SUICIDE GIRLS: Way back in 2001 when Suicide Girls launched & subsequently popped up all over your alt-culture grill, it provided young budding queers with a plethora of alt-girl-on-girl imagery allegedly produced with a feminist agenda & an “alternative” beauty standard– the models sported tattoos, piercings & bisexuality-as-the-status quo and were notably sans plastic body parts and straight sex photo-sets. Of course it wasn’t really THAT alternative; most models were white (often VERY white, because goths wear a lot of sunscreen!) and skinny. Neither of those pointless and irritating exclusions seem to have changed much over the years, unfortunately.
The concept of a “sex positive community of women” who believe “that creativity, personality and intelligence are not incompatible with sexy, compelling entertainment” and aim to “mix the smarts, enthusiasm and DIY attitude of the best music and alternative culture sites with an unapologetic, grassroots approach to sexuality” still got our attention. Just try mentioning the Suicide Girls and find 50-100% of lesbian/bisexual women know so much about it despite having never mentioned it before, ever. It’s like part of our lexicon, but underneath.
Suicide Girls out-performed other alt-porn startups Burning Angel and Supercult (read more about the business side of alt porn in Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Internet!); expanding their brand via merchandising, books (Suicide Girls, Beauty Redefined, etc.), Showtime specials, a radio show and a live girl burlesque tour. (Also apparently a bunch of SGs just starred in an episode of CSI New York). The site earns cred for its content (a là Playboy — read it for the articles!), which is most of the site. Like now there are interviews with Peter Jackson, Dita Von Teese, Robert Pattison, Matthew Broderick, Diablo Cody, Kristen Stewart and Kathy Griffin.
Buttttttt we have mixed feelings about the allegedly “women-owned” SG because around 2005 the site ran into a series of controversies, when “a group of angry ex-models” began “bashing the SuicideGirls alt-porn empire, saying its embrace of the tattoo and nipple-ring set hides a world of exploitation and male domination.” But that whole thing was never really cleared up either way, as far as we can tell.
Therefore we have no choice but to show you ten of the hottest Suicide Girls anyhow. See COED magazine picked the 77 Hottest Suicide Girls which we think was maybe the 77 Femmest Suicide Girls. Which is all well and good and hot, but here’s some of the other kind (yes we realize we’re using a very lose definition of “genderqueer”):
Ten Hot Genderf*cking Suicide Girls
10. Charlie (New York, NY)
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9. Nanou (France)
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8. Malloreigh (British Columbia, Canada)
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7. Dwam (France)
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6. Myra (Germany)
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5. Uvita (Colombia)
4. Coley (California)
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3. Paprika (South America)
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2. Ascii (Toronto, CA)
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1. Temper (Germany)
BOOBS: “We’re not saying editors only put boobs in their magazines because it’s good for business, but it does get attention. Fleshbot, for example, always notices. As does Kanye West (that’s right).” (@fleshbot)
CALL GIRL: Season Three of Secret Diary of a Call Girl premieres next week; this season Belle’s book has just been published and her editor will be pushing her to pursue crazy clients to make better stories for book number two. What’s super super super exciting is that a Belle on Belle interview will air this Monday at 10pm when actress Billie Piper will be meeting the real Belle De Jour (the author memoir the show was based on). (@showtime)
GALLERY: 48 Sexy Office Girls from an office where no-one actually wears clothes, like a porn set or something. (@coed)
FIRST TIMER: My First Time: “In college, I broke up with not one but two boyfriends by saying I was gay. (I believed it both times, interestingly; now I understand bisexuality.)” (@nerve.com)
TUMBLR: Tumblr has a new directory with an “erotica” category and Violet Blue likes it very much! (@tinynibbles)
EROTICA: “Bad Girl” from The Naughty Secretary: “Now I’m going to ask you this: have you been a bad girl, or a very bad girl?” And you know. Et cetera. (@talesofdebauchery)
SUGARBUTCH: The Lipstick Blow Job – we kiss all the time, so the wanting-and-not-having is kind of fun, for a little while. (@sugarbutch)
LESBIAN SEX: Frequently asked questions about lesbian sex, like “what is tribadism?” and OUR FAVORITE QUESTION EVER “what do two women do in bed together?” I don’t even have to click on the answer ’cause I know it’s knitting. (@about.com)
PORN: Is pornography good for you? If you’re thinking “probs not” YOU ARE WRONG. Some recent studies say that it totally is:
“Hald and Malamuth found that respondents construed the viewing of hardcover pornography as beneficial to their sex lives, their attitudes towards sex, their perceptions and attitudes towards members of the opposite sex, toward life in general, and over all. The obtained beneficial effects were statistically significant for all but one measure across both sexes. Now here is the kicker: A positive correlation was obtained between the amount of hardcover pornography that was viewed and the impact of the benefits reaped. This positive correlation was found for both sexes. In other words, the more that one watched porn, the stronger the benefits (for both sexes)! There you have it.”
That information seems almost surprising at first; most of what we hear about the hardcore mainstream porn industry from scientific journals and traditional magazines is either blissfully raunchy plastic docu-soaps on premium cable or horror stories like True Life: I’m Addicted to Porn. But in another way; it makes perfect sense: although conservatives hark that the pornification of society is ruining civilization (and we don’t want to diminish the severity a lot of porn w/r/t the degradation of women), porn is also a helpful antidote for a sterile, sexless, repressed existence where especially for women, sexuality is still often treated as shameful. From outdated gender roles to the shaming of female (and especially lesbian) sexuality, sometimes the over-the-top raunch of hardcore porn can make people feel comfortable about being, at base, a sexual creature — at wanting sex… at needing it. So what are you waiting for go watch some porn & have sex. (@Psychology Today)
