Alt.sex.bondage
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- The correct title of this article is alt.sex.bondage. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
alt.sex.bondage was a Usenet newsgroup that was originally created as part of the alt.sex hierarchy, and rapidly became the centre of an online BDSM community. The group was created in 1989, after Paul Traina attempted to start a flamewar by crossposting provocative material to several newsgroups. The flamewar never materialized, but the sincere responses Paul received showed that there was a real need for the newsgroup.
The emergence of sex-related spam on Usenet made the group progressively more unusable, and the community moved in 1997 to the soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm newsgroup.
The word "squick" is believed to have originated in alt.sex.bondage, and YKINOK also probably originated or was popularized there.
