Kink Scholar
@kinkscholar.bsky.social
He/him. Gay, 50s. Author. Blogger. Queer/CRT researcher. LGBTQ+ history. Leather & fetish culture. Kinkster: gags, hoods, cuffs. Chastity. Fistee. Join me on @theblowers.com NSFW 🔞🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 https://linktr.ee/kinkscholar https://kinkscholar.wordpress.com/
A quiet toilet. Tiles, sweat, and a mouth ready to serve men working at night. The old underground knew: desire was never meant to be respectable. It was meant to be lived. He came because he needed some head. I was pleased to provide it. Join me at The Blowers (@theblowers.com). #gay #men
Yeah, I vanished for a few days. No drama. No crisis. I took an offline holiday. Read a few things. Walked. Now I'm back, batteries charged, head clear, and ready to get back to writing about leather, fags, working men, history, and all the things that make life worth arguing—and fucking—over.
Pride will never be silenced. #Berlin kinkscholar.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/p...
Pride Will Never Be Silenced.
Today, our hearts are with the victims, their families, and everyone who gathered in Berlin simply to celebrate love, freedom, and the right to exist.Pride has never been just a party. It has alway…
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Our hearts are with everyone affected by the attack at CSD Berlin. We stand in solidarity with CSD Berlin and our partners at Kink Needs No Shame, Folsom Europe, BLF and the entire LGBTQIA+ community. Hate will never silence our pride.
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There's like 20 of these but this is pretty emblematic of the genre:
This former American Idol contestant has posted dozens of times about his "cease-and-desist," has said he "might go to jail," and has started a pre-emptive bail fund for himself
Instagram influencers are repeatedly going viral by making fake cease-and-desist letters from Flock that suggest they are at risk by talking about surveillance. These videos have millions of views. Meanwhile, useful projects like DeFlock got actual cease-and-desists www.404media.co/the-rise-of-...
The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout
Instagram influencers are creating fake cease-and-desist letters, making themselves go viral and muddying the waters about mass surveillance.
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Among the countless objects that have quietly disappeared from everyday life, the paper train ticket seems an unlikely candidate for historical reflection. Yet for much of the twentieth century, few objects carried greater significance in the making of gay lives. #gay substack.com/@kinkscholar...
Archaeology of Gay Life: The Train Ticket
Travelling to Another City to Become Oneself
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Every fetish has people asking the same question. "Why?" Why leather? Why boots? Why bondage? Why piss? Let me explain. Why I like piss games. kinkscholar.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/w... #gay
Why I Like Piss Games
Every fetish has people asking the same question.”Why?”Why leather? Why boots? Why bondage? Why piss?The truth is that desire has never been especially interested in respectability. It …
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A wage hike is desperately needed for the American working class, but higher wages can’t pay the bills if you want full-time hours and can’t get them. Legislation mandating a right to full-time work could fix this.
Workers Need a Legal Right to Full-Time Hours
A wage hike is desperately needed for the American working class, but higher wages can’t pay the bills if you want full-time hours and can’t get them. Legislation mandating a right to full-time work could fix this.
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Just got my new Oxballs (@oxballs.bsky.social) urinal gag for watersports, and I'm genuinely impressed by the design and quality. Gear isn't just about looks—it's about how it supports the headspace, ritual, and dynamics that make BDSM so meaningful. Looking forward to putting it to good use. #gay
"The men who shaped my imagination were never influencers. They didn't spend hours sculpting themselves in front of mirrors or worrying about whether strangers approved of them online". I write about @drummermag.bsky.social and the beauty of ordinary men. kinkscholar.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/t...
The Beauty of Ordinary Men
Every generation inherits its own idea of beauty.Ours seems obsessed with perfection.Perfect bodies. Perfect skin. Perfect holidays. Perfect smiles photographed in perfect light. Even masculinity h…
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Today I write on my Substack about the handkerchief and how gay men invented a secret language. #gay #men #language open.substack.com/pub/kinkscho...
The Handkerchief
On the Invention of a Gay Language
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I recommend this article in Gayety (@gayety.bsky.social) about Target Studios and how it shaped our fantasies. #gay open.substack.com/pub/gayety/p...
Target Studios, Gay Erotica, and the Full-Frontal Revolution
Before the internet, gay men found each other through coded catalogs, leather fantasies, and photographs of cocks that made the U.S. Post Office nervous.
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People think flogging is about pain. For me, it's always been about trust. My latest blog post, The Gift of the Lash, is a personal reflection on submission, masculinity, and surrender. #BDSM #gay #flogging kinkscholar.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/t...
The Gift of the Lash: What Flogging Taught Me About Trust, Endurance, And Surrender.
People who have never experienced BDSM often assume that flogging is about pain. It isn’t. At least, it has never been that simple for me. The first time I knelt before a man holding a flogge…
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Mature. White. Privileged. Unapologetically masculine. Desire doesn't ask permission, and neither do I. I know what kind of men make my pulse quicken. In their presence, I remove my slides, get down on my knees, and give them what we both need. Join me at The Blowers (@theblowers.com). #gay
"Privacy is not simply the absence of other people. It is a condition that allows a person to become fully himself. Before many gay men could live openly, they first needed somewhere they could live honestly". I write on Substack about gay private life. #gay #privacy substack.com/@kinkscholar...
Archaeology of A Vanished Gay Life: The Key
A key is one of the least remarkable objects we own.
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Hank Social
Hank Social is a private, 18+ social network for the kink & fetish community — communities, chat, mutual matching, events, and a learning academy.
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The Swedish ship Vasa. She sank shortly after launch in 1628, but thanks to the conditions in the Baltic, which is tide free and has brackish water, her hull was almost perfectly preserved when raised in 1961. #SwedishNavy #Stockholm #Ageofsail
Empowering people to find kink-aware healthcare has been a passion of mine for decades. I wrote about how kinksters, or anyone who engages in any form of adventurous sexuality, can find medical and mental healthcare providers who understand kink. bannon.substack.com/p/finding-ki...
Finding Kink-Aware Healthcare
If you’re kinky or engage in any form of adventurous sexuality, it’s smart to find medical and mental healthcare providers who understand kink.
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The place where cocks and throats meet
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