FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KINK.COM HAS STRUCK GOLD WITH BRAND NEW ASS FETISH SITE EVERYTHINGBUTT.COM
For more information contact:
ilana rothman
Email: ilana@kink.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KINK.COM HAS STRUCK GOLD WITH BRAND NEW ASS FETISH SITE EVERYTHINGBUTT.COM
Not Even a Month Old, Everything Butt Is Going Where No Anal Site Has Gone Before!
SAN FRANCISCO (July 15, 2009) – EverythingButt.com , the most recent addition to the royal family of fetish porn has already proven that it’s worthy of the Kink.com crown. Under the skilled supervision of bondage master and ass-aficionado Lochai , the site offers a veritable smorgasbord of extreme anal antics and bountiful booties. “Everything Butt is exactly what the name implies — it’s everything about the butt: spanking, corporal, caning, anal sex, ass toys, butt plugs, enemas, ass worship, face sitting, and more. My new site glorifies all things ass-related from the kinkiest fetishes imaginable to the most basic level of butt appreciation. The site will appeal to just about everyone out there because, really, who doesn’t love a nice juicy ass??” points out site director Lochai.
Everything Butt posts a brand new HD video and accompanying photo set every Tuesday and Saturday. While regular Tuesday updates can contain just about anything under the sun (or rather the moon in this case), the weekly Saturday update is always an Anal Audition. Dedicated to showcasing firsts of all kinds, Lochai’s Anal Audition series gives viewers the irresistible opportunity to watch authentic reactions to new anal adventures and exploits from a sizzling first hand perspective.
One of the most exciting bonuses to come out of the anal audition series is the founding of an exclusive club called the Honeycomb Honeys, to which membership requires the successful insertion of an intimidatingly massive custom-made honey-dipper shaped anal stretcher. The prospect of earning the coveted title of ‘Honeycomb Honey’ has brought seasoned porn stars and anally-ambitious amateurs alike to their knees, begging for the chance to bend over backwards for a chance at glory.
Just three weeks old, Everything Butt can already claim an impressive roster of alumni including legendary porn icon Kylie Ireland, the ‘Internet’s Girlfriend’ Dana DeArmond, big-bottomed bombshells like Flower Tucci and Adrianna Nicole and the back-door girl-next-door, Bobbi Starr. The site has even caught the attention of a few prestigious anal sexperts such as author, columnist and film director Tristan Taormino, who is rumored to be on the waiting list for a Honeycomb Honey tryout. From celebrity models to specialty product lines, Everything Butt has no shortage of big plans for the future.
The true appeal of Everything Butt, however, is not just in the explosive enemas, the round rear-ends, and the infinite items that fit inside them—it’s the great unifying power of Ass that speaks to us all in the same language, no matter what our particular kink might be.
For more information about EverythingButt.com, email the Director of Communications at ilana@kink.com. Webmasters interested in promoting any of Kink.com’s content can visit KinkyDollars.com or email the Kink.com affiliate manager at terry@kink.com .
ABOUT KINK.COM: San Francisco erotica studio Kink.com provides ethical and authentic BDSM and fetish adult entertainment that seeks to demystify alternative sexualities and inspire sexual adventurers. Since the launch of its first site, Hogtied.com , in 1997, Kink.com has developed a network of premium adult sites that now operate from studios in the San Francisco Armory , a decommissioned National Guard facility with a wide variety of custom-built sets. Kink.com also operates a free documentary site at BehindKink.com and the leading fetish affiliate network, KinkyDollars.com .
Sincerely,
ilana rothman
Director of Communications
Kink.com
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Studio: 415.856.0771 x136
Fax: 415.856.0772
The Armory
1800 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.behindkink.com
Meet the Honeycomb Honeys
Meet the Honeycomb Honeys
It’s a club! It’s a cult! It’s a not-so-secret society of hot and horny ass-fetishists! Introducing the Honeycomb Honeys, a gaggle of butt-obsessed gals longing to fit a custom-made oversized ass-stretcher into their ever-gaping nether regions. They worship the dark and mysterious totem known as “The Honeycomb,” a dangerously ridged bum-cork of monster proportions that looks like a nuclear missile constructed by a particularly sinister swarm of killer bees. Now run for your lives! — or bend over.
Join the wild speculation on the Kink.com forums in our special Honeycomb Honeys discussion section.
Hogtied & EverythingButt Headed to Kinky Summer Camp
Hogtied & EverythingButt Headed to Kinky Summer Camp
From June 24-29th, Lochai will be nestled in the shady glades of Northern Maryland at the Dark Odyssey Leather Retreat. It’s like a big, kinky summer camp in the woods where a variety of sex-positive play takes place, and folks can indulge in their fantasies and run around naked like mobile mosquito-friendly buffets. So come on down and join Lochai and the Hogtied.com and EverythingButt.com crew for some good old-fashioned unwholesome fun — and discover just how kinky the great outdoors can be. Register here!
Utilikilts.com & Kink! Finally!
Hey all,
For the longest time I have been waiting for Utilikilts.com to make mention of all the kilt wearers in the fetish lifestyle. Well it finally happened. I sent them images from the show I did and a painting that was done of myself & Madison Young and they featured it in their newsletter as well as on their website!
Check it out! Utilikilts’ Newsletter
Lochai
Blind Faith with Madison Young and I…
Madison Young and I have started doing a bondage performance called “Blind Faith”. You will see why it’s named so when you see the pictures…. It seems that every time we perform it the name fits the venue. The first time we performed it was for “Sizzle”, an erotic reading at her gallery Femina Potens and the theme was Religion & Sex. We next performed it 2 nights ago at the art open for Nancy Peach’s show “Unspoken Bond”. The name fits the first, I think, because people have blind faith in religion & a higher power just as Madison has blind faith in my skills to allow me to rig her as I do. The second “Blind Faith” is appropriate I feel because Nancy and I never met till we entered her gallery together to view the images she painted of myself & Madison. We each had blind faith in each other’s abilities to convert each others vision into our own art. She trusted me to give her dynamic reference images and I trusted her to convey my art in oils.
