Sexual Deviants Living In A Web 2.0 World

In just about three weeks we have reached the 100+ Kinksters registered to FetLife mark. With just under 50 kinksters signing up in the last 48 hours alone!

We could of not gotten these numbers if it was not for the support of our members. Our members have really been spreading the word of FetLife like rage weed. I would love to mention names but once I start mentioning names I have no clue when to stop and I am always afraid to forget someone. So if you have told at least one person about FetLife then I thank you very very much! :-)

I am a huge stats geek so here is a couple of stats:

• 117 users have signed up so far (37 Women, 79 Men)
• These 117 users span 10+1 countries (Canada, United States, Netherlands, Malaysia, France, Australia, Lebanon, Austria, United Kingdom, United States Minor Outlying Islands(?), Norway)
• 106 pictures have been uploaded
• 183 Conversations have been started
• 22 new fetishes have been added for a total of 127 different fetishes
• 41 friendships have been forged

All these numbers and the great feedback I have been getting from the new members are driving me to get back into development mode so I can push some more fixes and features out the door.

Thanks again everyone and if you have any feedback on how I can improve the site please don’t hesitate to write them in the comments section or contact me directly on FetLife. Peace out! :-)

One feature was a request that I am still not so sure about and the other was my sub-conscious’. :-)

The one I am not so sure about (i.e. not so comfortable about) is being able to write about yourself on your profile. I am not sure it is necessary… I prefer to watch what people are doing on the site instead of reading their about information which ends up getting stail really quickly. But since we are experimenting right now we will see how it goes :-p.

The feature I find myself using a lot already… only after deploying it 30 minutes ago… is the ability to switch between seeing what your friends have been up to on the site and what everyone has been up to. Before you could only see your friends! :-)

Tell me what you guys think!

Two quick updates from yesterday, if you login to your profile you can now upload as many pictures as you want to your profile and you can easily change between which of your pictures you want to use are your profile pic.

Also, I fixed a bug that decided to show it’s ugly head just recently. When I have been logging in recently it looked like nobody was doing anything on the site for a couple days and I was like no… come on… that is impossible. I finally realized that the logic in my algorithm for displaying each users mini-feed was broken was not taking the last 30 things their friends were doing on the site but the first 30 things. Which makes no sense, hence I fixed it! :-)

I just love Jay Leno style interviews. They are so stupid but I can’t help but laugh. A Jay Leno style interview for me is where the interviewer just asks really funny questions to random people on the street or at an event (I have no clue how else to describe it). In this case random people are in Las Vegas for the 2008 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.

Check it out:

I feel stupid but I have a question. What is “Shiza(?) Porn”?

We talked a lot about FriendsWithFetishes 2.0 launching soon but at the last minute we decided to leave FriendsWithFetishes intact and launch what we were working on as a seperate site. That seperate site being FetLife.com.

FetLife is the a social network like Facebook and mySpace but specifically made for the fetish and alternative lifestyle communities. It is not another paid dating site where you can’t do anything unless you are a paid member. FetLife is free as in Facebook and mySpace free. No scams, not tricks, we built the site for us and we are cheap bastards so if we wouldn’t pay how can we expect anyone else too :-).

Check out FetLife.com and tell us what you think.

We are constantly looking for feedback so don’t hesitate to either submit it here in the comments section or email me directly at johnbaku [at] sexualdeviants20 [dot] com.

You can opt out of it but I would hate to have to make that call to my ISP. I can just see it now:

• ISP: My name is Sally, how can I help you?
• me: I am horny
• ISP: excuse me?
• me: you heard me, I am friggn horny and I have not been able to take care of it for 3 weeks now… I am about to fuckn go crazy
• ISP: I don’t understand
• me: I have watched all 10 gigs of porn on my computer at least ten times over and it is just not doing it for me anymore… I need new crazier stuff to watch!
• ISP: ohhh… you want to opt-out of our porn filtering policy.
• me: YESSSSS!
• ISP: well… we will need a letter signed from your mother and your wife, and if you do not have a wife then we will need to have a letter signed by your sister, stating that they know that you are sick fuck!
• me: forget about it… I will go back to watching scrambled TV channels

This new was brought to my attention by Morgan Webb. She is hot. See what she has to say about Australia’s porn filtering policy

Bianca Beauchamp is one of the top Latex fetish clothing models in the world and she is based out of Montreal (same place I am based). I am ashamed to say that the first time I heard about her was when I came across the trailer for her reality documentary that her and her partner created through the DrunkStepFather blog (I hate to admit it but I like that Montreal bastard as well). As soon as I came across their documentary “Bianca Beauchamp: All Access” I placed an order right away and it should be coming in any day now. Yeah baby!

This is a quick executive summary of what I have learnt about her from the interviews I watched of her on YouTube.

• she studied to become a teacher
• her boyfriend is her photographer
• her boyfriend is the one who got her into Latex
• she makes, what I gathered, most of her money off her website
• she has posed in both Playboy and Penthouse including probably all the fetish magazines

What I find really cool about Bianca and her partner is that they are using a lot of social media like YouTube to promote themselves. (This is my geek part of my brain speaking.)

Some of My Favorite Interviews With Her

To be very honest my favorite videos of her are from the interviews she has done. I am the type of guy that gets turned on and off based on what comes out of a girls mouth and her smile. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely am into looks but what seals the deal is the girls personality. (yeah, yeah… I am in touch with my feminine side)

All interviews pretty much revolve around the Fetish Weekend that is held in Montreal and done by French Montreal channels. Subtitles are included so don’t bitch! French is one of the most beautiful languages in the world.

