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Kink.com is a San Francisco -based bondage internet pornography company that runs a group of websites devoted to BDSM and related fetishes . Kink.com, along with Kink Studios, LLC, Hogtied.com and Behindkink.com are DBAs for Cybernet Entertainment LLC, the parent company that operates the studio. [1]
In March 2018, Alison Boden, the former VP of Technology, became the new CEO of Kink.com. [2] She helmed the company until Acworth returned in 2021. [3]
Kink.com was started by UK native Peter Acworth in 1997 while he was a doctoral candidate in finance at Columbia University . After reading a story in a British tabloid about a fireman who made £250,000 in a short period by starting an Internet pornography website, Acworth decided to start a pornographic web site of his own. Since Acworth had what he described as a lifelong interest in bondage , he oriented the site toward BDSM pornography . [4] The site was called Hogtied.com and initially featured content that was licensed from other primary producers. The site was successful and was soon grossing several thousand dollars per day. Acworth left his graduate studies to work on the site full-time. [4]
In 1998, Acworth moved the company from New York City to San Francisco . [4] Finding that sales were leveling off because other sites were using the same content, Acworth began producing his own material, initially featuring himself with various models whom he found through Craigslist or through his photographer friends. [4] [5] He opened the company's second site, Fucking Machines , in 2000, [6] and has since opened 26 additional subscription Web sites. [7]
Several Web sites under the Kink.com umbrella feature directors who relocated following the demise of Insex as a result of US government pressure in 2005, but offer more of a focus on consensuality than Insex was known for.
In late 2006, Kink.com purchased the San Francisco Armory for $14.5 million, for use as a production studio. A group known as the Mission Armory Community Collective formed to oppose Kink.com's use of the building and in early February 2007 held a public protest in front of the building. [4] [8]
At one point, there were plans to demolish part of the building to make way for a condominium development. Such news brought in supporters who welcomed Kink.com's preservation of the historic building as part of an overall attempt to revitalize and bring back business to the area, without altering the appearance of the historic building. [9]
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom also expressed concern over the Kink.com purchase, and scheduled a special meeting of the San Francisco Planning Commission in March 2007 to review the company's use of the building. [4] The meeting was well-attended by both supporters and opponents of the Kink.com purchase. One opponent, anti-pornography campaigner Melissa Farley compared the images produced by Kink.com to images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib , and testified against the purchase. [9] [10]
The Planning Commission ruled that Kink.com was not in violation of any law or zoning requirement. [11] [12] [13]
Although Kink.com has stated that its activities would be invisible to the surrounding neighborhood, La Casa de las Madres , a neighboring women's shelter , announced that they would be leaving the location because of the media scrutiny of Kink.com's presence. [14] In addition to utilizing the Armory for its own productions, Kink.com also rents space in the historic building to local independent filmmakers to use as locations in non-pornographic narrative films and videos.
By 2013 Kink.com was converting rooms at the Armory into webcam studios that independent webcam models could rent. [15] In January 2017, Kink.com announced that it would cease to use the Armory for film production. [16]
In 2018, Acworth sold the Armory for $65 million. [17]
In 2007, the company's web site Fucking Machines was involved in a trademark dispute when the United States Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant a trademark for the name of the site, asserting that it was obscene. [18] Also in 2007, the company began streaming regular live shows, in part as a defense against copyright infringement . [19] By 2008 live shows were being streamed by Device Bondage, a Kink.com bondage site, [20] and erotic wrestling site Ultimate Surrender began streaming its competitive matches live in 2008. [21]
In 2008, the company added on-demand technology to its web sites, selling updates to their websites on a per-episode basis rather than strictly by subscription. [22] This system recently began adding third-party content, including that from Germany's Marquis . [23]
Also in 2008, the company launched a site called Bound Gods, a gay bondage site directed by Van Darkholme (also the director of Naked Kombat). Bound Gods was launched under a new gay-focused division, KinkMen.com. [24]
In 2014, the company announced that it was stopping production on its "wildly popular" Public Disgrace and Bound in Public sites, and changing Hardcore Gangbangs to make it more explicitly the fantasy of the female participant. Kink announced that it was increasing educational efforts, with the aim of "demystifying alternative sexualities " and would be welcoming the public into The Armory. It wished to turn Kink.com into a lifestyle brand à la Playboy . [25]
In 2013 Kink , a documentary, was made about the company.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kink.com .
The San Francisco Armory in 2008, shortly after being acquired by Kink.com. (Mike Hofmann)
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Kink.com, the fetish pornography site that's been filming in the San Francisco Armory for the last decade, is shutting down production in the Bay Area.
The company that once made 100 films a month at its Mission district site told the Guardian that it will stop production in February.
“A lot of the Castro was built on the back of porn companies. But one by one, they upped and left,” Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth told the Guardian . “There’s so much content out there. The human body only has so many orifices and so many limbs you can tie in so many ways.”
Kink's in-house directors will move production to Nevada, Southern California and other parts of the Bay Area -- making good on a promise Acworth made back 2014 to move out of San Francisco.
"I would still think of Kink.com production moving out as a question of 'if' as opposed to 'when,'" Acworth told the San Francisco Bay Guardian back in April of 2014.
Though Acworth originally threatened to pack up and leave because of Cal-OSHA fines and impending condom legislation -- which was voted down last election -- the site's membership and revenue has dropped significantly, with some publications saying as much as 40 percent . Just a year ago, the company cut half of its workforce.
In recent years, the building has housed corporate offices and Acworth hopes to expand that space. Acworth also hired Audrey Joseph , the former vice chair of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission, to convert the century-old building's gymnasium into a venue for large concerts. After receiving a number of complaints from neighbors over its concerts, it still received a permit to host shows back in April of last year.
The studios in the basement will stay set up for video productions -- they just won't make Kink.com videos there. Acworth also said that they will still host tours, though he suspects that attendance will drop once he stops filming porn here.
CORRECTION: This article originally stated that the basement studios would be converted into offices, which was incorrect.
The secrets tucked away in the San Francisco Armory, as told by its former Kink-y tenants
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The exterior of the Armory, with the kink flag flying.
The San Francisco Armory is a Rorschach test.
The castle, taking up more than 200,000 square feet and two city blocks of the Mission, is a beloved imposition in the city — a filigreed, menacing vestige of San Francisco’s many, many past lives.
For history and war buffs, there’s its stint as a National Guard base, right down to its pivotal role in the 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike ; nerds of another persuasion will probably appreciate that George Lucas filmed a couple “Star Wars” scenes within the Moorish Revival-style premises; music buffs probably have stepped foot inside the Drill Court, a converted event venue within the castle, for a couple of shows.
But a large swath of people — including many folks who have never taken BART or the Bay Bridge into San Francisco — will probably tell you that the castle invokes furtive, often scorned desires reserved for secret dungeons and bedrooms.
For enthusiasts of kink and BDSM, an acronym for a whole range of sexual practices that include bondage, discipline, domination and submission, the building is hallowed territory — a photo of the Armory, with a BDSM flag proudly hoisted on top, featured prominently in videos created by Kink.com for their decade-long ownership of the castle.
In many ways, it’s since become an in-joke among kink enthusiasts and even casual porn watchers, with memes and TikToks dedicated to celebrating the “Kink Castle.”
Mike Stabile, a spokesman for Kink.com, says that the image of the Ar
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