OnlyFans creators push boundaries in dangerous ‘Sexual Arms Race’
OnlyFans creators compete to have sex with the most men in the quickest time. Last October, 23-year-old Lily Phillips had sex with 100 guys in 24 hours and recorded a YouTube documentary.
Phillips appears distressed in a viral documentary clip after the incident. “I don’t know if I’d recommend it,” she cries. However, she soon set a new goal: 1,000 guys in 24 hours.
In January, 25-year-old OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue beat her. Blue allegedly bedded 1,057 men in 12 hours. Phillips responded by wanting anal sex with “as many guys as possible.”
This “OnlyFans Arms Race,” as National Review called it, is another result of our pornified society. Users need more extreme stuff to feel pleased, especially when porn is everywhere: Porn is the most-searched internet material, and algorithms in feeds promote it to maximum engagement. In other mediums, hypersexualization has desensitized the population. (Airlines offer free R-rated movies.)
Lily Phillips Instagram profile
Porn has rewired people’s minds for decades, dividing sexual fantasy and reality and mind and body. Phillips called her encounter “robotic.” She explained her emotions in an interview by saying she felt awful about not fully sexing each man owing to time constraints, but her body and heart knew something her intellect didn’t.
Even worse, OnlyFans mimics pornography and prostitution abuses. For decades, exploiters have sexually trafficked, deceived, pressured, and extorted porn women. They have Stockholm Syndrome-like confusion, STDs, forced abortions, PTSD, and drug addiction. Sex slaves spend nights in bed without legal safeguards, money, breaks, water, or the right to say “no.”
American law defines sex trafficking as any commercial sex act involving force, deception, or compulsion, or involving a minor. We assume the ladies on OnlyFans are not minors and are participating consensually, yet “sex work” is inherently coercive. Pornhub hosted trafficked women videos. Since 90% of porn involves violence against women, it’s tougher to tell willing from unwilling participants online.
Sex-trafficking survivors call prostitution “paid rape” because without money, women wouldn’t have sex with men. Are OnlyFans antics different? Even if they don’t technically practice prostitution, subscribers fund this content to establish a similar structure. Phillips says in her documentary that she refuses to film footage where she’d be in danger, like suffocating with a plastic bag. “But what if someone offered a million dollars to do it?” the interviewer wonders. “I probably would bend my morals for that, yeah,” she replies.
Bonnie Blue Instagram profile
OnlyFans’ hypersexualized content pushes visitors to seek paid sex and prostitution. Porn and OnlyFans prove extreme sexual actions may happen in real life. Then they happen in real life when consumers use escort advertisements to buy sex and live out their fantasies at the expense of individuals forced, tricked, or pressured into the profession. Sexual freedom is a myth.
Weird, outrageous, and horrific always get more clicks online than decent, true, and beautiful. Never mind that frequent porn users have trouble finding happiness in real-life intimacy and relationships, higher divorce rates, addiction to abusive content, and erectile dysfunction before 40. Objectifying clickbait has polluted women’s media. Young women are becoming increasingly depressed as they base their self-worth on how males perceive their appearance and the unattainable and unhealthy beauty standards of pornographic online content. This causes tremendous anxiety, body image issues, low self-esteem, and suicide attempts.
The OnlyFans escalation dehumanizes everyone: the women disassociating so they can “go on with the show,” the men with blurred-out faces, reduced to numbers, and the viewers, who are losing touch with real human relationships. If one regards sex as useless, one likely views those who engage in it and those created by it as pointless. Not for nothing did earlier ages value sex as an expression of connection and love and as the act that generates life and us. We should go back to basics.
