8. Inflatable Bondage Equipment
Extremerestraints.comLike the lubricant mentioned earlier, there's nothing particularly wrong with selling sexual aids to fetishists over the Internet. What two or more consensual human beings do to each other behind closed doors is no one's business but their own. But there has to be a line drawn in the sand, and inflatable bondage equipment likely falls on the wrong side of that line. Whips, chains, handcuffs, those leather masks with the zippers over the mouth holes, these all make sense to manufacture. But an inflatable bondage chair with Velcro restraints seems to fly in the face of basic bondage principals. After all, isn't the point of S&M to make at least one of the participants a little uncomfortable? It the experience creepier simply because of the laziness involved from both parties. Clumsily co-opting such an extreme sexual act doesn't make it "safer," which we suspect is the point of this product to begin with, it just adds a layer of slothfulness to the whole endeavor. It's not hard to imagine the couple sitting in the chair afterwards, shoveling mouthfuls of hamburgers and Jaffa Cakes into their mouths while staring dead-eyed at the television.