SuicideGirls
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| Alt-porn / erotic photography | |
| languages | English |
| editorial staff | Sean Suhl, Selena Mooney |
| Registration | Yes |
| On-line | 2001 (currently active) |
| http://www.suicidegirls.com/ | |
Suicide Girls (SG) is an English-language commercial Alt-Porn - site (= alternative pornography site ). The website mainly contains erotic photographs of a certain - alternative - type of woman, blogs , forums and editorial texts.
SuicideGirls relies on an aesthetic that wants to stand out from established erotica providers such as Playboy and many pornography providers. Body modification is a central feature of the SuicideGirls: The women depicted are mostly tattooed , pierced or have strikingly colored hair; often several of these attributes come together. SuicideGirls tries to present itself as a subculturally anchored community . The site is one of the earliest alt porn sites and the most well known to the general public. The creators themselves do not describe the website as feminist , but advertise with quotes that explicitly express this assessment. SG is also received by third parties as feminist erotic photography. In addition to the images and videos typical of the genre, SuicideGirls also contains editorial texts on music and columns; the women have profiles and blogs; the community has been an integral part of SuicideGirls since it was founded.
In 2001 the web designer Sean Spooky Suhl and the photographer Selena Missy Suicide Mooney launched the website SuicideGirls. While the Portland- based website was supported in its early years by members of the Portland music scene such as Courtney Love or the Dandy Warhols , this close connection soon waned. In 2005 about 50 models from the early days left the website and accused the operators of contempt for women and a business model that differs little from the established pornography. While the episode cost SG some of its credibility in the scene, it did not detract from the steady growth in membership. In the meantime, SuicideGirls has produced various merchandising articles and various spin-offs .
Name and design
The name SuicideGirls, translated into German as 'Suicide Girls', originally comes from a novel by the author Chuck Palahniuk . In Survivor, he describes the suicide girls as follows:
“Eighteen, nineteen, twenty year old girls - I just want to talk to them. Community college girl . Senior high school students. Young emancipated people. It's the same with these suicide girls calling me. Most of them are so young. They stand crying in the phone booth with their rain-soaked hair and call me for help. They curl up alone in their bed for days and then they call me. The Messiah. You call me. The saviour. They sniff and sob and tell me everything I ask, every little detail. "
For Mooney and her friends, the term was emancipated from its context in the novel and was now used as
“Hipster slang… for post-punk girls in Pioneer Square who listened to Ice Cube on their iPods, dressed in miniskirts and minor threat hoodies, a skateboard in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other and a carelessly over it the backpack novels by Kerouac and Hemingway accidentally thrown bare shoulder . "
The term suicide was later interpreted by Missy Suicide, a prominent suicide girl, as "killing the part of yourself that is mainstream."
In the parlance of the website, SuicideGirls stands with inner major for the website itself, the plural term Suicide Girls for the paid models. The logo consists of the letters SG and a young woman with braids. The website operators use the abbreviation SG in contexts in which the term suicide is undesirable because of its negative connotation. The website is tailored to the shade of pink. Backgrounds and fonts are often pink. If a woman is accepted as a paid Suicide Girls model or as a Suicide Girl, the background color of her profile changes from gray to pink. The models themselves are almost always referred to as girls and not as women.
concept
SuicideGirls presents itself as a community of Suicide Girls with profiles, chats , blogs , a calendar, local event tips, a message system, etc. The erotic models are partly paid models, but also women posing for free, who mostly hope to move up to the rank of accepted Suicide Girls . Paying customers and Suicide Girls have a profile page, the latter with regularly updated photo series and various personal categories. A larger part of the online communication takes place between the Suicide Girls themselves, who also have access to a non-public model forum. SuicideGirls is operated by Oregon- based SG Services Inc. with an address in Los Angeles . SuicideGirls is mainly financed through the membership fees of customers, but meanwhile also generates income from the licensing of images and brands. For the fee, which in December 2019 was either $ 12 for a month or $ 48 for a year, users were given access to additional material and could interact with other users in a community via forums, chats or webcams .
