Kink.com Hires Van Darkholme For Gay Site
New Offering to Include Bondage, Sex, Muscle Worship
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco erotica studio Kink.com announced that it will be entering the gay market, hiring established director, star and rope bondage expert Van Darkholme. The resulting site, the name of which has not been announced, will go live in 2008.
“I'm really honored to become a member of the Kink family,” said Darkholme. “I've been told that I bring a unique creative vision to my work; I plan to build on this at Kink's premier production facilities in a city that is arguably the fetish capital of the world. I've been doing bondage for many years, but I see this as a new beginning. My kinky juices are definitely flowing.”
Kink.com founder and CEO Peter Acworth said: "We're excited to be able to put the resources of the Armory at the disposal of Van Darkholme, who has been producing top-notch bondage entertainment for years. He brings a unique perspective on male BDSM, and his Shibari skills, to Kink.com, where I know he’ll thrive and continue to produce amazingly hot, kinky work."
In addition to being a performer for the likes of Titan Media and Can-Am Studios and delivering a much talked-about live bondage show, since 2001 Darkholme has operated Muscle Bound Productions, releasing about a dozen films featuring muscular studs in bondage. Darkholme is known as a devoted practitioner of Shibari, an elaborate and artful form of rope bondage that originated in Japan.
Darkholme is also widely known as an erotic fine art photographer. Bruno Gmunder recently published Darkholme's book of bondage nudes, Male Bondage.
Darkholme says the new site will feature explicit sex combined with bondage, spanking, flogging, and more. Darkholme promises that another of his favorite fetishes, muscle worship, will be well represented.
Kink.com is known as the leading online studio in BDSM and fetish erotica, with sites in the straight and girl-girl fetish categories, including Hogtied.com, WhippedAss.com, WiredPussy.com, MenInPain.com, SexAndSubmission.com, and TheTrainingOfO.com. Its site UltimateSurrender.com features hardcore lesbian fetish wrestling, and FuckingMachines.com features women performing with the widest assortment of sex machines offered anywhere. In 2007, Kink.com launched TSSeduction.com, its first transsexual fetish site.
In 2007, Kink.com relocated its studios and offices to the San Francisco Armory, a former National Guard building with a variety of dungeon and institutional environments that now serve as locations for erotic entertainment. Darkholme's new site will make use of these locations.
More information about Kink.com can be found at www.Kink.com; more information about Darkholme is available at www.VanDarkholme.com. Webmasters interested in promoting Kink.com content, including the new site, can visit www.kinkydollars.com or email the Kink.com affiliate manager at terry@kink.com.
ABOUT KINK.COM: San Francisco erotica studio Kink.com provides authentic fetish entertainment that seeks to demystify alternative sexualities and inspire sexual adventurers. Since the launch of its first site, Hogtied.com, in 1997, Kink.com has developed a network of premium adult sites that now operate from studios in the San Francisco Armory, a decommissioned National Guard facility with sets ranging from dungeons to luxurious pieds-à-terre. Kink.com also operates a free documentary site at BehindKink.com and the leading fetish affiliate network, KinkyDollars.com.
