Drew Carey has talked about how kinky he is, hasn't he?

I don't know how big a star Margaret Cho is, but she's very open about kink. A few other musicians and comedians are, now that I think about it. People on the Marilyn Manson or Jim Norton angles.

well, i for one pissed in ricky martin's mouth one time.

He shows up with strange bruises, the next week it's a minor fracture, his neck has been strained, sometimes there's a knee brace, the shoulder's been f-cked up for a while, and his back is a chronic issue too. The excuse of course is that he's active, that he exercises, he's sporty, and that's true, yes, but the injuries are not sustained while playing pickup.

...or he's Batman.

I'm pretty sure that whoever they're talking about has founded his own celebrity fight club.

It's not even that it's TMI (although sometimes it is o.O), but the who vs how is relevant, I think. You'd want to drag your partner to a party, awards ceremony, or whatever. There's not much reason to want to drag along one's bondage ropes or leather harness out to similar social functions.

Though if any of them feel like talking about it, I don't see why not.

As for the injuries, oh hell I fell off the bed once during perfectly vanilla activities and limped for a few days after... I'm sure one can get injured while doing anything, but not necessarily because of *what* they were doing, if you catch my drift.

Maybe poly would be the next "new gay", as that still involves who and not so much how... (Hasn't Will Smith hinted that he & his wife have an open relationship?)

Well, I'm kinky as all get-out, but I guess I don't count. Bummer.

Penn Jillette is pretty famous and very out about his BDSM stuff... He even gave a tour of his dungeon on MTV cribs.

Elizabeth Taylor liked to be vigorously slapped around at least as far back as the sixties, the new joint biography "Furious Love" reveals. The author Sam Kashner had access to all of Richard Burton's diaries, in which he recorded everything. If that relationship wasn't kinky, nothing is.

Angelina Jolie has to count for something.

Didn't Sting say he and his wife have an open relationship? Does that count as kinky? (At least in hetero circles?)

Also, Madonna's SEX book was her way of coming out as a kinky slut, wasn't it? As if we'd have to guess...

I don't care about celebrities. They are not real people in any sense. They are personas. And the media already spends (wastes) too much time on their bullshit. Lindsay Lohan is a good example. I don't give a turd in a pie crust what she does.

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@12 You know -- given the whole raunchy rock star personas that have been around since, oh the early seventies at least, plus all the wide wardrobe variety that's out there (plus the practically obligatory leatherman/dominatrix outfits for any kind of clubbing), anyone into kink has had protective coloring for decades, if you think about it.

Part of the problem is the vagueness of "kink". I mean, is it *anything* outside of heterosexual missionary position? Does it have to involve other objects -- or is voyeurism a kink, too? I'm not entirely sure that kink is entirely & only equivalant to BDSM -- or is it?

There's always David Carradine...

@15 - I find when most women say they are kinky, it means their husband spanked them once, and they kind of liked it.

@17 Ha ha, so true...

Marilyn Manson openly kinked the crap out of Evan Rachel Wood, which also brings to mind Rose McGowan, and of course Dita is an open celebrity...

how about justin bieber. is she?

Snorting piles of blow from between a hooker's tits is about as kinky as most celebrities get.

If Katy Perry and Russell Brand aren't polyamorous, their marriage is in for some rough times.

When The Beatles toured America their hotels were absolute brothels. Ronnie Spector remembers John Lennon taking her into a bedroom where a whole crowd of people were gathered around watching roadie Mal Evans fuck the daylights out of a couple of groupies. That's pretty kinky for 1964.

Beatles manager Brian Epstein enjoyed rough trade and "cottaging", and was frequently beaten to a pulp by his assorted sailors and workmen pickups.

Theater critic Kenneth Tynan enjoyed beating the shit out of his girlfriends and hookers so hard he frequently blacked their eyes and broke sticks over their backsides.

I can't get past "gayer than a colon full of rodents"...

And you know Angelena Jolie pegs Brad Pitt...

That's a lot of text for something no one cares about, Dan.

I deem this post unnecessary.

@28- That one's pegged every guy she's ever been with, guaranteed. And probably every woman, too.

I know a lot of BDSMers, and no one I know, myself included, has ever had a serious injury, so, definitely bullshit.

Jane Wiedlen of the Go-Gos is well-known as a dominatrix.

@11 Angelina Jolie gave an interview a while ago where she basically said that kink (and it seemed like she included bisexuality as one, though that could have been awkward wording) was something she used to do, but not anymore that she's in a proper grown-up relationship.

@11, @33 I know its true it was in the Daily Mail

I thought John Stamos was supposed to like getting freaky?

