Suicide Girls is an online and IRL community of women who wish to express their own standard of beauty and sexuality. The name is taken from Chuck Palahniuk's 1999 novel Survivor.
The name also alludes to the idea that these women, by their rejection of the mainstream definitions of beauty, have committed "social suicide".
The name also alludes to the idea that these women, by their rejection of the mainstream definitions of beauty, have committed "social suicide".