Twwly's experience with the SG contract:

SuicideGirls has made my mother very happy. She has a scrapbook of all of the magazines I've been in, and she gets to tell all of her friends that her daughter makes a living by "working in her field", and that I am actually using my Arts Degree.

I've been featured as Twwly Suicide in a variety of Tattoo Magazines: On the cover of Tattoo Life and Tattoos for Women; I've had photos in Garage Magazine, Prick, Skin Deep, A&#'s INKED, the SG Book and the SG DVD. And if you keep your eyes open this fall, you'll see me in Tattoo & Piercing, Skin & Ink and Tattoo Revue. Sometimes SG arranges for my pictures to be used in magazines, and sometimes I do it. I sometimes go to tattoo conventions, where I usually am organizing an SG booth, and I always make sure to get shot by the convention photographer. SG pays me for promoting them in national publications, and really it's a situation where everybody wins.

Since being an SG my pictures have been featured on ZeroBoutique.Com, Tattoodles.Com and other photographers websites. By no means have I ever been told by SG that I couldn't model in other places, in fact they have always encouraged me to seek out these mutually beneficial shoots.

Without SG, I wouldn't have my career. I have an Arts degree, and I can say with absolute truth, that I learned more from SG staff about photo retouching than I did in University. They answered any and every question I have ever had about the process, and trained me very well. I now do retouching work not only for SuicideGirls, but other photographers who sell to SG, and my own clients. I recently relaunched my own website (Twwly.Com) with the help of SG Malloreigh (the best Web Mistress money can buy) and it includes a HIRE section, which keeps me very busy.

SG has never held me back. SG has only facilitated my success and adventures in modeling and my career. Like anything in life, you will reap what you sow.

Twwly.xx

Nixon's account of her time "locked in Sean's basement":

I have worked for Suicidegirls.com for the past three years. I participated in the second burlesque tour and am currently participating in the third. Obviously, I do not feel that I have ever been abused, taken advantage of, or mistreated by Missy, Sean or anyone in the company. I wouldn't be here if I had. I have been given incredible opportunities, traveled the world, and been able to produce work that I am extremely proud of personally. I have been well compensated for my time and effort, often above and beyond the terms I originally agreed to. However, it seems that this is simply not enough for certain girls. Perhaps they aren't getting quite enough attention taking their clothes off in front of the screaming live-show crowds or the silent thousands of internet fans and felt that a media circus might fill that void. Who knows. But I am happy to tell a bit of my side of the story, as it seems that only one viewpoint is currently being presented to the public.

The accusations levied against Sean are outrageous exaggerations at best. For an example, take the "locked in the basement without food" story that has been circulating. I lived with the other girls in Sean's basement apartment during rehearsals. It was a full two-bedroom apartment with a kitchen and bath, sliding glass doors onto a bouganvilla-covered deck overlooking downtown Los Angeles, and it's own entrance. During this time, I worked part time, dated, and spent plenty of time enjoying the Hollywood night life. The only door that was ever locked was the one leading into the house proper: SG office space and Sean's private residence. Even that door was unlocked for the first several weeks of our stay, and only started being locked due to missing food and money in the upstairs house, drinks being spilled on the office computers, and a 'mysterious' late-night buildup of dishes and trash in the upstairs kitchen. Without food? Without Sean's food, maybe. We had a full kitchen and lived an easy walk from Safeway and a dozen decent restaurants, the majority of which also delivered. I certainly wasn't hungry. But maybe I have less need to be coddled than other people.

So, were we verbally abused? We were certainly never called' sluts' or 'whores'. Were we told that we sucked'? Yes. Did we, in fact, suck? Actually, yes. Of course our performances were criticized. Every dancer, actor, musician and performer of any kind expects criticism throughout the development of a project. If you can't handle criticism, you have no business being in high school theater, much less a national performance troupe. Sean is an up front guy. He's honest. Sometimes, he's not terribly tactful. But he is also as open with his compliments as he is with his criticism, which tends to be overlooked.

Whatever else suicidegirls.com is (and to me, it is great deal more), at heart it remains a business. A business has a right to exect a certain level of reliablity, dedication and, well, work from it's emloyees. If they goof off, ignore their responsibilities, or fail to fulfill their obligations, I think that the person paying them has every right to be displeased. He certainly has the right not to bonus them above the rate they agreed to be paid. Over and over again, I have seen Sean put up with crap from these girls that would have caused me to fire them on the spot. They have lived at his house for months on end, eaten his food, and driven his car. They have flaked out on tour dates, punched business contacts, forgotten thousands of dollars in merchandise, charged outrageous room service bills to the company card, intentionally destroyed costumes and props, changed their minds time and time again on routines and wasted weeks of rehearsal time. And now they want to bitch about the fact that Sean was mad at them? I've had bosses madder because a report was a day late or a paper misfiled.

I know the content are never as exciting as the disgruntled, but thanks for taking the time to read an alternate side to the story. Your consideration is greatly appreciated.

-Nixon Suicide