Kink Aware Professionals

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Kink Aware Professionals (KAP) is a private, not-for-profit service. It refers to medical, psychological, psychotherapeutic, legal and other professionals ( English professionals ) who have dealt with the topic of BDSM (also known as kink ) and the problems of sadomasochistic clients and who face this group of people without prejudice. The openness to alternative sexuality does not mean that the professionals themselves belong to the corresponding subculture of BDSM, fetishism or other forms.

The KAP database, which is available free of charge to all those seeking help, was created between 1982 and 1986 on the initiative of a psychotherapist named Guy Baldwin in Los Angeles. He collected addresses from other KAPs and referred interested parties to them on request. Through his involvement in the leather scene , the private list grew into an address list covering the entire US and Canada. Baldwin then met with Race Bannon, a later board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom , and Bannon took over the now laborious compilation and sorting of the KAP's list.

Initially, the focus was on supporting those seeking help in the field of psychotherapy, gradually adding the fields of medicine and law. With the development of the Internet, the list became available worldwide and now includes a worldwide database for those seeking help and advice from the subculture.

Since January 2006, the KAP list has been administered by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom , a regional list for Germany was created by the BDSM Berlin association , and for Austria by the Schlagartig! as well as in Switzerland by the BDSM interest group . There is currently a German KAP list at sm-outing.de.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KAP Directory Search (English) accessed on August 6, 2013
  2. ^ KAP list Germany accessed on August 6, 2013