About The Beautiful Kind
The Beautiful Kind is a sex positive community where people can get advice, share their experiences, and explore new ideas. This site strives to bring shy folks out of their shell, and offer a safe haven for those exploring their sexually creative side. Our sexuality is connected to every aspect of our lives. All genders, sexual orientations, lifestyles, and fetishes are welcome here. Open, honest, and authentic, The Beautiful Kind is sure to entertain, educate, titillate, and inspire.
Humble beginnings (2006-2009)
The Beautiful Kind was launched in Oct 2006 as the personal blog of creative visionary and self-proclaimed slut, Kendra Holliday. As an anonymous blogger, Kendra started the site as her personal space to vent gripes. She mainly commented on things that got on her nerves, which was a lot, as she is the crazy cat lady of pet peeves.
As she started injecting spicy details about her sex life, interest and readership started to grow rapidly and the sex goddess "The Beautiful Kind" was born. As TBK, Kendra wrote about personal subjects such as dating, bisexuality, swinging, being a part of a triad, exploring fetishes and BDSM, and candidly discussing the porn she liked. Always pushing the envelope, she even had an ongoing project where she slept with her readers and then posted reviews.
Meanwhile, the community aspect of the blog started to blossom and gave birth to altruistic columns such as, "Why Am I Not Getting Laid?" and "Ask the Slut." What started as a negative rant space transformed into a sex-positive platform. The Beautiful Kind grew into a triad of its own as Matthew Allister Cask (formerly known as Beast) and WebMaster joined the ranks to contribute to the growth of the site.
Controversies and setbacks (2010)
In May of 2010, The Beautiful Kind came to a screeching halt when cached information from a social media search engine revealed personal information about Kendra, allowing her employers at the time to discover her identity as a sex blogger. Upon finding out what she did off the clock, they promptly fired her. At a time when personal privacy with social media was a controversial topic, the story went viral and spread like wildfire across the web, making news with outlets like Glamour, Huffington Post, Inc.com, BUST, Jezebel and others. Following her termination, The Beautiful Kind was taken down pending a decision as to its future. The site relaunched one month later. During the summer, Kendra published her first ebook, The Book of Goddess.
Determined to face everything head-on and truly own her open and honest philosophy, Kendra decided to come out and reveal her identity in October of 2010. In conjunction to putting her face and name to the site, her life story was featured prominently in St. Louis alternative weekly publication The Riverfront Times. The transition to going public was not an easy one, as Kendra faced serious challenges, the worst being a lawsuit from her ex-husband, suing for full custody of their child. After a year-long struggle, the case peacefully resolved in November 2011, with both parents still a part of their daughter's life.
The Beautiful Kind evolves (2011)
Despite these challenges, growth continues. Much more than a blog, the latest incarnation of the website is more educational, empowering, and accessible. The site features a new format including articles, videos, blogs and a stronger focus on community.
A TBK YouTube channel was launched and public speaking engagements have been booked. Kendra presented at ideaCity in Toronto this year, as well as Show Me The Blog and Playground Conference. In addition, Kendra co-founded Sex Positive St. Louis, an outreach and education organization.
More books are in the works, covering topics such as sex work, sex-positive activism, the headshaving social experiment, and most importantly, motherhood and sexuality. The Beautiful Kind debuted a weekly video podcast in October 2011, hosted by Kendra. The podcast has been wildly successful and ranks within the top downloaded video podcasts in the Health / Sexuality section of the iTunes Music Store.
The United States is enduring one of the most sexually chaotic times in its history, and The Beautiful Kind is proud to play a key role ushering in a sexual Renaissance of love, acceptance, and positive energy.
Kendra Holliday
Kendra Holliday is a 38 year old bisexual mother located in St. Louis, MO and the Editor of The Beautiful Kind. She is a passionate sexplorer when it comes to kinks, fetishes, BDSM, swinging, and polyamory. She is the author of The Book of Goddess: Elevating Your Desirability to Mythic Proportions. Her next book, Momsexual: The Most Common, and Most Controversial, Sexual Orientation, is due to be published in 2012.
She is co-founder of Sex Positive St. Louis and an Alternative Lifestyle Advisor and Gynecological Teaching Associate for Washington University School of Medicine. Featured countless times in the local alternative weekly The Riverfront Times and winner of 2011 Web Award for Best Sex Blog, she also has a monthly advice column in The St. Louis Sinner.
Her life experiences include monogamous marriage, divorce, sex work, parenthood, as well as being fired and sued for her sexuality. She is currently in a polyamorous BDSM relationship with her long-term partner, Matthew. More about Kendra can be found on her consulting website.
Matthew Allister Cask
Matthew Allister Cask is Kendra's partner and confidant. Joining The Beautiful Kind vision circa 2009, he has been a supportive and inspiring force. Raised by a southern gentlemen, Matthew, a divorced father of two, believes that chivalry is not dead and is committed to furthering that belief through his actions and writings.
Dedicated to the idea that this country needs more confident, honest, and outspoken women, he encourages Kendra's bold, unconventional choices and eschews double standards. Matthew looks forward to the day when a person's sexuality no longer comes into play when judging character, value or status in society.
Learn more about Matthew here and here.
WebMaster
WebMaster is a local creative professional for the advertising industry. Formerly a coworker with Kendra Holliday at a previous job, their paths crossed again when The Beautiful Kind launched and he was hired to do seasonal design themes for the new blog.
As the readership grew, WebMaster formally joined Team TBK in 2009 in order to lend his expertise towards growing the site from a simple blog into something much bigger. Working quietly behind the scenes, WebMaster is the architect of the site's custom platform including it's design and many features.
