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Monday, February 12th, 2024 -- by Bacchus
The management would like you to remember that while love may suck, the Kink.com Love Sucks sale in honor of Valentine’s Day can guarantee that your holiday needn’t suck, even if you are “temporarily embarrassed” in the having-a-sex-partner department. Abundant porn, like abundant money, cannot guarantee happiness, but as a wise observer once said, it can keep you entertained nonetheless:
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 -- by Bacchus
It’s that time of year again, kinky people! Kink.com has just rolled out one of their big sales for the Christmas holidays, and evil Krampus has come to visit. Are you ready for him?
Discounts are up to 60% off for both Kink Premium and KinkMen. If you’ve been both naughty and nice all year, you deserve to join and get yourself a Kink subscription. You know you do!
Image at the top of the post is from Krampus Night 2019.
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Saturday, December 17th, 2022 -- by Bacchus
Since we are currently enjoying the ErosBlog 20th-anniversary year, and because the 2022 Kink.com “Naughty and Nice” holiday sale just started, I thought it would be fun to look back at kinky Christmases past. It turns out that ErosBlog has featured Kink.com content during no fewer than eight previous festive-holiday seasons:
- In 2020 we got a “used, sticky, happy” blonde tied up under the Christmas tree with the other presents. But not until she enjoyed the Christmas Eve bondage gangbang that she had been wanting for years.
- In 2019, Santa done fucked up! He dropped down the wrong chimney and let himself get captured by a bored and lonely MILF-dominatrix. He ended up getting a merrier Christmas than he bargained for.
- Also in 2019, we found a very large gift-wrapped box under our tree. Inside? A stunning brunette, a buzzing Sybian, and a whole lot of orgasms.
- Also in 2019 (heck, that year was pretty much a kinky advent calendar) we got three anal-obsessed lesbians having a slumber party under the Christmas tree. Not much slumbering transpired. Fortunately, the elf on the shelf had a camera inside, so this holiday cheer got captured for us all.
- Back in 2012, we got a blonde with big tits and a Santa hat riding a Sybian for our libidinous entertainment. She reminded me of “Penny” from Big Bang Theory, but the actress on the orgasm machine was not actually Kaley Cuoco. Even Santa Claus has limits to his power.
- In 2010, the kinky Christmas festivities involved two dommes and three helpless himbos. It was an energetic celebration with more than one good hard holiday spanking!
- In 2009, we found out that Santa is a sadistic bastard. He keeps shackled slavegirls in his workshop to pack his toys and polish his knob and satisfy his every sexual whim. These whims, it turns out, are both numerous and inventive.
- In 2007, I shared a kinky porn shoot that featured the very thing that I wanted for Christmas. Surprisingly, the object of my desire was not the lovely lady chained to a blowjob post, although I never say “no” to opportunities such as those. Nope! The focus of my lust was the vintage antique ceramic-and-metal tractor sign on the dungeon wall. What can I say? The heart wants what it wants.
Merry kinky Christmas!
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 -- by Bacchus
I know there are a lot of people vying for your Black Friday bargain dollars, but 55% off is a great deal for joining Kink Unlimited.
If you haven’t been paying attention, the Kink Unlimited product is a lot more these days than just the familiar in-house Kink.com-made sites, which are now called channels. The Kink product now contains more than eighty channels, many of which consist of kinky porn flowing in under license from other major porn brands you will recognize. It’s an enormous porn value for the money!
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 -- by Bacchus
Kinky 4th of July! Yeah, I know; it’s a holiday under strain just now. But when the going gets tough, the tough get kinky — isn’t that how the saying goes? Honestly, a big sale with huge discounts on all eighty Kink Unlimited channels sounds like the best kind of fireworks to me:
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I have neglected until almost too late the happy task of alerting you to Kink.com’s year-end holiday-themed sales. You still have until midday on January 3 to join at really substantial discounts — as much as 60% off!
Are you feeling particularly gay this year? Better and better, for in that case I bring you great tidings of joy: joining Kink Men is even cheaper!
