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! […]