Q: “BDSMTest says I’m a ‘98% Rigger’. Why do I need this?”
A: Because a percentage isn’t a plan.
BDSMTest is a Psychometric Sorter. It uses broad strokes to guess your “Role” (Identity). It’s great for self-discovery (“Oh, that’s why I like that!”), but it is incapable of providing a workable scene.
It conflates “Liking a thing” with “Being a Role.”
It cannot handle the nuance of today. (e.g., You might be a ‘Masochist’, but if you have sore back, impact play is a Hard No. BDSMTest doesn’t know you have a sore back. With a simple tweak of the activity, your Kink Kode will..)
Kink-Kalc is the Operational Layer. Use BDSMTest to find your tribe; use Kink-Kalc to negotiate your scene.
The Intelligence Gap: Why a Quiz isn't a Contract
Feature
BDSMTest.org (The Quiz)
Kink-Kalc (The Engine)
The “Smart” Difference
Logic Model
Probabilistic (Guessing)
Deterministic (Verifying)
They guess who you might be; we confirm what you will do.
Granularity
Low (Broad Buckets)
High (Atomic Acts)
They see “Rope Play”; we distinguish between “Silk Ties” and “Hemp Suspension.”
Context Awareness
None (Static Identity)
Dynamic (Session State)
They think you are always a Sadist; we know you have a migraine today.
Safety Logic
Ignored
Integrated
They don’t ask about medical history; we treat Medical Trumps as high-priority code.
The “Role” Flaw
Stereotyping
Agnostic
They force you into a labelled box (“Brat”, “Rigger”); we just let you play.
In the desperate, metric-obsessed landscape of modern e-commerce, building a feature that deliberately hides products from a paying customer sounds like commercial hara-kiri.
Every other shop is trying to upsell you. They want to bury you in a cacophony of ‘You might also like…’ widgets, regardless of whether that specific item triggers a panic attack or just a meh.
We took a different path. This is why we think it’s special..
The Kink Kalculator isn’t just a fancy quiz; it’s a biometric gatekeeper for our store. When you load your encrypted Signature, the shop stops acting like a salesman and starts acting like a Dungeon Tour guide.
If you have marked ‘Nipples’ as a Hard No, why should you have to wade through pages of clamps to find the rope you actually want? It’s inefficient. It’s noise. And in some cases, it’s actively time wasting.
We don’t want to punt a product you’ll regret unboxing. We prioritise the integrity of the scene over the volume of the cart. By filtering out the equipment that violates your contract, we ensure that what remains is not just purchasable, but playable.
It’s counter-intuitive. It hurts our short-term conversion metrics. But it means that when you do buy, you’re buying with the certainty of a negotiated consensus. We’d rather sell you one thing you use forever, than ten things that end up in the ‘Box of Shame’ under the bed.