17 years is a long time to be creating and publishing cool sexy AltPorn. The first issue of Blue Blood Magazine rolled off the press on Halloween 1992 and they have been putting out their own brand of sex positive freaky tattooed pierced purple haired kinky Goth punk rock erotica ever since. To put things in perspective, BurningAngel’s Joanna Angel was in like the 5th grade when Blue Blood was publishing inked up counterculture couples fucking. Suicidegirls recently celebrated their 8th year in business and Blue Blood has still been around more than twice as long and they are still putting out really hot and creative updates I look forward to seeing. That’s just impressive.

To mark the occasion of their 17th year, Blue Blood announced a special $1.70 trial price and also revamped their site tour to show more of what they have for their members. The new site tour seems to dynamically morph with new pictures every few hours, so you really get a sense of the depth of their content. According to their new tour, even $1.70 trial members get access to 5 sites. Mathematically, the year long membership is an even better deal, now that they cut that membership price in half too. I really enjoy their websites a lot but I do wish they would put out more magazines too. Go have a look at their new site tour. Now, if they would only send me one of those purple Blue Blood bears. It’s for a friend, really.

AltPorn.net has gotten a lot of mail from people who miss our AltPorn Traffic and Rankings stories, so I’ve been invited back for another addition. This installment covers the QuantCast Estimated Monthly Visitors metrics. Quantcast has earned itself the reputation as being the most accurate traffic analysis tool available to the general public and is widely accepted as being far less gamable than other popular measures. QuantCast has changed their rankings reporting mechanism since my last traffic study installment and now only reports statistical numerical ranking measurements for sites that actually include their ‘Quantified’ measurement tool directly in their code. However, their Estimated Monthly Visitors statistics are still available for all. EMV is a good stat, as it gives a realistic feel for how many visitors a site is really getting in an average month, so that is what we will be using. We’ve tried to compile as complete a site list as we can, although we do exclude solo girls sites. If you have sites you feel should be included, please contact us and make your suggestions. For example, we debated the inclusion of Zivity, contact us if you have an opinion either way.

You will notice the addition of a few new AltPorn sites, some of which are doing phenomenally well, such as My Emo Bitch and Amateur Emo Girls. These sites reflect the recent popularity of ‘ex-girlfriend’ sites in online adult. They operate on the pretense that angry boyfriends upload embarrassing naked pictures of their former girlfriends for everybody to see. It’s depressing that this sub-genre is as popular as it is, but it goes to show that being popular doesn’t always mean being cool or good. These sites should still be included as they do reflect a realistic assessment of what people are looking at these days though. You may also notice APN has made a few adjustments to the AltPorn A-List. Inactive sites like RazorDolls are being removed. RazorDolls was a fun and sexy site, but it hasn’t updated in years. It was a good example of the AltPorn genre, but sending people there to join a dead site seemed wrong and/or unfair. We’ll hold out hope RD gets back on it’s feet, but for now it joins the ranks of ManicJane, FatalBeauty, SpicePlay, CityKittie, PornForPunks, and all the other dead AltPorn sites that once had interesting alternative content we’ve enjoyed.

These statistics are best evaluated as relative, rather than absolute. If you feel your favorite site gets more visitors, then consider that all sites measured probably get more visitors, as they are all measured with the same criteria. For example, judging by our own internal stats measures AltPorn.net gets an average of 101,000 unique visitors a month, but QuantCast only counts 57,868, and we’re actually Quantified. Here are the AltPorn Estimated Visitors Rankings for mid November, 2009:

MyEmoBitch.com, AmateurEmoGirls.com, SuicideGirls.com, GodsGirls.com, AltPorn.net, BurningAngel.com, BlueBlood.net, RubberDollies.com, BarelyEvil.com, GothicSluts.com, CrazyBabe.com, BurntFilm.com, PunkGrl.com, GeekGirlsOnline.com, DarkPlay.net, EroticBPM.net, DeviantNation.com, BlueBlood.com, BellaVendetta.com, PunkRockGirlfriend.com, NoFauxxx.com, InkyGirls.com, RazorDolls.com, PunkPinups.com, SuperCult.com, StaggStreet.com, BrokenDollz.com, Lazerbunny.com, EroticBPM.com, FuckMeInTheBathroom.com, BigBoobsAreCool.com, CumOnMyTattoo.com, PovPunx.com, PaybackBaby.com, HoleAndAHeartbeat.com

Blue Blood just added their 14th sexy set of hot punk rocker Rachel Face. She’s drinking her Pabst Blue Ribbons and getting naked in the middle of the dive bar. This looks like a lot of fun and the kind of night you remember for years, or don’t remember the next morning, depending on your alcohol tolerance. Those panties are hilarious and I love this girl. She’s just too cool and so sexy naked. There are a lot of alt-models billed as ‘punk’ these days but Rachel is the real deal. Thank you Blue Blood for being true.

