OnlyFans and 21st-Century Euphemisms

Why can't we speak the truth about prostitution anymore?

The badly used-up Lily Phillips (Image via New York Post)

If you’re not following Meghan Murphy’s Substack, you should do so now. She is a longtime radical feminist who got “red-pilled” quite recently, due in large measure to the extremism of the transgender movement. Murphy also hates the porn industry, and what is nowadays called “sex work,” i.e., prostitution, and recently did a podcast that brought up the case of Lily Phillips, the “OnlyFans model” who had sex with 101 men in a single day — a feat recorded on video for the pleasure of her large audience.

At age 23, Ms. Phillips has more than 800,000 followers on Twitter and more than 600,000 Instagram followers. Her audience on OnlyFans (where she sells monthly subscriptions for $9.99) is sufficiently large that Ms. Phillips is able to employ a staff of nine people to assist her in producing “content,” as it’s called nowadays.

Do the math, eh? If half-a-million guys are payng $10 a month to watch Lily Phillips do what she does, that’s $5 million in revenue right there, without counting any of the other ways she makes money by getting naked for the inspiration of pathetic wankers.

Nobody will object to me calling porn consumer “pathetic wankers” — which, after all, is what they are — but what if I called Lily Phillips a nasty whore? Oh, the accusations of “misgony” and “slut-shaming” that would ensue! We are told we must not speak ill of “sex workers,” and so the good old Anglo-Saxon noun whore is effectively banned from journalistic use. A sort of censorship is in effect, and most feminists go along with this, as if being a whore is part of “women’s rights.”

Cui bono? Who benefits from the silencing of criticism of pornography and prostitution? Is it the whores themselves? Young women like Lily Phillips can get rich in the Age of Online Whoredom, but aren’t the proprietors of platforms like OnlyFans getting even richer? OnlyFans generated more than $6 billion in gross revenue in 2023, with a pre-tax profit of $658 million, according to UpMarket.

More than 4 million OnlyFans "creators” are producing “content” for an audience of more 300 million, which is growing at a rate of more than 25% annually. You can read this Forbes magazine article about the money man behind OnlyFans, if you wish to know what kind of people are getting rich from this business.

Oh, but it’s misogyny to criticize the porn industry, we are told by people who claim to care about “women’s rights.” You can’t call a whore a whore, and you can’t call a pimp a pimp, and if a young woman wishes to display her used-up vagina on the Internet for $10 a month, you’re some kind of fascist for disapproving of her behavior.

“OnlyFans model” is a euphemism, like calling a stripper an “exotic dancer.” Basically, any old-fashioned slang for sexual behavior is now prohibited as somehow harmful, so that whore is banned for the same basic reason that shemale or tranny is banned. The use of old-fashioned language implies an old-fashioned attitude, and is thus considered derogatory because (once upon a time, in Ye Olde Dark Ages) most people did not approve of the behaviors such words describe. It’s like how bums and winos got promoted to “homeless people,” while kooks and looneys became part of the “neordivergent community.” This sort of censorship, making it mandatory to employ the preferred politically-correct terminology for deviant behavior, exploits the desire of civilized people to avoid offending others — the Dictatorship of Niceness.

To hell with such latter-day prudery. Lily Phillips is just as much a whore as any truck-stop “lot lizard” peddling her ass to support a meth habit, and people ought not be afraid to say so. Promiscuity is bad, and banging 101 guys in a day is shameful, even if you’re making millions of dollars a year from such an activity. Furthermore, I’m afraid my libertarian friends will be shocked by my suggestion that such activity ought to be against the law. If the “lot lizard” can be arrested for prostitution, why can’t we prosecute the purveyors of online pornography? How are the owners of OnlyFans different from the kind of pimps who get prosecuted for sex trafficking?

You’re not supposed ask such questions in the 21st century. We’re all expected to turn a blind eye to what’s really happening, and to pretend that Lily Phillips is merely a “model” — a content creator — rather than admitting she’s just another whore.