BDSM.com is a social networking and dating service created especially for the fetish and BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, and Masochism) communities.

Indeed, BDSM.com has been around since the 1990s and was first registered on May 3, 1995.

It predates other significant platforms like FetLife, which debuted in 2008, and Kink.com, which was established in 1997, making it one of the oldest functioning websites devoted to the BDSM community.

Its early beginnings as a social networking and online dating site corresponds with the broader emergence of kink culture during the “Internet Age.”

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BDSM, bondage, roleplay, and specialty fetishes are among the alternative sexual lifestyles that ALT, a reputable online dating website that is geared towards an adult audience looking to hook up, is designed for.

As part of the growth of his online matchmaking business, American internet entrepreneur Andrew Conru, who holds a PhD from Stanford, launched ALT in the late 90s.

ALT’s roots are linked to the development of the larger FriendFinder Networks, originally created as Various, Inc., even though it is an internet dating service that primarily concentrates on the kink and BDSM community.

Conru saw users publishing adult-oriented content on FriendFinder.com when it was launched in 1996, although it was designed for social networking.

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Instead of serving as a conventional dating site, FetLife operates as a “kinky Facebook,” concentrating on community development, conversation, and event planning.

FetLife is a social networking service for the BDSM, fetish, and kink communities.

John Kopanas, a Montreal-based software engineer better known online as John Baku, founded FetLife as an alternative lifestyle website, as opposed to an all-out online dating website.

The website, which debuted on January 3, 2008, was initially created as a second iteration of the “FriendsWithFetishes” initiative from 2007.

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