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Ex-armory turns into porn site
San Francisco Examiner ^ | 1/13/7 | Steve Rubenstein

Posted on 01/13/2007 11:06:45 AM PST by SmithL

Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor, buys historic S.F. building to film its bondage movies -

A friendly band of San Francisco pornographers can't wait to get inside the old armory on Mission Street and start tying people up, artistically.

Not only tying them up, but also spanking them, swatting them, cuffing them and whipping them, with sensitivity.

"This is going to be very exciting,'' said porn director James Mogul. "What an opportunity.''

The other day, Mogul paid a visit to the cavernous old armory, just to look around. The Moorish-style brick building was recently purchased for $14.5 million by Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor that outgrew its South of Market dungeon.

The armory, built in 1912, served as a military induction and training center during the two world wars. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places but has been empty since 1970. In recent years, plans to build apartments, offices and an Internet switching facility never got off the ground.

At present, kids on skateboards practice their moves on its front steps, and homeless people sleep in its doorways. Its windows are broken and boarded up, its walls covered with graffiti, and its dungeonlike basement is peeling, chipping, rotting and moldering.

Nothing wrong with that, say the pornographers. A real, ready-made dungeon is just the thing for filming bondage movies.

...Kink will do its part to fit in, said Acworth, pledging to fix the broken windows and the graffiti right away. Kink is proud to bring its high standards to the neighborhood, he added, because Kink stands for decency in pornography. "We have values,'' Acworth said. "We believe in showing respect toward women in our work.''

As for vulgarity, Acworth said, that's all relative. The building's original purpose,

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: kink; palomino; sanfranciscovalues

1 posted on 01/13/2007 11:06:51 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

It's amazing what these Dems can do in 100 hours.


2 posted on 01/13/2007 11:14:20 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: Thrownatbirth

Another wonderful day in Madame Pelosi's neighborhood.


3 posted on 01/13/2007 11:17:24 AM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: SmithL

Well, thank the goddess it won't be used for something horrible like ROTC training or Boy Scout meetings.


4 posted on 01/13/2007 11:31:50 AM PST by Argus
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To: SmithL
As for vulgarity, Acworth said, that's all relative. The building's original purpose, he pointed out, was to train soldiers to kill people.

"That's obscenity,'' he said. "What we plan to do is nothing compared with what this building was intended for.''

What a load.

The building was in tended to supply men to the United States Army. Those men would be trained to defend this nation from foreign enemies that would take our Freedom

Then some of the men that received their first training with in the walls of your building gave their lives so that you would have the freedom to produce your porn films and so that your customers would have the freedom to watch them.

The men of the US Armed Forces are today fighting, dieing and yes killing other men so that your freedoms will not be taken from you. Do you think that the Islamic Fundamentalist which we are fighting today would hesitate for a single second to kill you for what you do.

I suggest that you think again about how obscene the purpose of your new studio was. I personally believe that your new studio is hallowed ground.

5 posted on 01/13/2007 11:40:50 AM PST by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
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To: SmithL
Another wonderful day in Madame Pelosi's neighborhood.


6 posted on 01/13/2007 12:11:13 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: SmithL

The former occupants of the Mission Street armory whipped people into shape;the new occupants just whip people.


7 posted on 01/13/2007 12:24:24 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: HAL9000

My eyes are bleeding. Where'd you get that thing?


8 posted on 01/13/2007 12:34:27 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: SmithL
As for vulgarity, Acworth said, that's all relative. The building's original purpose, he pointed out, was to train soldiers to kill people. "That's obscenity,'' he said. "What we plan to do is nothing compared with what this building was intended for.''


DEMENTED -- there is no other word for this person.

Just my opinion of course.

9 posted on 01/13/2007 5:23:02 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SmithL; HAL9000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqKCbtO9erQ SAN FRANCISCO VALUES


10 posted on 01/13/2007 5:25:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SmithL

"This is my rifle, this is my gun..."


11 posted on 01/13/2007 5:29:28 PM PST by TADSLOS (Iran is in the IED exporting business. Time to shut them down.)
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To: SmithL
...kids on skateboards practice their moves on its front steps...

Now kids can practice their moves on the front steps of (decent, mind you) porn headquarters... Crazy S.F.

12 posted on 01/16/2007 8:03:01 PM PST by Codename - Ron Benjamin (I'm gonna sing the doom song now. Pre-emptive, multi-tasking, interrupt control!)
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