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This week in kink: October 19, 2020

October 17, 2020 By Desdemona 2 Comments

Everyone has been affected in some way by the pandemic!

Click below to learn how Jumbo’s Clown Room dancers in East LA are making the most of these trying times by offering virtual shows!

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Pornhub launches “Not My Job” campaign to introduce their new sex toy line.

Their campaign is designed to advocate for their new line in a light, comical way by showing that household items are not the best option when it comes to finding ways to play.

Their new sex toys are sure to give everyone lots of interesting things to play with while we continue to be in our homes more than ever!

Click below to read more! This riveting article is brought to us by Hypebeast.

Curious about exploring BDSM with your partner?

This week Well + Good gives four essential tips on how to bring kink into your relationship.

This article is littered with communication and interpersonal tips.

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4 Tips For Proudly Introducing Kink Into Your Relationship, According to a Sexologist

Have some kinky news to share? Tell us about any upcoming BDSM events, new products, dungeon openings / closings, kink in mainstream media, and anything else you think kinky folks might be interested to hear about. Send your tips through to kinkweekly@gmail.com, and it might just end up on next week’s “This Week in Kink.”

This week in kink: October 12, 2020

October 10, 2020 By Desdemona 2 Comments

Is there a correlation between increased BDSM business and the Trump administration?

Is the social and political climate impacting people’s sexual desires?

Has the pandemic been a catalyst for an increase in kink?

Mistress Iris answers all of these thought-provoking questions in this riveting article brought to us by the Daily Beast!

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-dominatrix-on-why-bdsm-business-is-booming-during-trump-and-covid?ref=scroll

Australia’s best nudist resort hits the market after 20 years!

The owner wants to move to Thailand.

They offer a wide variety of classes, sexy accomodations, tantric massages, and so much more!

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Australia’s best nudist retreat is hitting the market for the first time in 20 years

Love erotic photography?

If so, check out the amazing work of Mark McKnight!

His images touch on the positivity and vibrance that comes with expressing one’s sexuality to another individual. His work is quite moving, and has a sensual/sweet and naughty flare all at the same time.

Click below to find out more!

Have some kinky news to share? Tell us about any upcoming BDSM events, new products, dungeon openings / closings, kink in mainstream media, and anything else you think kinky folks might be interested to hear about. Send your tips through to kinkweekly@gmail.com, and it might just end up on next week’s “This Week in Kink.”

Darkroom Photography

September 5, 2017 By anniebear 3 Comments

I had the pleasure of speaking with photographer Kate Michaels of Darkroom Photography about what makes her tick, learning the tricks of the trade form a landscape photographer, and why her style makes her a cut above. -anniebear

Photo by Kate Michaels

Kate Michaels: “I got into the Dallas community about a year and a half ago. They are a very tight knit and close community so a lot of them are my friends and supporters.

I like the black and white edginess. I do have color photos obviously. The fact that I’m a female photographer, I’m young, and I’m totally open minded so as long as everyone is consenting then they can do whatever they want to do as long as everything is consensual. I think people are really comfortable with me.

I would love to do suspension photography. Unfortunately I do not know how to do it but I think its very pretty. I have a couple friends who have made a study out of it. I get the psychology of BDSM as a whole and what that openness feels like. And to have yourself totally open to somebody is a completely surreal experience and I don’t think most vanilla couples ever feel that. I hadn’t felt that before.

I’ve always known I had an eye for it. I had a friend of mine that was a landscape photographer and I asked him to teach me about cameras and he did and I took it and ran with it. I did my first actual boudoir shoot in August of 2015 with myself using a tripod and remote.

I would love to do more hardcore BDSM shoots with couples in addition to parties and singles. Those things really interest me.”

Photographer: Kate Michaels

See more of her work atwww.DarkroomPhotographyOnline.com.

Mention this article and receive $100 off your photoshoot with Darkroom Photography!

Kate Michaels founded Darkroom Photography in 2015 after years of searching for a specific experience. Based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Kate had always kept an eye on boudoir photography as an art form, but was less then moved by cookie-cutter “shopping mall” boudoir photography. Kate wanted to be the photographer that would allow couples who had been married decades, to live out the fantasy of becoming models in the erotic images seen online. Additionally, the Lifestyle and BDSM communities needed a confidential way to capture their brand of erotica in a classy and non-judgmental setting. In 2015, Darkroom Photography was formed to serve a specific need; to allow clients to live out their fantasies, to empower, and to provide a boudoir experience that is unique, edgy, and erotic.

Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art

August 21, 2017 By Richard Perez Seves Leave a Comment

We’re delighted to feature this labor of love on Kink Weekly from a new contributor. If you’re at all a fan of fetish art or erotica, then this book will be right up your alley. We are able to feature only a few snippets. You can order the full book here.

CHARLES GUYETTE (1902 – 1976) is rightly considered the godfather of American fetish art. In fact, his fetish art operation was the first of its kind in America, dealing in what was then generally regarded as “deviant” European-inspired material. In 1935, he was arrested and sent to federal prison. But what should’ve been the end was just the beginning. Although rarely credited by name in his lifetime, he influenced everyone who would follow him, particularly the publishers Robert Harrison, John Willie, Irving Klaw, and Leonard Burtman. The aim of this book was to evoke the spirit of Guyette—to collect surviving fragments of a decimated catalog largely by referencing vintage fetish publications from the 1930s through the 1980s and reconstruct a lost history. This portfolio of images is followed by biographical information seen nowhere else, and serves as a substantial introduction to the birth of American fetish art and the cultural impact of an unrecognized pioneer.

A look inside the book-some of Guyette's work. — A look inside the book-some of Guyette’s work.

For those interested in the roots of fetish fashion that extend to the present day and fashion designers like Alexander McQueen, Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Dior, this book may be of interest. For those interested in costume play, or those fascinated by mysterious masked ladies, corseted cuties, all sorts of exotic boots and shoes, this book may incite peculiar curiosity.

You can also learn more from this video.

About the author:
Collector and writer Richard Pérez Seves is obsessed with American vintage fetish art—and the work of pioneers like Charles Guyette, John Willie, Irving Klaw, Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, and Bettie Page. He is also the author of the upcoming (2018) hardcover illustrated biography, Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground.