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September 27, 2013 by Snarksy

This Day On A.S.B.

Why, ahoy there. I am starting a new feature, called “This Day on A.S.B.” I realize that for many younger folks (especially under 30) Usenet is a relative unknown. Though many of us have a love/hate relationship with Fetlife, very few of my peers are really familiar with other ways the kink community has communicated […]

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August 26, 2013 by Snarksy

A Brief History of Kink Online: Jan Hall’s Anti-Domestic Violence Document

This post is part of a new series about the history of kink online. If you’ve spent enough time hanging out on the Internet as a bored feminist kinkster, chances are somewhat high, you’ve seen some iteration of this Domestic Violence in the S/M Community educational post. It is somewhat timeless looking, and nearly always appears on […]

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August 23, 2013 by Snarksy

A Brief History of Kink Online: 1989 – alt.sex.bondage

This post is part of a new series about the history of kink online. In the 1980’s most people—even in affluent communities—didn’t use “the Internet”. By and large, it was a nerd thing, and an academic thing, and a government thing. When kinksters and organizers in early 80s San Francisco pioneered some of the first […]

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August 22, 2013 by Snarksy

A Brief History of Kink Online: The Serial

(It’s almost like a Brief History of Time, but way more obscure and a bit less fundamental!) So, if you’ve made it to this blog, there is a decent chance you’ve heard of Fetlife. If you haven’t heard of Fetlife, you certainly are aware of the existence of everyone’s favorite/least-favorite social-networking site, and it’s not-so-utilized […]