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Tattoo Who: Is Suicide Girls Falling Apart?
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 Well, I can't say I'm surprised, but I am disappointed to pass on this bit of WiredNews from the world of kohl-rimmed eyes and nipple rings:
Mass defections by models and charges of male exploitation have hit the L.A.-based Suicide Girls, the insanely popular goth-cheesecake site, modeling collective and cultural phenomenon.
Bottom line - what seemed to be a bastion of profitable female-run empowerment and sexual self-expression is starting to sound like just another scuzzy L.A. porn mill ...
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Wired reports that SG is run by marketing dude Sean Suhl, who's accused of mistreating the site's models and paying them poorly.
Models are paid $300 per photoset according to the FAQ which - if you think about it - barely makes a dent in the massive profits SG is reaping from DVDs, and membership fees ranging from $9 for one month to $48 a year.
To figure the profit, you'd need membership numbers. One SG message board has been trying to do the math - unsuccessfully - but if you figure that one of the posters there has more than 12,949 comments and extrapolate that against the general male obsession with naked women ... you can start to do the math.
Anyway, some 30 Suicide Girls have quit in the past few weeks:
A report a week ago from the otherwise anonymous Un-Pink (pointed to by WiredNews) makes it sound like good old-fashioned exploitation: One of the most popular SG's, Sicily, was booted off the site after an anti Suicidegirls journal entry she wrote (caused by financial disagreements with the owner). You can see the text here.Two other popular girls, Katie and Apnea (of Lithium Picnic fame) shot for another site and got their passwords taken away. Staff changed Apnea's journal and made it look like they were active.Voltaire quit in protest. Staff pulled same move on her. By this time, it's all over the blogsphere. Girls are quitting left and right. Claudia, Sita, Molly, Gillian, Ciel, Annabelle, Angie, Shera, Annie, Genivieve, Mistidawn, Les, and a new one every hour or three.. SG, in response to four of its best girls quitting, changes entire site format. Archived girls and active girls are indistinguishable- except archived girls have no access to the site. I'd be interested to hear from anyone inside the organization who can shed light on all this.
(Spotted at LAist)
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 12:39 PM
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