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ORIGINAL: Darkfeather

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ORIGINAL: Charles6682

I can't say much for Kink.com as I've never shot videos for them and I've never really seen any of their videos. The only thing I can say about video's is from the experience I have shooting for video companies. I have shot for a number of different video producers by now, all Fem/Dom-Male/Sub videos. The very first video company I shot for (whom I'll keep nameless) use to focus soley on Beatdown style video's. Meaning where the Girl is beating up the Guy. That video company was usually in the Top 10 on Clips4sale for years, that's how well those videos sold. The owner of that company use to love bragging about how what they did was NOT "Safe,Safe and Consensual". He didn't just disregard those 3 words, he would literally mock those 3 words in some of the video description. The videos would become more "extreme" as time went by because that's what "sold" the best. Eventually, these videos became so brutal that the video producer was having trouble finding guys. Soon enough, that producer had trouble finding guys to do this on a regular basis because of how extreme the videos were. "Safewords" were intentionally ignored. Finally, after awhile,a few guys finally sued the video producer and one of the girls. I never had anything to do with those lawsuits because I did know what I was getting into. However, finding random guys from anywhere to shoot to fill the void backfired.

That company is now out of business. The owner got arrested and so did one of the girls. They are both sitting in jail (over 1 year later) and the owner was slapped with a $14,000 fine from his civil trial. I don't think they think "Safe,Sane and Consensual" is a joke anymore or intentionally ignoring "safewords" either.

Since that first company I shot for went under, I have shot videos for more respectable video producers since and they have all been very professional and respectful.

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This, I believe, is your albatross my friend. This mentality. You are going to find morons and psychos in any line of work, not just kink. But to concentrate solely on "safewords" and "Safe, Sane, Consensual" and other associated acronyms... Have you ever watched a mixed martial arts fight? Two guys beating the crap out of each other for 3 five minute rounds. Kicks to the ribs, punches to the jaw, elbows to the nose. And yet even amidst all that chaos there are rules. When the fights first started being televised, just hit the scene, there were few rules. The fight lasted until winner by tap or knockout (I remember one fight that lasted over 2 hours, and yep it was boring). You could hit pretty much anywhere as long as your opponent could defend, kicks to the groin, biting, kidney strikes. Being "safe" and still doing something risky, is by far not the domain of the kinky. And yet scores of other high risk thrill seekers seem to find that balance without this level of "the sky is falling"