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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Van Darkholme & Kink.com

posted by on April 22 at 11:57 AM

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The last time gay porntrepreneur Van Darkholme—of the BondoGods video series and the recent book Male Bondage—made an appearance on a website other than his own, Bill Donohue’s Catholic League was using Van to terrify the suits at Miller Beer.

Well, this week Kink.com—the SF-based online BDSM porn empire (here’s a great write-up of Kink.com in The New York Times Magazine)—announced that they’ve hired Van to create a gay BDSM porn site for them. Kink.com currently runs 13 sites—WiredPussy, Device Bondage, Hogtied, etc.—and all of them are straight. (And yes, in my opinion, TS Seduction is a straight site.) Did I mention that Kink.com is based in SF? Home to, you know, lots of gay men? Some of them very, very kinky?

They were aware of the oversight. Says Kink.com…

Having been searching for someone to help them break into the gay market for over a year, Kink.com is thrilled to have finally found Van. His unique background and impressive body of work made him the perfect choice to develop Kink.com’s next new website.

Van—who’s been a guest expert in “Savage Love”—discusses his new gig at BehindKink, Kink.com’s blog.

Congrats, Van!

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Kink.com moved into the old armory at 14th and Valencia, just across the street from my old apartment. It's frickin' massive. I knew I should've stuck around and waited for them to get into gay bdsm so I could apply for a job.

Posted by Colin | April 22, 2008 4:47 PM
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Kink.com used to have some gay sites, buttmachineboys.com and malewank.com, but they didn't do very well apparently. Hope they have more success with this one.

Posted by kinkfan | April 22, 2008 9:22 PM
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Right across the street from me, and I'd like to say, have been very good neighbors.

Posted by Dougsf | April 23, 2008 4:43 PM

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