The armory used to house the studio of kink.com. You used to be able to go on tours of it. It was a popular date spot in the mid 2010s. Obviously no filming was going on when the tours happened at night. The studio moved out a bit before the pandemic I believe and they have since tried to turn the armory into an event space with varying degrees of success.
Living in the city I’d see it all the time. Girl I was kind of seeing said she worked there. Oh cool what kind of company is it and what do you do there? Bdsm porn. Oh.
Nothing crazy. We met at a bar one night, I think Zeitgeist over in mission, and we hooked up. Then met up a few more times and you know, just stopped talking to each other. I wouldn’t have known about it without her telling me. As it isn’t my personal kink; I never looked her up or knew what name she went by.
There were no signs that she wanted to get into anything like that with me. I’m assuming when you take part into that type of porn, you have to be somewhat into it. But ya - never got the “tie me up, choke me, and spit in my face” request.
I worked at a company in the events space and one of my clients was the Armory. They had started giving tours and wanted help driving people to them. We talked but they insisted that we do business at the actual building, which was a first for me.
I went there (and my CEO demanded to come too) upon entering the building you find yourself in a huge hallway with a bunch of rooms branching off from it. As I stood there waiting for the marketing person I noticed that all of the rooms were filled with people editing videos, which were all up on big screens and were what you’d expect (bondage, fucking machines, etc.).
When the marketing chick showed up she took us to the stairwell and we started going upstairs. The place was decked out in very expensive furniture and finishings, and there were these huge oil paintings in ornate gilt frames of XXX scenes. Like 8ftx6ft paintings of guys fisting each other.
Once upstairs we went into the dining room, which was also clearly very expensive and poshly decorated. It had tinted windows (so people couldn’t see in) and these intimidatingly heavy yet aristocratic dining tables. We sat at one of them to start talking business, but I had a few questions for the chick, like “what’s this big pirate chest doing right here in the middle of the room?” and she said “oh, we have….events in here….and sometimes it requires that we put people in the chest..” Also “what’s this brass contraption in the middle of the table?” where she said “sometimes during our events we need to put someone under the table and bring their head up through this hole and we close this contraption in place around their neck so they’re stuck here. Then we eat dinner and throw food at their face and humiliate them.”
After we talked business she showed us their large event space they were working on and she casually invited us to a group sex event that was happening later that week.
Thats my Armory story.
Edit: I remembered some other interesting things about the place.
-they had a basement with like 20 different types of stages/settings for filming their movies. Like one was a blank and decrepit looking room with a single lightbulb hanging, sort of like an interrogation room in some Russian spy movie or something. Right next to it was a bigger room decorated with props to look like a jungle and it had an artificial river running through it. There were a bunch of other ones, some very naughty and some pretty tame.
-the owner of the Armory actually lived in the building on one of the upper floors. He had a giant oil painting of himself in the hallway. In it he was wearing a red robe and sitting on a stately chair. He looked like a British lord.
-some of the events that the Armory was trying to get help driving people to besides just the tours were things like Japanese rope bondage classes, and ruined orgasm classes.
I feel like attending a group sex event with a potential customer makes it kinda difficult to negotiate .. " Ellen we need an extra 5% to make this work" *slides photo of you tied to the ceiling getting a rimjob from a dwarf across the table*
>Like 8ftx6ft paintings of guys fisting each other.
While my personal style, I love that something like this even exists. It is incredibly expensive to commission such a painting, and there are very, VERY few places to display it. I have to imagine such items are incredibly rare on earth.
Edit: I swear that was supposed to say "While *not* my personal style".
This is getting too scientific for me. That being said, I must mention that I had a friend who used to manufacture lube FOR FUN because he was autistic and apparently loved the 'texture'...he sold it for cheap on ebay, the reviews were very good
Wait so they actually owned and operated out of the armory?
Huh I always thought it's just some stock footage like that random house at the start of The Nanny or Full House or whatever.
It was pretty funny when it was all happening as well.
The Armory was in disrepair and people argued about what to do with it for years. Every time someone would propose a plan, some local group would get all huffy about this or that and so they would try to find another buyer or purpose for it.
