I have never understood: What is a "suicide girl"? It's a very unfortunate phrase. I take it that it's something like an alt model?
From Wikipedia:
SuicideGirls is a website that features pin-up photography and profiles of alternative female models who are known as the "Suicide Girls". The site functions as an online community with member profiles, member blogs, and the option to join networking groups based upon interests. SuicideGirls also features interviews with people from popular and alternative culture, user-submitted news articles, and an online merchandise store. Access to most of the site requires a paid membership.
The SuicideGirls website and concept were created by the founding partners of parent company SG Services, Inc.,
Sean Suhl ("Sean") and
Selena Mooney ("Missy Suicide") in late 2001, and based in Portland, Oregon. In 2003, the site operations moved to Los Angeles, California.
Suhl and
Mooney started the site
"just to see hot punk rock girls naked." Mooney has also stated that the purpose of the site is to give women control over how their sexuality is depicted. The site is privately co-owned.
According to
Missy, the term
"suicide girl" comes from
Fight Club author and Portland, Oregon resident
Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote in his novel
Survivor (1999):
"It's the same with these suicide girls calling me up." As a trademark applied to the website and related merchandise and media, the term "SuicideGirls" is a single word, though this is often violated by external sources who split it into two words. The girls themselves are referred to as "Suicide Girls".