technoculture203-09

What I found when I first visited the Suicide Girls' site after doing the reading was that women in this business are actually ones who become the objects of their own desiring gaze rather than its passive recipients. Just by looking at the pictures of naked women on the homepage immediately put me off thinking this is not much different from a porn site. Although these cyber feminists of Suicide Girls may claim that they want people to see them as subjects than objects and that 'posing nude is a way to try to change inhibitions and ideas about nudity and female sexuality' (http://suicidegrls.com/groups/Feminists/topics/128470/Feminists/topics/128470/) it is quite difficult to subvert these very stereotypes about women in the sex industry such when they are already in the attention of male gaze.

However what also interested me which I found slightly different to what I might have thought differently about this site being similar to a porn site was how these girls' photos are not just filled up with pale body colours (showing only skins, nudity) but rather more colourful with their bright highlights of their dyed hair, piercings and tattoos that contrasts them in a sort of different way. In some extent I would agree that these girls are trying to portray'alternative beauty'.