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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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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! […]

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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 […]