KinkTok is also helping to accurately reflect what a kinky relationship really “looks” like.
2021, Emily Osborn, "That's It, I'm Kinkshaming", University Express (University College Cork), 12 October 2021, page 32:
Meanwhile, on TikTok, #kinktok was in full swing, with videos ranging from cringeworthy images of tv characters, to how-to videos on tying your lover to your bedpost.
2021, Maja Metera, "Reclaiming Sluttiness", Quench, October 2021, page 62:
Thus, I came out as bisexual, became a part of #kinktok.
2022, Anonymous, "The Wonderful World of Kinktok", Ram! (Lincoln University), March 2022, page 24:
Kinktok was a major awakening for many people, myself included.
2022, Isis Flack, "Being Vanilla Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of", Artefact Magazine, March 2022, page 41:
KinkTok, as it’s been named, is the side of TikTok that shares content relating to more unconventional sexual experiences.
2022, Nic Cloyd, "Anti-Pornography Feminism, KinkTok, and Consent: What We Can Learn from The Sex Wars and Leather/Sadomasochistic History", thesis submitted to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on 9 March 2022, page 23:
With the growth of Kinktok came backlash which instead of focusing on the community as a whole, focused on specific creators or fetishes that they deemed unacceptable and taboo.
2022, Trent M. Kays, "Between Queer and Digital Toward: An Understanding of the Rhetoric of Digital Queerdom", in The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (eds. Jacqueline Rhodes & Jonathan Alexander), unnumbered page (published 25 April 2022):
A prominent queer community on TikTok is “#KinkTok.”
2022, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Jing Zeng, & Patrik Wikstrom, TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video, unnumbered page (published 16 June 2022):
'AltTok', 'KinkTok', 'FoodTok', 'ScienceTok', and countless other Toks are examples of other such communities.
2022, Anke Brand & Eldred de Beer, The Digital Dilemma: Restoring Wholeness in Spirit, Soul and Body, unnumbered page (published 28 June 2022):
The precedent being set by #KinkTok is flat out dangerous.
