who created fetlife
History [edit]. FetLife was launched in January 2008 by John Baku, a software engineer in Montreal, Quebec. Frustrated by attempts to find women who had the same sexual interests as he did, Baku created a website in 2007 called âFriendsWithFetishesâ. While working on release 2.0 of FriendsWithFetishes, Baku decided to launch it as a separate site and named it FetLife.