According to a statement by Mooney from the end of 2005, the nude pictures are directly responsible for only about 20 percent of the page views, the remaining four fifths are accounted for by blogs, forums, calendars and the like. SG Services is owned by four owners, with the former couple Sean Suhl (Spooky) and Selena Mooney (Missy) being responsible . Suhl is responsible for business and technology, Mooney for content and photos. Legally, the women are freelancers for SG Services. The operator pays for individual photo series, but is not responsible for vacation or social security. Originally, women received around 100 to 200 US dollars for a photo series, but by 2008 the fee had risen to 500 US dollars.
The operators keep a low profile when it comes to information about financial issues and visitor numbers. External estimates of unique visitors from the USA for the beginning of 2011 fluctuate between 150,000 and 300,000 a month, while in mid-2010 they should have been just under half a million. In 2009, SuicideGirls reported five million unique visits worldwide per month. According to Alexa, there are more men, more young people and more people without children among the visitors to SuicideGirls than among all Internet users. Compared to Playboy, for example, SuicideGirls has only about a third of the hits, and SG visitors are younger than those on the Playboy's website. The SG attracts more female visitors than the Playboy.
history
Prehistory - The Portland and Alt Porn scene
In the years before the SG was founded, amateur and underground pornography was able to establish itself as an integral part of newsgroups and mailing lists. The Nerve website has published a successful mix of community, music and sex since 1997. JenniCam had achieved amazing success with the representation of the everyday life of a young woman - including her sexuality. The first websites of the genre that were later called Alt porn emerged . They were often run independently: website operators, photographers and models came from the same subculture . Most of them were women who were often associated with the Gothic or BDSM scene.
At the same time, there was a sexually permissive climate in Portland, which was unusual for the USA. The Oregon Supreme Court ruled the prohibition of obscene representations to be inconsistent with the principle of freedom of expression in the 1980s and repealed these prohibitions in Oregon. Oregon was also one of the few states where it was legal to have sex and sell alcohol in the same club at the same time. By the mid-1990s, the nightclub scene had grown into one of the largest in the United States, and the sex business had established itself as a regular part of the Portland economy. The night clubs and dance performances were largely created in existing bars and pool halls. They were and are in the main streets of the regular nightlife district and are thus largely part of the established nightlife and party life. In 1995, Teresa Dulce's Danzine was the first magazine by and for sex workers in town to be founded. In addition to SuicideGirls, Fatalbeauties also emerged from the city. Portland still has a lively scene today with neo-burlesque shows, fetish balls and various smaller websites and magazines.
Foundation and first years
Suhl and Mooney, then a couple, started the website on September 14, 2001 as a hobby project with an initial investment of US $ 5,000. The Canadian Suhl came from Los Angeles that year and designed websites for various media companies such as HBO . Mooney, a former media and sociology student, worked as a freelance photographer and was a cover girl for Nerve magazine herself. She wanted to capture the alternative emos , punks and skaters in traditional pin-up shots in the trendy Portland stronghold . Suhl and Mooney both wanted to start a music and indie magazine, but came to the conclusion that none of the previously existing magazines on the Internet made money. In contrast, pornography on the Internet was the only successful business idea on the Internet in 2001.
Mooney initially took photos of friends, some of whom were clothed and some of whom were undressed. Some of the models worked in Portland's strip clubs; SuicideGirls attracted attention through advertising in these strip clubs. Both founders make different statements about the motivation for founding the SuicideGirls: Mooney says she saw it more as an art project than a business at the time, while Suhl said the goal was to become the playboy for the 21st century. So he wrote in the mission statement of the website that SuicideGirls was for unadjusted sexuality of the 21st century what Playboy was for the bachelor of the 1960s. Suhl put the photographs of initially 35 women with accompanying texts on a website that was more reminiscent of punk fanzines than erotic magazines. Early slogans on the website played with the forbidden and proclaimed, for example, “We kidnapped your daughter and gave her a tattoo”. According to its own information, the website was already operating without losses after a few months and took about 80,000 US dollars in the first year of its existence.
The media quickly discovered the project. After a few months had passed, the ABC's major American newscast, Nightline , reported on the website. It was the third interview Missy Suicide had ever done. Other media outlets like the London Times , Rolling Stone or Spin quickly followed.
