Bound Down wrote: 1 month ago
... seems like something that would get too hot and cause actual damage, not just discomfort (let alone the inherent risk of using fire).
Bang on right about that. Never forget the power of video editing. While a lot of bondage 'porn' videos seem to be done on the cheap, they still use tons, and I do mean tons, of video editing, snipping smaller video clips together, editing out the pauses and breaks and temporary releases and readjustments, etc. to make it look like the captive was bound, in predicament, longer than would actually be safe and under extremely dangerous if not outright insane conditions.
The same can be said for many a story on here, even 'true' stories. No one seems interested in reading paragraphs about the loving, caring, readjustments, released to be massaged and get muscle tone back before being re-tied, captive helping captor with the tie-up, aftercare, etc.
So it goes for videos too. A 10 minute video of a captive bound and gagged and forced to endure tea lights getting hotter against their exposed skin as the wax melts, unable to shake them off, is the sort of predicament video that takes way more time to shoot, perhaps hours of video shoots to produce and edit together, with a lot more people involved than those visible in the video.
Of course, I could be wrong about all that, and what you saw was indeed produced by a bunch of irresponsible and naive amateurs who were literally playing with fire and their lives. But I sincerely hope that what you saw was more of what I initially wrote: something semi-professional, or at least very risk aware and conscientious of the dangers, produced through the magical illusion of video editing.