The one thing I hated about the interviews was that a lot of the interviewers at one point or another talked down to her. Part of me says they did that because they feel they have to as TV personalities because otherwise they would be promoting something that is not mainstream but come on. One of the most appealing part of Montreal is our openess and acceptance not only of different cultures but the different things that turn people on. Dumb asses!

I digress, here we go now…

This is my favorite interview with her and her boyfriend Martin Perreault on Dutrizac.

Interview done by Mathieu Simard of Flash, a French Montreal TV show. Good interview and good imagery :-).

A 17 minute interview on LCN broken up into two video clips.

Inteview in 2003 about her posing nude in Playboy magazine.

Photo Shoots

For the sexual deviants out their who want to get straight to the photos and photo shoots:

Here she is with blond hair doing a photo shoot for Hype Energy Drink, I think it is her LOL, I much prefer her as a red head… and this is coming from a guy that traditionally only likes blondes.

Booth Babe

She was even a booth babe finalist (to be read winner) awarded by G4 Tech TV at the 2006 E3 where she worked at the SiN Episodes booth. (SiN never really took off but I do not blame Bianca for that.)

Last Words By Jack Handy

I can be here all day linking to video clips of Bianca. I recommend you just check out Bianca’s profile on YouTube. If it was not for her (and her partner) putting all these clips on YouTube I would of had nothing to do for the last two hours.

You can’t get enough of Bianca? I know you can’t! Hell I can’t and I was not even into Latex a week ago. (I hate you vile woman - said in a Stewie Griffin voice.) So I recommend you check out some of her sites:

• Latex Lair - her offical site
• ilovebianca.com - her official online store (order the movie and the book)
• Bianca on Wikipedia - everything Bianca

Peace in the middle east!

I just placed an order for “Bianca Beauchamp: All Access” reality documentary. The documentary follows Bianca, one of the world’s top latex and fetish model, for three days through the 2006(?) Montreal Fetish Weekend.

If anyone asks me why I ordered the movie, my answer, the trailer made me do it!

I am ashamed to say I never heard of Bianca before. She is friggn stunning! (I have never used the word stunning before because I have never meet anyone that deserved that title… now I have.)

You know you wanna take a better glimpse of fetish events through the eyes of Bianca. You can order the DVD either through Amazon (Canada, US) or directly through her website.

I order it directly from her. More money for her. She deserves it.

We are looking for some Beta Testers (to be read guinea pigs) to test out version 2.0 of FWF and give us feedback before we open up the doors to everyone.

We need us much feedback as we can get and not just now but pretty much anytime we can get it. Except when I am in one of my really cranky moods, I really don’t recommend you give me any feedback then, but I only get in one of those modes no more then once or twice a day. :-)

We are making FWF for you as much as we are making it for ourselves! Let’s have fun building the community together. Give peace a chance. (Where the hell did that one come from?)

To become a beta tester email me a johnbaku [at] gmail [dot] com or respond to this post.

If I remember correctly it is just over a year ago when we first launched FriendsWithFetishes.com (FWF). The original idea behind FWF was to help kinksters find other kinksters who they had fetishes in common with.

Who am I kidding with this marketing talk. I pretty much created FWF because I was extremely horny with many fetishes I needed to act on and many more I still wanted to try. The problem was I was not sure their were any girls out their that had the same perverted ways as me. Like a female John. Let me rephrase that, I knew their were girls out their who had the same fetishes as me but they were far and few between and I was not sure how many slaps I could take before just giving up asking. So I figured, their must be a better way and I created FWF.

I have to admit that before launching FWF I knew nothing about the Fet community. I had never been to an event or meet anyone who was involved in the community. It was just me and my sick perverted fetishes :-).

As I was launching FWF I was lucky enough to meet EmJ. She pretty much took me under her wings and introduced me to the Fet community in Toronto. She took me to large parties held at clubs as well as private parties held in people’s homes. I loved all of it. It was like their was another world out their that I never knew existed.

During this time I got the opportunity to meet a lot of great people and learn about the community, relationships, interaction and how it all kind of works. All the things I learnt resulted in me having to re-think everything about FWF.

All the things I learned from EmJ and her friends resulted in FWF 2.0 and we are planning on launching it in the next 7-14 days.

Our elevator pitch for FWF is:

FriendsWithFetishes is like Facebook except for the fact it is being build and run by sexual deviants.

Ok… now what does that mean for FWF? I am a big list guy so this is my Top 10 list for changes in FWF… but their is man more then just 10.

1. FWF is becoming a closed community. The only way to join is if a member invites you. We are going to seed FWF 2.0 to all members of FWF 1.0, Fet event organizers, Fet bloggers and anyone one else we discover is trustworthy and active in the community. This results in a tighter knit community that will reflect existing local communities.

2. It is all about your Friends. We are going to put a lot of emphasis on your relationship with people. Like Facebook you will be able to specify who your friends are and because of the relationship be able to easily keep up to date with what they are doing.

3. Get A Fet Feed. Mini-feeds are addictive. See what pictures your friends have uploaded from recent events, see what fetishes they have become curious about or into and who they have recently became friends with. Keep a pulse on your fetish community in between events.

4. Improved fetish listings. Now you don’t only say if you are into or curious about a fetish but you can specify, to a certain extent, what aspect of the fetish you are into. For instance are you into giving or receiving a spanking or are you just into everything with respect to spanking.

5. EMail Notifications. If you get a message from another member of FWF you will be notified via email. Now I have no excuse for not responding to messages much quicker. Damm… this sucks!

6. Improved Interface. Yeah, your right, improved interface does sound like a bogus improvement. But it is not, soon as you try the new FWF I think you will like how it feels.

And this is just the start.