The website not only presented itself cheekier than Playboy, but also as something new. Feminism played a role in SuicideGirls 'public relations work, as did the models' self-determination and the concept of preferring a more self-confident and less conformist type of woman. The later critic Jennifer Sicily Caravella, for example, described her motivation to become a suicide girl because she thought SG was something almost revolutionary, a new feminist platform that girls and women could be a role model. In 2002, Courtney Love joined the community and began promoting SuicideGirls on television and in public appearances. She mentioned the site on Howard Stern among others , and when she hosted 24 Hours of Love on MTV , she brought some Suicide Girls onto the show. An example that the band The Strokes followed a little later. For the one year anniversary in Portland, the local Dantes club was filled with around 500 guests, while numerous other interested parties were turned away due to overcrowding.
In 2002 there were around 350 applicants for each new actress who did not receive a model contract. At that time, the number of Suicide Girls was comparatively small. Individual women were able to achieve notoriety relatively quickly, which was reflected, for example, in VIP passes and free tickets to concerts or shows. The website itself was provided with CDs and, above all, clothing in large quantities, in order to promote them through photos and editorial contributions. Between 2001 and 2004, around 600 old porn websites came into being, often copied from SuicideGirls. However, most of these sites only existed for a short time. These mostly dispensed with the subcultural claim put forward and specialized in certain niches. Raverporn brought women with brightly colored hair, Friction USA women members of the straight-edge scene, while female Star Wars fans posed accordingly at Superkult . Bigger websites like Burning Angel adopted much of the SG concept without using the same cultural rhetoric.
Relocation to Los Angeles, expansion and crisis
The company resided in an apartment in Portland until 2003, but then moved to a commercial building in Los Angeles . The number of models rose to 300 actresses by 2004. At the time, the site was drawing around 750,000 visitors a month, 57 percent of whom were male and 43 percent were female.
In addition to the website, SuicideGirls has expanded into other industries over the years: She produces clothing and jewelry; sells licenses for pictures of women, for example, to skateboard manufacturers who printed the pictures on the decks of the skateboards; published a SuicideGirls book in 2004 and intermittently produced a radio show.
In 2004 the company employed more than 350 women who attracted around half a million visitors each week. By its own account, at that time the rate of accepted model applications was about three out of the 200 that reached the website each week. In 2005 the number of models was almost 900.
With the success of SuicideGirls, mainstream porn producers began such attempts at style. So Hustler 's young label, VCA Pictures, started producing aesthetically similar videos in the 2000s. SuicideGirls also pushed into this market: after moving to Los Angeles, SuicideGirls quickly got started on other projects besides the website. These were often controversial within the community because, in the opinion of some models and many journalists, they had little to do with the alternative and feministly connoted principles with which SG advertised. SG has been working with Playboy since 2004 . Since 2004, Playboy has featured a weekly Suicide Girls with their photo sets on its paid website Cyber Club .
In 2005 the website began to expand into numerous media and with various business partnerships. Some of the troupe toured with various neo-burlesque shows and sold a DVD with recordings of the shows. The first of these shows toured 55 cities in the United States and the United Kingdom with seven women. A summary and documentation of the tour appeared in several parts on the TV channel Showtime . Further tours through the USA, Australia and Europe followed. The pseudo-documentary Suicide Girls: The Italian Villa appeared on the same television station in 2006 .
After the US Department of Justice set up the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force against the spread of hardcore pornography in 2005, the FBI announced in a Washington Post interview on September 20, 2005 that they saw the greatest chances of investigation in sadomasochistic representations, among other things. Although there was no concrete evidence that SuicideGirls could come into conflict with the task force, Suhl began to worry and removed various photo sets. The operators deleted more provocative photos on the website that used fake blood as decoration or showed tied models.
Conflict with the models
In September 2005, models began quitting SuicideGirls in an argument. In total, about 50 women left SuicideGirls. Sometimes they then complained in blogs and interviews about poor and irregular pay, the lack of a say and a generally misogynistic attitude of the owner Suhl.
A particularly present critic, Jennifer Caravella alias Sicily, was involved in the management of the handful of models who had organized the first burlesque tours. According to her own statements, she was thrown out of all spin-off activities unannounced after she asked Suhl about profit sharing for the women participating in the shows and DVDs. Several models accused Sean Suhl of verbally abusing women, drawing up restrictive contracts and paying only minimal amounts. Suhl is prone to choleric attacks and regularly takes them out on the models, he calls them roaring as ugly, sluts and the like.