Everyone knows Amelia G runs the Blue Blood empire and also does some of the photography and writing for it. Here on APN, we’ve featured photographs she has shot for Blue Blood many times and we’ve mentioned her writing once or twice. (You can also see the interview we did with Amelia G five years ago — Ed.) I write for APN and I have all the old Blue Blood print magazines from the 90’s in plastic bags with cardboard backing, so I thought I was pretty aware and I still found a lot on Amelia G’s new AmeliaG.com site to both inform and entertain me. In addition to running the business end of Blue Blood and working as an editor for many projects, Amelia G has had hundreds of photo sets published and thousands of articles. Amelia G has done writing and/or photography for all the major adult publishing houses including Playboy, Penthouse, Flynt, Crescent, Magna, and AVN, plus niche magazines including Marquis, On Our Backs, Skin Two, Tattoo Teasers, Fetish, Extreme Fetish, $pread, and of course Blue Blood. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica, Best S/M Erotica, and Best Women’s Erotica and dozens more books. But she still took time out of her busy schedule to give APN this exclusive interview.

APN: Blue Blood magazine in print was really ground zero for jump-starting the whole altporn genre and you’ve managed to maintain a top ranking for Blue Blood for more than sixteen years. To what do you credit your remarkable success and longevity?

AG: Thanks. I always hope the universe will smile on me for hard work and doing the right thing, and sometimes it does. A big advantage Blue Blood had in coming to the web is that the magazine was always subscription-driven and we had free sites for the community for years before we launched our first membership site. We actually had paid members before we had even actually launched the first pay site because we tested out a banner rotation for a few minutes and people saw it. I really appreciate the support we’ve gotten over the years and try to really put a lot back into the scene and into having really great creative work on all my sites.

APN: Okay, so, in your bio on your new personal site, your thesis subject really jumped out at me. You wrote your thesis at Wesleyan University on vampire legends as a paradigm for aggressive human sexuality?

AG: I sure did. Kind of funny that it seemed sort of shocking, and outrageous, and possibly frivolous to be writing about that sort of topic, at a school like that, but it actually did turn out to be relevant to my job. The name Blue Blood is sort of a play on words with the blood for vampires and gothic spookyness and the blue meaning erotic as in blue movies, but the blue blood phrase overall connoting a certain tastefulness and strength. Especially in 1992, when I founded Blue Blood, it was very common for alt-identified people to feel like they had to accept second class citizen status. So the strength aspect is really important to the core manifesto for me. The most important message I would like readers or members to get from Blue Blood is that purple hair or tattoos or having kinky sex or otherwise living flamboyantly does not mean you are not entitled to the rewards of the larger society.

APN: Didn’t the magazine have some bloodplay in it as well?

AG: The very first issue of Blue Blood, my friend Fish wrote a how-to article for safe bloodplay. Fish is a tattoo artist now and he was a military medic then, so he’s educated on the subject, but we got so many angry letters about that article. Blue Blood magazine even showed condoms in shoots and the article was about how to do bloodplay safely, so I’m very safety conscious, but some people just do not understand that it is not the extremity of a sexual practice which makes it unsafe. Unfortunately, in the internet distribution channel, we’ve been forced to move away from anything with blood in it.

APN: How does publishing on the internet instead of in print change whether you can have bloodplay?

AG: A lot of people get all caught up with definitions of genre based on what is and is not shown, but what can be shown in media is very dependent on distribution channel. For example, it did not used to be possible to show penetration in a magazine and be distributed on any newsstands outside of adult bookstores. Online, penetration makes no difference in where something can be seen. By contrast, if a web site accepts credit cards for memberships, they are likely to run into difficulties having any blood content. We’ve had to remove photo sets which showed only topless nudity where the girl was playing with blood made of vanilla-flavored corn syrup and food coloring because it was deemed extreme violence. If you watch Skinemax or cable channels like that, you can’t see penetration, but every other flick is a horror-themed excuse to douse topless women with fake blood. So it is not really that some distribution channels allow more and some allow less; they are just different.

APN: So is publishing on the internet harder or easier than in print?

AG: I love magazines. I still contribute to print projects and still create print projects. I love getting to hold a finished magazine in my hand. But the wonderful thing about the internet is that it is possible to go directly to the people who get it, without having to go through some distributor who hasn’t cracked an adult magazine in twenty years and thinks having tattoos is something that only teenagers would do. Despite a few restrictions on things like bloodplay, I find the internet easier from a distro standpoint. I think it is harder from a community standpoint. Back in the all print days, there used to be a lot of events where publishers would get together and we all traded quarter page ads with each and that is less the case for web publishers in this demographic.

