Wasteland Earns AVN Nom for Best Alternative Website

BOSTON—Wasteland.com, the internet’s original BDSM, kink and fetish lifestyle site has been nominated by AVN for 2012 Best Alternative Website, adding to a successful and rewarding year for the New England-based company. Wasteland.com, the premier online destination for BDSM erotica for nearly 20 years, continues to deliver the highest-quality content, push erotic boundaries and maintain an exceptionally tight-knit community within the site. "It is an honor and a privilege that after 19 years, Wasteland still receives nominations for our hard work and achievements," owner Colin Rowntree said. "We want to thank AVN for the nomination. We have always been at the forefront of new developments for online adult entertainment.  We’ve come a long way from 1994 when our first sites were coded in Notepad and optimized for Mosaic to display Compuserve GIF images.  “In addition to our flagship site’s focus on BDSM and Fetish, we had the good sense to see way back in 1999 the potential of 'Erotica for Women' as a niche and have successfully dominated that market sector for 12 years with Sssh.com. It provides great diversification to reach out to other demographic sectors and Sssh.com has taken the world by storm at this point for polite women that would never look at 'regular porn' to find a safe haven to explore their sexuality." As for the present, Rowntree and his crew have, over the past year, developed a series of key B2B relationships that go the next step into the future of adult: The first Interactive BDSM adventure series with award-winning Saboom.com, the launch of the largest virtual 3D BDSM dungeon world within Red Light Center (yes, complete with a big gothic castle), an expansion into IPTV beyond what Wasteland pioneered with Roku several years ago, and critical partnerships as a content provider and traffic partner with PinkVisual Mobile, Mikandi, Hustler and other players. Rowntree added: “As for the future, we are already in it.  Our motto of “When Worlds Collide” has lead us to new and profitable relationships with the Studio and Novelty industries, thinking “outside the box” of how our company can enhance public awareness, traffic and mutual sales with such successful companies as CalExotics and Elegant Angel in the coming months. We’ve always worked hard to stay ahead of the curve, lead the way, and it is exhilarating after all these years to continue to be a progressive innovator in our industry.” Wasteland.com has been featured by HBO, Wired, BNET and the BBC, and has won dozens of industry awards. Wasteland's sister site, Sssh.com, presents erotica for women and couples from a woman’s point of view, and has been featured in Time Magazine, Newsweek, ABC Nightline, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, and the recently published book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts.