Filed under: Fetish & the Internet, Forum Erotica | Tags: adult entertainment, Bay Guardian, BDSM, fetish, Fuckingmachines, Hogtied, kink, Peter Acworth, San Francisco Armory
A few weeks ago, someone very kindly brought me a copy of the San Francisco Bay Guardian featuring a 3 page article on the Donald Trump of Fetish, Mr. Peter Acworth.
The article centred on Mr. Acworth’s $14.5 million purchase of the former San Francisco Armory which, at 200,000 square feet, is the largest space devoted to the production of fetish content in the western world.
Acworth in the Armory
Fascinating information was revealed about Mr. Acworth and his Kink.com empire, not least that he is English (and aren’t most fetish pornographers?), his Mom is a sculptor and his Dad is a former Jesuit priest.
Filed under: Fetish & the Internet, Lifestyle Roles, News | Tags: Carl La Fong, Carla Fong, Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times, Lifestyle Roles, Silverton, Stu Rasmussen, Transgendered, Westboro Baptist Church
No, I’m not Carla Fong.
The name’s Fong, Carl La Fong. Not Carla Fong.
My phone rang early this morning due to a front page story that appeared in today’s Los Angeles Times, under Kim Murphy’s byline.
Turns out there’s a Mayor of a small town - Silverton, Oregon – called Stu Rasmussen. During his first couple of terms as Mayor of this former lumber town, Mayor Rasmussen was, in his own words, “a very straight-looking guy”. The Mayor is a software engineer and the long time manager of the local cinema.
Filed under: Fetish & the Internet, News | Tags: adult entertainment, fetish, kink, Peter Acworth, pornography revenues, US pornography
Clearly, in planning new fetish sites, I’m not coming out of retirement to spend money on a recreational activity. Some people might see my work, photographing beautiful women in erotic situations, as the best job in the world – and it’s certainly better than digging ditches – but I’m here not just to have fun and provide great content but to make modest profits.
The adult industry makes huge revenues. Total revenue from US pornography is estimated around $12 billion/year. That’s up 35% from the years immediately prior to the internet explosion. There’s a couple of companies out there who make over $120 million/year. The best fetish company in the US, Peter Acworth’s Kink.com, estimates earnings north of $16 million/year.
Filed under: Fetish & Art, Fetish & Erotica, News | Tags: Allen Jones, Bob Carlos Clarke, Fetish & Art, Fetish Photography, Helmut Newton, London Fetish Scene, The Commander, The Dark Summer
I was over in London recently, went through my storage, and brought back a couple of limited edition framed fetish-erotic prints, signed by photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.
Bob Carlos Clarke 1950-2006
I remember buying them in a Fulham gallery sometime in 1985, after some lengthy bargaining with the dealer. They’re from a series Carlos Clarke called “The Dark Summer” – part of a collection he published that year in one of those big coffee-table books that few of us can afford.
The prints have good frames and I had space on my walls – so I hung them up, and everyone who comes by my office admires them, especially women. It was a shock then, on doing a quick google search for recent news on the photographer, to learn that Bob Carlos Clarke had struggled with clinical depression and had committed suicide by train in 2006.
