Alternaporn: The New New Thing. Nice Wired News story about the rise of alterna-porn, medium-core erotica starring punk/goth/raver women. These sites are small, cheap, non-exploitative, profitable and a (comparatively) huge hit with women. The models look like real (pierced, tattooed) people, and members visit as much for the chat and the model-blogs as for the photos. I was at a party at Richard Kadrey's place a couple months back and a bunch of the Suicide Girls models were there; they seemed like pretty sharp technology-fetishists, indie filmmakers, photographers, writers. [Boing Boing Blog]