So with the explination out of the way, I have posted below some images shot by my friend Retrotie of “Blind Faith” performed with “Uncommon Bond” as a backdrop…
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Followup to Unspoken Bond post
WOW…
So last night was the opening for Nancy Peach’s exhibit “Unspoken Bond” which was a series of oil paintings of Madison Young in my ropes.
Now Nancy & I decided to not meet one another till the opening. We discussed what was wanted for her reference images and that was it. Lydia photographed Madison & I and turned over the images. I also didn’t want to see which images Nancy chose to paint.
Well, last night I arrived at the gallery to find Nancy dancing at the top of the stairs waiting for me to arrive, along with my beautiful wife Janice & a very sexy house guest K. We kissed, made pleasantries and entered the gallery together. WOW, it is not often I am left speechless but I still cant find the words to describe an 8 foot painting of myself. I will just say I am humbled……
Not sure who was filming but we also did a performance last night with video hired by the artist, Nancy Peach, who painted the 8 foot painting of Madison & I. As soon as I get footage & images from our performance “Blind Faith” I will post them.
Here are the paintings Nancy did form photographs of Madison & I that are on exhibit at the Center for Sex & Culture.
Here are a couple of the photos she worked off of by Lydia.
You can find more of my rope art on my site Kirinawa.com
Lochai
Just Featured….
Hello all,
Well there is a new networking site out there fr all you kink related cyber junkies (like myself) called I-Bondage. This is a very powerful, well appointed site that takes everything that every other networking site does right & gives it to you for free.
Great chat functions, groups, discussions, galleries, member uploaded videos and much, much more. Now I would have written this last week anyway but I was very busy & this week I have even more incentive to send you there because I was chosen as the “Photographer of the Month for Nov/Dec. Come by & check it out. I-Bondage.com http://www.i-bondage.com/page/behind-closed-doors .
You need to be a member to even view the site (membership is free) but it is VERY WORTH taking the time.
-Lochai
Public tour of my workspace….
Peter gave a tour to the public last week of the Armory, a 90 year old building which happens to be where I direct hogtied.com.
My work in Germany….
Hey all,
Well some of my photography is in Germany with the Erotic Signature world tour. Below is a shot of some of the viewers and on the walls you can see 4 of my images including “Beach Bound” and “Curves”.
My Friend, Madison Young, Will Be In Minneapolis This Weekend
Madison Young by Lydia Daniller
San Francisco, CA – Madison Young, the kinky girl next door, will be in Minneapolis this weekend at the Smitten Kitten on Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm. Bear witness to this revolutionary porn star sharing her secrets on how to create queer feminist bdsm porn on Saturday, and a reading from her forthcoming memoirs, The Tail of a Bondage Model on Sunday.
Have you ever wanted to dabble in creating your own porn for you and your lover, for commercial distribution, for your own kinky pleasures? Learn how from the perspective of porn producer, director and performer and activist extraordinaire Madison Young. Those in attendance will be able to ask burning questions about the LA porn scene as well as the San Francisco queer art and porn world. Madison will be also showing clips from her upcoming movie releases.
Madison Young will be available for autographs and questions at both events and will be bringing with her limited addition Madison Young’s Erotic Breast Self Exam Posters.
Both events will be well attended. Please RSVP by calling 612-721-6088.
The Smitten Kitten is located at 3010 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
http://www.smittenkittenonline.com.
For more information, please contact Brian Gross, BSG PR, (818) 340-4422. Email: brian@Bsgpr.com.
About Madison Young:
Madison Young is an international award-winning bondage model and pornstar. Ms. Young has been awarded “Best SM Suspension Model” by Bishop Awards and was the submissive star of last year’s AVN Award-winning BDSM video. She has been directing BDSM and erotic films since 2005 and has won great acclaim for her video line, Madison Bound Productions. Madison Bound Productions has been awarded the 2008 Feminist Porn Awards and has been gaining attention from the erotic film festival circuit.
According to Young, “Our high quality productions, girl-next-door appeal, and hardcore queer sex in a bright, sex-positive atmosphere is what our fans are drawn to. It’s porn that couples watch together, appealing to both a straight/queer and kinky/vanilla audience.” Ms Young intends on revolutionizing the porn industry one wanker at a time with hot, aggressive queer and kinky rough sex. When Madison isn’t performing and directing, she is running her own non-profit feminist arts organization, Femina Potens Art Gallery (www.feminapotens.org) , which has produced over 200 LGBT art events in the last four years.
Tuesdays….
Hmmmmmmm Pretty good days I might add. This one was eventful, I did an on-line radio interview with the very hot Laura B., The G*Spot Host of Hotmix106.com The interview will go live @ 7:oo @ http://hotmix106.com and I will have an MP3 of it here for all to listen to. We talk about working for Kink.com and about how to be a model for all of our sites, especially mine, Hogtied.com
So, listen in!
Folsom coverage on Behindkink.com
Hey all,
Well if you were not able to make it to Folsom this year, Behindkink.com was there for you! Check out the festivities in the latest Behindkink clip…
Yes, that is Rebecca Wilcox, author of The Human Pony by Greenery press and her Pony, Beauty (aka Submissann).
I think there is also some footage of me rigging Calico…
Lochai
Shots from Folsom…
Hey all…
Well here are some shots from the Kink.com booth at Folsom that some people shot & posted on the forums page of Hogtied.com of my rigging…. Enjoy!