The former models emphasized that the website's feminist claim is only a facade, behind the scenes there is little difference between SuicideGirls and other erotic websites. The female co-owner Selena Mooney is only listed for marketing reasons and has no influence on the actual management. While Mooney did a large part of the work, was responsible for the photos and press work, the final decisions were made by Suhl. Mooney replied, however, that the allegation that she was not boss was personally insulting and was not based on truth.
Caravella criticized that SuicideGirls turned out to be a tattooed version of Playboy or Penthouse . Community and blogs did not exist to create a real community for the women, only to create a differentiator to other adult sites. If a pure picture show were more commercially successful, Suhl would be ready to change the concept at any time. For example, while women should say as little as possible about their partners, Suhl urged them to denigrate each other and verbally attack, as this would attract more visitors. The business model degrades women to pure products, devalues them psychologically and promotes mutual attacks. It is the opposite of feminism and humanism.
Models and community members accused the management of censoring their own forums. The operators removed forum posts and blog entries. Individual girls had their "free, lifelong membership in the community" terminated at short notice without prior notice. While they were deprived of their writing rights and blog posts and the like were deleted, the nude photos remained permanently on the SuicideGirls website. When the Boston Phoenix released a sympathetic portrait of the Suicide Girls in 2006, a male member and life partner of a suicide girl said he believed the allegations were 90 percent true, but he didn't believe Coca-Cola and Pepsi either and would buy them anyway. A few days later his membership, like that of his partner, was canceled.
Mooney emphasized that almost two thirds of the permanent employees are female, most of them are former models. The majority of photographers are also female. The company defended itself against allegations of censorship by stating that idiocy, attacks against the company or employees had no business on the website and that there was no freedom of expression on a private website.
Lawsuits Against Other Websites
Women who posted on platforms other than SuicideGirls have been kicked out of the community. Bitter and accusatory posts against SuicideGirls disappeared from Myspace or LiveJournal . Allegedly this was due to the close personal relationships between Suhl and the Myspace and LiveJournal operators.
In September and October 2005 SG sued Gloomdolls.com and God's Girls . The SG operators accused Gloomdoll's website of betrayal because they had published internal documents, especially the model contract. Violent attacks on the website, which among other things called for no more SG membership fees to be paid, would violate the contracts that the Suicide Girl had previously concluded with SG. SG took action against God's Girls because they employed former SG models, around 60 God's Girls models are said to have previously had connections with SuicideGirls. They also used the color pink for their design. The former SG photographer Lithium Picnic and the model Apnea also had to defend themselves against a lawsuit at the beginning of 2007; Both had set up their own picture series, which SG viewed as a violation of the terms of the contract.
Since 2006
The SG's second neo-burlesque tour was again accompanied by an appearance on US-wide television. Various models appeared in a CSI: -NY episode with a SuicideGirls theme. SG member and CSI inventor Anthony Zuiker broadcast the episode Oedipus Hex for the first time on October 18, 2006.
The conflicts with the ex-models ensured that the SuicideGirls had lost a lot of their reputation in the scene. Since then, SuicideGirls has been considered the Walmart of Alt Porn . However, this did little to change the website's continued success. At the beginning of 2006, around 900 women, by the end of the year 1200, had their photos taken, which attracted around one million visitors a week. In 2007, the number of models rose to 1,500, according to SuicideGirls, they received 1,000 new applications every few days. The number of visitors stayed at over a million a week.
In 2008, the site had over 1,000 SuicideGirls as members and approximately 300,000 paying members. By the end of 2010, the number of models had risen to almost 2,200 who had uploaded 270,000 images. While the number of visitors to the website has likely remained stable or decreased since 2010, SuicideGirls began to expand into other media. Thriller writers JC Hutchins and Jordan Weisman published a novel in collaboration with SuicideGirls. That year the "reality horror film" Suicide Girls Must Die was released! directed by Sawa Suicide . The film was largely ignored by critics. In 2011 the company announced plans for a comic book.
In February 2010, Apple removed the SuicideGirls app from its app store along with about 5,000 other products because these women were degraded and displayed offensive content. SuicideGirls made do with various workarounds.
style
Models
All members of the community can upload photos of themselves, so there is also a group of Suicide Boys . However, only women are paid for this. SuicideGirls claims to show authentic women. The Suicide Girls themselves, whose photos are posted on the website, are members of the community; They differ from paying members in terms of photo fees and free membership. The website itself describes the desired models in 2010 as unique, strong, sexy and self-confident. The women depicted at SuicideGirls are almost without exception tattooed or pierced. They often have noticeably colored hair and generally have not had plastic surgery. While a " body modification " (tattoo, piercing or colored hair) is a minimum requirement to be accepted, the women involved in the selection of new girls clearly show that they prefer the presence of all three components.
