GodsGirls

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GodsGirls is an altporn website featuring softcore nude photography. It also features a variety of social networking features, such as model blogs, original writing, and celebrity interviews. Much of the site, including its photography and message boards, is only accessible to those with a paid subscription.

1 Ownership
2 Launch
3 SuicideGirls lawsuit
4 External links

[edit] Ownership

GodsGirls is co-owned by Lara "Annaliese" Nielsen and Offworld Media Group Inc, the latter company being owner of several other adult websites. [1] [2] Nielsen's father is himself a successful adult website entrepreneur. Nielsen stated that she got the idea to start GodsGirls after telling her friend Gavin Lloyd (owner of Offworld Media) that all "girl-next-door" porn sites looked basically the same; Lloyd then "challenged" her to build an altporn site of her own. [3]

[edit] Launch

Before launching as a stand-alone website, GodsGirls maintained an active and relatively popular page on the social networking site MySpace (logging 33,870 "friends" by the official site's opening). [4] At the beginning of 2006, the company announced a launch date of April 21 for GodsGirls.com, which it was unable to meet. Over a month later, on May 1, 2006, the site went live.

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GodGirls.com main page

[edit] SuicideGirls lawsuit

GodsGirls began building their site and publicing it on MySpace and LiveJournal during a highly-publicized dispute between former SuicideGirls models and that site's owners. A number of models who had quit SuicideGirls soon began modeling for GodsGirls. SuicideGirls attempted to block the launch of GodsGirls.com, accusing the former models of violating their contracts by posing for a competitor. [5] [6] They have also taken GodsGirls LLC to court for basing their site and marketing materials too heavily on SuicideGirl's established trademarks. [7] In an incident that proved embarrassing to GodsGirls, part of their site was left open to access while still under construction. This included a modeling application page that read, "Why do you want to be a suicidegirl?" [8] [9]