Kink.com

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Kink.com

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legal form Corporation
founding 1997
Seat San Francisco , United States
management Peter Acworth
Number of employees 90
sales $ 20 million (2006)
Branch Sex industry
Website www.kink.com

Kink.com is an American company based in San Francisco that operates several pornographic websites. Mainly pictures and videos are offered on different types of BDSM and other fetishes . Kink.com is one of the most successful producers in the field of BDSM pornography.

history

Peter Acworth moved from England to the USA in 1996 to do his PhD at Columbia University . After reading a newspaper article, he came up with the idea of ​​founding a pornographic website. In 1997, this idea gave rise to the company Cybernet Entertainment and the first website Hogtied.com , which initially only offered bondage photos produced by third parties. The company turned in such profits in a short period of time that Acworth decided to leave university and move to San Francisco. In order to stay competitive, he began recording his own material in his apartment. In 2000 he hired his first employee and opened the second website, Fuckingmachines.com. In the years that followed, more pages were opened that serve different niches. In 2006 the company was renamed Kink.com. Today, Kink.com operates 14 paid websites and has 90 permanent employees. All of the sites combined have around 70,000 paying subscribers.

Kink.com always supports sex positive events. For example, the first Ass Elektronika conference was held in 2007 at the company's Sex Dungeon ("Porn Palace").

safety

Kink.com follows the concept of Safe, Sane, Consensual and also makes this clear on the website. There are publicly accessible guidelines that are intended to ensure the safety of the models and which models and directors must agree to before filming begins. Among other things, these stipulate that interviews with the models must be shown immediately before and after the pornographic scenes, in which it is clear that the model agrees to the actions taken, that limits were set beforehand and that the shooting could be interrupted or ended at any time .

San Francisco Armory

San Francisco Armory

In December 2006, Kink.com acquired the San Francisco Armory for $ 14.5 million . This is a historic San Francisco building that previously served as the National Guard's arsenal and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The building's plot of land is advertised as an industrial park, but the Armory was vacant for 30 years because its architecture made it not particularly attractive for most companies. Some residents, hoping to use the Armory to enrich the neighborhood, were surprised and disappointed at the decision to give the building to a porn company. They founded a citizens' initiative with the aim of reversing the purchase. On March 8, 2007, 200 people attended a hearing where citizens could voice their concerns. Members of the BDSM scene were also present. They welcomed the move and called for more tolerance towards sexual fetishes. A commission convened came to the conclusion that the purchase did not violate applicable law.

After more than ten years of using the Armory as a film location, the kink.com production page moved out of the building in February 2017. Since then, the historic fortress has been rented as office space on the upper floors, and cultural and sporting events are held in the large halls.

Performers appearing regularly

In addition to many actors who only appear in one or two scenes, there are some who can be seen more often on the various pages of Kink.com or who were seen before their career change. They include Isis Love, Rain de Gray, Annette Schwarz , Bobbi Starr , Aiden Starr , Gia Darling , Gia Paloma , Jada Fire , Justine Joli , Melissa Lauren , Mika Tan , Penny Flame , Lorelei Lee , Claire Adams, Sandra Romain , Shy Love , Veronica Avluv , Abella Danger , Princess Donna, Ramón Nomar, Mark Davis, Matt Williams, James Deen , Steve Holmes and Steven St. Croix .

documentation

American documentary filmmaker Christina Voros made a documentary produced by James Franco on Kink.com. Kink was part of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival program .

Awards

  • XBIZ Award 2009
    • FSC Leadership Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in Original Web Content
  • 2011 AVN Award
    • Best Alternative Web Site
  • 2020 XBIZ Award
    • Fetish Site of the Year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.kink.com: Our Values (Engl.)
  2. ↑ Declan McCullagh: news.cnet.com: At Kink.com, a live tool against piracy. CNET News , March 30, 2007
  3. ↑ a b Jon Mooallem: A Disciplined Business. New York Times , April 29, 2007
  4. ↑ Most famous paid bondage websites on Alexa.com , Hogtied.com is in first place (September 21, 2008)
  5. ↑ a b Steve Rubenstein: Ex-armory turns into porn site. San Francisco Chronicle , Jan 13, 2007
  6. ↑ Violet Blue, Special to SF Gate: Ass Elektronika 2007: Porn and Tech Conference / Violet Blue holds hope for the future of sex, despite the musical condoms . 4th October 2007.
  7. ↑ www.kink.com: Model Rights (Engl.)
  8. ↑ www.kink.com: Shooting Rules ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kink.com
  9. ↑ Liz Highleyman: Planning Commission hears Kink.com case. Bay Area Reporter, March 15, 2007
  10. ↑ SF Weekly: The Armory After Porn , September 13, 2017
  11. ↑ Hazlit: The Last Days of the Leather Fortress , October 11, 2017
  12. ↑ Kink.com on the Sundance Film Festival website (April 5, 2013).
  13. ↑ KinkDoc.com - Documentary website
  14. ↑ Tod Hunter: XBIZ Awards Winners Announced. ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xbiz.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Published February 13, 2009 on XBIZ.com (Retrieved February 21, 2009)
  15. ^ AVN Announces the Winners of the 2011 AVN Awards . AVN . Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  16. ↑ XBIZ Awards 2020 - The prizes have been awarded & these are the winners. In: erotikmag.com. January 18, 2020, accessed on January 27, 2020 (German).