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Update on the below: It took them many many months, but Kink.com eventually restored still photos to its product offering. Don’t panic.
Bondage Blog on Monday reported in detail on the removal of still photography from all of Kink.com’s paid/subscription product offerings. The Kink.com library of BDSM and fetish stills, which dated back to 1998 and was advertised as containing “over two million photos”, was apparently removed from sale because the Kink.com people “have only been able to isolate a small portion of our members who use or appreciate them” and because of “complicated” but otherwise undisclosed technical issues associated with Kink.com’s recent consolidation of its numerous porn sites and domains into areas (now called “channels”) at the Kink.com URL.
The company continues to offer a handful of still photos for free to the public on the landing pages of its individual shoots, such as this shoot for the Sex and Submission channel. Those are the same pictures that used to be offered for free as part of the galleries used in promoting the various Kink.com sites. What’s changed is that paying members formerly would have found somewhere between 50 and 400 additional still photos in the member area for each shoot; those are now entirely gone, and are no longer available anywhere to anyone. Paying members now get video, period.
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Friday, April 19th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
During the many years I have been a fan, Kink.com has added and removed dozens of kink sites and partner channels of kinky adult entertainment. Navigating it all on the Kink homepage can be a challenge, even on a big screen. If you hit their home page in a state of wide-eyed horny confusion on a little phone? You may have a navigation problem!
For as long as I’ve had smart mobile phone, I’ve found that actually using just about any website is quite practical, even if I have to do a lot of pinching and swiping to zoom in on stuff. But navigating and searching? That’s a pain. I can thumb-type URLs and search terms, but it’s slow, and it adds friction, and it’s not as easy to scan search results en mass for the things I’m looking for. The result is, I now value portal sites in a way that reminds me of life before search engines. A short list of useful links in a mobile-friendly format (one column, no sidebars, large print) is the sort of thing I’ll actually “bookmark” and put on one of my home screens as an icon.
Thus, Kink Sites. It’s a mobile-device-friendly launchpad to every website and channel published by Kink.com:
Want a Kink Sites icon on your active iPhone screen? Just hit that little “arrow escaping from the screen” forwarding icon that’s bottom-center, and then selecting “Add to Home Screen” from the list of options that pops up. If you’ve got the ErosBlog iPhone wallpaper already, it will look something like this:
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Here’s Penny Pax in an interview, talking about the Kink.com shooting experience:
You are a regular on Kink. How does it feel to work there?
It’s always a positive experience and a learning one too! I absolutely love shooting with them. Everyone on staff from the editors to the security, each are friendly and always there to help. It’s totally a teaching company to work for and I’m grateful that they continue to have me back.
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 -- by Bacchus
This Huffington Post interview with Peter Acworth, founder of Kink.com (which HuffPo describes as “the largest fetish porn production company in the world”), is more fascinating to me because of what Peter does not say about his business than because of what he does say. Kink.com has been innovative about extending its brand in startling ways while paring back its costs and its active site portfolio as the pay-by-subscription porn-site business model has crumbled in recent years, and the company has a unique asset in its landmark Armory facility in San Francisco. So what does Peter talk about in the interview when questions turn to the future of his business?
- A new bar called the Armory Club that now anchors the beginning and end of his new-ish Armory tours;
- The Armory tours themeselves;
- A new permit allowing use of the drill court in the Armory for “sporting events, farmers markets, performance art, etc.; and
- In the “still brainstorming” stage, “a thriving kink-centric online social networking site around our products and services.”
Notice what’s not on that list?
Yeah. There’s nothing about making or selling newer or different porn. No new sites, no new themes, no “reach new markets with our existing products”, no “branch out into newer new media”, nothing. What’s exciting about your current business direction, Mr. Porn Baron? Well, HuffPo, we’re doing all these fascinating things to monetize our awesome real estate better…
One more glimpse at the reality that porn remains, for now, an industry in search of a new business model.
