Yeah that’s what’s so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.

I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.

This, for the person doing the binding, there should be constant focus and attention as binding in the wrong way can cause nerve damage.

It’s… Less sexy and more… Satisfaction with creating art, especially of turning your property (sub) into art - amplifying their objectification.

This type of bondage is called shibari, and it’s different in the way you described. Regular bondage is about restricted movement, maybe cuffs or topless around wrists and ankles.

Shibari is a Japanese form of rope bondage, it is a very slow and methodical approach, where the person being bound must (generally) submit quietly the whole time it’s being done.

The aesthetics of the binding are important, it should look good, and also should work with the mechanics of the body.

It can be used as a pleasant and beautiful decoration on top of clothing, as here, or can use the mechanics of the body to bind in such a way that the body’s own movements cause stress.