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.
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[edit] Ownership
GodsGirls is owned by God's Girls , L.L.C, an Arizona corporation;[1] the website is registered to an office of that company in West Hollywood, California. [2] It was founded by Lara "Annaliese" Nielsen, with backing from Offworld Media Group Inc. The latter is owner of several other adult websites. [3] [4]
Nielsen's father is himself a successful adult website entrepreneur.[citation needed] 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. [5] Offworld Media Group and God's Girls LLC are registered at the same Arizona address, and Lloyd is listed as the Manager of God's Girls LLC. [6] [7]
[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). [8] At the beginning of 2006, the company announced a launch date of April 21 for GodsGirls.com, which it was unable to meet. A couple of weeks later, on May 1, 2006, the site went live.
[edit] SuicideGirls lawsuit
GodsGirls began building their site and publicizing 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. [9] [10] They have also taken GodsGirls LLC to court for basing their site and marketing materials too heavily on SuicideGirl's established trademarks. [11]
[edit] External links
- Godsgirls.com (Note: Contains adult content)
- "Gods Girls" by Therese Lanz, The Nerve Magazine, May, 2006.
- GodsGirls at MySpace
- The GodsGirls Directory at MySpace - A listing of all live-models myspace accounts, with features such as the "Gods Girl of the Week" and periodic interviews with the models. Created by Eastyn Martin.