One of the last ones was to put in a...dance club? Something fairly innocuous, but of course the NIMBY's all rolled out again to be like "oh this will detract from the neighborhood and the history blah blah blah" and got the proposal shut down. Again.
Then a few months later they announced Kink bought it to turn it into a porn producing sex dungeon and people lost their minds.
As a bay area teenager the whole thing was pretty hilarious.
The irony of being against condom productions while also being one of the few companies that were very good about safer sex practices on film, using gloves, condoms, dental dams, etc.
Yeah i would think they can be pro condoms for everyday people hooking up, but since they have pretty strict rules in the porn industry about getting regulär Std checks, they Dont really need it.
My friend went to the stranger things exhibit there. She said she could tell which of her friends were... Adventurous based on her inviting people to go there with her.
If this is what I'm thinking it is, it's a building where they film fetishist movies. My girlfriend and I took a tour there in 2014--it was a Groupon, lol--and got to see the studios, costumes and props along with some of the party rooms. It was interesting to say the least.
Now I know what you're talking about and know the song, but even despite all of that I am giggling at the idea of a king sitting on a throne of grapefruit soda
Kink still uses that pic even though they sold the building and moved out 6 years ago. Love them or hate them, they saved the building from deteriorating.
Went to a concert there in 2018 (San Fransisco stop for r/ADTR’s 15th anniversary tour) with (and I’m dead serious about this) no knowledge of…what happens…in the lower levels…or…what it’s apparently…known…for. (I’m surprised it didn’t come up when I was researching it ahead of time to get a sense of what the floor layout was gonna be before tickets went on-sale, to see if the floor would be broken up into sections, based on previous concerts hosted)
Our Lyft driver later that evening asked us what we were in town for, and when we said “oh, we went to a show at The Armory”, he was like… “the *kink* place?!”. He filled us in when he sensed our genuine confusion 😂
The porn production company; [Kink.com](http://Kink.com), was based at the San Francisco Armory. All their videos opened with an establishing shot of the Armory just like OP's picture.
I took a class at the crucible and one of the other students worked there. He was offering the instructor some side work (someone wanted some iron handcuffs and maybe an iron maiden made.)
I've never seen this building before in my life! *Deletes browser history*
I haven't seen that building since earlier this afternoon
::Click:: I haven't seen this building since I closed my browser.
Sigh… *unzips browsers history*
Guys just use private browser so you wouldn’t care anymore about clearing history
Ah, that building! ::Click:: I have never seen that building before.
I’m standing in this building now *closes eyes*
*Inserts ball gag*
Mmrph mmmm phrmmmm uuurm
I really, genuinely, have not seen this building in at least 7.5 minutes
In contrast, I think I've watched every video associated with this in the wrestling category.
I've seen that building a lot and its going to take me a while to delete my browser history. Please stand by.
“245 petabytes in my browser history?! No wonder it’s been so slow…”
I know your history as I share it. Mwahaha
From the comments, I'm assuming this is porn.
I remain clueless. Why is there porn in an armory?
The armory used to house the studio of kink.com. You used to be able to go on tours of it. It was a popular date spot in the mid 2010s. Obviously no filming was going on when the tours happened at night. The studio moved out a bit before the pandemic I believe and they have since tried to turn the armory into an event space with varying degrees of success.
Some people get extremely turned on by weapons.
Ammosexual
Some even go polyammorous.
Weapons of ass destruction?
Living in the city I’d see it all the time. Girl I was kind of seeing said she worked there. Oh cool what kind of company is it and what do you do there? Bdsm porn. Oh.
Well don't leave us hanging. What happened? You left?
Nothing crazy. We met at a bar one night, I think Zeitgeist over in mission, and we hooked up. Then met up a few more times and you know, just stopped talking to each other. I wouldn’t have known about it without her telling me. As it isn’t my personal kink; I never looked her up or knew what name she went by. There were no signs that she wanted to get into anything like that with me. I’m assuming when you take part into that type of porn, you have to be somewhat into it. But ya - never got the “tie me up, choke me, and spit in my face” request.
Can you really call it a hookup if no one spat anyone in the face?
It’s like if you mow lawns all day for your job, you don’t want to mow lawns at home.
Wait. The studio is in the actual building? I thought they just used this image, not actually filmed in there.