APN: How do you feel about how altporn has evolved?

AG: Well, for one thing, I prefer the expression counterculture erotica to altporn, but I think altporn has definitely become the term for subculture-infused erotic media. In some respects, things are much easier today because being offbeat and being naked on camera have both been really destigmatized most places. In some respects, things being easier means that there are a small percentage of people who decide they want to make altporn who don’t really have the sense of community or individuality which would once have definitely been there. Most people in it are cool, but it has become more difficult to recognize who I have things in common with now, because, for example, there are people who just dress a certain way to be accepted and they don’t really care about personal freedom or get what it is all about.

APN: Your personal pics section on AmeliaG.com is really funny and I spotted so many famous people with you in there. Is your life basically a twenty-four hour party where you go from Hummer limo to book reading to art show to nightclub to fab afterparty?

AG: When I actually do take a moment to go out on the town, I like to make it count. I’m really a workaholic, but I think a gallery of like fifteen shots of me holding a camera and seventy of me sitting at a computer would have been less entertaining than eighty-five of me having fun.

APN: My favorite part of your new AmeliaG.com site is the professional photography portfolio you have on there. I love that you have members of the Misfits, Genitorturers, and Marilyn Manson in there with altstars like Voltaire, Bella Vendetta, and my future wife April Flores and it somehow seems all of a piece. How do you choose who you are going to shoot?

AG: As an artist, it is really important to me that my work be seen, so I like to have an idea of where a shoot might be published. A few hundred people a week apply to appear on the various Blue Blood sites, including BlueBlood.com, BarelyEvil.com, GothicSluts.com, and RubberDollies.com in particular, and there is a submission form on BlueBloodPhoto.com. I, of course, publish other people’s photography even more often than my own on BlueBlood.com etc. and there are only so many hours in the day, but I do photograph select people from the Blue Blood apps. I do take commissions from publications, record labels, and such. In general, I most enjoy photographing people who have a certain spark, star quality, individuality, personal style, and passion for self-expression. Hotness is good, but there needs to be hotness with unique self-expression. After all, I think avoiding just conforming to someone else’s aesthetic is important to being alt.

APN: Thanks so much for your time. Congrats on the launch of AmeliaG.com. It looks fabulous, it is fun to look at, and it is really informative.

AG: Thank you for the interview and the kind words.

I was surprised that I didn’t see mention of this hot new Bizarre Magazine cover appearance over on April Flores’s Fatty D blog, but I am happy I found it over on Blue Blood. This is sexy April’s second showing on the cover of UK’s Bizarre magazine and she looks great as always. This looks like a hot issue too, with features on some of our favorite Alt Girls.

Responsible punk rockers that they are, BlueBlood has taken the opportunity today to not only bring us super hot naked punk rocker Rachel Face, but also a reminder to be safe during this holiday weekend. Don’t drink and drive. Too many people end up ruining what would have been a great day with friends by getting behind the wheel when they are way over the line. Don’t be those people. I know if I were drinking with Rachel, I wouldn’t want to drive anywhere! I’d want to stay there with her all night long. She looks so hot and fun in this series, but I also like some of the softer thoughtful shots. Forrest Black and Amelia G seem to get past the brash exterior and shoot some really personal intimate shots. These come off as sexy photos of their friends and I like that quality.

Masuimi Max exercises her right to look hot at hell while bearing arms (and baring breasts) in this BlueBlood RubberDollies set by Chad Michael Ward. I’ve always associated purple with BlueBlood and Masuimi Max looks so good in it, especially with that gleaming shine on the latex and that dangerous glint in her eyes.

Now this is what AltPorn should look like. You just wouldn’t see a girl like Jax on any other kind of site. Punk rock, fully tattooed, well placed piercings all over, bright mohawk, great body, big fetish boots, and a split tongue even! The photos in this series are beautiful and the model is truly unique. Those piercing blue eyes just melt right through me. She even plays around a little with a cool looking purple glass toy in this set too. Genuine hot counterculture stuff from Blue Blood.

Nixon Sixx is one of our favorite AltPorn girls. She’s been doing this sort of modeling as long as I can remember and she always looks beautifully sexy. I really like this classic pin-up fetish layout that Blue Blood just added. Her body looks great and her tattoo collection is really highlighted. This is her seventh layout for Blue Blood and this time they went for a goth dominant tease-o-rama vibe, but by the end she submits and shows us the sweet goods. I’d love to impeach this girl!

Happy New Years everybody! Looks like our favorite busty pin-up Xanthia Doll is getting ready for a hot night out. I’m very curious about that cleavage piercing though. I can’t tell if it would make titty fucking her better or simply dangerous. What are your opinions? Pleasure nub or speed bump? I should ask her sometime.