If access to paid sex becomes easier, would it act as a way to help protect sex workers and keep them safe, or would it inadvertently fuel the violence against women and girls endemic? It's a question at the forefront of many minds right now, and one with so many layers of complexity, it's hard to know where to start with answering.
Last night's Channel 4 documentary 1000 men and me: The Bonnie Blue Story further complicates the situation. The hour-long show follows OnlyFan's Bonnie Blue (real name Tia Bellinger) as she attempts to sleep with 1,000 men in 12 hours, and her 'work' isn’t seen as a moral issue at all - it’s a business decision.
But Blue isn't a sex worker, she's a 'content creator', her business model being to have sex with men for free, the footage of which she then uploads to OnlyFans for her subscribers to buy online. Her family, who are all on her payroll, are fully behind her career choice. Her mother, Sarah, is unapologetically supportive – even joking on camera, “If you could earn a million pounds in a month, your morals would change and you’d get your bits out.”