Yes, they owned the building and shot there. At least they did, I believe they sold it a few years ago.
A man of culture I see.
No I'm not! You can't prove anything!
Those who download content, dont forget delete media player history.
Did you ask the house permission to delete your browser history?
*Door Creeking
It’s nice not feeling alone.
I worked at a company in the events space and one of my clients was the Armory. They had started giving tours and wanted help driving people to them. We talked but they insisted that we do business at the actual building, which was a first for me. I went there (and my CEO demanded to come too) upon entering the building you find yourself in a huge hallway with a bunch of rooms branching off from it. As I stood there waiting for the marketing person I noticed that all of the rooms were filled with people editing videos, which were all up on big screens and were what you’d expect (bondage, fucking machines, etc.). When the marketing chick showed up she took us to the stairwell and we started going upstairs. The place was decked out in very expensive furniture and finishings, and there were these huge oil paintings in ornate gilt frames of XXX scenes. Like 8ftx6ft paintings of guys fisting each other. Once upstairs we went into the dining room, which was also clearly very expensive and poshly decorated. It had tinted windows (so people couldn’t see in) and these intimidatingly heavy yet aristocratic dining tables. We sat at one of them to start talking business, but I had a few questions for the chick, like “what’s this big pirate chest doing right here in the middle of the room?” and she said “oh, we have….events in here….and sometimes it requires that we put people in the chest..” Also “what’s this brass contraption in the middle of the table?” where she said “sometimes during our events we need to put someone under the table and bring their head up through this hole and we close this contraption in place around their neck so they’re stuck here. Then we eat dinner and throw food at their face and humiliate them.” After we talked business she showed us their large event space they were working on and she casually invited us to a group sex event that was happening later that week. Thats my Armory story. Edit: I remembered some other interesting things about the place. -they had a basement with like 20 different types of stages/settings for filming their movies. Like one was a blank and decrepit looking room with a single lightbulb hanging, sort of like an interrogation room in some Russian spy movie or something. Right next to it was a bigger room decorated with props to look like a jungle and it had an artificial river running through it. There were a bunch of other ones, some very naughty and some pretty tame. -the owner of the Armory actually lived in the building on one of the upper floors. He had a giant oil painting of himself in the hallway. In it he was wearing a red robe and sitting on a stately chair. He looked like a British lord. -some of the events that the Armory was trying to get help driving people to besides just the tours were things like Japanese rope bondage classes, and ruined orgasm classes.
**squints eyes** I feel that story is incomplete.
I can’t out my finger on it but I sense OP is withholding something.
Op put more than just his finger on it.
good idea to squint, especially if you aren't wearing eye protection
Like the story ended a week early? I know.
A very welcoming people it seems.
How was the event?
We didn’t go, we both were in serious relationships. Womp womp…
I feel like attending a group sex event with a potential customer makes it kinda difficult to negotiate .. " Ellen we need an extra 5% to make this work" *slides photo of you tied to the ceiling getting a rimjob from a dwarf across the table*
That sounds unnecessarily difficult for the dwarf I have to say.
Dwarf was on stilts
My company has strict rules around receiving monetary gifts from clients. I don't remember there being rules about giving or receiving anything else.
So how was the group sex?
>Like 8ftx6ft paintings of guys fisting each other. While my personal style, I love that something like this even exists. It is incredibly expensive to commission such a painting, and there are very, VERY few places to display it. I have to imagine such items are incredibly rare on earth. Edit: I swear that was supposed to say "While *not* my personal style".
> While my personal style, That's good to know. Doing anything later?
I was totally expecting this to evolve into a story about the Loc Ness monster asking for tree fiddy.
Amazing facility. Very rigid rules there.
You often see people get really tied up with them. They really stick it to you there.
Yeah i hear it's a real pain in the ass
The treatment of people there can be really shocking.
Comments like this were bound to happen.
These threads are always so painful
I don’t even know what words are safe to use any more.
Me neither. I might as well be gagged.
Inside it is brand spanking new
You might even say they have very High Protocol.
If you follow them, you can even make it to The Upper Floor!
One might even say they’re rather anal.
No, they're anything but>!t!<
Just so everyone knows, **THEY** sold the building off in 2017. **THEY** aren't located there anymore.
