SuicideGirls is an online community website that revolves around pin-up photography models known as the Suicide Girls.

It offers members access to images provided by models and photographers worldwide, as well as personal profiles, blogging platforms, and the option to join numerous groups based upon different interests.

Suicide Girls have appeared in a variety of media outlets including television shows and music videos.

[3][6] SuicideGirls was originally based in Portland,[1] but relocated to Los Angeles, California, in 2003 to be closer to its distributor, label and publisher.

[12] In September 2005, SuicideGirls announced that it would remove a large number of images from its pages in an effort to collaborate with the U.S. Department of Justice standards at the time.

[3] SuicideGirls' 15th anniversary was celebrated at its Peek-A-Boo burlesque show, which is a regular act at Pour Vous nightclub in Los Angeles,[15] and was featured on the website of Maxim magazine.

Actress Paget Brewster has photographed models for the site,[19] as have guitarist Dave Navarro and singer Mike Doughty.

In May 2013, SuicideGirls came to an agreement with Akaneiro: Demon Hunters game developer Spicy Horse to use likenesses of their models in a freemium browser, BigHead BASH.

[24] SuicideGirls have published four books since 2004, all featuring a variety of photos from the website and interviews with Suicide Girls.

The comic books feature pin-up drawings of actual SuicideGirls by artist Cameron Stewart, as well as a historical story by Steve Niles.

The shows have an element of audience participation and guests are encouraged to take photos of the performers and share them on social media.

[39] In June 2008, Lithium Picnic and Apnea issued a press release stating, "We all sat down together and worked out an agreement that is really fair to everyone.

[...] We want to make it clear that we 100% have no hostilities towards SuicideGirls in any way anymore, we all came to a really fair agreement over this dispute, and there were no bad people here, just mistakes and misunderstandings.

Models interviewed called SuicideGirls president Sean Suhl "verbally abusive" and an "active misogynist", and the site a "slap in the face to feminism".

[46] Other allegations surrounding the SuicideGirls' administration have appeared in a number of publications, including New York Press and Wired magazine.

According to former models interviewed in a feature piece by Silicon Valley's magazine Metro Active, this was, in their opinion, due to the general homogenization of the site, "a process that alternative subcultures are unfortunately used to".

[1] Olivia Black, a recent addition to the crew of Las Vegas's Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, and thus the History Channel TV series Pawn Stars, was fired from the show on December 19, 2012, when her previous work as a Suicide Girl was revealed.

[47][48] In 2015, American artist Richard Prince took images from the SuicideGirls' Instagram, printed them on canvas, and added remarks into comment threads.