Suicide Girls Now Appearing on Flickr

6 February 2007 4 Comments

Suicide Girls Now Appearing on Flickr

SG medium size picture I’m a sucker for girls with tattoos. Lucky for me there are lots of them over on Flickr. Who needs a Suicide Girls membership when you can get all the SG goodness directly in your Flickr feeds?

And just for those who may ask why I have posted this Keebler-esque entry… my last Suicide Girls post generates lots of traffic so this is also an experiment to see if this post can grab eyeballs as well. My last SG post is my all time second most visited page followed up by a video post about Chris Angel. Go figure… and yes SweetMoniMons will not be surprised by this post

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4 Responses to “Suicide Girls Now Appearing on Flickr”

Kinky Ink Tattoos 6 February 2007 at 9:18 pm #

The pictures they post on Flickr are really only ‘tempters’ and not as good as some of the full sets a paid member gets. Then there is the access to blogs, interviews and articles that fully paid up members get.

Having said that I think Suicide Girls almost need to reinvent themselves at this stage. There are so many copycat sites out there doing the whole ‘alt model’ thing to death.

How are Suicide Girls any different to others such as Gods Girls, Razor Dolls, Deviant Nation and all the rest? I think they seriously need to do a lot better than featuring 19 year olds who think they are alternative just because they have their nipples pierced and are no more as exciting or intelligent as Paris Hilton.

I hinted at this on my blog today…

http://kinkyinktattoos.com/2007/02/06/hot-tattoo-girl-looking-very-suggestive/
reza milan 2 November 2007 at 10:52 am #

hi
LunaLucifera 1 October 2009 at 7:29 pm #

The thing, too, about Suicide Girls, is that they have a reputation for both having their models sign contracts that outright own pretty much everything they do- their personal Facebook and MySpace pages, their personal Live Journal blogs, Flickr and Twitter sites, etc.- all become the property of Suicide Girls upon them signing the contract. In short, they not only sign contracts giving Suicide Girls full rights to their pictures, but to their entire “personas.” I’ve read several articles and blog entries from former Suicide Girls who left because of this, pissed off because their personal lives were suddenly no longer their own. I even stumbled just under an hour ago from the time I write this upon a picture of a Suicide Girl on their tour page that gives you a free sampling of pictures, of a girl who had the SG logo tattooed to her torso. While of course Suicide Girls didn’t make her get the tattoo or any such thing, it still drove the point home to me rather well- it was as if she’d been branded with their trademark “logo.” It was the alt. porn equivalent of Michael Jordan getting the Nike “Swoosh” logo inked onto his own skin. Even on their official Facebook page, the Suicide Girls are listed under the catagory of “product.” If all of this isn’t telling about how they’ve stopped being about the girls themselves, and started being about merely selling an image, I don’t know what is.

Suicide Girls has also gone on years’ long lawsuit trials against every single “alt porn” website out there, launching lawsuits against pretty much every porn site to feature girls with ink out there- Gods Girls and Deviant Nation were two featured in such lawsuit struggles that almost shut them down entirely. Suicide Girls, being as well established as they are, had the financial backing to undergo these legal battles without a problem. But the other sites, being as new to the scene as they are and still struggling, barely had the ability to keep themselves financially afloat while being sued relentlessly by Suicide Girls. So much for SG being a place where freedom of expression reigns. Based on this, while I love many of the girls I see on Suicide Girls, I have opted to support the lesser known “alt porn” sites out there like Deviant Nation and Gods Girls instead. They’re made by folks who, as far as I can tell, aren’t looking to rip off Suicide Girls, but are merely doing it because they love the world of beautifully tattooed women, and don’t force the girls to sell themselves out upon signing the contract. The girls don’t become property of the company, only, at the very most, the photographs do. So yeah, I’d highly agree that they need to rethink their image. But, in my mind, they also need to rethink highly how they treat their models- and the rest of the alt. porn industry- too.