Deep Inside Kink Dot Com: Smut With A Smile

In an almost relentlessly upbeat article in yesterday's Sunday Magazine, the New York Times profiles San Francisco's Kink.com in a piece that's as notable for its positive attitude towards its subject matter as it is for the number of juicy (and relatively explicit) tidbits it reveals about the company, like the fact that it "actually requires that each model be shown smiling during the segments" and its ban on "filming anyone who is drunk or high and electroshocks above the waist — except in certain cases, like when using 'nipple clamps where the nipple completes the circuit.'" And as if reading about things like flogging, crotch slapping, and nipple clamps over our Sunday brunch wasn't eye-opening enough, the article also provides an insight into founder Peter Acworth's earliest motivations for founding the company: "Even as child, Acworth told me, he liked seeing people bound. 'I would get an erection while watching a cowboy-and-Indian movie where somebody was getting tied up,' he said, 'which I didn't really understand.'" From such humble beginnings are empires created.

· "A Disciplined Business" (NY Times)
· Kink.com: Delivering Genuine, Raw Fetish Since 1997! (kink.com)

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