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January 14, 2005
The allure of Suicide Girls
Suicide Girls is a softcore porn site featuring young tattoed and pierced women in well-shot, (or is that well-rendered) pictures. Someone at Metafilter asked if anyone had ever been with a Suicide Girl. If you never understood the connection between hot cars and hot women, you might when you read this question and response:
Q: Without uh, pissing anyone off, what's so special about this porn? Am I missing something here? It seems to me just like a bunch of goth/punk chicks going for the amateur angle. Or is it the fact that everyone treats it kind of sacred the only reason it's not considered real porn? I feel as if I'm missing something.
A: It definitely is porn, but it's interesting the form it takes. It's porn with the notion that these girls have some sort of connection with the site's target audience: the girls frequently have indie taste in music and film, they're frequently in or graduated from college, and they have their own blogs. Part of the fantasy for the site's users is that not only can you see their b00bies, but they have cool record collections and could maybe talk to you about Hannah Arendt. Also, having the "hip" ads on places like Pitchfork or the somewhat artsily presented coffee table book for sale in independent bookstores (who'd keep that thing on a coffee table?), in addition to having a running blog with indie rock news and suchlike, helps create this illusion that it's not porn. Or, that if it is porn, it's at least somewhat vaguely cool porn.It's really a very interesting idea, marketingwise. A very '00s variation on the "chicks in bikinis shooting guns" sort of niche entertainment, or those biker magazines with babes leaning on Harleys - "look! these things you like! AND A SEXY LADY! imagine if both you and the sexy lady were fucking and talking about these things you like!!!!!"
All with the added wrinkle that they're blogging. Why, it's almost as if you're hanging out with them...
(Note: despite my affection for both sexy ladies and indie rock, I'm not into the whole SG thing. I just find it a cannily interesting phenomenon.)
posted by Sticherbeast at 9:03 PM PST on December 28
Posted by JonasParker at January 14, 2005 12:00 PM
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ahh- suicide girls
http://wakingupinbliss.blogspot.com/2002/12/sandra-bullock-donates-1m-for-tsunami.html
I think the fact that the site was founded and is still run by a group of the original girls makes it more---acceptable? is that the word I'm looking for?
And the fact that it grew out of the late 90's grrrl and DIY movements makes it different than a bunch of middle age men in atlanta getting pics of cheerleaders with promises of coke, malt liquor and stardom.
These girls don't want to be porn stars, they really do want to be librarians, lead singers, engineers or philosophy grad students.
Posted by: mtlanglo at January 15, 2005 7:07 PM
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