Alison Boden

About Alison

Alison Boden is a veteran adult entertainment industry executive currently serving as Executive Director for the industry's trade group, the Free Speech Coalition.

Since starting her adult industry career in 2003, Boden has held a wide range of marketing and technology positions, forming a broad foundation for her current leadership roles. Alison holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology with a concentration in Women’s Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Alison in the Media

• The Advocate: FSC Exec Director Alison Boden Champions Industry XBIZ
  Since Alison Boden took the reins of Free Speech Coalition (FSC) in early 2022, the organization has undergone a resurgence. Defending its members, sex workers, the adult industry and even society in general from threats to freedom of expression, FSC can now consistently be found on the front lines, battling with renewed zeal. After the uncertainty of the COVID era, Boden swept in like the proverbial crossfire hurricane and shook things up. Leveraging her two decades of experience working in virtually every aspect of the industry — as a programmer, educator, pleasure products entrepreneur, editorial director, studio head and CEO — she quickly assessed what issues FSC was facing, internally and externally, then rolled up her sleeves and got to work.
• Women in Adult: The Chief Execs Driving Adult Entertainment (XBIZ)
  They not only drive profits, they also foster a collaborative community, especially in the C-suite where a who’s who of chief execs includes Shirley Lara of Chaturbate, Cathy Beardsley of Segpay, Bella French of ManyVids, Bree Mills of Gamma Entertainment, Megan Stokes of NMG Management and Alison Boden of Kink.com. And it is these six women who share their personal and professional stories of triumphs, lessons learned and hopes for the future at a very instrumental time in our history.
• Making Porn Safely in a Pandemic (Behind Kink)
  As we pass the 1 year anniversary of moving to fully remote production, I wanted to take the opportunity to share more about the process of producing content safely in a pandemic and thank our members for supporting Kink’s commitment to the health and safety of adult performers, directors, and crew.
• Shooting Safely: Remote Content Production Amid Social Distancing (XBIZ Show)
  COVID rates are out of control, but that doesn't mean you have to stop production. Learn how to shoot safely in a pandemic at my XBIZ panel on Monday, January 11 featuring Sebastian Keys, Sadie Lola, Fivestar, and John Paul "The Pope"
• Sex (Six Feet Apart with Alex Wagner)
  Amid a pandemic that’s touched every aspect of our lives—from the emotional to the financial—what has COVID-19 done to our sexual appetites? In this episode, Alex talks to three professionals with particular insight into the country’s deepest and (mostly) unspoken desires. First, we hear from Alison Boden, CEO of the porn site kink.com about how the nationwide lockdown has affected an industry not known for social distancing. Then, she’s joined by J. Leigh, a BDSM dominatrix who has been forced to move out of the dungeon and online (literally). And finally, she speaks with Lotus Lain, an adult film actress who explains the ways in which porn actors have been better prepared for a global pandemic… than basically everyone else.
• Alison Boden, CEO of Kink.com on BDSM and Consent (Holly Randall Unfiltered Podcast)
  Alison Boden is the CEO of one of the biggest and most respected BDSM websites in the world: Kink.com. In this episode she tells Holly how despite Kink's extreme scenes, they have carefully guarded their reputation as one of the safest, most communicative, and most enjoyable companies to work for. Model rave about how well they are treated on set, and indeed Kink does hold before and after interviews with the performers, having the honestly detail their experiences-- giving the viewer the assurance that they are indeed watching content which was produced by consenting adults who in fact enjoyed their experience. Could Kink have a lesson for the rest of the "mainstream" adult industry? Listen and find out!
• Kink.com, BIPOC Performers & Educators Schedule Online Seminars (AVN)
  Online content producer Kink.com has entered into a partnership with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color) performers, activists and educators to create a week of online panels focusing on issues of race, representation and power in the adult industry and the kink community.
• Kink.com Releases Performer Consent Protocols (XBIZ)
  "Kink has over twenty years’ experience in producing safe, consensual, hardcore material," said Alison Boden, CEO of Kink.com. "We are not perfect. But from our mistakes, we’ve learned to build systems that better protect performer consent. We want the knowledge that we’ve accumulated to be accessible to the broader industry, so that producers understand how consent can function, and so that performers on every set can feel safer and more in control. We don’t believe that safer sets should be marketplace advantage."
• After Abuse Allegations in Porn, Kink.com Introduces Consent Documents (Jezebel)
  Over the weekend, as sex workers marched for their rights on International Whores’ Day, the BDSM porn site Kink.com released a set of documents intended to address consent during porn shoots. These forms, filled with lists of sex acts alongside checkboxes, might seem like simple paperwork, but they address a bigger upheaval in the adult industry. In recent years, a series of performers have come forward with on-set abuse allegations involving claims of misleading booking practices, excessive roughness, and boundary violations. Now Kink, which was named in some previous allegations, is sharing detailed consent checklists that it hopes will become industry standard.
• Waterboarding for Pleasure: When Kink Violates the Geneva Convention (Rolling Stone)
  “Since the goal is the feeling of helplessness in the context of a BDSM scene, not the actual inherent danger of making the submissive inhale water, vomit, or suffer traumatic stress, the techniques are necessarily less extreme,” says Alison Boden, CEO of Kink.com. “The feeling of pouring water down a wet cloth on the face can be very intense by itself and doesn’t necessarily require the [subordinate]’s body to be inclined in a way that would cause it to go up their nose or in their mouth, for example.”
• Sex site Kink's new CEO moves ahead, unchained from past (San Francisco Chronicle)
  Now, the bondage video company — part of San Francisco’s tech and sex scene — is undergoing a transformation, with a new CEO, a different headquarters and a shift from porn video production to content distribution and e-commerce.
• This Female Porn CEO Thinks Kink Can Bring People Together (Vice)
  After over two decades under the leadership of founder Peter Acworth, fetish porn site Kink.com named Alison Boden as their new CEO in May. With the change, Kink joins a small but growing number female-run operations in adult entertainment.
• Q&A: Kink CEO Alison Boden Discusses New Role, Brand Vision (XBIZ)
  Now, it has a brand new visionary at the helm, as Vice President of Technology Alison Boden takes over the reigns as CEO. Her tech-savvy creds and grounded approach to business are already reshaping Kink.com from traditional in-house video production to licensing and distributing.
• Alison Boden Named Chief Executive of Kink.com (XBIZ)
  Alison Boden has been named CEO of Kink.com and parent company Cybernet Entertainment, considered as one of the largest distributors of fetish and BDSM entertainment.
• Alison Boden Named CEO of Kink.com, Cybernet Entertainment (AVN)
  Cybernet Entertainment, parent company of fetish and BDSM distributor Kink.com, has seen a lot of changes over its two-decade history, and another one was announced today: a new chief executive officer. Alison Boden, Kink.com’s vice president of technology, has been named CEO of Cybernet Entertainment. Founder and owner Peter Acworth will move away from day-to-day operations of the company to focus on real estate development and management.
• Girl Power (Pittsburgh City Paper)
  Girls' Night In's home parties have feminist-minded vibrator buyers buzzing