141 Kinks

Kink isn't a personality, a phase, or a diagnosis.

It's part of how some people are oriented toward intimacy. Treating it that way — without sensationalism, without pathology, without coyness — is harder than it sounds, and the whole tone of everything we build is calibrated for it.

Privacy on this kind of site is architectural, not promotional.

We could collect data and learn interesting things from it; we've designed both tools so that we can't. No accounts, no cookies, no tracking. That's an active choice, and we'd rather wear it as a constraint than print it as a slogan.

Curation means saying no.

We verify dates, contact organizers, visit venues. A directory full of stale or inaccurate listings is worse than no directory at all. The quiz went through the same discipline — items that were really three things wearing one name got split, items that were really one thing wearing three got merged.

No investors, no advertising, no commercial partners.

We are the Hazel Hyena Team. We work mostly anonymously, and on purpose. The territory is private; we'd like the work judged on the work. The site is self-funded by the team, and we'd like to keep it that way.