Roped To Wooden Posts
I suspect this tricky bit of bondage art owes its origin to a time and place where overly-explicit bondage art carried legal risk. By placing the wooden stakes and ropes at the periphery of the artwork, we never explicitly see that the lady’s arms and legs are actually tied to the stakes, although of course they must be; and thus was plausible deniability preserved in the event the face of any potentially overzealous prosecution:
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