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Monday, May 28th, 2012 -- by Bacchus
Because I’m not so good at keeping up with developments in gay porn, I’ve been slow to mention the latest offering from Kink Men: a site/channel called Men on Edge, in which men tie up other men, flog them, and do other cruel things, typically culminating in painful-looking brink-of-orgasm situations not swiftly resolved.
P.S. Uhm, about that particular cruel thing close-up, with the Hitachi-style vibrator right on the tip of his penis? When I see porn where that’s being done to a woman’s clitoris, I’m of course totally cool with it, though I’m not immune to that little bit of sympathy most of us have for a willing submissive in an intense scene. But hey, guess what? When I see much the same thing being done to the sensitive head of a penis, I get a visceral sympathy reaction of the sort men get when other men are kicked in the balls: I want to cup myself protectively and cringe and tell myself reassuring stories about how that’s never going to happen to me. Is there maybe somewhere I can go, where I could get my comfortably-gendered S&M double standards back, plz kay thx bye?
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Friday, September 17th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
As porn workplaces go, Kink.com’s sets have a good reputation. And of course, everybody knows that smart young people who are trading on their youth and beauty should also be working on their educations and training for longer-term professional careers. But, ladies, isn’t working on your freaking homework between takes while caged taking enthusiasm for education a little far?
Picture courtesy of The Training Of O.
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Friday, August 13th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
The infamous Dick On A Stick returns:
The odd thing is, they’ve got real dicks at the Upper Floor shoot parties too, and they aren’t afraid to use ’em.
I had this funny idea to rewrite a chapter from “The Story of O” or “Beauty’s Punishment” or “Slave Girls of Gor” so that it featured a lot of dicks on sticks, but I am too damn lazy. Crowdsourced lazyweb, go!
Friday, February 12th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
I’ve long maintained that a responsible porn consumer should pay attention — when possible — to the business and employment practices of the people who make the porn. Not all pornographers are created equal. And who has a better view than their models?
Thus it is that I enjoy hearing from models at Kink.com (a long-time ErosBlog favorite), especially when they confirm my own prejudices. (Can there be any human pleasure more sweet than having cherished notions confirmed?)
You can imagine, therefore, the twin delights I experienced when I stumbled over the excellent blog by Miss Maggie Mayhem (how have I missed it?) and found the following paragraph under the heading Things I loved: 2009:
Kink.Com has been one place that feels more and more like home for me every time I visit. Working for their sites means being well cared for by intelligent people who are all passionate about sexuality. Not once did my request for a condom get snubbed or looked down upon, not once did my need for a break result in a sneer, and there was always a friendly production assistant ready with a fuzzy robe and a hug. When you get your porn from Kink.Com you’re getting it from good people who treat their models with respect. I was very happy to work with them throughout 2009 and I look forward to many more years and shoots there.
Image credit: The Training of O.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Following neatly from my last post which mentioned the “castle of kink” maintained by Kink.com in the Old Armory building in San Francisco, Mistress Matisse (who went down to San Francisco to do a shoot) painted a delightful (if somewhat surreal) word picture of what it was like to spend the night there. This is not the jacuzzi in the infamous Grotto at the Playboy Mansion, that’s for sure!
I want you to imagine an enormous warehouse. Huge. Big enough to comfortably house, say, a DC-9. It might be even bigger, but the bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling only dimly illuminate the raw and rather dirty walls and concrete floor, so the furthest corners simply fade into unmeasurable blackness.
There’s some detritus here and there — pallets, tarps, boxes — but it’s mostly empty, except for four cars parked in the center of the room, and in one far corner, an RV. A gallery runs around the perimeter of the room, at second-floor height. The lights don’t reach it, so it’s impossible to see what — or who — is up there.
And in one corner of this vast, chilly room, there’s a hot tub. And in that hot tub, quite alone, and naked, is me — lounging against the jets and smiling to myself at the oddity of it. Here I am, in what is arguably the kinkiest place in town, and I am engaged in that most vanilla of all the pseudo-sexy experiences, hot-tubbing. Alone. Edgy, huh? Not so much.
