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" sex ...

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

Radio and television

* '' KinK'', a Canadian documentary television series profiling some of the more unusual edges of human sexuality * KINK and kink.fm, a radio station in Portland, Oregon, United States *

Kink FM Kink FM was a commercial radio channel in e Netherlands dedicated entirely to alternative music. In 1992 Dutch radio station RTL Radio started broadcasting. After this station failed to be a success, its format and name was first changed to RTL ...

, 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 the Titanic, sinking of RMS ''Titanic'' on April 15, 1912. Early life Lou ...

(1908–1992), survivor of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' * Marcus Kink (born 1985), German professional ice hockey player * Rene Kink (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 (1910–1976), American football running back

Other uses

* Kink (materials science), 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 ...

Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (KINK) is a protocol defined in RFC 4430 used to set up an IPsec security association (SA), similar to Internet Key Exchange (IKE), utilizing the Kerberos protocol to allow trusted third parties to handle au ...

(KINK), a Kerberos-based protocol used in IPSec *

Sun kink In structural engineering, buckling is the sudden change in shape (deformation) of a structural component under load, such as the bowing of a column under compression or the wrinkling of a plate under shear. If a structure is subjected to a gra ...