The event was a blast but man was it packed! Ended up using the Kink booth as a safe getaway from the crowds…
Check Out Kink.com’s New Site: Public Disgrace
SAN FRANCISCO (October 1, 2008) – Streetcorner bondage, back-alley sex and blatant exhibitionism are the order of the day at PublicDisgrace.com, a new site launched today by San Francisco fetish erotica studio Kink.com. Helmed by WiredPussy.com director and prolific star Princess Donna, the site features gorgeous women being tied up, humiliated and fucked in public, particularly on city streets throughout Europe.
“I am so happy to be launching PublicDisgrace.com,” said Princess Donna. “Public sex has always been a fetish of mine, and it is so exciting to finally share it with the world! I strongly believe that I have created some of the best public sex and bondage that the internet has ever seen, and I am confident that the site will get even better with time.”
PublicDisgrace.com has been launched with eight updates live, including a scorching initial offering with French star Cecilia Vega and Steve Holmes that was previewed at the site. Another shoot live on launch has Russian newcomer Olga Cabaeva servicing a parking attendant and then engaging in anal sex on a city street with a large crowd of approving spectators. A third episode features gorgeous Romanian newcomer Jennifer Love gagged, leashed and paraded through the streets on her hands and knees to be gangbanged by three men.
While the site focuses on streetcorner sex, it also explores more intimate surroundings, with gangbang episodes set in nightclubs and semi-private parties where female submissives find themselves sexually used and humiliated by a group of men before invited audiences. Such episodes at PublicDisgrace.com include group sex scenes with Bobbi Starr, Sarah Jane Ceylon, Devaun, and Lorelei Lee.
“The site explores the shame and humiliation a girl feels when she is tied up, exposed and fucked in a public setting,” said Donna last month when the site was announced. “It’ll appeal to both the voyeur and the exhibitionist. It’s totally hot, totally real, and unbelievably fun to shoot.”
For more information about PublicDisgrace.com, email the Public Relations Manager at thomas@kink.com. Webmasters interested in promoting Kink.com content, including PublicDisgrace.com, can visit www.KinkyDollars.com or email the Kink.com affiliate manager at terry@kink.com.
ABOUT KINK.COM: San Francisco erotica studio Kink.com provides authentic fetish entertainment that seeks to demystify alternative sexualities and inspire sexual adventurers. Since the launch of its first site, Hogtied.com, in 1997, Kink.com has developed a network of premium adult sites that now operate from studios in the San Francisco Armory, a decommissioned National Guard facility with a wide variety of sets. Kink.com also operates a free documentary site at BehindKink.com and the leading fetish affiliate network, KinkyDollars.com.
Catalina Interviews Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth on CatalinaLoves.com
Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth
Recently I [Catalina] interviewed Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth. I think the man is an absolutely kinky genius and I have a huge crush on him. I watched the documentary on BehindKink.com and I read an extensive article written about my favorite CEO in the New York Times and then I came up with a few questions of my own:
You’ve mentioned that acquiring the Armory was like your idea of a bondage fantasy neverneverland, where the rules of normal society are overridden by the rules of the BDSM society. After getting all unpacked and moved in, does it still feel like a fantasy neverneverland? Have you found it restraining or confining that it is a historical site?
The Armory feels like a dream come true. Bondage literature such as “The Story of O”, “Exit to Eden”, and the “Sleeping Beauty” series by Anne Rice always seem to revolve around a central place where the BDSM rules of dominance and submission preside. This space is usually depicted as a castle, and so when we were looking to relocate Kink.com’s central offices, the fact that there was an affordable castle that had been vacant for 30 years in the middle of fetish capital San Francisco felt like nothing less than divine intervention.
I think people are somewhat surprised by how ‘normal’ things seem. We have sexual harassment training, executive strategic retreats, benefits like 401K, annual reviews and all-hands presentations just like any company our size. So if you were to come to see us work at the Armory, you might be disappointed by a somewhat corporate feel to the place. However, as we build our various sets, the space is fast becoming an adult playground. This is especially true in the basement which is becoming a myriad of various dungeons and fantasy rooms.
I am very excited by our 4th floor development. This will be a space that we are calling “Roissy” (from the Story of O), and it will be a 24×7 live reality show set in the Edwardian era, which was a period of decadence following the oppressive reign of Queen Victoria. The idea is to reproduce the ‘Great House’ structure depicted in films like “Remains of the Day” where masters, mistresses and servants live in a tightly regimented regime. We will invite BDSM lifestyle players to interact in this world, and interact with our customers in this perpetual interactive live show.
The Armory dates from exactly this Edwardian era, so the historical nature of the Armory does nothing but add to the mystique surrounding this idea. The Armory is not only Kink.com’s home – it also serves as a wonderful branding tool.
In the documentary on BehindKink.com, a lot of the people who work at Kink.com mention that they are inspired to be as creative as they can be and most mention having learned more on the job than they could have ever imagined. Do you see Kink.com as a revolutionary company where people actually like to go to work? Was this part of your plan from the beginning, to create an environment where people were encouraged to grow, think, and use their educations?
I think that we provide a work environment which stands by our mission statement and is very all inclusive. For instance, its absolutely fine to be gay, transgendered, or to paint your hair red or have lots of tattoos, and to really be who you are. I can’t imagine life any differently, and I sometimes get a rude awakening when friends remind about life inside investment banks, where, heaven forbid, I once considered working.
We also feel passionately that a product line should come from an individual’s actual fantasies. Since we have an open policy about new product proposals, this encourages employees to be creative and, necessarily, to be open about their sexualities. This atmosphere sometimes creates some challenges for our HR team, but I think it is very healthy and motivating.
