OnlyFans creators are in an arms race of sorts—competing to have sex with as many men as possible in the shortest amount of time.
It all started in October of last year when 23-year-old Lily Phillips had sex with 101 men in 24 hours to create content for her subscription-based social media page. In a viral clip of the YouTube documentary where Phillips recounts her experience, she breaks down in apparent distress.
“Sometimes I feel so robotic,” Phillips tearfully admitted. “I think by the 30th, when we’re getting on a bit, I’ve got a routine of how we’re going to do this, and sometimes you disassociate, and it’s not like normal sex at all.”
Phillips also revealed she didn’t remember much of that day. “In my head right now, I can think of like five, six guys, 10 guys that I remember, and that’s it…But it’s just weird, isn’t it? If I didn’t have the videos, I wouldn’t have known I did 100.”
She shared it’s not just the physical intimacy of having sex with so many men that made her feel “so bad” but also disappointing many of the men by not being able to talk or connect with them beforehand as they’d hoped.
Phillips admitted it was “more intense than she thought” and wouldn’t recommend doing what she had done, yet she recently announced a new goal: 1,000 men in 24 hours.
But another performer may have already beat her to it in January.
25-year-old OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue allegedly slept with 1,057 men in twelve hours. She advertised the event to “boys, dads, and husbands” on social media, asking them to “bring your friends, your family, and your neighbors.” She sold tickets online and shared live updates and her real-time location during the event.
Participants went through what Blue’s team called a “quality assurance” process the day of—given condoms and ski masks, then filtered into a room where they presented their photo IDs and signed NDAs and consent forms.
The participants were then guided upstairs to a room where Blue was lying on four black ottomans (a bed was deemed less efficient). The men were given the option to join a group of five for a collective two minutes with Blue or 30 to 45 seconds of one-on-one time. Participants could opt to have their faces blurred for cameras producing a documentary of the event.
Then Phillips responded with an even loftier goal: anal sex with “as many guys as possible.”
Phillips claims to be taking extensive measures to prepare for her next stunt, like having other women in a “waiting room” to “warm up the men” and making sure the men’s shoes are off beforehand to speed up the process. The priority clearly seems to be ensuring the goal is accomplished as efficiently as possible rather than regard for the impact this stunt could have on those involved, those consuming the content, and society as a whole.
These attempts to have unprecedented amounts of sex in one day are sparking health concerns from doctors. Dr. Zac Turner, who specializes in preventative health and wellness, warned that such activities could significantly hurt participants physically and psychologically.
“Sex at its core, is a physically demanding activity that engages various muscles, the cardiovascular system, and the release of endorphins…Done in moderation, it’s akin to a rewarding workout—promoting stress relief, cardiovascular health, and emotional bonding. However, when pushed to extremes, like a 24-hour sex marathon, the physical and physiological toll can be severe.”
Exploitation and abuse on OnlyFans
The pressure and competitiveness between Blue and Phillips seal their fate and that of every other OnlyFans creator—to stay relevant, gain notoriety, and generate revenue, you have to continue devising increasingly perverse and extreme stunts that pose greater risks to women.
The platform has become a playground for dangerous attempts to outdo each other. This OnlyFans Arms Race is another consequence of what’s becoming an increasingly pornified society.
Porn is the most-searched online content and is practically everywhere. Algorithms are designed to push it onto people’s feeds and maximize engagement. Porn can literally rewire the brain, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. And the content itself has escalated dramatically—with users requiring increasingly extreme content to experience fleeting illusions of satisfaction.
This has spilled over into hypersexualization and widespread desensitization in virtually every other form of media society consumes.
Also especially concerning, OnlyFans stunts like these replicate abusive scenarios the porn industry promotes.
The reality is the porn industry isn’t guiltless like it claims to be. For countless years, women (and men) in porn have been sex-trafficked, forced, coerced, and lured into exploitative situations under false pretenses or pressured into acts they didn’t agree to.
By definition, sex trafficking is a “modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years.”
It’s assumed that the women on OnlyFans are over 18, but we really can’t know that for sure or guarantee that everyone on the platform is participating consensually.
Exploitation undoubtedly happens on these platforms, as it does in mainstream porn. Pornhub has been caught reportedly hosting videos of child sex trafficking. And given that 9 in 10 porn videos depict sexual violence or aggression, it’s become increasingly difficult to distinguish between willing and unwilling participants, even if they’re of “legal age” to consent.
