Bonnie Blue is at the centre of an internet storm. Chances are, if you've been anywhere near social media over the last few days, you've seen her name floating around.
So, what's going on? Well, the OnlyFans adult content creator has recently made a few podcast appearances, and during these recordings, she's detailed some of the controversial ways she makes money — namely, she has described how she has based herself in areas near universities and student hotspots in order to sleep with “hundreds” of “barely legal” 18- and 19-year-old men, along with a number of married men, including some university professors.
And the latest twist? Apparently, it's all part of a marketing ploy. In one of her videos, she appears to be addressing a group of men consisting of fathers and their sons. She asks the group, “Dads, are you ready to bonk me?”, which is met with cheers. However, as the Daily Mail reports, the group actually appears to consist of fellow adult content creators – many of whom already have large followings. Bonnie has yet to comment on this apparent revelation.
Here's a full breakdown of the controversy.
Who is Bonnie Blue?
Bonnie Blue is a 24-year-old British adult content creator who has found herself at the centre of an online controversy after detailing some of the ways she targets young men for her OnlyFans content.
Blue grew up in Stapleford. Before starting OnlyFans, she had worked in recruitment and was married. In 2021, she moved from Nottingham to Australia and ended things with her husband. (Speaking to Cosmopolitan UK, Blue claimed he still worked with her “behind-the-scenes”).
She began by working as a cam girl. After making $5,000 in just one week, she decided to move to OnlyFans. "Within my first month, I made over $10,000 just from videos online," she told Mamamia. She now allegedly makes over $200,000 a month from her content.
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Soon, she carved out a niche making videos of herself with student-aged young men. “I was bored of living in the 9 to 5, so [thought] I’m gonna give this a go. I’ve done Cancun in March, I’ve done Schoolies which is in Australia and then Freshers’ in the UK," said Blue on the Dream On podcast. "I share my location online. I was like ‘This is where I’m gonna be, let me pleasure you’ and there was a massive queue. People were waiting for over eight hours.”
Blue claims that she checks each person's ID and asks them to sign a form stating they consent to footage of the encounter being posted on Blue's OnlyFans page.
What is the Bonnie Blue controversy?
During another podcast appearance on GK Barry's Saving Grace, Blue said, “I don't want to just do students, I want to do their dads as well. So, to be fair, I need to give credit to the student — he gave me this idea. He came with his dad.” Blue claims that the father was “jealous and wanted to join in.” She added, “I made them go separate.”
Blue has also made claims about sleeping with married men, claiming that these men came to her because they were not satisfied by their partners. “It’s no secret women moan a lot,” she said to the Daily Star. "What they don’t understand is all that moaning is unattractive and making their men look else where for fun and pleasure."
She added, “If women were better in the bedroom, men wouldn’t cheat. All their nagging about pots not being done is resulting in me being bent over their kitchen worktops whilst they’re out. I used to blame the men for cheating but since being a sex worker, I blame the woman. Men look elsewhere when they’re bored, so stop boring them.”
Many people have criticised Blue of manipulating the young students she targets. Others have raised concerns about Blue's apparent lack of awareness when it comes to how the content she creates may have long-lasting ramifications for these young men —regardless of whether or not they have signed a release form.
“Bonnie Blue is a full blown predator profiting off of taking advantage of young boys,” one person wrote on X. “If this was a man with freshly 18 girls there’d be genuine life ruining uproar. But because it’s a woman doing it to freshly 18 boys we’ll have stopped talking about it this time next week.”
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Another wrote, "I don’t think people are deeping the Bonnie Blue and GK Barry situation enough. Her audience is 13-20 year old girls. Young and impressionable. This is not the message young girls should be hearing.
Journalist Sophie Wilkinson noted, “After decades of ‘barely legal’ being a porn category for adult men to profit off of and enjoy, Bonnie Blue - a woman - is now the target for people’s ire around exploiting ‘barely legal’ teenagers. She is a cog in a far bigger machine, and I just want to know who hurt her.”
Blue has since spoken to Cosmopolitan UK about the backlash. “I receive backlash for sleeping with barely legal 18-year-olds, but the key word in that sentence is ‘legal,’" she said. "Rather than comment on my TikToks, people should complain to the government to increase the age from 18 to 21, [as] I'm only complying with UK law.”
As for Blue's comments about sleeping with married men, she told Cosmopolitan, that she doesn't encourage cheating, but "if [men's] wives aren’t pleasuring them then they will go elsewhere and that’s a fact [...] opinions hurt when they’re close to home which is why I receive a lot of hate [from women].”
And Blue elaborated on her stance when she spoke to student newspaper, The Tab, about the Saving Grace backlash in particular, Blue reportedly said, “Grace has a platform which allows people to share their stories. This doesn’t mean she’s for or against sex work or glamourising it. Grace’s interviews are light-hearted, so asking difficult questions isn’t her style nor the right questions for her podcast.
“The reason the podcast will be receiving hate is because it has a female target audience whereas mine is men. Women have a lot more time [and] therefore have no problem wasting their time commenting hate and abusive comments across social platforms. Women dislike the things I have to say, but it’s because it hits close to home for them.”
Many women online, particularly on TikTok, have hit back that their “dislike” of Blue's comments are more linked to their misogynistic nature and their fear that views like hers could spur more men to believe that have a right to demand sex from their partners and/or have a right to cheat on them if these specific needs aren't fulfilled.
The worry expressed by many is that both her views and behaviour play into the dehumanisation of women. The OF creator consistently uses derogatory language when referring women, including herself, and has been accused of reducing the role of women to the responsibility of keeping men sexually satisfied. “When I ask [husbands] when the last time they got a full service [from their wife] was, they haven't, but those partners still want the bills paying for,” Blue tells Grace during her podcast appearance. “You can't expect bills [paid] if you're not at least going down on them."
“I don't know why some people are so shocked when they're partners cheat,” she adds, shifting the blame for their partner's infidelity onto women as she explains that, according to her views, if you're not having sex with your partner and they cheat on you, “what do you expect?”
Blue doubled down on her stance during a radio interview with Australian presenters Kyle and Jackie O, where she insisted that if a man has gone out to work a hard shift and his partner isn’t willing to pleasure him, he has every right to look elsewhere.
The worry online is that this contributes to misogynistic violence, where women are seen as sub-human, playing a ‘pleasure role’ in a relationship, rather than being seen as thinking, feeling, nuanced human beings in their own right — which is a crazy thing to have to spell out in 2024.
Sex work is a valid career and has provided empowerment and financial stability to thousands of people, but Blue's glorification of men cheating, while simultaneously blaming women for not properly servicing men, is a deeply damaging statement. Both because it contributes to the internalised sense of self that many young girls watching and listening to Bonnie are at a pivotal point of developing and because it harps back to the outdated societal belief that women are the property of men, and live to please them.
It's little wonder the internet is up in arms.
As we speak, the discussion is still developing online, as more and more people (including other OF content creators and Bonnie Blue herself) add their comments to the discussion. What's clear though, is that the controversy around the OF creator is more complicated, and perhaps nuanced, than it appears to be at first glance.
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