{"id":5596,"date":"2018-06-29T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.forttroff.com\/blog\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2021-10-19T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:06:32","slug":"why-kink-pride-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.forttroff.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/why-kink-pride-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kink Pride Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Beastly | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/badalexcheves\" target=\"_blank\">@BadAlexCheves<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey you. Yes, you. If you are reading this, I am assuming some things about you \u2014 that you\u2019re at least aware that we\u2019re coming to the final days of LGBT Pride month, and that you\u2019re into some disgusting stuff. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want you to be into disgusting stuff. I want you to be kinky and love sex. I want this blog and this brand to be a standard-bearer for sex and kink positivity. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don\u2019t talk about that enough \u2014 about kink positivity, the open celebration of \u201cnontraditional\u201d sex and sexual lifestyles. This \u201cwe\u201d I speak of is us, the team at Fort Troff, but also the \u201cwe\u201d of the larger LGBTQ community, who can be credited with the invention and expansion of kink and BDSM. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sure, straight folks will someday claim they invented bondage with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fifty Shades of Grey<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but we know the truth. We come from the leather dungeons of SoMa and The Saint in New York. We know that the leather and fetish communities were among the first to mobilize against AIDS \u2014 a crisis that still disproportionately affects men who have sex with men, particularly men of color, and transgender women. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were there when Mineshaft brought fisters together for sweaty underground fist parties, when the Bulldog Baths were filled with men from all corners of the globe experiencing their first taste of sexual freedom. We were there when our friends and lovers were dying. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We talk about this past \u2014 about the bacchanalia of the pre-plague years and the devastation and activism that followed \u2014 as a tumultuous, virulent time. So much discussion of that time paints sex in a dark light \u2014 it was, after all, what fueled a disease nobody understood. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, we can see the payoff of so much grassroots antagonism, so much activism and lobbying and fighting. New drugs to treat and prevent HIV appear every year. Meds allow our HIV-positive brothers to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preventionaccess.org\/undetectable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">undetectable and unable to transmit the virus<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/prepfacts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PrEP<\/a> has empowered HIV-negative guys with the ability to protect themselves from HIV. The fight isn\u2019t over yet, but we\u2019ve come a very long way. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, we need to see the vital role our kink communities played in bringing us together and fighting the disease. Our kinks made us stronger. BDSM gave us space to talk about sexual health and sexual fulfillment. Kink has given countless HIV-positive men \u2014 myself included \u2014 a way to have safer sex, a way to experience intense connection without fluid transmission. Kink has given us a platform to push our fetishes into the public sphere, to combat sex-negativity and body-shame. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We must look at the present \u2014 a tumultuous and virulent time by all accounts \u2014 and see our kink as more than just the stuff we do on a Saturday night. Kink positivity must once again be a cause for activism and revolt.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kink now lives online \u2014 and our free internet has been under attack since the start of the Trump administration. 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