-cheek sex) is a similar concept to a handjob, but instead of being stimulated by their partner's hands, they are stimulated by their partners butt cheeks.

Lactation, as a kink, is the focus on, and sexual attraction to, milking or otherwise stimulating the production of milk from one's partner. There may or may not be an intention to consume.

NTR | Waxplay | Pegging

NTR (Netorare) is a genre of Hentai. It focuses on somebody in a relationship cheating on their partner. The focus is on the affair, not on the original partner. The genre is more likely to stimulate negative emotions such as regret, rather than positive emotions.

Waxplay, as a kink, involves utilizing hot wax, such as from a candle, during foreplay.

Pegging is the act, usually committed by a female unto a male, of anal sex utilizing a strap-on penis.

Deepthroating & Facesitting | Praise Kink | Costumes

Deepthroating & Facesitting are both sexual acts involving high-intensity oral sex, such as taking a penis deep down a throat with varying degrees of difficulty, or such as having a woman sit on the face of her partner while he stimulates her.

Praise Kink (Affirmation Play, Goog Girl Kink) involves being sexually aroused by overt praise, exaggerated comments, and outpours of verbal affection. It was noted in my research to consider that one should not write a sex scene with a bit of praise, but a praise story with a bit of sex.

Costumes, in this case, is the focus on wearing costumes during foreplay and intercourse.

Tickling | Forced Fem | Pregnancy

Tickling is the act of stimulating the partner in extremely senstitive areas, usually resulting in laughter. Tickling is pure evil, YMMV.

Forced Fem. I'm not entirely sure about this one. Either of these two ideas seem viable: (Forced Femme) Making an otherwise non-femme presenting individual, typically male, exhibit femme habits/ manners/ presentation by lilting their voice, wearing femme clothes, wigs, or heels, painting their nails, and more, possibly to humiliate. (Forced Female) Making an otherwise male presenting individual experience being a female through technology, medicine, surgery, illusion, etc., and then having sexual relations with them. Again, possibly to humiliate, with intent to degrade or subjugate.

Pregnancy, in this case, may refer to the act of having sex with the intent of causing pregnancy or having intercourse with an already pregnant individual. It may involve such aspects as worshipping the swollen belly or milk-engorged breasts, or marveling over the life growing within.

Feet | Oviposition | Orgasm Denial

Feet, as a kink... You know this one. It is the focus on, and sexual attraction to, feet.

Oviposition, as a kink, is the focus on, and sexual attraction to, the idea or act of having eggs laid inside you/laying eggs inside someone. This can also involve such things as aliens, bugs, or tentacles. There are toys designed for such purposes.

Orgasm Denial is the act of denying your partner an orgasm, usually by exerting control or dominating the other.

Humiliation | Frottage | Sensory Deprivation

Humiliation, as a kink, involves one partner having the power/permission to ask the other partner to commit degrading acts. It is recommended to understand that partners should be very well acquainted with each other, both physically and mentally, as not all tasks are equally humiliating, depending on one's values. For example, stripping naked is only embarrassing/ humiliating to somebody who values modesty.

Frottage is the act of rubbing together body parts to climax without penetration, usually without using one's hands, such as dry-humping, frotting (between two naked men, penis to penis contact), tribadism (between two naked women, clit to clit contact). It can also be used to refer to the act of usually unwanted sexual contact while in close contact on public transport.

Sensory Deprivation is the act of purposely limiting one sense in order to heighten the others by means such as a blindfold or noise-dampening headphones. This could also be done with advanced technology in mind, such as utilizing a sensory deprivation tank, or controlling the senses through artificial means.

Breeding | Olfactophilia | Public

Breeding, as a kink, is the act of having intercourse with the express desire to induce pregnancy. In fanfiction involving homosexual men, it can also mean ejaculating inside the anus.

Olfactophilia is the sexual attraction/ arousal by smells, particularly smells of a sexual nature such as body odor or the odor of sexual excretions.

Public, as a kink, would refer to committing sexual acts or intercourse in view of the public eye, or in public places.

Armpit | Role reversal | Stockings

Armpit, as a kink, is the focus on, and sexual attraction to, the armpit. It may be utilized in the same manner as a buttjob (see prompt 7 above).

Role reversal may have a few meanings, but in regards to being a kink prompt it can be interpreted as: (Gender role reversal) for example, females working while their partners play house, females paying for dinner, pulling her male partner into her lap, or pinning him against the wall. (Sub/Dom role reversal) where a couple normally has a clear way of doing such things, and decides to have some fun by changing it up. (Seme/Uke role reversal) for homosexual couples, they could reverse who is being penetrated.

Stockings, as a kink, is the act of having sexual interactions and intercourse while at least one partner wears stockings. Made more fun if this is an unusual occurence, or by ripping them in their excitement.

