The website, called SuicideGirls, was founded by Selena Mooney and Sean Suhl in Portland, Oregon. When they lunched it in late 2001 their main goal was nothing extraordinary they just wanted to see alternative beauties (girls with tattoos, unusual haircolors and piercings in this case) naked. At least that's what they claim when the main reason for the creation of their site is asked. The real answer for the question "what is the purpose of the SuicideGirls?" is not easy to find. Lots of fans state this movement is a new generation of feminism and it is about giving women a chance to express themselves in their own way and to make them see how beautiful they are even if their looks are quite the opposite of the beauty of mainstream.
Eventually the base of operations left Portland and moved to Los Angeles, California in 2003 when the website became popular and it couldn't be named "underground" anymore. In 2006 the 1000th Suicide Girl joined the site and now the number of models is over 2000. Beside them there are hundreds of girls who are already members of the site but only as "hopefuls". It means that maybe someday they can become Suicide Girls too. The site works as any other website with a forum does so it has its average members who just want to watch the girls and communicate with each other about any kind of topics and are willing to pay for it.
According to the website the audience of suicidegirls.com consists of over 5 million unique visitors a month. Domain Tools (one of many domain industry tracking sites) states something completely different. The actual online traffic based on their statistics is about 180 000 unique visitors per month. Those who have membership are mostly men but almost half of th...
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