You’ve said that you essentially saw a good idea and ripped it off – the idea to sell porn on the internet from a firefighter and the name Hogtied from the magazine Hogtie. It seems to me that a lot of other companies are doing the same to Kink.com, at least trying to rip off the Kink.com model. How do you feel about that?
I find it flattering and it doesn’t bother me (indeed, how could it? That would certainly be hypocritical of me). Companies have and will copy our basic business model and I hope they continue to do so. The fact is that all people who produce quality BDSM material generally share a common interest in the subject matter. I can’t speak for everyone in the industry, but I feel an affinity to others in the business. Additionally, a prevalence of good BDSM material indicates a general recognition and acceptance that the BDSM fantasies are healthy, common, and absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. I.e. I feel that more successful companies like kink.com serve to further demystify alternative sexualities which, in turn, serves all of us.
On a business level, I think we are sufficiently ahead of the competition to be the ‘place to watch’ for innovation for the next decade. While companies may copy our basic style of producing content, I think we are ahead of the game with our fresh content lines and our ideas for community and interactive live shows, such as Roissy.
Obviously Hogtied.com is your “baby” and though you’ve had several guest directors, really it’s been you and then Matt as the visionaries. How do you see Lochai fitting into your vision for Hogtied.com? Did you choose him in part because you appreciate the aesthetic of his rope bondage? It seems to me that you are incorporating the artistic side of bondage with the hardcore domination reputation of Hogtied.com. How did you come to your decision?
I interviewed Lochai for a different project named “Bondage Trials” about 4 years ago. At that time I was very impressed with his ropework and sense of detail and aesthetic. I am extremely pleased that he has chosen to join us to take on Hogtied.com! The beauty of BDSM is that everyone has a different style. Lochai is a fabulously talented rigger with a unique style, and I think he will be another great addition to the team.
How has Kink weathered the 2257 maelstrom, and do you think a change in administration will loosen things up?
Like many companies, we were caught up in the frenzy of panic that engulfed the industry during the Bush Administration. There was a period when the 2257 law was changing so frequently that it was difficult to keep up, and we had several staff members doing nothing but working on compliance.
Luckily, we had always been diligent and kept our records clean, and we are large enough to have a properly indexed database which could keep up with the changes in the law. It was very sad to see some BDSM websites close down because the burden of record keeping was too onerous. Recently though, the 2257 law has been deemed unconstitutional by the 6th circuit. My hope is that the law will get rewritten in a format which is sensible, and that there will be reasonable regulation to ensure minors are not depicted without having a chilling effect on free speech.
Thank you, Peter, for making some time for me! Best of luck to Lochai, who begins his new job today at Hogtied.com.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian Interviews Peter Acworth
Kink dreams
Peter Acworth’s fetish porn empire takes over the San Francisco Armory to create a new kind of dot-com
Peter Acworth and Princess Donna
Photo by Pat Mazzera
[Rigging by Lochai & Princess Donna]
When it comes to BDSM porn peddlers Kink.com, apparently size does matter. At least, that’s how it seems now that the steamy studio has purchased the 200,000-square-foot San Francisco Armory. Suddenly, everyone wants to know: What’s the carnal concern going to do with all that space?
The answers are more diverse and ambitious than one might expect — ranging from creating a racy reality show to starting a perfectly PG-13 public community center. And thanks to the lascivious and lucrative imagination of Kink.com founder Peter Acworth, it might all be possible.
CONCEPTION AND CONTROVERSY
Though Kink.com has been producing independent niche fetish sites like Hogtied.com, WiredPussy.com, and FuckingMachines.com for the Folsom Street Fair crowd for more than 10 years — first from Acworth’s rented Marina District apartment and then from the Porn Palace on Fifth and Mission streets — it wasn’t until Acworth purchased the historical landmark in the Mission District, and was met with opposition, that the provocative porn empire really made it onto the public’s radar screen.
The armory, which was a training ground for the National Guard prior to its decommissioning 30 years ago, has been the center of controversy before. But that was mostly in-fighting between potential developers. Stringent zoning requirements and necessary but cost-prohibitive renovations discouraged buyers, leaving the Moorish behemoth on 14th and Mission streets vacant and outside public scrutiny.
But everything changed when Acworth got involved. His intended commercial use, for shooting scenes for all of Kink’s Web sites, complied with planning codes. And he didn’t need to do expensive renovations before he could start using, and profiting from, the building: what could be more perfect for bondage shoots or movies about women fucking machines than dungeons in disrepair? The only thing more ideal than the structure itself, according to Acworth, was its location in the heart of America’s most fetish-friendly city. “You couldn’t have dreamt up a more perfect place than a castle in the middle of San Francisco,” says Acworth, who purchased the armory for $14.5 million in 2007 and started operations in January of this year. “It’s like divine intervention.”
Acworth had to contend with a different kind of intervention — from a neighborhood group called the Mission Armory Community Collective, which opposed Kink.com as a potential neighbor. Though careful not to condemn porn per se, the group said it feared that the company’s presence in an already troubled neighborhood would introduce more problems. Even the Mayor’s Office, potentially bending to pressure, issued the following statement: “While not wanting to be prudish, the fact that kink.com will be located in the proximity to a number of schools give [sic] us pause.”
But the sale quietly went through, and even as protesters stood outside, Kink was already filming new scenes for its subscription sites. Since then, the protests have largely died down. As the company removed graffiti from the brick facade of the armory, fixed windows, and generally improved the appearance of its stretch of Mission Street, neighbors began stopping by to congratulate Acworth — or to ask for a tour. (Incidentally, the public is invited to tour the armory on second Fridays. E-mail info@kink.com for an appointment.)