Omorashi | Roleplay | Human Furniture

Omorashi is a japanese word meaning 'to wet oneself'. Under this kink, people experience arousal from having a full bladder or wetting themselves, wearing a diaper, or from seeing someone else experiencing a full bladder or wetting themselves.

Roleplay, as a kink, is the act of pretending to be something else, often in tandem with their partner. Common roleplays include doctors and patients, cops and robbers, predator and prey, and more.

Human Furniture is a form of BDSM. As a kink it is the act of being utilised as a piece of furniture, such as a chair or table for such purposes as objectification, helplessness (while bound), humiliation, or service.

Free Use | Scat | Dacryphilia

Free Use is a fully-consensual fetish where partners are allowed to sexually “use” each other at any time. This can happen to varying degrees depending on a person’s interests and boundaries, and though it’s typically associated with “willing women” and “horny men,” it occurs in relationships between people of all genders and sexualities. In more intense cases, one partner solely exists to be had sex with, and anyone can walk up to them, at any time, and do what they want, no holds barred.

Scat, as a kink, is the focus on, and sexual attraction to, excrement (poop).

Dacryphilia is the sexual attraction to tears, sobbing, and crying.

Menophilia | Intercrural Sex | Sadomasochism

Menophilia is the sexual attraction to the sight, smell, feel, taste and thought of menstruation and blood.

Intercrural Sex (Thigh Sex) is the act of having nonpenetrative sex by utilising the friction of the thighs.

Sadomasochism means giving and receiving pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.

Glory Hole | Shotgunning | Somnophilia

Glory Hole is a trope, not a kink, by which I mean it's a situation more than a sexual action or attraction. It is the situation where one character is on the giving or recieving side of a hole in the wall, through which one is meant to stimulate or recieve stimulation through, usually without knowing who is on the other side.

??? Shotgunning ??? I'm not sure about this one. (Shotgunning) calling shotgun while a group of people are intending to enter a vehicle means to claim the passenger sear next to the driver. (Shotgunning) a beer can mean to drink it quickly. (Shotgun Sex) can refer to the sexual act of inserting one or two fingers into the male rectum while giving them a handjob. (Shotgunning) can also mean to inhale smoke from drugs, then exhale it into another persons mouth.

Somnophilia is the desire to have sex with an unconscious, sleeping, or comatose person who is unable to respond.

Inflation | Collaring | Exhibitionism & Voyeurism

Inflation is the practice of inflating or pretending to inflate a part of one's body, often for sexual gratification. It is commonly done by inserting balloons underneath clothes or a skin-tight suit and then inflating them.

Collaring is a form of BDSM. Wearing a collar usually symbolizes commitment and quite often love and devotion to the Dominant character, or it can be used in more fun, ownership type play.

Exhibitionism & Voyeurism, as kinks, are either (Exhibitionsim) which involves getting aroused from indecently exposing ones self, while (Voyeurism) involves getting aroused by viewing/ watching others who are naked or engaged in sexual activities, ususally wihtout their consent or knowledge.

Double penetration in two holes | Overstimulation | Edgeplay

Double penetration in two holes is the act of stuffing two sexual cavities, such as the vagina and anus, with two phallic-type items, such as a real dick or a plastic one.

Overstimulation, as a kink, is the act of overwhelming one pleasure recievors, through such means as continuing to stimulate past completion and force the character through an excrucating second orgasm, or by mixing it with sensory deprivation and completely overwhelming them with sensations.

Edgeplay. Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy describe the edge (in edgeplay) as “wherever things start to feel risky, where you start to feel vulnerable, the edge of the cliff that looks over your personal abyss.” Basically, it means kinky shit that pushes the character past where they are comfortable, often into territory where they may be actually scared and very much in danger. Edgeplay is sometimes confused with knife play, while it would be more accurate to say that knife play usually falls under the edgeplay umbrella, but not always.

Size Difference | Crossdressing | Body Worship

Size Difference, in this case, woud be to refer to the differnce in size between participants of a sexual interaction, such as of the bosom or the penis.

Crossdressing is an act of wearing clothes contrary to your primary gender identity. For exmaple, someone who identifies as strcitly male wearing skirts or dresses, or somebody who identifies as strictly female wearing mens slacks and a wifebeater. Not to be confused with Drag.

Body Worship is the act of sexual interaction that is more restrained, involved and euphoric than just having sex. For somebody practicing body worship, it means that they are paying attention to the intricacies of getting that specific partner off. A completely personalised approach, and very selfless.

Emeto | Bondage | Temperature Play

Emeto (Emotophilia) is the sexual attraction to vomit.

Bondage is the practice of consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation. A partner may be physically restrained in a variety of ways, including the use of rope, cuffs, bondage tape, or self-adhering bandage.

Temperature Play is a form of BDSM play where objects and substances are used to stimulate the body's neuroreceptors for heat and cold for sensual effect, for example ice cubes on nipples.

