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Monday, March 15, 2021

Kink.Com San Francisco - Nirvana of the Past

"Last Days of the Leather Fortress" 

Classic image of the wonderful Claire Adams, shooting for Men In Pain.

In 2017 I wrote about the inevitable closure of the Armory, best known as Kink.com's headquarters. According to Wikipedia the building was constructed as an armory and arsenal for the United States National Guard in 1912–1914 and designed with a castle-like appearance in a Moorish Revival style. In an exceptionel well-written 2017 article for Hazlitt Tina Horn takes the reader into the world beyond the Arsenal's outer walls. She also shares some of her memories from her time at Kink's HQ