Things That Would Happen if Fetlife Removed Commercial Profiles

For-profit events would drop off the face of the planet.

Fetlife is the only kink site big enough to give kinksters all over the world access to kink events. Other developers have tried to fill the same need and failed. I don’t know about your city, but here in Cape Town, most event hosts are going professional because running free events is a thankless task. Let’s do a quick survey of my events tab:

• Event one: For-profit munch-type party.

• Event Two: For-profit educational event.

• Event Three: For-profit slumber party.

• Event Four: For-profit munch-type party.

• Event Five: For-profit rope class.

• Event Six: For-profit kink club event.

The idea of nuking events won’t bother you if you’re a vanilla guy who’s using Fetlife for something that’s inconsistent with its actual intention. If you’re just here to find slutty unicorns and missionary sex with some anal thrown in, you won’t be too attached to play parties. However, if you’re part of Fetlife’s target demographic, the inability to follow events in your city would be catastrophic to your kink life.

Fetlife would lose a major income stream

See the box on the top right of your screen? That’s an advert. Ads bring in revenue so that Fetlife can afford to run this website. If you’re a vanilla guy looking for easy sex, you probably don’t have a Fetlife membership, which is another way Fetlife covers its expenses. If we removed adverts, Fetlife might fold.

You wouldn’t be able to buy beautiful, bespoke toys from kinky people

I have a friend who’s a gifted woodworker. He makes exquisite walnut and copper paddles and split-handled canes. You won’t find toys like that in Fetlife adverts, so it’s just as well we have our fair share of independent toymakers. If you’re here for vanilla missionary sex with some anal thrown in, their absence won’t affect you, but kinky folks quite like buying handmade toys.

Kinky podcasts would vanish

I have three talented friends sharing important knowledge about kink and consent through their podcasts. One of them has more CNC knowledge than just about anyone else on this site. I’d even go so far as to say she’s creating ethics that we’ve never defined before, and the only reason she can find time to share it is because she’s monetised her profile. Without her voice, the kink scene would be a fraction of what it is today. This won’t affect you if you’re a vanilla guy, but the rest of us value our educators.

If you want commercial profiles nuked from the site, you have to remove all of them, not just the ones you find annoying. Fetlife has always made room for sex workers, pro dommes and event hosts. Sex workers have played a pivotal role in creating the kink scene we know and love today, They fought for this community back when BDSM was still deemed pathological by the mental health industry, so banning them would be like banning chefs from restaurants and artists from galleries.

They’re far more intrinsic to our community than vanilla people looking for missionary sex. If you don’t like the kink scene as it is today, perhaps it’s not Only Fans that’s a poor fit. Maybe it’s vanilla folk trying to use Fetlife as a dating site.

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