Feminism Without Clothes

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SuicideGirls, the biggest altporn website out there, has been having some problems. Go here to see unhappy former models and members talking about it.

It seems that SuicideGirls is not the indie, women-friendly place that it claims itself to be. A model is “archived,” or kicked off the site, if they say something bad about SuicideGirls or model for another site. However, their photo sets remain…they, the models, just no longer have access to the site, or their own images. Sounds creepy and fascist to me.

I always suspected something after they had a brief partnership with Playboy.

But, I just brushed it off as something that was no big deal, and applied to be a SuicideGirl. This was before I did some google research, and realized that this was not the kind of site I probably want to be involved with.

Here’s the thing: Suicidegirls is committing suicide by kicking girls off the site. It’s also said to see this kind of thing arise from something that had so much potential. I know that there’s somewhere out there where naked girls and feminism can live in harmony, but it’s not here.

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It’s hard to believe that all of these photographs were taken over the course of one shoot that only lasted a couple of hours or so. Up until this shoot, my portfolio didn’t have any truly simple nudes- I always happened to be in a pile of prescription bottles or breaking public nudity laws.

Photography by Mike, taken in December, 2005.

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Photographs taken in December, 2005 by Patrick.

Later on I will be posting photos from our second photoshoot together.

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“It’s red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I’ve finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.”-Tony Hancock

“Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like.” -Spider Robinson

“Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.”-Angela Carter

“People who watch hard-core sex films may be wasting their lives, damaging their morals, or ruining their personal relationships. They are not doing any harm to innocent people, which is more than can be said for the government’s crusaders against pornography.”-Stephen Chapman

“Historically, radical feminism portrayed pornography as exploitative. Now we’re saying it can be beautiful.”-Laura Thomas

“There’s only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ‘Did you get an erection?’ If the answer is ‘Yes’ from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.”-W. H. Auden

“Sexism, not sex, degrades women. And the answer to bad pornography is good pornography, not no pornography.”-Abby Ehmann

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Photography and concept by Al. Taken in December, 2005.

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These photos are the results of the first photoshoot I had with a “real” photographer- not my boyfriend. I found Gary on craigslist while browsing the “gigs” section, and decided to give a TFP/CD(time for prints/cd) modeling shoot a try

Photographs taken by Gary in November, 2005.

I can’t recommend him enough as a photographer- easy to work with, and as you can see, the photographs came out great. The prescription bottles were my idea, as I tend to be both a packrat and an artist. Once these photos were taken, there was no going back- I decided to pursure modeling as a hobby- particularly nude modeling.

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The first photographs of me were taken by my boyfriend, Ricky. He’s still my favorite person to pose for.

Taken in September 2005, by Ricky

Taken in October(?) 2005 by Ricky.

The photographer and sweetheart himself, September 2005. Taken by me.

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