I am choosing to ignore the fact that there is a security camera nearby, and there is a security guard sitting, with a bank of screens in front of him, just a few hundred feet away from me. He’s around a corner, out of sight, but there is no door between us. But what the hell – if the camera is on, and he sees me – well then, he sees me. It seems silly to cavil, when after tomorrow, he’ll be able to very easily buy much better quality images of me. (However, he has been strictly polite and professional to me, not so much as a flicker of anything else, even when we had to go exploring together to find this hot tub. He himself was unaware that it here, and while his English seems fluent enough, he literally did not know the meaning of the phrase “hot tub”. He seemed a little confused even when I pulled off the cover and showed it to him, splashing my hand in the water. But he shrugged and left me to it.)
Soon I will get out, dry myself, and go up the stairs and down the long hallway to the little dormitory-style room I was assigned and go to bed. My shoot doesn’t begin too early, but I have a feeling the building will come to life tomorrow morning and be a very different place than the silent, echoing place it is now.
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Monday, November 16th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
There’s a long and pedestrian business article here about the decline of the Playboy empire and the signs (faint though they are) that Hugh Hefner may finally, at age 83, be tired of maintaining his playboy image. But what struck me was the abject cluelessness of the last three paragraphs, two of which (after subtracting a paragraph of standard-story boilerplate filler) propose Kink.com’s Peter Acworth as the next “Mr. Playboy”:
But if Hefner sells up, who might take his place as Mr Playboy? The leading contender is Midlands-born Peter Acworth, a former Barings banker and founded of Kink.com, a suite of S&M and bondage-themed websites.
Acworth, 39, says he got the idea after he read in a British tabloid about a fireman who sold pornographic pictures on the internet. “He had made a quarter of a million pounds over a short period doing nothing very clever at all. So I basically just ripped off that idea.”
It’s a long way from bunny ears; Kink.com’s brand icon is a forked tail.
On the one hand, it’s illuminating that Kink.com should be considered one of the strongest brands in porn, that it could be compared to Playboy in any fashion. But this business writer — although clear on the meaning of the Playboy brand — has obviously failed to grasp the central branding connotations that have made Kink.com what it is today. Playboy has always had an iconic individual (Hefner) living it up with the models, with a wink and a nudge as to the propriety of same. (To be fair, Playboy’s photographers have a reputation for running clean and professional shoots.) But Kink.com is known for being holier than the Pope when it comes to professionalism and clean dealing with its models. It needs this reputation because of the edgy nature of its kinky material. Trying to cast Acworth in a Hefnerian role — something he’s shown no sign of wanting — would be an epic disaster for the brand.
It’s probably true that we’ll see Acworth, along with a rich cast of his dominant hirelings, being waited on hand and foot by naked slaves once the forthcoming reality-show site The Upper Floor (think Roissy meets Real World) goes live on the top floor of his San Francisco Armory castle of kink. But for Hefner-level striving-after-celebrity, he’d need to pull up at the Erotic Exotic Ball in a carriage pulled by a dozen prancing pony girls, and I don’t think we’ll see him going there.
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
The shooting conditions and model treatment during the production of kinky porn has been a recurrent topic of discussion here at Eros Blog. From severe European caning videos (here and here) to purest San Francisco kink (here and here), what it’s like to be the “done unto” model is always interesting to hear about.
Thus I viewed with fascination a cautionary video published by Kink.com last month about an Everything Butt shoot that featured a ginger figging. The ginger plug vanished up the model’s butt (Figging.com says they may have carved it wrong) and we get to see how they handled it, with narration by the model.
It’s all very calm and professional, although the visuals may raise your hair — at one point in the video, they’ve got a huge metal anal-retractor device in her bottom and it put me in mind of that immortal lyric from the end of Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean:
“With jacks and timbers they started back down,
Then came a rumble, way down in the ground.
Smoke and gas belched out of that mine
and everybody knew it was the end of the line
for Big John.”
Fig-carving art is from the Figging.com blog post about the incident, which also has a lot of details from the video.
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