1057 Men in 12 Hours

The new Porn Chic (NSFW)

OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue just announced she had sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours, shattering the “100 men in 24 hours” stunt by Lily Philips. I’ve never seen Twitter do algebra so fast: 12 hours = 720 minutes ÷ 1,057 men = 41 seconds per man. People jumped to calculate how much she could do with three orifices and two hands. At 600 men, Bonnie live-tweeted, “600 x 6 inches is over 1/4 mile of cock, help me reach a mile,” then shared her live location. In her aftermath video, she revealed it was done in gangbangs of five.

Bonnie seemed to learn the lesson of Lily’s viral post-stunt video, where she appeared vulnerable and exhausted, weeping about how she had dissociated. Bonnie, looking fresh and confident, quipped that she was sore down there but “did not need a wheelchair.” I don’t know why, but that made me cackle.

Bonnie is no stranger to viral controversies. This is her second big one, after last year’s “Schoolies Scandal,” where she invited barely-legal high school graduates to use her as a “guinea pig” and gloated about having sex with their dads too.

I’m not interested in judging what a grown woman does with her body or how accurate her claims are. These “world records” are not new in porn. This is also the familiar numbers game of “how many loads can I take?” in Gay porn.

It’s how these OnlyFans stunts are reported that continues to be the real story. Bonnie wasn’t just today’s topic on porn Twitter or adult entertainment sites—she’s a headline on Newsweek, E! Online, and Us Weekly, which also reported on Lily Phillips. These are media outlets our parents read.

The impact of OnlyFans on media feels similar to the porn chic trend of the 1970s, when porn films like Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones exploded onto the mainstream. The aesthetics of porn shaped the fashion, films, and music of the decade. Classic porn chic was also a quasi-political movement, promoting casual sex as personal and political liberation. It followed the free love ethos of the ’60s and dovetailed with very real political movements, such as Gay and women’s liberation.

The Devil in Miss Jones, 1973

This modern version of porn chic seems to focus solely on sex as a commodity and endurance test. With the exception of some thoughtful think pieces, most reports strip the historical and even economic context. They focus solely on the spectacle. There’s a tension in the reporting, both normalizing sex work and pushing it toward a legal and moral precipice. Some have called for the complete ban of OnlyFans, likening it to prostitution, all the while making money off the clicks and, by extension, these women’s bodies.

The audience is faced with our own uncomfortable questions: are we watching this to be turned on or just to witness someone push their body for fame and money? These stunts feel less about sex and more like “Watch me eat the world’s spiciest pepper!” YouTubes or TikToks where creators sleep and people pay money to wake them up via alarms.

This new porn chic feels less like disco and more like the dance marathons from the Great Depression.

Bonnie and Lily are in their 20s and may not fully grasp the long-term effects of these very public choices, but they are hyper-aware of the power of spectacle. They have yet to release the full videos, only campaigns of social media drops and press outrage—first, the announcement of how many men; then the behind-the-scenes and short snippets of the aftermath—all the while gaining subscribers and building the audience of anyone else reporting on it, myself included. I barely got this spell-checked rushing to post.

Following the expected backlash, Bonnie posted a video of herself making angels on a floor of used condom wrappers with the caption, “Don’t worry wives, this is proof your husband used protection.” It was not sexy to me, but the trolling made me laugh, and the outrage is bringing both of us subscribers.

Everybody wins, I guess?

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