When Bonnie Blue’s reputation for bedding barely legal young men for OnlyFans content went viral, pearls were clutched like never before. Her name was dragged through the internet streets for her preference for 18-year-old men. It hasn’t gotten any better recently, because in interviews where she’s addressing toxic perceptions of sex workers, she’s belittled and talked over by fellow women. Never mind that “barely legal” sexualized content has been a staple sub-genre of the adult-entertainment industry for decades; people just didn’t care as much when the freshly 18-year-olds being filmed were young women instead of young men.
Have you ever watched Girls Gone Wild? If so, congratulations! You’ve consumed material in the “barely legal” category. The show became a cornerstone of the adult-entertainment industry by allowing men to exploit young women on vacation without informed consent. Girls Gone Wild has a long, disturbing legacy of coercion and lawsuits, yet it thrived during its run. While concerns were raised, they weren’t loud enough to force the creators to pull the show from production. Apparently, men profiting off the exploitation of inebriated young women wasn’t a big enough problem to warrant cancellation. But Bonnie Blue’s extensive consent process? That’s not good enough for people to let her live. Got it.
Girls Gone Wild was freely available on late-night cable TV, which apparently made it perfectly acceptable entertainment. Bonnie Blue, on the other hand, is a proud sex worker and content creator whose work is securely tucked behind the OnlyFans paywall. And yet, her work is deemed unacceptable. I call foul.
Blue openly admits to preferring barely legal men for her OnlyFans content, but these young men are subjected to a rigorous consent process before engaging in any sexual encounter with her. Her work in this controversial genre highlights a global trend: women reclaiming their sexuality in spaces traditionally dominated by male preferences. Blue’s outspoken advocacy for sex workers, her strict consent protocols—she makes her partners take a breathalyzer test, y’all—and her lobbying for destigmatizing sex work all point to a shift in the social order. A shift where women’s humanity and sexuality are acknowledged and normalized.
Society hates a confident woman. It just does. Women who own their sexuality are villainized. Add sex work to the mix, and they’re demonized entirely, regardless of their actions. Meanwhile, men engaging in the same behavior are often celebrated—or, at worst, forgiven. For decades, older men dating barely legal women has been so normalized that it took society way too long to notice Leonardo DiCaprio’s apparent allergy to women over 21. Yet Bonnie Blue engaging with 18-year-old men—fully consensually—is somehow the real problem here. Sure, Jan.
Bonnie Blue’s popularity on OnlyFans has given her the platform to focus on her real passion: destigmatizing sex work. Women in the sex industry are perpetually painted as wicked, even though they’re not the ones creating the demand. Sex work is referred to as the world’s oldest profession for a reason. You’d think, by now, humanity would understand that societies are safer when sex workers are protected. Alas, here we are in 2024, still arguing that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Maybe instead of raising eyebrows at Bonnie Blue’s sexual preferences, we should focus on the deeper issues she’s highlighting. We have a chance to end the hypocrisy that lets men “go wild” while shaming women into silence. If we achieve that better world, we’ll have sex workers like Bonnie Blue to thank for leading the charge.
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