Coley, hipster
Cianna, cheerleader type
Suicide Girl Smash, pierced, tattooed and dyed hair
Suicide Girl Rambo works for SG as a model supervisor.
In contrast to the predominant figure of the actress with silicone breasts in mainstream porn, the women at SuicideGirls were characterized by lip piercings, cup size B and “a snotty attitude”. Apart from the tattoos, the girls conform to common beauty stereotypes. The alternative claim of SuicideGirls can hardly be fulfilled. The girls would simply correspond to the type of the ideal cheerleaders and follow the current ideals of beauty - young, white and thin. Suhl confirmed these statements to Punk Planet as early as 2002 as perhaps the greatest failure of SuicideGirls, but did not change the business policy.
The author Annie Tomlin described the SuicideGirls photos as early as 2003 in an influential portrait as "the same tits as always, in a punk rock bra", since then the selection of women has tended to adapt to more mainstream criteria. After SuicideGirls had recourse to friends from the Portland scene in the early years, many of the women have now taken professional model photos outside of the SuicideGirls, but mostly had to cover the tattoos.
African-American or Asian girls would only be accepted as girls in rare exceptional cases; their photos would then always be charged with a special exoticism. In these cases, the text written by the website operator, which introduces the individual girls, is often charged with racist stereotypes.
Originally, prospective suicide girls had to write longer texts and introduce themselves personally in several interviews with the website operators before they could become a model. By 2008, the requirement to upload a few photos (which did not necessarily have to be nude) and fill out a short questionnaire had decreased. When SuicideGirls launched, the girls made about $ 30 for a photo session; in 2003 the fee was approximately $ 100 to $ 200. The fees were in the lower average of what was paid for professional erotic recordings in the USA.
The paid Suicide Girls are obliged to regularly post new photos as well as to keep the online diary up to date and to take part in discussions. As is common with model contracts, the women transfer all photo rights to SG with the entry contract, whereby SG can in turn resell the photos. According to a former suicide girl, the contracts since 2006 required the rights to the model name, persona, signature, voice, biographical information and tattoos. SuicideGirls can sell these rights and the photos to third parties without the consent of the models, whereby it made no statement about how this can be practically implemented, for example, with tattoos or biographical information.
photos
SuicideGirls is the most famous alt-porn publication and is still considered a reference for this direction of erotic photography to this day. The photographer Mooney describes Alberto Vargas and pin-up photographers of his time as role models. The style of the photos generally ranges between fashion and pornographic shots. The photos are more stylized, staged and less revealing than hardcore pornography, but in comparison to fashion photography they are more openly sexual than most pictures of a fashion spread. Since the women have a comparatively large say in the design of the photos and can also employ their own photographers, the style of the sets is more diverse than on most comparable adult websites.
The requirements for photos have changed several times over the years. In 2011, recordings of penetration or direct allusions to childhood such as stuffed animals and school uniforms are principally excluded. In addition to these explicit prohibitions, the website describes some other style elements as undesirable: striking make-up is part of it, wigs, weapons and blood or classic pin-up accessories from earlier decades such as feather boas or hats. Some of these style elements were quite typical in the early years. If possible, submitted photos should be "fresh and creative" and not simply repeat the photos of other models.
While women as paying members are free to choose which photos they post, certain minimum requirements apply to paid Suicide Girls. The sets must show bare breasts and bum; the photos in which these body parts can be seen must appear in the first third of the set. Preferably the girls should submit well more than the 40 photos that belong to a set, with the decision as to which photos are posted online and in which order up to the website owner.
Sean Kuhl himself sees his website less as pornography than as a cool, hip and contemporary version of the playboy . The operators of the website emphasize that the models have a lot of say in the design of the photos. Basically, it is up to the women to decide how far individual photos go to rare close-ups of the genitals.
