Cue the music and sound the alarm! Once again, it’s time to take a journey into the furthest reaches of the human psyche. We navigate the labyrinths of mortal imagination and come out the other side with treasures from the troves of sexual secrecy. We’ve got the goods and share them with you in another installment of the Cozy favorite series: Niches You Need to Know!

Sex may sell but niche sex sells better. Specialization among adult webmasters, site owners and content providers has helped improve the whole industry. Appealing to smaller markets by providing content of a more specific nature has granted innumerable adult Internet professionals a solid customer base. They don’t have to compete with mega-sites that contain everything under the sun. Mega-sites are great but they have to be more homogenized.

"Sex may sell but niche sex sells better. Specialization among adult webmasters, site owners and content providers has helped improve the whole industry."

A general softcore/hardcore/straight mega-site probably will offer a small amount of BDSM content, but true lovers of BDSM want more. There aren’t as many lovers of BDSM as there are of vanilla sex. That’s why BDSM is often ignored or relegated to the back pages of a mega-site. Almost twenty-five percent of the world’s adult population is into some kind of kinky sex. Their wants and desires are many and unique and they need entertainment they are willing to pay for.

So here is a small list of some acts and items that people sexually enjoy enough to make fan sites and organize societies for. These are twisted little deviations from the norms that require equipment and scripted scenarios. These lovers of kink are dedicated and they like knowing they are not alone. Study them and maybe you can become the fortunate adult webmaster who gets to profit from their lusts.

Violet Wands

BDSM fanciers will tell you that the scenario is the thing. Play is the term to be exact. Props are an integral element in most sadomasochistic/bondage sessions. A popular prop is electricity. This is not an implication that people go around hooking up poor innocent’s genitalia with jumper cables and car batteries. This section concentrates on more genteel implements used to stimulate and excite the sexually willing.

Violet Wands are electrical appliances originally employed by cosmetologists and dermatologists to treat the skin and hair. They use a Tesla current with argon gas, enclosed in a bulb. The bulbs can be tubular; rake or round in shape and are attached to and powered by a wand control unit. The bulb emits a violet colored current much like those novelty plasma-ball light fixtures. The current is harmless and is more heat generating than shocking. The feel of the rake-shaped bulb is similar to the feeling of someone stroking a comb made of pins across the skin without pressing down. Lovers apply the wands to various body parts and the bulb’s violet light (with the whiff of argon gas) is quite effective. As long as participants avoid moisture and oils, there is very little harm in the activity. The current from a violet wand isn’t strong enough to mess with heart rates and has actually been proven to have a germicidal effect.

A content provider could have a field day using these little wands in photo shoots whether they were glamour bondage or amateur. Paysite designers get to use the work “shocking” in a whole new way. Adult online toyshops can sell the devices to home users who love electrical play. Free site builders can write tutorials and FAQs for interested parties while flying appropriate sponsor banners. The possibilities for this niche are positively energizing!

Pony Boys and Girls

Lovers of this kink use the more clinical term Human Equine. There are those in the bondage culture that permit themselves to be saddled, ridden and stabled just like beasts of burden. There are as well, those that want people to behave and be equipped in equine accouterment.

The riders give their pony girl or boy a name. The horse must do the deeds of a horse. There are weekends set up in the English countryside where riders and ponies can live the life they love. This is mostly an erotic as opposed to sexual activity for the parties involved. There isn't a lot of actual fucking going on. There's agreement about whether the rider/pony prefer to ride on shoulder or on back or to pull carts. There's elaborate costuming, settings and training involved.

For the obvious costs involved in this type of sex play, it would be easy to assume those who participate have incomes that will support their lifestyle. A pony boy or girl can be gay or straight or lesbian. They don't even need to be nude. They just need to appeal to those whose love of riding takes on a human element.

Chastity Devices

The chastity belt was originally invented in fourteenth century Italy to prevent rape. Husbands of the time also implemented them to insure chastity in their wives during long trips away. Later in history, doctors (to prevent masturbation) prescribed the belts for both men and women. Whether made of metal or the more user-friendly leather, today chastity belts are used as a form of sexual denial. One can't have intercourse or really even masturbate when they are wearing the belt, which is excruciatingly delicious to the masochist.

Images and stories and video of denial devices like chastity belts are extremely popular. There are degrees of quality in the belts and they can be quite costly. Some are even designed so the user can extricate themselves if need be. Urination and defecation is needless to say difficult while wearing these things. FAQs on the proper execution of this kind of sex play would be very much appreciated by novices and the curious.

The sensation that appeals to the wearers and lovers of this kind of bondage is one of refusal. Like sensual deprivation, the one is who is deprived enjoys the feeling. A chastity belt without a lock is silly for lovers. One must agree to be locked away and another must agree to keep the key.

Thus ends another dive into the deeps of human sexuality. We'll return again with more niches from the unexplored corners of porn. Till then; keep your minds open and your sites up.