On a September afternoon, the building — mostly nondescript from the sidewalk except for the castlelike rooftop — seems quiet and innocuous. Three boys skateboard on the steps outside, stopping to talk to a woman walking her dog. The only people entering the doors, which are always locked and manned by a security guard, look as though they could’ve been going to the grocery store or the gym, wearing shorts, T-shirts, and sandals. In fact, on first glance inside, the place is almost disappointingly tame.
Acworth himself hardly looks like a porn kingpin. He’s sweetly attractive in an unmenacing, mainstream way, with an easy smile and casual style. His office, a room near the entrance to the armory, is large and comfortable, but bears no hint of his livelihood save for one tasteful bondage statue. Next to his desk are water and food bowls for the armory’s two live-in cats: Rudy and Lala. His assistant, a young girl in a minidress, leggings, and hoop earrings, looks like she could be working at American Apparel. Even the desktop pattern on Acworth’s Dell computer screen is vanilla: rolling green hills beneath a blue, blue sky. This sense of normalcy seems to be Kink’s main point.
Van Darkholme, Peter Acworth, and Princess Donna in the Armory boiler room.
Photo by Pat Mazzera
[Rigging by Lochai]
Acworth remembers getting turned on as a child in England by scenes in movies where women were tied up — and wondering if this signaled violent tendencies within himself. It wasn’t until adolescence that he discovered the relief (and release) of bondage porn. At the same time, he was already a burgeoning entrepreneur, a child who grew vegetables behind his house and tried to sell them to his parents. By the time he read a magazine article about a man making millions from Internet porn, as a Wall Street–bound doctoral student in a Columbia University finance program, it seemed almost inevitable that Acworth would find a way to marry his two lifelong interests: bondage and business. When he founded Kink.com in 1997, the idea was not only to jump on the dot-com money train, but also to demystify and promote fetish porn as an acceptable form of sexual stimulation.
Now, each of Kink.com’s Web sites is geared toward a particular fetish, run by a Webmaster who’s not only an expert on that particular kink but also has an interest in it, just as Acworth started Hogtied.com, which features women tied up, and Fuckingmachines.com, which showcases women having sex with machinery, because that’s what turned him on. These Webmasters act as director, producer, human resources manager, and often participant as well as Web developer.
“It’s hard to guess what people want,” he explains, pointing out that it’s easier to make what you know.
Which means models aren’t actors. Just as directors are expected to be interested in the fetish they’re promoting, so are participants expected to enjoy the scenes they’re in. This isn’t about fake-breasted women pretending to like a face full of come. In fact, Acworth has had trouble in the past working with models from Los Angeles, trying to get them not to act. Kink’s sites feature actual people enjoying a private play party that just happens to be taped. Videos are intimate, personal, and disarmingly real — models talk to each other before, during, and after their sessions, just the way they would in their own bedrooms. They’re encouraged to smile on camera. Whether it’s shocking a woman with electric instruments or forcing a man to eat from a dog bowl, you get the sense that these people would be playing out these scenarios anyway — Kink just provides a salary, benefits, and a really nice location.
THE KINK CASTLE
As for the building itself, Kink has just begun to scratch the surface of its possibilities. The first floor, perhaps the most institutional-looking of the four, houses offices for Acworth, the marketing team, the production team, and the break room, which features a pool table, a disco ball, an espresso machine, a drum set, and a DJ booth (all for parties as well as employee use). Directly opposite the front doors is the Drill Court, a monstrous space that looks something like an airplane hangar crossed with a European train station. This is the space Acworth hopes will become the Mission Armory Community Center (which would unintentionally bear the same acronym as one of the groups that protested Kink.com’s purchase of the armory), a public venue available for sporting events, educational seminars, film festivals, and someday maybe a Folsom Street Fair party. According to MACC coordinator David Klein, a developer who has no affiliation with Kink.com, that dream is a long way off — with plenty of renovations, public meetings, and applications standing between here and there. In the meantime, the Drill Court serves as an occasional event site (such as for the Mission Bazaar craft fair earlier this year) and an employee parking lot. Currently, the most public location is the Ultimate Surrender room, where small numbers of members are invited to sit in bleachers and watch women wrestle each other to the ground on large mats — the winner, of course, gets to fuck the loser.
The armory’s basement is by far the most interesting area. “It’s a wonderland of sets,” says Acworth, and it’s hard to argue with him. Some rooms seem perfect as is, such as a former gymnasium whose floor has long since been removed to reveal gothic-looking structural planks punctuated by intimidating bolts. All it took was adding a platform in the center of the expansive room and a pulley above it to make it a perfect bondage set. Next door is an army-style communal bathroom, another favorite as-is set. Other rooms on this floor are a completely furnished 1970s New York loft; a padded cell with an observation room connected by a one-way mirror; a former hermetically sealed gunpowder room that’s been outfitted with all sorts of rings, hooks, and rope pulleys; an office connected by a cage to the “Gimp Room,” where ceiling chains hang like some kind of Donkey Kong homage; a hallway storage room chock-full of expected (whips, chains, clamps) and unexpected (mops, long-handled brushes with hard bristles, small boxes with smaller holes in them) toys; the large prop room, where human-shaped cages, monstrous doghouses, and machines like the back breaker and water-torture wheel are kept; the laundry room, where shelves are lined with douches, enemas, latex gloves, and sanitized sex toys; and the former shooting range, which has a Pirates of the Caribbean feel, complete with a river running through it.
And that’s just the start of it. Just when you think every nook and cranny has been used — including an oddly shaped corner off the production gallery that looks like a 19th-century psychiatric ward — you’ll discover a hallway that’s virtually untouched. Hardly any construction has been done on the third or fourth floors, including the officers’ quarters, which occupy one turret. Even the roof, with its castle-y details and flags, seems like a perfect potential shooting location.
