Of Bondage And Business Management: How The Internet Turned Kink Into An Industry — forbes.com

I have always suspected that what now passes for kink used to just be called sex. After 20 years of living with the mass Internet, sexual experimentation has become a specialist racket, a place one visits if one can afford the gear, like a scuba diving vacation in the Caribbean. The times have made us bizarrely conservative as a precondition to selling us back normalcy as if it were an exotic good. Kink.com is among the biggest industrial authorities on sexual deviance. Famously run from the abandoned Armory building in San Francisco’s Mission District, the company began under the name Hogtied.com in a dorm room at Columbia University in 1997. Peter Acworth was in his first year of a PhD program in finance and decided to mix his interests in bondage and business management.

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