Suicide Girls Swimsuit Edition- Bikinis kill

A Guest Post By Becky Chandler

I was in a bikini kill frame of mind—sitting here in my home in the Sonoran Desert, the temperature an ungodly 115 degrees, waiting for the stoned pool boy to show up, fix the pump and clear out the toxic toads, that are now making themselves at home in what is now a toad poop cesspool—all the time kicking myself for not calling the stoned pool girl.

My thoughts were back in the Pacific Northwest—the overly caffeinated land of my birth and epicenter of Riot Grrl –where the mist and rain generally lets up for two weeks a year (present scorcher excepted)– giving a grrl a most brief window of opportunity to sport a bikini.

So when Paula called, suggesting I do a report on the Suicide Girls Swimsuit Edition—nothing could have been finer—being as I was in a bikini kill frame of mind.

For those who have just recently arrived from Mars, I probably should explain that the Suicide Girl thing has nothing to do with the premature termination of life.

It all started when three friends were sitting in a Pacific Northwest coffee shop, as people in the upper left corner of the country always are, discussing, as friends often do, how to get rich off the Internet. And as friends often do, two of them, who were Portland girls Missy and Spooky Suicide, came to the conclusion, as many have before, that the only sure-fire strategy was to show some skin.

It was 2001 –and especially in Portland, Oregon—punk rock and porn were beginning their money-slicked slide into the mainstream. Punk had never been afraid of a little nudity—but the porn industry had never been punk. Conventional Porn favors plastic women and slick images. Spooky and Missy had something else in mind.

Simply put the idea was to show hot punk chicks nekkid. There was nothing else out there like it.

Yes, Suicide Girls is a pay-to-view soft-core porn site, complete with the requisite photos of naked women. But these women look less like balloon-chested big-hairs than like half the audience at a Yeah Yeah Yeahs show. Suicide Girls often sport tattoos, piercings and pink and purple hair. They choose their own poses and backdrops, and they keep blogs in which they post their opinions about music, politics, fashion and even viewers who post.

The SG Girls perform old-fashioned burlesque—punk style. Burlesque has been bumping and grinding away on the indie club circuit for a while. Burlesque, to some, is nothing more than timid stripping. But this recent burlesque boom owes its popularity to punk’s who-cares-what-you-think spirit, Third Wave feminism’s kitschy nostalgia and–thank goodness–a sense of humor The Suicide Girls have been the best and most successful at bringing this entertainment mainstream.

And most significantly over fifty percent of their paying subscribers are women! So it is that there are regular fashion reports—most entertainingly Dirty Laundry—who recently addressed the proper attire for a fashionable punk girl when it is just too darn hot for a pair of PVC short shorts.
The answer of course is the bikini—fun to wear and easy to shed—and to get on the right fashionista track I must recommend the Suicide Girls Swimsuit Edition.

And when the Suicide Girls do it there is often even an element of socially responsible awareness. For example, take this effort to rehabilitate the pirate profession with a black bandanna bikini with white skull detail or the red and purple not-quite-pin-stripe two-piece with Riot Grrl skull and bones rebel girl coochie protector—thats about as close to punk as a bikini can get:

Go take a look at Dirty Laundry’s Suicide Girls Swimsuit Edition runway—you’ll be glad you did.

Bikinis kill.

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