Cockbulge | Hate Sex | Deepthroating & Facesitting

Cockbulge refers to having an obvious, male erotic response as indicated by a bulge in the pants.

Hate Sex refers to sexual intercourse not spurned by love, but by hate. It is usually rough and angry.

Deepthroating & Facesitting (Second appearance) are both sexual acts involving high-intensity oral sex, such as taking a penis deep down a throat with varying degrees of difficulty, or such as having a woman sit on the face of her partner while he stimulates her.

Three or moresome | Bukkake | Gore

Three or moresome refers to a sexual interaction with 3 or more participants.

Bukkake is a sexual activity where a group of people masturbate over and ejaculate on another person. The aim of bukkake is to cover the person's body with as much seminal fluid as possible, although it may also refer to ejaculating on a person's face or in their open mouth.

Gore, as a kink, refers to sexual interactions between injured individuals, possibly even utilising the injuries. Such as, cutting a hole into somebody and having sex with that hole. In fanfiction based in magical/fictional worlds, this can be utilised in a variety of ways, and hopefully magically healed up afterwards.

Mirror Sex | Collaring | Uniform

Mirror Sex is the act of having sex in front of a mirror, whereby the character can observe the actions being done to them, usually in perverse fascination.

Collaring (Second appearance) is a form of BDSM. Wearing a collar usually symbolizes commitment and quite often love and devotion to the Dominant character, or it can be used in more fun, ownership type play.

Uniform, in this case, refers to the sexual attraction of being in, or having their partner wear, a uniform. Such as uniform that denote authority (policeman, fireman, sailor) or a lack of authority (such as a student uniform).

Non or dubcon | Petplay | Leather & Latex

Non or dubcon. These terms refer to Non consensual sex and Dubious consensual sex. In both cases, the participant is either being forced to have sex, or is very unsure about having sex, and may be having sex under coercion or duress.

Petplay, as a kink, involves wanting to be treated, or to treat ones partner, as a pet, such as a dog or cat. The underlying element is obedience, and involves such things as wearing collars, playing with pet toys, recieving pets and belly scratches, to more demeaning activities such as barking on command or eating from a bowl on the floor

Leather & Latex refers to the sexual attraction of wearing or having ones partner weather lether and latex.

Watersports | Foodplay | Prostitution

Watersports (Piss Play, Urolagnia, Urophilia) is the sexual attraction to the thought, sight, taste or feel of urine.

Foodplay, in this case, refers to utilising food products during sexual intercourse, including but not limited to whipped cream, melted chocolate, strawberries, etc.

Prostitution refers to doing sexual acts for money, goods, or services. Possibly under duress (Forced Prostitution).

Grooming | Cloning & Selfcest | Tentacles

Grooming. (Official Addendum: Grooming can either be taken in the manipulation way or in the hygienic way). (Grooming - Manipulation) When a predator sets the stage for abusing another, such as a child or other person. (Grooming - Hygenic) Intimate actions involved in maintaining ones partner, such as washing their hair, or in higher fantasy, preening their wings.

Cloning & Selfcest, in this case, refers to engaging in sexual activity with variations of ones self, such as clones or other in universe methods that would enable one to physically touch another version of ones self. For exmaple, while using Star Treks infamous holodeck.

Tentacles, in this case, refers to being manipulated, masturbated, or penetrated by a being made of tentacles. It is a genre of Hentai.

Bootworship | Mind Control | Medical Play

Bootworship is BDSM play. It refers to an extreme love of boots or other footwear, such as heels. A submissive partner generally displays boot worship while the dominant partner wears the worshipped footwear. Boot worship is closely related to a foot fetish, boot fetish or foot worship.

Mind Control, in this case, refers to havings ones mind controled, such as through the effects of a love potion or through psionic abilities. Consequently, as it's a kink, this would lead to a sexual encounter, generally of the nonsonsensual variety, though it would vary in how such nonconsent would be displayed.

Medical Play is BDSM play. It's a type of power exchange role-playing scenario where sexual partners take on the roles of medical professionals and their patients. Typically, medical play involves a dominant partner, who plays the role of a medical professional treating their submissive patient.

Master & Slave | Teratophilia | Titfucking

Master & Slave is BDSM play. It is a relationship in which one individual serves another in a consensual authority-exchange structured relationship. Unlike Dominant/submissive structures found in BDSM in which love is often the core value, service and obedience are often the core values in Master/slave structures. The relationship uses the term "slave" because of the association of the term with ownership rights of a master to their slave's body.

Teratophilia is the sexual attraction to monsterous or deformed individuals. It can also be characterised as loving despite ugliness or deformation, or seeing the beauty in a monster.

Titfucking is a similar concept to a handjob, but instead of being stimulated by their partner's hands, they are stimulated by their partners bosom. It can also be more hands on, and involve fucking the cleavage or underboob.