Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a happy, safe, and sexy Halloween.
As we head into the winter months, I can almost guarantee that we are all feeling that primal urge to stay warm and cosy with someone. It’s called cuffing season for a reason, I suppose.
Relationships and intimacy definitely go hand in hand at this time of year, and they're already in full swing in university towns and cities. But this past week, some freshers have been involved in something a lot more sinister.
Adult entertainers and OnlyFans creators, Bonnie Blue and Lillian Phillips, have been at the centre of an internet-wide controversy after creating content focusing on having sex with a number of freshly 18 year-old university students.
In a viral TikTok video, Blue and Philips stand excitedly giggling while Phillips states that they “have countless men waiting” to have sex with both women. Phillips then proceeds to walk along a queue of young men who are implied to be waiting for sex with both creators. Online sources and both women themselves have since claimed to have slept with over 150 students, lecturers, and even students family members during Nottingham’s freshers fortnight.
Phillips then made another video after a separate filming session claiming to have slept with 101 men while also complaining about the condition of her eyes after the acts.
Backlash towards them has been explosive with other creators calling Blue and Philips 'pathetic', 'hungry' and 'disgusting'. Despite this, both women have continued to make content across their public and private pages as well as appearing on other platforms, such as guest spots on podcasts interviews, stating that they enjoy their work and want to break their own 'personal bests'.
In an age where sex work is progressively seen as more empowering and normal for young women, why are the negative aapects glossed over?
To address both Blue and Philips’ actions, actively seeking out sex with barely legal, inexperienced men is abhorrent alone but to do so specifically to make content is even worse. In fact, Blue has publicly referred to her intimate partners as 'schoolies' and 'barely legal'.
Both women insist that they dont charge for sex and only request ID and permission to film from those who are in their videos. This doesn't negate the effect that the sex acts themselves or the videos of them could have on the participants later in life. Despite the legality, 18 is not an age of full maturity and to seek out this age bracket to use as a novelty for entertainment purposes is just exploitative.
After looking at responses to the situation on TikTok, I came across post by creator @graceyaptoomuch. In this video, she perfectly encapsulated my stance on the issue of sex work; “If you wish to choose to be a sex worker, you have the right to that choice but we cannot forget the fact that that system is historically built on the oppression of women. That system has never been put in place to support women.”
The basis and creation of sex work was always to benefit and physically satisfy men.
Sex work is still a dangerous and taboo profession and, despite it's rebrand as a girl boss / boss bitch money making venture, at it's core it is still a persons body being used for a means of entertainment and satisfaction. Even if that is something the individual allows to happen, the very premise negates being empowering.
Your body does not belong to anybody. Your body does not have a monetary value.
Thank you for reading this edition of Sexplorations. Come back on the first Thursday of next month for a brand new article.
Written by AJ Craig
Edited by Emily Duff