What Lily Phillips & Bonnie Blue are doing is gross – but are the grubby, pathetic men taking part even worse?
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WE’VE come a long way since women hurled themselves under racehorses and chained themselves to railings to get the vote. Now women can sleep with 1,000 men in a day, film it and post it on OnlyFans. Yay!. But for every Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips “betraying the sisterhood”, there are 1,000 men doing the brotherhood even more of a disservice.
After all, prostitution is the oldest profession in the world, so what these OnlyFans “content creators” are doing is nothing new. They’ve just got higher production values and blue ticks (an Instagram marker, not an STI — although more on sexually transmitted infections later).
But what these grubby, pathetic, desperate little men are doing is new. It’s mainstreaming degradation. For the uninitiated, Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips slept with 1,057 men in 12 hours, and 100 men in a day, respectively. Others are reportedly planning similar stunts, bleeding male viewers dry for all their worth.
Money, endorsement deals, notoriety and, in Bonnie’s case, a spot on Cat Deeley’s This Morning sofa, await. Much is made of the fact that these girls are pretty, middle-class women — the implication being that only working-class girls sleep around.
Private school alumni, those with nice accents, don’t. Horrid classism aside, there’s also been a heap-load of misogyny poured across these two women. Because, of course, the woman always gets the blame. Sure, what they’re doing is gross. But hey, their body, their choice — and they’re raking in a quarter of a million quid a month in the process. Perhaps that’s feminism.