Wired reports that popular alternative porn site suicidegirls.com is not all it purports:
A group of angry ex-models is bashing the SuicideGirls alt-porn empire, saying its embrace of the tattoo and nipple-ring set hides a world of exploitation and male domination.
The women are spreading their allegations through the blogosphere, raising the hackles of the SuicideGirls company, which has until now enjoyed a reputation as porn even feminists can love. It offers burlesque tours, clothes and DVDs in addition to a sprawling online library of naked punk and goth women.
“The recent accusations are a little upsetting,” said “Missy,” the co-founder of SuicideGirls. “We think they’re all pretty much unfounded.”
According to the site’s critics, about 30 SuicideGirls.com models have quit in disgust over the past few weeks. (Anti-SuicideGirls blogs can be found here and here.)
Despite their resignations, their photos remain on the site, minus their ubiquitous SuicideGirls online journals.
It’s hard to measure what impact the exodus will have. The site’s 75,000 photos of nearly 800 women — punkified naked men known as SuicideBoys only get a tiny chunk of bandwidth — probably face a much bigger threat from the federal crackdown on porn. On Saturday, SuicideGirls announced that the site was taking down a number of photo sets — “blood-bathing beauties, rope-bound babes and handcuffed honeys” — because of the threat of prosecution.
Damn, I can’t stand some of these alternative chicks. YOU ARE WORKING FOR A PORN SITE SELLING NAKED PICTURES OF YOURSELF! Don’t give me this girl power shit. Men look up your site to jerk off, not appreciate the inner you. Duh! Some people just don’t have any common sense……
fuck you, if you dont like it then dont just stay out of it its none of your beeezwax shit fuck
Euhm…. Brilliantly eleqouent reply. My defense is your own posting my dear!
I’ve got a slightly different, albeit deviant take. This whole “revolt” by the 30-odd former SG’s was all a clever marketing stunt to get press and attention.
Think about it, you’ve got hardcore feminists paying $9.99 now to see what the fuss is all about … and warm blooded men like me also getting curious.
At the end of the day, SG.com makes more $$$. In the porn industry any press (good or bad) is good!
That’s a good theory. Like a lot of things in life the porn industries existance comes down to one thing: money.
People aren’t in it for the love of it (pardon the pun).
i really like suicide girls…that´s hott
I’m sorry. Suicide girls aren’t hot….They’re just…not….
suicide girls are awesome and beautiful in a non cookie cutter sense. i’m a memeber of the site and i think they are great. as woman i feel the suicide girls are very empowering to look at.