The website, called SuicideGirls, was founded by Selena Mooney and Sean Suhl in Portland, Oregon. When they had lunch in late 2001, their main goal wasn't anything out of the ordinary: they just wanted to see alternative beauties (girls with tattoos, unusual hair colors and piercings in this case) naked. At least that's what they say when asked the main reason for creating their site. The real answer to the question "what is the purpose of SuicideGirls?" it's not easy to find. Many fans say that this movement is a new generation of feminism and is about giving women the chance to express themselves in their own way and showing them how beautiful they are even if their appearance is exactly the opposite of traditional beauty. The base of operations eventually left Portland and moved to Los Angeles, California in 2003, when the website became popular and could no longer be called "underground". In 2006 the thousandth Suicide Girl joined the site and now the number of models exceeds 2000. Besides them there are hundreds of girls who are already members of the site but only as "hopes". It means that maybe one day they too can become Suicide Girls. The site works like any other website with a forum, so it has average members who just want to watch girls and communicate with each other on any kind of topic and are willing to pay for it. According to the website, the suicidegirls .com audience has over 5 million unique visitors per month. Domain Tools (one of many domain industry monitoring sites) claims something completely different. Actual online traffic according to their statistics is around 180,000 unique visitors per month. Those who have subscriptions are mostly men but almost half of...... half of the card ......or Money Shot? Commerce, pornography and new cultures of sexual taste" Sexualities, October 2007, vol. 10 number 4, p441-4562.Berry, Colin. Print "Pixel Vixens", July/August 2004, vol. 58 number 4, p60-633. Cohen, Nicole "Suicidegirls" Herizons, Spring 2005, vol. 18, issue 4, p36-36, 1/3p4.Fulton, Deirdre "SuicideGirls revolt" Portland Phoenix, October 7, 20055.Haynes, Esther "Suicide Girls Gone Mad" Jane , February 2006, vol. 10, issue 1, p68-135, 8p6. Koht, Peter "Obscene But Not Heard", Metroactive, 4 January 20067. Scott, Shelley. Fall 2005, issue 124, p46-50 , 5p8.Sobczyk, Noreen “Hangingself” Busto; February/March 2006, issue 37, p76-81, 6p9.Tomlin, Annie 'Roll” Bitch, December 200210.Werde, Bill ” New York Times, 02/16/2004, p6, 1p;