FetLife

FetLife is a Canadian social networking company and website that serves people interested in a variety of sexual fetishes, initially only BDSM. The site describes itself as "like Facebook for kinksters like you and me." The website was launched in 2008 by John Kopanas, a software engineer in Montreal, Quebec, and originally called FriendsWithFetishes until 2010. Since 2012 or so, the site has faced many controversies, with many high-profile criminals going on it before and after their arrests. Due to the controversies, the site was removed from several search engines in 2020 while still being up.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Very poor moderation, with inactive users getting banned for no reason other than being inactive and predatory/extremely perverted users not getting banned at all.
 * 2) The website is not age-restricted, meaning that users younger than eighteen can register with no repercussions. There is no way to check someone's age
 * 3) The site is filled with predatory users and paraphiles, who never get banned despite being criminals who would face charges if they did this in real life.
 * 4) Some categories allowed on the site have no place on many websites - not even on porn websites. This includes blood kinks, rape, and incest.
 * 5) The website allows its users to make criminal accusations against members without investigating it themselves, showing additional poor moderation.
 * 6) Brendt Christensen, better known as the kidnapper and murderer of Yingying Zhang, accessed the site in 2016 to explore and create various topics, including "Abduction 101" and sub-threads such as "Perfect abduction fantasy" and "planning a kidnapping."
 * 7) In 2016, after the aforementioned controversy with Christensen, many of the features on the site - including sharing erotic stories and having chat logs with multiple users rather than just one - were removed, with some of them never returning.
 * 8) Several other criminals used the site to make disturbing searches, posts, and stories, with the site being sued for allowing illegal pornographic content. The aftermath? Nothing. FetLife never removed anything.
 * 9) The site's user interface is difficult to navigate through, especially on a desktop.
 * 10) Archiving and deleting posts is forbidden, and you can't edit posts, similar to Twitter and Parler.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) It could be a good reason to show the dangers of fetishes and predatory sexual behavior.

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