David Carridine recently came out of the closet as an autoerotic asphyxiation fan.

Too soon?

Wouldn't the obvious person to burst out singing be Hugh Jackman? I have to admit, I like that picture.

@27 never too soon.

Ew

@17- Pretty much every straight woman I've ever gotten close enough with to get a real answer to that has been much more kinky. But there's probably something about me that attracts kinkier women. Probably the leash.

I suppose Jack McGeorge is not exactly a celebrity. He was part of Hans Blix's Iraq-WMD-inspector team. Anyone remember when the Washington Post outed him as a leader in the BDSM community (actually, he wasn't trying to hide anything), and he offered his resignation, but Hans Blix wouldn't accept it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McGeor…

Uh, yeah Dan, I'm pretty sure I had a crush on Keanu before you did, so I *call* that he is straight...and fit:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:hvpyw…

Boy George chains up prostitutes against their will in his apartment.

George Michael is quite verbose about his penchant for anonymous public toilet sex.

I think it depends on what you consider kinky. What exactly is the cut off between kink and not? What one person would consider kinky another would say is just "normal". Having said this, honestly do we need famous people babbling on and on about what they do in the bedroom?

HELLO? Lady Gaga, anyone?!? She wants your bad romance AND your bowlcut leather-clad dancing nazis!! That's about as kinky as you get.

Also, I can totally see getting all those injuries from sex. I cracked a rib from missionary, and got an infection from a small cut on my knee from from doggy-style in a barn. If I can do it, surely kinksters can too.

ummm R Kelly not only pisses on young to maybe too young girls, he makes videos about it that get leaked and seen all over the place...

One of the "celebs" on some VH1 reality show a few years ago came out as being really active in her local BDSM scene... Sheesh... I can't think of who it was, and it was too long ago to be easily googleable. Was is Joan Jett? I think the show was The Surreal Life...

Jane Wiedlin!

Kenneth Anger claims James Dean was a devotee of S&M in his second "Hollywood Bablyon" book.

To wit, "He had gotten into beating, boots, belts, and bondage scenes. Regulars at The Club tagged him with a singular moniker: the Human Ashtray. When stoned, he would bare his chests and beg for his masters to stub out their butts on it. After his fatal crash, the coroner made note of the, 'constellation of keratoid scars" on Jimmy's torso."

Also the "Onward Christian Soldier" guy has got to be Sean William Scott, the dude is straight (know a chick who dated him) but has been rumored to enjoy hardcore anal penetration, rumors that I don't think originated from that wonderful scene in "Road Trip".

As a BDSM practitioner if you're getting hurt like that by accident all the time then you're doing something wrong. My top just wants to hurt me, not injure me. There's a big difference!

@44- The only times I've seen George Michael talk about cottaging he said it wasn't really his thing, but when that cop showed him his erection, he felt like it was only polite to let the cop see his dick. Then he got arrested, so now he doesn't show his dick to just anyone any more.

@16 oooooooowwww.... sadface

Can any of the Buttle Buddies tell us anything interesting?

Loved, loved, *loved* this article. And while on the whole I'd agree that being kinky is not the same as being gay, I'd like to point out that in some instances, it's strikingly similar.

For example: Some folks are hard-wired to be kinky (I know this--I am one). Some are hard-wired to be gay. In either case of hard-wiredness, it is not that person's choice (I didn't choose to have submissive tendencies). It's how they are. And, obviously, it affects how they pursue relationships and who they pursue them with.

For me, part of my kink *is* WHO I love. I am not able to fall in love with a non-dominant man. Ive tried--many, many times. It never worked out too well. I always felt like there was a piece--a BIG piece--missing from the relationship. I felt like such men couldn't understand me no matter how hard they tried. I eventually gave up pursuing non-dominant and/or vanilla men, knowing that no amount of effort would ever make it work for me. I'm not gay, but I have to imagine that if a gay person tried to date someone of the opposite gender, this is exactly how they'd feel, too--completely unfulfilled.

I do not love based on who can spank me the hardest or whose kinks are the most extreme. I love based on who the person is, how his dominant side works with mine. We could be having physically vanilla sex, and yet mentally it's not vanilla at all. The feelings that my current significant other, a dominant man, brings out in me are nothing like what any vanilla or non-dominant man has ever or could ever extract from me. These feelings happen no matter what we're doing--eating dinner, watching TV, or ****ing the hell out of each other. And I know these feelings would not happen were he not dominant--if that hard-wired submissive part of my brain didn't fit perfectly with that hard-wired dominant part of his brain.

In instances like these, I do believe that kinky people and gay people can often love in the same ways--and that in many instances of being kinky, it often IS who you love as opposed to how you love.

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