Kink’s porn palace, the San Francisco Armory. Photo by Pat Mazzera
Kink already has plans for several new sets: the military clean room, a stark ’50s-era space, slated for FuckingMachines; an abandoned electrical equipment room for WiredPussy, where dead vintage electrical equipment will line the walls; an Alcatraz-esque prison gallery for BoundGods.com; and an expanded DeviceBondage.com room, which will be clad with cultured stone to look like the basement of an old castle.
Reps won’t say just how much it costs to maintain the armory or to shoot a scene, but Acworth told 7×7 magazine last year that profits were upward of $16 million. And spokesperson Thomas Roche says that the cost of a shoot, including sets, makeup, wardrobe, video and still photo staff, and editing, would be prohibitive if Kink weren’t doing lots of them. Luckily, the armory allows for a volume of shoots that makes it feasible — sometimes four or five in a single day. And it’s good variety for viewers too, who get used to seeing the same sets over and over in various porn films — even ones by different companies.
FLIRTING WITH THE FUTURE
Perhaps the most advantageous thing about moving into the armory, though, has been the increased possibilities for Kink’s growth. With so much space, an almost infinite number of sets can be created without tearing any old ones down. Since multiple shoots can go on at once, multiple sites can be developed and maintained. And buying the building has started attracting directors, models, and Web developers on a scale Acworth hasn’t seen before.
“It was initially difficult to find people,” says Acworth, who conjectures that it’s not just the publicity from the building but also the exciting prospect of working there that’s turned the tide. “Now they’ve started to approach us.”
One of those who approached Acworth was Van Darkholme, a Shibari rope bondage expert, a porn performer, and the proprietor of fetish film studio Muscle Bound Productions, who was living in LA. Darkholme saw an article about Acworth and the armory in a magazine and contacted him immediately, hoping to get involved. The Vietnam-born Darkholme, who seems almost starstruck by Acworth’s genius, was shocked not only to hear back from Acworth himself, but to be offered a job at the helm of Kink’s new gay bondage site: BoundGods.com.
“What Peter does is so avant-garde and so fresh, I just wanted to come in and mop the floor,” says Darkholme, who moved to San Francisco in April and launched his new site Aug. 1.
Darkholme’s BoundGods takes Kink’s principles of intimate, conversational, playful, and mutually enjoyable interactions and applies them to his particular brand of gay sexuality: lean, muscled studs. In one video, a man is tied up in the army-style bathroom at the armory while another fucks him with a large black dildo. In a similar scene, anal beads are gradually pulled from the bound, naked man — much to both participants’ obvious pleasure (though interestingly, neither are hard). Darkholme makes appearances in many of the videos, often as the dominant character — a striking contrast to the camo-shorts-and-T-shirt-wearing, somewhat shy individual I interview at the armory.
He’s clearly proud of the product, not only because it’s well produced but also because there’s almost no competition in the gay market.
“I hate to generalize, but most of what I see out there falls into this trap of gay men putting on leather and grunting and groaning,” says Darkholme. “It’s visual, but doesn’t have as much dialogue. What we do is very real and very intimate, with a realness in what they’re saying.”
The site marks Kink’s first serious foray into the gay market — a step the company couldn’t quite take while limited by space and resources at the Porn Palace. But set builders are already hard at work constructing an Alcatraz-esque prison gallery for new Boundgods shoots. And the creation of a sub-brand, KinkMen.com, promises more gay-focused fetish sites to come. (Incidentally, Kink tried a gay site several years ago with Butt Machine Boys, which is still online at www.buttmachineboys.com but not listed on the main Web site. Acworth said the site never took off, partly because of lack of budget and partly because, unlike Darkholme, the director wasn’t speaking to his personal interests.)
For now, though, Darkholme has his hands full with BoundGods. His immediate goal is to find and train 12 new dommes for the Web site — a tougher feat than might be expected. “Femme dommes can dish it out and can really take it,” he says. “There’s a small percentage of men that can do that.” In fact, during some of his first shoots, filmed in Budapest, his bevy of gay models and porn stars were shocked when Darkholme finally opened up his bag of toys.
“They looked at me like the circus had come to town, or like I was going to make one of the Saw movies. Their hands were shaking,” he says.
So when Kink sets up its demonstration booth at Folsom Street Fair (Sept. 28, www.folsomstreetfair.com), Darkholme will have two purposes: recruiting talent (both people he can train and experts who have something to teach him) and publicizing his new brand.
“I want to say, ‘We’re here, we’re queer, we want to be part of your community!’” he laughs.
But Darkholme won’t be alone at his booth. Among other popular Kink stars like Isis Love, new director Lochai, expert rigger Lew Rubens, and porn stars LaCherry Spice and Natassia Dream will be WiredPussy.com creator Princess Donna, who’s launching her new pet product, PublicDisgrace.com, next month. The site will feature blatant public bondage, punishment, erotic humiliation, and explicit sex between models and, potentially, passersby.
The veteran domme is filming most scenes in Europe, where attitudes (and therefore laws) about sex are more lax. In fact, while shooting a scene on a public street in Berlin, the crew was stopped by a couple of motorcycle cops who said only, “If you cause an accident, you’ll be liable,” before going on their way. In the shoot, a half-naked girl is tied to a park bench, made to carry a dog bowl while on a leash, fondled by her female master, and fucked by a man.
“It’s the adrenaline rush of potentially getting caught,” says Acworth, explaining the site’s appeal and recipe for success. The site will also feature a slew of new faces. Plus, it’s the perfect time of year to launch a new fetish site. “Sales pick up when the kids go back to school,” Acworth says.
