WOMEN’S BODIES AND WWW.SUICIDEGIRLS.COM: ENOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THE EROTICIZATION ON THE INTERNET

Abstract

The www.suicidegirls.com is a virtual space that was created by Missy, an American photographer in 2001 with the aim of producing a new form of eroticism for women’s bodies in the contemporary society. For this purpose, she uses models that have some in their bodies the marks of body modification and / or which have characteristics linked to the Pin-Up style. Therefore, this study has as a objective to analyze how it is being produced, the eroticism of the female body in this virtual site, using for it a few utterances that are present specifically in the Tour, focusing on the images of models produced there some of their performances. Thus, there were found two clues that can be understood as ways of thinking, the eroticism of these bodies in www.suicidegirls.com: nudity and the link with the Pin-Up style.