Dr Gail Dines, a professor of sociology and women’s studies, defines the ‘pornification of society’ as a culture where explicit content isn’t just tolerated, but actively celebrated: the hardcore becomes mainstream, the shocking becomes desensitising, the transgressive becomes ever-more competitive.
Leading this race to the bottom is OnlyFans ‘model’ Bonnie Blue. Blue, ever-the-expert in attention-grabbing stunts, has hit headlines again after she revealed her plans for a ‘dogging tour’ of the UK, announcing this jaunt as casually as if it were just a couple of stand-up gigs.
We blame Andrew Tate, rightly, for teaching men to disrespect women, but where is the blame on Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips?
This is the same ‘mattress actress’ who slept with over 1,000 men in a day, went to a university freshers’ week with a sign saying ‘bonk me and let me film it’, recently claimed to be pregnant, and, in a teaser for a video, said she would be ‘leaving here in a wheelchair’.
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