FetLife
FetLife is a popular BDSM and fetish community, claiming to be for kinksters by kinksters.
It has a huge number of specialist discussion groups. All users may create their own profiles and picture galleries, and contact other members.
www.Fetlife.com website Updated: May 2009 |
FetLife is a FREE Social Network for the BDSM & fetish community.
Similar to Facebook and mySpace but run by kinksters like you and me. We think it is more fun that way. Don't you?
- Your kinky friends are already on here
- With 163,019 members, there is a good chance they are already on FetLife. Find them, message them, share pictures with them and see what they are up to.
- A great way to make new kinky friends
- Don't tell me you are full up on kinky friends.
- FetLife is not a meat market
- And that is why it works. Fewer trolls, less BS and more real people.
- People on FetLife accept you as you
- It gives you a place to learn, share and explore your kinks.
- Get in touch with your local community
- Without the trouble of signing up for newslists and endless streams of emails.
- There are over 619 upcoming events listed
- Discover events near you and find out who is going to them.
- Join one of over 6,426 Groups
- Our groups a great place to ask questions, get advice & give advice to/from a large portion of the community.
- It has a simple design and interface
- We are proud of the design. It is simple and gets out of your way.
- Designed by the community, for the community
- We are not a faceless corporation. We are kinksters just like you.
www.Fetlife.com website Updated: May 2009 |
FetLife is a FREE Social Network for the BDSM & fetish community.
Similar to Facebook and mySpace but run by kinksters like you and me. We think it is more fun that way. Don't you?
- Your kinky friends are already on here
- With 163,019 members, there is a good chance they are already on FetLife. Find them, message them, share pictures with them and see what they are up to.
- A great way to make new kinky friends
- Don't tell me you are full up on kinky friends.
- FetLife is not a meat market
- And that is why it works. Fewer trolls, less BS and more real people.
- People on FetLife accept you as you
- It gives you a place to learn, share and explore your kinks.
- Get in touch with your local community
- Without the trouble of signing up for newslists and endless streams of emails.
- There are over 619 upcoming events listed
- Discover events near you and find out who is going to them.
- Join one of over 6,426 Groups
- Our groups a great place to ask questions, get advice & give advice to/from a large portion of the community.
- It has a simple design and interface
- We are proud of the design. It is simple and gets out of your way.
- Designed by the community, for the community
- We are not a faceless corporation. We are kinksters just like you.
FetLife is a social networking website that serves people interested in BDSM, Fetishism and Kink. It describes itself as similar to Facebook and MySpace but run by kinksters. It is also private, in that membership is required to view content. The site is not indexed by search engines.
Membership is free and includes all features except access to videos uploaded by members. Donations to FetLife give the member access to videos as well. As of November 27, 2009 the site claims the following statistics:
- 297,251 members
- 985,069 pictures
- 3,960 videos
- 328,158 discussion threads
- 11,669 discussion groups
- 964 event listings
- 165,473 blog posts Fetlife home page, retrieved November 27, 2009.]
History
FetLife was launched in January 2008 by John Baku, a software engineer in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. When he saw Fetish Social launch, he decided to copy the idea. Frustrated by his attempts to find women who had the same fetishes as he did, Baku created a website in 2007 called FriendsWithFetishes (FWF). While working on release 2.0 of FWF, Baku decided to launch it as a separate site and named it FetLife.
Baku designed the site to be an online community rather than a dating site. Unimpressed by existing dating sites catering to alternative sexuality, he set out to create an "non-dating site." For example, he deliberately limited the search feature to prevent the site from being used only for matching users with specific characteristics. Another community feature Baku added is a group of volunteer greeters that welcome new members individually.
Visitors to FetLife see a front page featuring photos submitted by members specifically for the front page.
Features
Members may create a personal profile and list which fetishes they are into or are curious about. They can also upload pictures and videos, including explicit ones often rejected by other sites. They can write journal entries called Writings, and send and receive private messages called Conversations with other members.
Groups on FetLife are subject categories in which users may start Discussions. Events are listings of in-person events such as conventions, workshops, parties, and meetings to which members can RSVP as going, maybe going, or not going.
Technology
FetLife runs on a custom NGINX variant of the Ubuntu/Debian distribution of GNU/Linux; it was adapted from the brightbox version.
Banned Users Controversy
In September 2008 a user of the site registered a complaint against FetLife and John Baku with online fraud website Ripoff Report, The complaint alleged that FetLife arbitrarily banned 30-40 users who were originally members of dating site Bondage.com, due to disagreements with FetLife administrators ("caretakers"). Since then there have been numerous other complaints about similar violations and which also include discriminatory behavior though it did not say what classes may have been included in the discrimination. It was noted that Fetlife administrators had forwarded letters to the original claimants however that fact is in dispute.
See also
External links
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