Kink or KINK may refer to:

Common uses

Kink (sexuality) In human sexuality, kinkiness is the use of non-conventional sexual practices, concepts or fantasies. The term derives from the idea of a "bend" (cf. a "kink") in one's sexual behaviour, to contrast such behaviour with "straight" or "vanilla" sexu ...

, a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behavior * Kink, a

curvature In mathematics, curvature is any of several strongly related concepts in geometry. Intuitively, the curvature is the amount by which a curve deviates from being a straight line, or a surface deviates from being a plane. For curves, the canonic ...

, bend, or twist

Geography

Kink, Iran Kinak ( fa, كينك, also Romanized as Kīnak and Kink) is a village in Armand Rural District, in the Central District of Lordegan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...

, a village in Iran *

The Kink The Kink is a manmade feature of the North Fork Fortymile River in remote eastern Alaska. It is a channel that was blasted through a rock ridge by gold miners in 1904, in the belief that bypassing a horseshoe-shaped meander in the river's natura ...

, a man-made geographic feature in remote eastern Alaska

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Kink'' (film), a documentary about the internet pornography company Kink.com * ''Kink'', an autobiography written by

Dave Davies David Russell Gordon Davies (born 3 February 1947) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the English rock band the Kinks, which also featured his elder brother Ray Davies. He was ind ...

, guitarist for the Kinks *

Kink.com Kink.com is a San Francisco-based bondage internet pornography company that runs a group of websites devoted to BDSM and related fetishes. Kink.com, along with Kink Studios, LLC, Hogtied.com and Behindkink.com are DBAs for Cybernet Entertainme ...

, a BDSM-focused Internet pornography company *

The Kinks The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm ...

, a British rock band * ''The Kink'' (novel), a 1927 detective novel by Lynn Brock

Radio and television

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KinK Kink or KINK may refer to: Common uses * Kink (sexuality), a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behavior * Kink, a curvature, bend, or twist Geography * Kink, Iran, a village in Iran * The Kink, a man-made geographic feature in remote ea ...

'', a Canadian documentary television series profiling some of the more unusual edges of human sexuality *

KINK Kink or KINK may refer to: Common uses * Kink (sexuality), a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behavior * Kink, a curvature, bend, or twist Geography * Kink, Iran, a village in Iran * The Kink, a man-made geographic feature in remote ea ...

and kink.fm, a radio station in Portland, Oregon, United States * Kink FM, a radio station in the Netherlands

People named Kink

Dick Kink Dick John Kink (September 2, 1921 – August 29, 1971) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives The Washington House of Representatives is the lower house of the Washingto ...

(1921–1971), American politician * KiNK (Strahil Velchev), a music producer and DJ in

Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

George Kink George Kink (born August 26, 1982) is a German former professional ice hockey player. He last played for ERC Sonthofen 1999 in the Oberliga (Germany3). He's the older brother of Marcus Kink Marcus Kink (born 13 January 1985) is a German profes ...

(born 1982), German professional ice hockey player *

Louise Kink Louise Gretchen Kink Pope (April 8, 1908 – August 25, 1992), or Louise Kink, was a Swiss-American woman who was one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of RMS ''Titanic'' on April 15, 1912. Early life Louise Kink was born on Ap ...

(1908–1992), survivor of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' *

Marcus Kink Marcus Kink (born 13 January 1985) is a German professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing as the Captain for Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He has represented the German national team in numerous IIHF World C ...

(born 1985), German professional ice hockey player *

Rene Kink Rene Kink (born 22 November 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club, Essendon Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kink played in a variety of posi ...

(born 1956), Australian rules footballer *

Tarmo Kink Tarmo Kink (born 6 October 1985) is an Estonian former footballer who played as a winger. He last worked as a sporting director at Levadia. Club career Early career In 2001, Kink started his career with S.C. Real, scoring 46 goals in 15 game ...

(born 1985), Estonian professional footballer *

Kink Richards Elvin C. "Kink" Richards (December 27, 1910 – July 21, 1976) was an American football running back in the National Football League for the New York Giants. He first played college football at the former Baptist school known as Des Moines Un ...

(1910–1976), American football running back

Other uses

Kink (materials science) Kinks are deviations of a dislocation defect along its glide plane. In edge dislocations, the constant glide plane allows short regions of the dislocation to turn, converting into screw dislocations and producing kinks. Screw dislocations have rota ...

, a crystallographic defect * Kink, a solution to the

sine-Gordon equation The sine-Gordon equation is a nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation in 1 + 1 dimensions involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function. It was originally introduced by in the course of study of surfa ...