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September 13, 2013 by Snarksy
A Brief History of Kink Online: Richard Kadrey shares Usenet with Wired Magazine
This might be one of my favorite “above-ground” bits of kink history from the ’90s. In 1994, freelance writer and novelist Richard Kadrey wrote an article for Wired Magazine about a fairly new and controversial meeting place for kinksters—the alt.sex.bondage newsgroup on Usenet. The tone of his article is humerus, investigative and—importantly—respectful. (Holy Mainstream Culture, Batman! […]Archives
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 […]Archives
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 […]Archives
August 22, 2013 by Snarksy