Suicide Girl Dominick in underwear on the tower of an FV101 Scorpion
Suicide Girl Lyxzen
Two models
Focus on the genital area, the face is barely visible
The women pose in everyday situations, such as in bathtubs or rumpled beds. The stories that are partially told in the photo series are also much closer to everyday life than in mainstream erotic photography. The basic motifs of the photo series range from some bondage series to classic negligee-in-bedroom shots; a comparatively large number of series take on classic fetish topics (nurse, librarian, etc.). Women often pose with animals, with snakes being particularly popular. Allusions to pop culture can be found in the costumes and in the fact that some well-known film scenes are re-enacted.
In 2002, Wired magazine positively compared the subcultural style of SuicideGirls to the heavily advertised, poorly designed websites of mainstream porn. The design magazine Print, on the other hand, described SuicideGirls as a figurehead of alternative eroticism that emphasizes creativity and humor; In contrast, the feminist Herizons magazine only sees a mainstream aesthetic with additional pierced labia. While Shoshona Magnet describes the unusually high number of facial shots in her essay, the feminist author Nicole Cohen says that the women may look more trendy, but the SuicideGirls serve exactly the same softcore standards as other providers: strategically cropped photos, woman-on- Representations of women and numerous photos of the genital area.
Community
Suicide Girls themselves are required to blog and take part in discussions. Most models, however, say that besides the money, this would also be one of the main incentives to model here. The women appear under pseudonyms throughout. The print magazine described the mood in the community in 2004 as a trendy psychobilly bar, where the cute girls take off their clothes every now and then. The scene was characterized by dry humor and a generally happy mood. The Boston Phoenix, on the other hand, compared the mood at a real-life meeting in 2006 to a mix of anti-social intellectuals and goths . While Suhl and Mooney carefully avoid labeling SuicideGirls as feminist, the website extensively advertises press quotes that do just that. In her external presentation, she emphasizes the feminist discussion groups and puts quotes from women on the main page, in which they emphasize their fun and their self-confident role as women at SuicideGirls.
The language of the website is English, with individual women writing in their mother tongue and forums and discussion groups having formed in other widely used languages.
SuicideGirls aims to appeal to user groups that are often neglected by the adult industry: young people and women. According to its own information, almost half of the website has female members. Although this number cannot be verified, there is a noticeable number of active users in the discussion groups and forums who describe themselves as female. The website emphasizes the integration into a broader subculture scene, the self-description not only refers to the “grassroots approach to sexuality” but also to the alternative culture and especially the best music. She describes the participants as “girls next door”, but more interesting and with better taste in music. While paying members mainly register to look at the pictures, there are also a number of those who publicly say that they are primarily concerned with varied, intelligent communication in a sexuality-friendly environment. Many of the SuicideGirls referred to themselves as lesbian, and the community had some queer groups. The paying members included Courtney Love and The Dandy Warhols keyboardist Zia McCabe.
SuicideGirls seeks to encourage larger groups of participants to meet online and to encourage social events in the real world. In interviews, Suicide Girls report that, at least in their early days, they lost themselves in the community, spent a lot of time there every day, and largely relocated their social life to the platform. Some girls describe the feeling on the website as a naked sisterhood , that they have made good friends for life there. Individual girls are regularly recognized on the street, and there are also incidents in which the boundaries of sexual harassment are blurred. Girls regularly disappear for a while and later come back with the message that a male community member threatened them in real life.
SuicideGirls has its own group on feminist issues, which has long-lasting discussions about Roe v. Calf or sexual harassment there. Much of the communication within the SG community is short and superficial. Despite the public emphasis on alternative and emancipatory approaches, comments and discussions are mostly short, friendly, meaningless encouragement. The information content of the actresses' individual blogs varies greatly; however, those who actively grapple with their role or represent societal positions are only a small minority. Almost all girls avoided more complex questions about religion, politics, ethnicity or sexual orientation. The level of the contributions varies greatly; the columnist Sasha points out that the majority of the participants are 20, have a modest education and therefore one should not expect any literary feats.
Editorial texts
In addition to the blog entries and forum posts, the website also contains some magazine-like articles. These include interviews with bands like the Flaming Lips and other artists like Chuck Palahniuk and Richard Linklater . By 2006 the website had put about 800 interviews online. Regular columnists have included Neal Pollack , Wil Wheaton , Brad Warner, and Seanbaby .
Live show and videos
Some of the troupe toured with various neo-burlesque shows since 2005 and sold a DVD with recordings of the shows. The first of these shows toured 55 cities in the United States and the United Kingdom with seven women. Although the tour was panned by the press, it was sold out.