Many sex trafficking survivors describe what they endure as “paid rape”—meaning engaging in acts they wouldn’t willingly choose if money wasn’t being exchanged—and unfortunately, this has become the norm.
Take Phillips’ own words from her documentary. She stated she refuses requests to make videos where she’d be put in danger, like pretending to suffocate with a plastic bag over her head (yes, there are requests for fantasies like these and worse). But when the interviewer asked if she’d change her mind if offered a million dollars to do it, her response was, “I probably would bend my morals for that, yeah.”
So in the name of female empowerment OnlyFans (and the porn industry as a whole) claims performers have the control to choose what they’re ok with and what they’re not—that is unless they’re put under enough pressure or are offered a high enough price to comply. This seems contradictory, doesn’t it?
And while not guaranteed in every situation, consuming hyper-sexualized content on platforms like OnlyFans can be a gateway to seeking out extreme sexual acts and fantasies in real life—either with intimate partners or through paid sex.
Porn consumers also face a slew of potential negative consequences, like dissatisfaction and disconnection in real relationships, unhealthy cycles of stress, loneliness and a toll on mental health, and erectile dysfunction, just to name a few.
Both men and women are also grappling with their senses of self-worth as they’re bombarded with unhealthy and impossible standards of attractiveness and sexual performance. These distorted perceptions of porn are causing unprecedented levels of anxiety and depression and low self-esteem. Suicide attempts are also a rising concern for those struggling with sexual compulsion and also for survivors of abuse and exploitation.
What’s happening on OnlyFans is another heartbreaking example of how porn dehumanizes and desensitizes people. Performers like Phillips have to dissociate to participate, and even the men are reduced to a faceless number. Consumers are also harmed in various ways. Clearly, no one really wins in this unhealthy game that’s degradation and exploitation dressed up as feminism and a lucrative opportunity.
This is ironic given that CEO Keily Blair claims feminism informs her work at OnlyFans. However, a recent investigation by news agency Reuters exposed the site is allegedly rife with criminal, monetized misogyny.
Between 2019 and 2024, numerous cases of child sexual abuse material, sexual slavery, and nonconsensual or “revenge porn” were uncovered on the site. Many women described being enslaved on OnlyFans and the lives of isolation, torment, and sexual servitude they’ve endured.
Reuters journalists uncovered chilling accounts of women “deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved” to create content for OnlyFans. Women were allegedly imprisoned, brutalized, and raped in suburban homes across the United States. In some cases, their captors even tattooed words like “dog” and “toy” on their bodies.
Yet Blair continues to praise the “freedom” OnlyFans offers its creators as a progressive alternative to traditional “porn” (a term she describes as “pejorative”). She also seems to deflect questions about the core business of the multibillion-dollar sex megabrand and boasts that she’s working to create a better world for her two daughters.
Content creators flocked to OnlyFans during the pandemic, rising from 348,000 in 2019 to over 1.6 million in 2020. Today, there are now 4.1 million—and OnlyFans takes a 20% cut from each.
The future of porn? What OnlyFans could mean for society
The situation between Blue and Phillips shows just how fierce competition has become on OnlyFans, with women doing anything they can to drive traffic to their accounts.
Aside from the criminal exploitation on the platform, the way in which OnlyFans normalizes selling extreme sexual performances can have devastating, even catastrophic consequences on society.
OnlyFans and the porn industry as a whole market objectification and commodifying sex as empowerment when it’s really anything but.
Even Lily Phillips said, “Guys are always going to sexualize me, so I may as well try to make a profit off it.”
Isn’t this a despairing mentality to settle for?
From a young age, this generation has been exposed to depictions of extremely violent sex acts before they’ve ever even held hands or shared a romantic kiss. What stunts like Phillips and Blue teach young people is that sex is something done to them with financial compensation involved—a transaction, not an act of intimacy.
Don’t men and women, boys and girls alike, deserve a world better than that? Shouldn’t we fight for a culture that instills in people that their worth is so much more than their sex appeal and that the most intimate parts of themselves shouldn’t come with a price tag attached?
OnlyFans and the entire mainstream porn industry trap people in and facilitate cycles of abuse. No matter how much the platform markets itself as empowering, it’s clear that it thrives on exploitation.
Let’s not let porn triumph over love or let it replace genuine connection, fulfilling relationships, and healthy sex and self-image.
A positive place to start is getting the facts so you can share them with others. Check out our resources to get more education on the harmful effects of pornography:
Brain Heart World documentary series
Consider Before Consuming podcast