An unusual level of fame

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Ophelia Benson

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I don’t know, maybe we deserve Trump. Not individually, but as a species. Arwa Mahdawi wrote a few days ago:

Bonnie Blue has made millions of pounds by having sex with thousands of men. I suppose that last part isn’t particularly unusual for a sex worker; it’s basically the job description. But Blue has reached an unusual level of fame for the profession through grotesque stunts such as having sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours and preying on young men with “barely legal” content and university “bang bus” tours. She’s notorious enough that she was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary last year.

Thus more men willing to give her money to service them.

Now it seems that Blue, who gave birth to her first child (father unconfirmed) last month, is carrying that enrage-to-engage ethos into motherhood. She has been sharing postpartum content with her subscribers and recently escalated to posting a video where she is holding a baby and is surrounded by men in balaclavas while promoting her sexual content. It is unclear if it’s actually her baby or a doll in the video but, either way, it’s disturbing. So much so that it’s even got me agreeing with the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, for perhaps the first time ever. Speaking to Sky News last week, Badenoch said that the video was a “safeguarding issue”. She added that while it is tempting to ignore the whole disgusting affair, doing so risks “normalising babies in porn adverts”.

In response, Blue sent Sky News a statement insisting “my baby is loved, protected, and incredibly well cared for”. Blue may love her baby but there is obviously nothing protective about using your child to entice people to watch you perform sexual acts.

Oh I’m sure that baby will grow up to be very proud of Mommy Blue.

H/t Mostly Cloudy

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7 responses to “An unusual level of fame”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    I don’t think she has even had a baby. The ‘conception’ event was one of her porn stunts – unprotected sex with several hundred men in one afternoon – and the supposed caesarian birth was 28 weeks later, but the ‘baby’ she posed with was as big as any full-term baby. It was either a life-like doll or a real baby she’d borrowed for the photos.

  2. twiliter Avatar
    twiliter

    Mental illness as entertainment. Not to mention the mental illness of those who find it entertaining. Symptomatic of a decadent society. I say mental illness because a complete lack of morality points to several pathologies.

  3. Piglet Avatar
    Piglet

    Mental hospitals used to sell tickets so that spectators could goggle at the patients and poke them with sticks. We haven’t really moved on from that.

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    We haven’t moved on from it, and in fact social meeja has amplified it.

  5. twiliter Avatar
    twiliter

    I remember a time before the internet, and the fringe element of cultural deviance was not so apparent; you used to have to go looking for it, if you even knew about it at all. Everything’s so in your face now, with the fringe players front and center. I mean back then we knew about (and most of us applauded) feminism, gay rights, and other legitimate civil rights issues. It was widely reported in the media of the day and, as it seems to me now, somewhat more objectively. But nowadays none of that seems to matter, and is paled by extreme players, greedy self interested shills, and bullshit (the current US president for example).

    Why read when you have “influencers” and con artists with their hands out for whatever they can get, just get on “social” media, it’s all there. Get that dopamine hit! I think there’s still an element of the old days left, but it seems to be disappearing as fast as attention spans have. There seems to be an increase in functional illiteracy (again, the current US president for example) that has paralleled the rise of other types of media besides books, which is unfortunate.

    It’s pretty dreary and hard to avoid unless you employ critical thinking skills and common sense, or even self control, which requires an amount of self awareness, which are all on the wane too apparently. I’ll admit, I’m guilty of watching too much YouTube, some of it is fascinating and historic, but you have to wade through and filter out so much shit anymore. Same with Google et al, now to reach actual search results, you have to scroll halfway down the page. The top is reserved for AI summaries and adverts (sponsored results). The signal to noise ratio has gotten ridiculously bad. But people are buying what they’re selling, no matter how fleeting, worthless and unscientific it is. I just hope there is a return towards sanity at some point, but I’m not holding my breath.

  6. Bjarte Foshaug Avatar
    Bjarte Foshaug

    As I’ve been saying many times, there is no possible future in which pimps and johns exist while harmful and degrading attitudes about women do not. And this where the argument that nothing is ever misogyny or sexism if a single woman chooses to go along with it fails. Asking other women to volunteer to live in a world in which the kind of attitudes about women that you have to have to be a pimp or john are normalized, even if it makes them worse off, just so that you can choose to cater to them, is a hostile request in itself.

  7. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    Piglet:

    A lot of the reality television popular in the UK in the 2000s and 2010s involved incredibly mean-spirited mocking and demonization of marginalized people, especially working-class people.

    What Not To Wear, The X Factor, The Jeremy Kyle Show, Big Brother, Girls And Boys Alone, Supernanny, Wife Swap, The Weakest Link, Fat Families, Benefits Street – all involved middle-class people jeering at disadvantaged people. These shows got high ratings and largely positive media coverage at the time; it was only later that people began to express dismay over such programs.

    As for Bonnie Blue, Blue’s mother has supported her career all the way, which makes us wonder what has happened to modern families that a woman would see Blue’s lifestyle as a desirable one for her daughter.

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