The show should pick up on the tradition of burlesque, but be completely modernized. Compared to other neo-burlesque acts, for example, the SG appearances were short and fast. While pasties are a standard accessory in burlesque , women at SuicideGirls mostly use duct tape to cover their nipples. The show contained numerous parodies and allusions to popular culture phenomena (for example South Park , Reservoir Dogs or The Maturity Exam ), the music to which the Suicide Girls performed ranged from Marilyn Manson to Björk to Peaches . The first rows of each venue are considered the splash zone , and visitors who sit there are occasionally doused with drinks or spat on during the show. The finale of the shows consists of the women on and off the stage spraying large amounts of chocolate sauce and cream on themselves and the visitors in the splash zone. The show drew about half the total of men and half women, while the front row was mostly male.
A summary and documentation of the first tour appeared in several parts on the TV channel Showtime . Further tours through the USA, Australia and Europe followed. In 2006, a SuicideGirls show was the opening act for the concerts of the rock band Guns N 'Roses .
SuicideGirls also released several DVDs. The first was Suicide Girls: The First Tour and included a documentary of the first burlesque tour. She was followed by Suicide Girls: Italian Villa . In addition to stage recordings, the DVDs contained elements typical of the making-of genre, such as interviews with the makers, some scenes behind the scenes, etc. This was followed by direct DVD releases with The SuicideGirls Guide to Living and SuicideGirls Must Die! . The Guide to Living consists of several short episodes in which the women give tips, for example, on how to escape their own wedding or kill vampires. SuicideGirls Must Die! is a feature film. In this film, women gradually disappear as they gather in a remote area to photograph the SuicideGirls calendar. According to the creators, the other women knew nothing about the filming and believed that women really disappeared regularly.
literature
- Feona Attwood: No Money Shot? Commerce, Pornography and New Sex Taste Cultures. In: Sexualities. Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2007, pp. 441-456, doi: 10.1177 / 1363460707080982 .
- Nicole Cohen: Suicidegirls. In: Herizons. Spring 2005, ISSN 0711-7485 , p. 36 (review).
- Katrien Jacobs: Netporn. DIY web culture and sexual politics. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2007, ISBN 978-0-7425-5431-3 .
- Shoshana Magnet: Feminist sexualities, race and the internet. An investigation of suicidegirls.com. In: New Media & Society. Volume 9, Issue 4, August 2007, pp. 577-602, doi: 10.1177 / 1461444807080326 .
- Ryan Moore: Sells Like Teen Spirit. Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis. NYU Press, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8147-5748-2 .
- Sasha: Grrls! Grrls !. In: THIS. July / August 2003, ISSN 1491-2678 , pp. 20-24.
Web links
- SuicideGirls.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chuck Palahniuk: Survivor: Excerpt , Random House, in the original: " Eighteen-, nineteen-, twenty-year-old girls, I only want to talk to them. Community college girls. High school seniors. Emancipated minors. It's the same with these suicide girls calling me up. Most of them are so young. Crying with their hair wet down in the rain at a public telephone, they call me to the rescue. Curled in a ball alone in bed for days, they call me. Messiah. They call me. Savior. They sniff and choke and tell me what I ask for in every little detail. "
- ↑ Missy Suicide: SuicideGirls Feral House, 2004 ISBN 1932595031 p. 8
- ^ A b c Emily Layne Fargo: "The Fantasy of Real Women": New Burlesque & the Female Spectator P. 68 as PDF
- ^ A b Emily Layne Fargo: "The Fantasy of Real Women": New Burlesque & the Female Spectator P. 70 as PDF
- ↑ a b c Attwood p. 446
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Colin Berry: Pixel Vixens , In: PRINT Magazine, July / August, 2004, pp. 60–63
- ↑ a b c d e f g Amy Roe: The Calculated Assault of Suicidegirls. com , Williamette Week March 19, 2003
- ^ SuicideGirls: Join , accessed February 28, 2011
- ↑ a b c d Ian Demsky: Suicide Defense ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Williamette Weekly January 11, 2006
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- ^ The Social Media Soapbox: Suicide Girls shows how online communities can monetize by thinking small , August 30, 2009
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- ↑ a b c d Marcin Warpechowski: SuicideGirls in: art & design magazine No. May 16, 2006
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