There also plenty of developments in the works that don’t follow the start-a-new-fetish-site model. For starters, Kink is moving to a Flash format, where the delay is only 2 seconds instead of 20. The new technology means that users can actively participate in scenes via chat rooms, where they can give instructions to dommes and watch their demands be carried out. Members of Kink.com can already do this on DeviceBondage.com, but Acworth hopes to switch to a per-minute billing system so even more viewers can participate. At the moment, the site is structured so you must be a member of a particular site in order to watch videos; Acworth would like to move to a single-sign-on system where you can join Kink.com and have access to any of its member sites.
Perhaps the most ambitious technological plan for Kink’s future, though, is the development of an online Web community that will be called Kinky.com. Following the Web 2.0 trend of user-based content, Kinky.com will allow members and models to maintain user profiles, interact with one another on message boards, blog, and even date. Yes, it’s a way to stay up-to-date with Internet trends and to provide an experience that pirated video sites can’t, but Acworth says it’s also a natural outgrowth of the kind of porn he creates.
“In contrast with straight porn, which people want to consume in private, this is a community people want to be a part of,” he says.
Which leads us to the project closest to Acworth’s heart: the reality show.
THE REAL WORLD: KINK.COM
In the spirit of community and BDSM as a lifestyle, Acworth wants to transform the armory’s top floor into a series of Victorian/Georgian-inspired rooms where couples will live and fuck on camera 24-7. Participants will be given hierarchical positions — from maid to master of the house — and live according to the rules of domination and submission. Acworth’s already started designing the grand dining room, inspired by the sets in Remains of the Day, including candelabras, elaborate draperies, and, of course, a long, long table. “I consider it the pinnacle of where everything comes together,” he says.
The dream is still at least a year off: he’ll have to figure out payment and subscription details, renovate the nearly untouched top floor, and recruit couples who want to live their kinks on camera. But he’s hoping he’ll soon have more time to devote to the project. With more than 100 employees and a huge building to maintain, Acworth’s role has shifted from almost entirely creative to almost entirely administrative. He misses the early days, when he found models on Craigslist, tied them up in his rented Marina apartment, interacted with them himself, and then posted the shoots. (You can still see these early shoots online.) Soon he’ll promote an employee to chief operating officer, which will allow him to back off the business side and devote himself to the reality show.
So did he ever imagine his little project would get so big? Absolutely not, Acworth says. If he’d had any inkling, he adds, “I would’ve been terrified.” But it only seems natural that the little English boy who used to try to sell his parents’ own vegetables back to them would eventually have an eye for business — and that his interest in fetish porn would lead his business instincts here.
As for how his parents feel about his chosen profession, Acworth says they’re not exactly vocally supportive, but they don’t condemn him either. His mom, a sculptor, has started creating pieces that feature couples in coital or bondage positions, and may start to sell them on the site. His dad, a former Jesuit preacher, says only, “As long as no one’s getting hurt and there are no animals, I guess it’s all right.”
[Written for and posted on The San Francisco Bay Guardian
You Can Welcome Lochai To San Francisco At The Folsom Street Fair
KINK.COM ANNOUNCES RECRUITMENT, DEMOS AT FOLSOM ST. FAIR
Company Hosts Stars, Riggers, Directors At Legendary BDSM Lifestyle Event
SAN FRANCISCO (September 18, 2008) – San Francisco fetish erotica studio Kink.com today announced a recruitment drive and series of demonstrations at its booth at the 25th Annual Folsom Street Fair on Sunday, September 28. Attendees to the Sunday street fair, which celebrates the BDSM lifestyle and sexual diversity for all orientations, will get a chance to see Kink.com directors Van Darkholme, Isis Love, Princess Donna and Lochai, expert rigger Lew Rubens and porn stars LaCherry Spice, Natassia Dream, Wolf Hudson and Nick Moretti. and
New Kink.com director Van Darkholme will be in attendance to promote and recruit for his site BoundGods.com, demonstrating the finer points of bondage and punishment on Wolf Hudson and Nick Moretti.
“This is a really important chance for us to meet up with some new models,” said Darkholme. “The leather community is full of hot, kinky guys who are curious about appearing on camera, but haven’t made that step yet. This gives them a chance to get to know us and for us to make contact with them.”
Lochai, the recently-hired director of Hogtied.com, and Lew Rubens, Kink.com’s Bondage Consultant, will be performing demos at the fair. Both men are among the best-known bondage riggers in the BDSM community, and are sought-after educators.
TS superstars LaCherry Spice and Natassia Dream will be also be in attendance on behalf of transsexual domination site TSSeduction.com, meeting and greeting throughout the day, posing for pictures and recruiting male bottoms and transsexual female tops for the site.
“Natassia and LaCherry really want to meet their fans – that’s really important to them,” said TSSeduction.com director Isis Love. “This gives the fans an opportunity to meet two of the world’s most gorgeous transwomen looking totally fine in latex! We’ll be doing recruitment both for TS tops and male bottoms – we love having new talent at TS Seduction, and this lets us get out there in the community and find the super hot trannies and the guys-next-door who really want to know what the site is all about.”
A prolific performer as well as a director, Isis Love will also be in attendance signing autographs and posing for photos, and she admits she’s likely to do spontaneous demos. “Sure, I’ll probably spank some people,” she said.
WiredPussy.com director and frequent performer Princess Donna will be at the booth promoting her new public sex and bondage site PublicDisgrace.com, which launches October 1 — just a few days after the Fair. In addition to greeting fans, Donna will be performing a demonstration of the kind of public bondage and punishment viewers of her new site can expect.
“Public Disgrace features hardcore, explicit sex, which we won’t be doing at the Folsom booth,” she says. “But we’ll still have plenty of fun.”
Said Kink.com founder and CEO Peter Acworth: “Folsom Street Fair is the #1 holiday of the San Francisco fetish community, so we look forward to it every year. This will be a chance for Kink.com to get out there, meet our fans and let everybody see what we’re like in person.”