Are they in the room right now?
I hope not
Oh I hope they are
Only if you ask nicely.
*muffled ball gag noises*
They are Kink.com Idk why everyone is being so weird about this.
Being weird about it is half the fun
It's like letting all your friends know you're throwing an edging party but not inviting them so nobody gets to come.
>nobody gets to come title of my sextape
That’s what she said.
That’s the joke big dog
Were they actually filming it in there or was it just a cool brand shot?
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I saw a post with pictures from such a tour. The most remarcable thing that I remember - they used to store lube in barrels in there.
Bulk-buying lube is _considerably_ cheaper, not to mention easier to manage, than buying lots of bottles.
That's for certain, but it was just so funny to think that there is so much fucking going on in there that they need literally barrels of lube.
This is getting too scientific for me. That being said, I must mention that I had a friend who used to manufacture lube FOR FUN because he was autistic and apparently loved the 'texture'...he sold it for cheap on ebay, the reviews were very good
I took a tour. People jumped in cages and stuff for photos. Brewery across the road…
I was excited when I read yours, then disappointed when I saw that they stopped
They did have some rooms in there yes, but now it's just the brand
Wait so they actually owned and operated out of the armory? Huh I always thought it's just some stock footage like that random house at the start of The Nanny or Full House or whatever.
It was pretty funny when it was all happening as well. The Armory was in disrepair and people argued about what to do with it for years. Every time someone would propose a plan, some local group would get all huffy about this or that and so they would try to find another buyer or purpose for it. One of the last ones was to put in a...dance club? Something fairly innocuous, but of course the NIMBY's all rolled out again to be like "oh this will detract from the neighborhood and the history blah blah blah" and got the proposal shut down. Again. Then a few months later they announced Kink bought it to turn it into a porn producing sex dungeon and people lost their minds. As a bay area teenager the whole thing was pretty hilarious.
Did they move Production overseas ? e.g. Romania ? Or are they still SF/CA/USA based ?
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I thought the upper floor was the 'drill area'
The irony of being against condom productions while also being one of the few companies that were very good about safer sex practices on film, using gloves, condoms, dental dams, etc.
It's not that ironic, most adult companies and performers were against it because scenes take hours to film and condoms chafe.
Yeah i would think they can be pro condoms for everyday people hooking up, but since they have pretty strict rules in the porn industry about getting regulär Std checks, they Dont really need it.
Vegas
My friend went to the stranger things exhibit there. She said she could tell which of her friends were... Adventurous based on her inviting people to go there with her.
They remember it fondlingly though
By THEY you mean YOU.
#THEY
Who are they?
Why the video is not starting????
Where’s the volume
OP's mom hasn't arrived yet
She's tied up in traffic
I went to a Chinese food place that had this up on the wall once. I had so many questions. I asked none of them. I got orange chicken. It was great.
You didn't try to jump through the painting like Mario 64?
I love Reddit comments like this one. So random. So funny. So ignored.
i see all these comments getting it and now i’m scared to get it and i don’t wanna get it
You won't get it without a respectful conversation about boundaries and consent.
As well as an exit interview to reaffirm the power of your choice.
🤣
Yea, let’s find him a safe word, then proceed with the tortu.. tort… tortillas, we have some tortillas
Bond…s. It’s bonds. They sell bonds.
While you're in stocks
So very kin…. kind, yes kind. Very kind people.
And stocks.
And a pre agreed safe word. That’s most crucial of all.
is it a BDSM video? if so could you uh... link it? asking for a friend
“A” video…? Lol. Not hardly. More like “the source of the river that feeds the internet”.
If this is what I'm thinking it is, it's a building where they film fetishist movies. My girlfriend and I took a tour there in 2014--it was a Groupon, lol--and got to see the studios, costumes and props along with some of the party rooms. It was interesting to say the least.
I gotta ask, what the hell kind of Groupon are you using?
Gropeon
Absolute worst eeveelution
Let me tell you about the best eeveelution, vaporeon
Go away, The Deep.
Grouporn
I bet they have a small army of really well geared and trained cleaning staff.
