Get thee to a nunnery, Bonnie Blue

Channel 4 broadcast a documentary last week about notorious OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue, the woman whose sole mission in life seems to be to make as big a spectacle of herself as possible, and get rich doing it.

We are all playing along, of course, by giving her the attention she so maniacally craves. But to be fair to 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story, it actually breaks some new ground. No mean feat, considering it’s about a woman for whom nothing is considered private.

Like many young women who sell themselves for OnlyFans cash, Blue – a 26-year-old from Nottingham, whose real name is Tia Billinger – does not believe in the principle of scarcity. Quite the opposite, in fact – she is most famous for a stunt in which she claims to have had sex with more than 1,000 men in 12 hours. Too much is never enough for this woman.

Not all of the documentary’s revelations are graphic (although plenty are). For example, I was most surprised to learn that Bonnie Blue is married. Yes, that’s right. She has a husband. A living human male, who for the first part of the documentary is just standing by, weakly singing her praises, while she goes about her business banging every man she can find and putting it on the internet. (By the end of the documentary, after she increases the disgust levels of her stunts to staggering levels, they have agreed to separate.)

Blue is constantly telling the public that she really enjoys getting railed by strangers for hours at a time. She is simply living life on her own terms, she insists, and getting very rich from it. For me, the documentary hints at what I suspect is her true motivation: her hatred of other women.

I found this genuinely surprising. Many people – myself included – previously assumed that her behaviour must be caused by ‘daddy issues’. I now think differently. She acts like she wants to get revenge on the entire female sex. Time and again, she explicitly sets out to humiliate us. She fixates on the idea that she can do a better job of pleasing an imaginary husband than his imaginary wife ever could. In one particularly revealing comment, she tells the men to bring their wives’ undergarments to the sex marathon, and she will wear the wives’ knickers while the husband bangs her. ‘I smell better’, she taunts. Not after 1,000 men you don’t, love.

This wasn’t the only moment when Blue’s obsession with other women seemed noteworthy. The documentary also includes an Instagram video of her, after a sex marathon. She is naked and lying on the floor, sweeping her arms and legs through the used condoms littering the room, as though she were a kid making a snow angel. The caption to the video reads: ‘Don’t worry wives, this is proof your husband used protection.’

Blue’s stunts aren’t just repellent to the general public. Even OnlyFans drew a line at the ‘1,000 men’ video. She then went on to organise a gang-bang, in which she invited other OnlyFans creators who, though over 18, look underage. She dressed them up in school uniforms and filmed it in a classroom. OnlyFans refused to publish that vile video as well. Then, in a crazed attempt to outdo herself, she advertised a different stunt in which she was going to put herself in a glass box, bound and gagged, and invite the public to come along and do what they want with her. This ‘petting zoo’ event was the final straw, and OnlyFans actually booted her from the platform altogether.

Strikingly, the Channel 4 documentary also reveals that the UK has one of the highest numbers of OnlyFans creators in the world. The scene when Bonnie entices the younger creators into having sex with each other for her channel is actually heartbreaking. Even Andy Lee, an established porn star who participated in the ‘barely legal’ stunt, seems uneasy. Before they start filming, they look nervous and uncertain, even lost. This nation might want to ask itself: what have we done to our young people?

Reactions to Bonnie Blue’s depravity range from total hostility and disgust among normal people to discomfort and pathetic rationalisation by so-called progressives. The documentary’s director praises ‘Bonnie’s commitment to work that very few people seem to be able to handle’. I am disturbed that this can be considered ‘work’. It is not work. It’s turbo-charged toxic femininity.

Likewise, the Guardian has tried to split the baby – not condoning her extreme behaviour, but still refusing to call her out. It wouldn’t do to judge a woman, would it? So it must be the fault of the patriarchy, or something. ‘Do I admire her work ethic and facility for business?’, asked one Guardianista. ‘Yes. Do I wish we lived in a world where the best option for realising those talents as a young woman was not through making online porn? Yes.’

What planet do these people live on? There are, of course, other employment options available to women, other than taking a battalion’s worth of dick. There is nothing wrong with having a normal job and a normal life that doesn’t require you to out-slut the competition. Which, by the way, she is clearly trying to do to Lily Phillips – a lookalike OnlyFans girl whose 100-man innings from a few months ago Blue has vastly surpassed.

Unsurprisingly, 1,000 Men and Me doesn’t have the happiest ending. Blue and her husband separate, and she gets booted off her extremely profitable platform. She even feels it’s not safe for her to go out in public, because, she says, she imagines ‘some spiteful girls’ throwing acid in her face. ‘Life looks pretty isolating, when the world hates you’, the narrator says.

The whole vile documentary reminded me of Hamlet’s devastating line to Ophelia. Get thee to a nunnery, Bonnie Blue.

Jenny Holland is a former newspaper reporter and speechwriter. Visit her Substack here