The Folsom Street Fair began in the early 1980s as a predominantly gay male street fair held on Folsom Street, which had been the center of San Francisco’s gay leather culture since the 1960s. Now in its 25th year, the Fair attracts approximately 400,000 visitors of all genders and orientations from all over the world. The proceeds of the Fair, over $300,000 in 2006, are donated to qualified local charities. Folsom Street affiliated events are now held in Berlin, Toronto, and New York City.
Folsom Street Fair is held from 11am to 6pm Sunday, September 28 on Folsom Street from 7th to 12th Streets in San Francisco. The final schedule of appearances at the Kink.com booth will be posted on the forum pages at www.Kink.com a few days before the event, and more information about the Fair can be found at FolsomStreetFair.com.
Additionally, tours of kink.com’s San Francisco Armory will be offered the Saturday before the Fair for visiting press. Journalists interested in touring the building should contact the Kink.com Public Relations Manager at thomas@kink.com.
Webmasters interested in promoting Kink.com content can visit the affiliate program at www.KinkyDollars.com or email the affiliate manager at terry@kink.com.
ABOUT KINK.COM: San Francisco erotica studio Kink.com provides authentic fetish entertainment that seeks to demystify alternative sexualities and inspire sexual adventurers. Since the launch of its first site, Hogtied.com, in 1997, Kink.com has developed a network of premium adult sites that now operate from studios in the San Francisco Armory, a decommissioned National Guard facility with sets ranging from stark dungeons to luxurious pieds-à-terre. Kink.com also operates a free documentary site at BehindKink.com and the leading fetish affiliate network, KinkyDollars.com.
now, 1:26 a.m. move time, 9:30 a.m
Here I am sitting in my box & clutter filled living room at 1:26 a.m. about to get some sleep before the movers get here @ 9:30 a.m. to move J and I out to SF. Once they leave we pack the fur balls into their crates & head out for a cross country jaunt to start my life as a professional sex-worker / Pro Dominant. The day I got the job I did an interview with a good friend of mine Mistress Matisse.
This was the first in a series of interviews I did and I was very happy to do my first with Mistress Matisse. We talked about how few jobs there are for straight males in sex work… Have a read!
Wikipedia…
Hmmmmm. I was just screwing around on Wikipedia typing in different things in the search feature & this is the article that came up for Fetish Photographer…
Fetish photographer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A fetish photographer takes photographs of people in fetishistic situations, such as in bondage, or wearing rubber or leather clothing. More extreme fetish photography depicts paraphiliac acts such as urination, enemas, or SM activities. Depending on point of view, fetish photography can be considered as fine art, erotica, or pornography. Once only published in bondage magazines, fetish photography is now also published as “art books”. Taschen is one prominent publisher printing fetish books on a mass scale. Bondage and fetish imagery has also made its way into mainstream pornographic magazines.
Pioneering fetish photographers include John Willie, who published a famous fetishistic magazine, “Bizarre” from 1946 to 1959. Another pioneer photographer includes art photographer Paul Outerbridge who introduced fetish elements into his color photographs as early as the 1940s. Contemporary fetish photography has much since entered the mainstream with Helmut Newton bringing focal elements of high heels, lipstick and leather within a fashion-centric sphere. Further pushing the concept are today’s fetish masters such as Lochai – winner of the 2006 International Erotic Fine Art Photographer of the Year award for Beach Bound, which incorporated elements of Japanese rope bondage.
Wow… I updated it only by putting a link to my name…. I am hornored that someone put me as an example of “today’s fetish masters” ……
Behind Kink.com
Lochai Working At Hogtied.com
The following was originally posted at Behind Kink. Watch the announcement video here.
As soon as Matt Williams announced that he would be stepping down as the Director of Hogtied.com in order to make time for his new role as Creative Director, the task of finding a qualified replacement became the company’s number one priority. After a careful search and audition process, Kink.com has officially extended the offer to award-winning fine art bondage photographer and rigger Lochai.
“Hogtied was our first site and we still consider it our flagship,” said Kink.com founder and CEO Peter Acworth. “We’re very pleased to bring Lochai on to continue the Hogtied tradition. He’s one of the best-known bondage riggers around and for years he’s been out there in the community, both as a photographer and as an educator. Most importantly, he really gets what’s fun and beautiful and hot about women in bondage — he understands the Kink.com aesthetic. I’m very much looking forward to working with him.”
Lochai’s inaugural Hogtied update, a sizzling 56-minute scene featuring 22-year-old beauty Isobel Wren, was shot last month when he was auditioning for his new role. In it, Wren is placed in Lochai’s trademark Japanese-influenced rope bondage and subjected to a stunning number of screaming orgasms, including a copious squirt. Throughout, Lochai’s sardonic humor tempers the intense bondage and stimulation.
Lochai observes: “Everything that’s done in any of the Kink.com sites is real, so it’s not like I’m acting a part. I’m actually being myself. I’m sarcastic, I’m a smart ass, I laugh during scenes and I also console when someone’s upset. I’m going to be doing my real play, my real life, within the walls of the Armory because that’s what’s expected by the customers — and that’s what’s expected by Kink.com. I’m going to be super comfortable there, because I feel like I’m home.”
A longtime Florida resident, Lochai will be relocating to the San Francisco area in September in order to be close to Kink.com. He says he’ll continue his work teaching bondage and SM lifestyle classes, both at the half-dozen conferences he traditionally attends annually, and in the San Francisco area.
Lochai expressed great enthusiasm about being offered the position. “Every person who’s ever sat down in front of me in a classroom, or who has surrounded me out in a club to watch what I’m doing, has wanted this job. They want to get paid to tie up beautiful women and get them off — and that’s my job. It’s a wonderful feeling, and an affirmation that my kink pays off.”
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