Ugol.s Law

"'Ugol's Law"' was formulated in the newsgroup alt.sex.bondage (asb) sometime around 1991 (it was probably first coined in this post from 19th September 1991.)

Ugol's Law came to be stated: For any given kink, either nobody does it or more than one person does it.

The Welcome to alt.sex.bondage posting by Big Al (arsmith@cris.com) provides some more explanation:

"At some time in the past (nobody's sure when) Harry Ugol made an off-the-cuff remark (nobody's sure what) that has since become one of the cornerstones of asb thought. Two of the most common formulations of Ugol's Law, as it came to be known, are "For any given kink, either nobody does it or more than one person does it", and "If you ever ask 'am I the only one who <insert kink>?' the answer is invariably 'no'." However, the best way *I* ever saw of putting it was written by -^-^Spectrum^-^-, who wrote it "You are not the only one." "

Ugol's law serves a very important purpose in asb, where people often come in from the cold wondering if they are some kind of sick twisted pervert in the bad sense of the word, alone in some unnatural practice they can't escape from. Ugol's law serves to remind people that there are others out there who are like them, and that serves as a source of comfort.

Some time later The_Horseman wrote Horseman's Corollary, specifically: "Any given kink squicks somebody." So remember that while you aren't universally rejected, there's somebody who won't do what you do. I suggest you not try to force them to. You're not their mother."

Ugol's Law is part of the YKIOK,IJNMK consensus that prevailed in alt.sex.bondage during the 1990's.

(This entry in the BDSM Dictionary incorporates text from the Ugol.s Law article in Wipipedia.)

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