Kink.com NSFW has been in headlines ever since it bought a historic San Francisco building -- the deal closed on December 29 -- and began to renovate for use as a studio and event venue (SFArmory.com). A few neighborhood people protested the move, more sex-friendly people supported it, and meanwhile the Kink.com team started sweeping and dusting and making the building look like the $14.5 million they paid for it.
I suspect the only reason this has become a "scandal" is that the company is not only successful enough to make such a purchase, it also produces content outside the mainstream. Suddenly it's not that they make adult movies, it's that they made adult movies that use props and machines and the internet.
Seattle-based Dan Savage has something to say about that:
The two adult websites I visit for pleasure rather than work, on those rare occasions I actually do so, are both Kink.com properties. I'm sure it will be business as usual soon enough, and I look forward to seeing what comes out of the new space.
