FetLife
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FetLife is a social networking website that serves people interested in BDSM, fetishism, and kink. It distinguishes itself from competitors by emphasizing itself as a social network rather than a dating site.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- social networking service
- Official website
- fetlife.com
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- number of registered users/contributors
- 8382382
- language of work or name
- Norwegian
- inception
- 2008-01-03
- review score
- 2.1/5 (Poor)
- FAQ URL
- fetlife.com/help
- programmed in
- Ruby on Rails
- source code repository URL
- github.com/fetlife
- service status information URL
- fetlifestatus.com
- social media followers
- 85307
- translation contribution URL
- crowdin.com/project/fetlife
- contact page URL
- fetlife.com/contact
- privacy policy URL
- fetlife.com/legal/privacy-policy-zvlij
- terms of service URL
- fetlife.com/legal/terms-of-use-hwfvu
- search formatter URL
- fetlife.com/search?q=$1
- performer age-compliance documentation URL
- fetlife.com/legal/2257-exemption-qr23c
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- Controversies
- Racism controversy
- Murders connected to the website
- 2017 death of Yingying Zhang
- 2023 deaths of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan
- References
- External links
FetLife is a social networking website that serves people interested in BDSM, fetishism, and kink. It distinguishes itself from competitors by emphasizing itself as a social network rather than a dating site.
==History== FetLife was launched on January 3, 2008, by John Kopanas (also known by his username John Baku), a software engineer in Montreal, Quebec. Frustrated by attempts to find women who had the same sexual interests as he did, Baku created a website in 2007 called "FriendsWithFetishes". While working on release 2.0 of FriendsWithFetishes, Baku decided to launch it as a separate site and named it FetLife. James Golick served as chief technology officer. In 2009 Baku received the Community Choice (Man) Award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.
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