Alt porn

Pornography involving members of subcultures

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A SuicideGirls model, representative of alt pornography style, with multiple tattoos and piercings.

Alt pornography (also known as alt porn, or simply alt in context), a shortening of "alternative pornography," is a subgenre of pornography that is centered around alternative subcultures, such as goths, emos, scenes, skaters, hipsters, punks, skinheads, and/or ravers, and is often produced by small and independent websites or filmmakers. It often features models with body modifications such as tattoos, piercings, or scarifications, or temporary modifications such as dyed hair or extreme makeup. The term indie porn is occasionally used, though this term is more generally used as a synonym for independent pornography, regardless of affinity with any kind of alternative subculture.

## History

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The work of Gregory Dark, David Aaron Clark, Michael Ninn, and Stephen Sayadian are seen as the early creators of the alt porn genre. The Cinema of Transgression of Richard Kern and Nick Zedd (as well as Kern's later photographic work) can also be viewed as early examples of alt porn.[1][2][3]

The first venue explicitly devoted to "subcultural erotica" was Blue Blood,[4] a glossy magazine that began in 1992 and featured models with a goth or cyberpunk look. The biggest market for alt porn however has been on the Internet. Other than a few ephemeral personal websites, the earliest explicitly alt porn site was Blue Blood's GothicSluts.com, established in early 1999. This was followed shortly after by Raverporn.net, which was later renamed EroticBPM.com, in July of the same year, and later followed by NakkidNerds in December, Supercult had appeared in 2000. By late 2001, SuicideGirls had grown to become the most popular and financially lucrative alt porn site and has been since. With the success of SuicideGirls, the number of alt porn sites has grown in number since 2002.[5][6][7] In addition to the above-mentioned sites, well-known altporn websites in operation as of September 2008 include Lazerbunny, Burning Angel, and GodsGirls.

The terms "alternative porn" or "alt porn" were coined in the early 2000s in reference to SuicideGirls, RaverPorn, and similar sites. Longer-standing projects, such as Blue Blood, generally used terms such as "subcultural erotica".[8]

Alt porn websites are often distinguished by their use of message boards, blogs, social networking, and other features of online community, encouraging participation by both models and viewers. While these features are not exclusive to alt porn sites, their inclusion stands in stark contrast to the standard operating procedures adopted by more typical porn sites which tend to feature more or less anonymous models who are viewed by anonymous visitors.[citation needed]

Alt porn-themed videos are also becoming a growing niche in the adult video market. The work of directors Stephen Sayadian and Gregory Dark during the 1980s and early 1990s had many of the features of later alt porn, and are often cited as being key contributing influences on current alt porn video. In 2001, two amateur videos under the title Technosex were produced, featuring women involved in the rave scene along with a techno music soundtrack. Since 2004, director Eon McKai has been producing alt porn-themed videos for VCA Pictures (an otherwise mainstream adult video studio)[9] and, in 2006, was signed by Vivid Entertainment to produce alt porn-themed videos under the Vivid-ALT imprint. In 2006, McKai remade Gregory Dark's seminal punk porno film New Wave Hookers, using some of the original script with a different twist and calling the film "Neu Wave Hookers." Vivid-ALT had also signed noted fetish photographers Dave Naz and Octavio "Winkytiki" Arizala.[10][11]

## Controversies

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Many members of the alt porn community disagree on the definition of alt porn. Some consider it mostly an aesthetic quality while others see it as having a more ideological definition. This includes controversies over whether alt porn sites and videos should restrict themselves to softcore pin-up photography or include more sexually explicit hardcore content, whether alt porn need be explicitly feminist or not, and whether alt porn venues should present models of all genders and a range of body types rather than just conventionally attractive young women.[5] Since every pornography company conducts its business and treats their models differently, it is hard to define it on an ideological basis, although the models' freedom to speak their mind both about the industry, their employers, and political agendas is considered by some to be a vital part of the alt porn community. SuicideGirls have been criticized for restricting their employees' ability to make public comments of this nature. This led to a public falling out between the owners of SuicideGirls and a number of their former models,[5][12][13] and larger debates as to whether alternative porn was inherently any more empowering than mainstream porn.

## References

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1. ^ "Corporate Red Tape on My Mouth and the Punk Art Porn Allstars" Archived 2007-06-03 at the Wayback Machine by Amelia G, BlueBlood.net, October 29th, 2006.
2. ^ "Altporn: Just Because it Looks Punk Rock, Doesn't Mean it Is"  Archived 2006-12-02 at the Wayback Machine by Brandon Stosuy, BlackBook magazine (website) #45, 2006.
3. ^ "Richard Kern" Archived 2007-01-02 at the Wayback Machine (interview) by Daniel Robert Epstein, SuicideGirls, September 1, 2004.
4. ^ "About Us" Archived 2006-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, BlueBlood.com.
5. ^ a b c "Evolution of Alternative: History and controversies of the alt-erotica industry" by Ginny Mies, American Sexuality, September 25, 2006.
6. ^ "AltPorn: AltPorn Genre History Timeline Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine (part 1) by Beeker the StatsNrrd, Altporn.net, April 28, 2007.
7. ^ "AltPorn: AltPorn Genre History Timeline" Archived 2010-07-01 at the Wayback Machine (part 2) by Beeker the StatsNrrd, Altporn.net, May 15, 2007.
8. ^ untitled comment by Forrest Black, altporn LiveJournal community, February 11, 2003. Archived March 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
9. ^ "The Prince of Alt-Porn" Archived 2007-05-15 at the Wayback Machine by Tristan Taormino, Village Voice, November 11th, 2005.
10. ^ "Vivid Forms Vivid-Alt To Distribute Eon Mckai"[usurped] press release by Vivid PR, Adult Industry News (website), February 17, 2006.
11. ^ "Vivid wins Alt war without shot being fired" Archived 2006-06-14 at the Wayback Machine by Gram Ponante, Porn Valley Observed (website), May 10, 2006.
12. ^ "SuicideGirls revolt" Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine by Deirdre Fulton, Portland Phoenix, October 7, 2005.
13. ^ "Obscene But Not Heard" Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine by Peter Koht, Metroactive, January 4, 2006.

## Further reading

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* Diehl, Matt. (2007). My So-Called Punk. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-33781-7. Chapter 8: "Sex and the Single (Suicide) Girl: Are You Ready to be Liberated?" p 207–234.
* Jacobs, Katrien. (2007). Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics. Rowman & Littlefield Pubs. ISBN 0-7425-5432-5.

## External links

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* Pornography portal

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* "Sex, Dreads, and Rock 'n' Roll" by Annie Tomlin, Bitch, December, 2002.
* "Orgasm Addict: Punk Porn Gets Off on the Internet" by Chris Ziegler, OC Weekly, January 23, 2003.
* "Maximum Tits 'N' Ass" by Sean Nelson, The Stranger, February 5, 2003.
* "Alternaporn: We Sing the Body Politic" by Paul Watson, The Lazarus Corporation, February 29, 2004.
* "We Want Our Porn and We Want It Now!" by Peter Stokes, AVN, November, 2005.
* "Behind The Scenes at Vivid-Alt" by Chris Thorne, XCritic, September 2006
* "The Berlin Porn Festival: Alternative Smut for the Silver Screen" by Alex Bakst, Der Spiegel Online, October 20, 2006.
* "A Real Alternative?" by Jessica Bateman, The F-Word, January 3, 2007.
* "From Barbie Doll to Razordoll: The Sexual Shift in Porn" by Lauren Mayberry, The Skinny, July 30, 2009.

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