About
The Kink Spectrum Project is a small set of tools for a community that deserves better ones. This page is the part of the conversation that didn't fit on the front page: where the project came from, what we've built, who's making it, and what we believe about the work.
Nothing here is required reading. We wrote it for the people who, having used the tools, wondered why we bothered.
Where this came from
We'd been watching a familiar pattern for a while. The kink lists circulating in forums and group chats are usually generous and almost always a decade out of date. The clinical literature is good but isn't for civilians. And the conversation that real long-term partners are trying to have — the one where you don't quite know how to begin a question — is poorly served by either of those.
Meanwhile, Barcelona has one of the richest kink and BDSM scenes in Europe, and almost none of it is easy to find. Event information lives in Instagram stories that expire, Telegram groups you have to know someone to join, and word of mouth at the last party you went to.
Two problems, one community, same set of values underneath. That's the whole brief.
What we've built
The 141 Kinks quiz is a kink spectrum assessment across 16 dimensions. 141 specific items, weighted by importance, with role preferences and a partner-comparison flow. Everything runs in your browser — your results never touch a server.
The events directory is a curated, trilingual listing of kink, BDSM, and sex-positive events in Barcelona. Every listing is verified — dates confirmed, venues checked, organizers contacted where possible. No accounts, no tracking.
They're separate tools built by the same team, for the same community, under the same set of values. They share no data, no cookies, and no cross-site tracking.
What we believe about the work
A handful of convictions sit underneath the design choices we've made. None of them are clever; all of them are load-bearing.
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 don't list everything we find. Every event on the directory has been verified. The quiz's 141 items 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.
None of this is meant to replace a therapist. The resources page is where we point people who want depth on a specific area, and the practitioners listed there have spent careers developing what we've spent a few years on.
Who's making it
The Hazel Hyena Team is a small group with backgrounds in product design, lived community, and the long tail of half-broken kink quizzes friends kept handing us. We work mostly anonymously, and on purpose. The territory is private; we'd like the work judged on the work, and we'd like the people who know us in our day jobs to find their way here on their own time.
The Kink Spectrum Project is the umbrella the work sits under. It exists so that the rights, the trademark, and the editorial direction live somewhere stable, and so the project can outlive any one of us if it ever needs to.
There are no investors, no advertising, and no commercial partners. The site is self-funded by the team, and we'd like to keep it that way.
Changes
We'll update this page when the project's direction, methodology, or the team behind it changes in any meaningful way. Last updated May 2026.
Contact: team@141kinks.com. Methodology questions, gentle corrections, items we missed, lived counterexamples — they all land in the same inbox, and they're read by people.