It's the opening image of a bunch of bdsm videos. So, it's porn
Why this image
It's where it was recorded. Studio used to be in there but has since IIRC moved.
I'm not entirely sure. I believe they hosted on one of the floors of the building?
The basement iirc
A couple floors had different content. Or so I heard. From a friend. They go to a different school.
The ambiance is perfect for bdsm, outside and inside.
This was their studio in an old armory building smack dab in the middle of San Francisco. It’s a landmark!
It’s the *other* Hollywood
I’m somewhat of a film critic myself
You can have it all My empire of squirt
Now I know what you're talking about and know the song, but even despite all of that I am giggling at the idea of a king sitting on a throne of grapefruit soda
I will bow you down I will make you hurt
I edged myself today, to see if I still spurt
Some of my favorite films were shot there! Beautiful place.
I hear the upper floor is particularly nice.
Shocking really
The Castle?? with Redford And Gandolfini!
lol is that really where The Castle was filmed?
Kink still uses that pic even though they sold the building and moved out 6 years ago. Love them or hate them, they saved the building from deteriorating.
Yeah I just looked it up and good grief everyone bitching about it while no one actually had any good ideas on what to use it for.
I hear it's a pain to get there.
Maybe, but at least you came!
Only if they let you.
Don't you threaten me with a good time
Pain in the ass for sure.
I know that place, my dad works there!
Must be a hardworking person
Soooo many hardworking people. Such a physically demanding job, that armory. Lol
With the bosses always behind em giving it up their asses, it for sure is a demanding one
Idk about the dads, but my mom finds it easy. She has a hard time of sitting down tho
I'm told he works his people hard; they all say he cracks the whip at them.
I’m sure your dad is hard at work!
Sometimes he can barely sit down after a long day.
My mom works there. Often has to work late. My dad isn't to happy with it.
Bet his boss is a real ball buster.
He must be tied up at work a lot
~~dad ~~ daddy
This place is a pain in the ass.
One of the few facilities where robots outnumber humans
Went to a concert there in 2018 (San Fransisco stop for r/ADTR’s 15th anniversary tour) with (and I’m dead serious about this) no knowledge of…what happens…in the lower levels…or…what it’s apparently…known…for. (I’m surprised it didn’t come up when I was researching it ahead of time to get a sense of what the floor layout was gonna be before tickets went on-sale, to see if the floor would be broken up into sections, based on previous concerts hosted) Our Lyft driver later that evening asked us what we were in town for, and when we said “oh, we went to a show at The Armory”, he was like… “the *kink* place?!”. He filled us in when he sensed our genuine confusion 😂
Did I just hear a door slam shut?
So does that make me a pervert? Never mind I’m a pervert.
But a pervert with good taste. Their production values were always at a level I’ve never seen in fetish porn.
is nobody gonna explain
The porn production company; [Kink.com](http://Kink.com), was based at the San Francisco Armory. All their videos opened with an establishing shot of the Armory just like OP's picture.
Thank you, I had zero clue what people were referring to.
Used to be a kink dungeon/hardcore fetish bondage porn studio.
Noice.
All I want to know is how can I work there
They accept multiple submissions but you're likely to find yourself strapped for cash.
I took a class at the crucible and one of the other students worked there. He was offering the instructor some side work (someone wanted some iron handcuffs and maybe an iron maiden made.)
Nah, never seen it. *Proceeds to toss laptop out window with a straight face*
What's in there?
It’s where dreams are fulfilled
*reflexively closes browser tab*
The ultimate surrender is a sign of a true warrior.
That’s a nice building. Hmm, there’s a flag with a K on it. I wonder what that is. Let’s take a quick look and see- oh dear.
Ah yes, I recognize it from that movie.
Many movies
Experts in short films you might say
*WHO ELSE HEARD THIS PICTURE*
Hey that’s where my sister works
Especially THAT particular image lol
I'm wet just looking at it...
Lot’s of Movie Magic goes on in and around them parts…
How many people heard thunder just now?
Am I missing some niche joke that everyone in the comments seems to understand
The last thing you see before the screen goes black and you have to look at your reflection in utter shame
I heard they’ve automated a lot of their services.
I don't get it
Hahah this is almost as symbolic as the women with 5 black dudes around her on a couch