SM-201 Mission Statement

SM-201 is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide guide to BDSM and its history.

SM-201 articles should be useful for at least the following purposes:

For finding good content,
For finding honest history,
For finding honest reviews,
Become encyclopedic. SM-201 aims to inform people about BDSM, alternative sexuality topics, history, and a repository for a few "Special History Projects" by its author. If you find yourself needing references and footnotes on SM-201, whatever you're writing should probably go to Wikipedia instead.

There are probably hundreds of other uses for SM-201 articles; these are ones we try to keep in mind while authoring and editing pages.

Non-Goals

These are some specific non-goals; things people might think we want to do with SM-201, but we don't:

Create a site with adult content. SM-201 is not a porn site.
Create a new place for adult advertisements. SM-201 is not an advertising driven site.
Create corporate promotions.
Provide more search engine spam. Every page should be relevant, meaningful and useful.
Provide a personal homepage or dating service. This is not a social network for user profile pages.
Become a chat board or blogger site. There are plenty of Web-based and email discussion groups on the Internet, where people can talk about their experiences, ask questions, complain, make friends and joke around. SM-210 has discussion pages for each article, but these should be used to develop the article itself, and not as a "comments" area. Anyone can edit a SM-201 article; if you have useful information about a topic, put it in the article itself.

There are probably lots of other near-miss goals that people might think we have; if needed, we'll list those here, too.