I’m talking about class, of course – you know, the one thing we really hate talking about in this country. But we can’t understand Bonnie Blue, the brand, without understanding the middle-class life of Tia Billinger, the 26-year-old woman.
What would we call a working-class girl walking in her designer shoes? Because I’m pretty sure “content creator” or “adult film star” wouldn’t roll off the tongue when it speaks of her with quite the same ease that “prossie” always has.
Still, it takes a safety net the size of an Olympic swimming pool to quit a good job and leap off the top board. Though 50 metres is nothing when you have a house, professional experience and the feasibility of family support if it all goes, well, tits up. Which, of course, in pure capitalist terms, it hasn’t.
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And she’s not the only one. Fellow OnlyFans “star” Lily Phillips – who grew up with Range Rovers and a Porsche in the driveway – has made a mountain of cash, including over a million for her own sex “stunt” with 100-plus men. Though, when asked about this, with delicious British middle-class awkwardness she said, “My parents always taught me [that] to talk about money is really vulgar”.
I know this because two decades ago, in my mid-20s, I was a working-class senior journalist on the men’s weekly magazine, Nuts. An £8m launch in January 2004 from one of the world’s biggest publishers, a magazine “fathers and sons can read together” (yes, really). By April, in response to, erm, impassioned pleas from readers, the no-nudity, no-nipple rules were ditched, “glamour models” embraced (and yes, you’d probably be reported to the social for reading it with a child). And I didn’t quit after our lane-switch.
And I watched the models – of what became mainstream soft-core porn – make their own choices alongside mine. How much to accept in payment, whether to demand picture approval, whether to go topless or cover their nipples with hair (hair bra!) or an arm (arm bra!). And became aware of the difference between the silver-service spread and the beige buffet.
While there amongst the vol-au-vents were the “real girls”. Amateur wanna-be models – overwhelmingly working class, desperate for an opportunity – whose personal pictures were used to sell millions of magazines in return for precisely nothing. They were sold a dream of “making it” but truthfully we knew the majority never would. As one of them once said to me of the options open to the working-class then, “men like my dad had boxing, we have this”.
Though not all choices are created equal, are free or are even real choices – whatever the third-wave and its get-out clause of “choice feminism” insists, conflating all personal choice within any structure and system with blanket empowerment.
Of course by then, after being promoted, I was financially middle class. With the choices that came along with it. And between me in that office 18 years ago, and Bonnie Blue today, lies the world we created. One in which porn – and violence, degradation, all that comes with it – became mainstream. Became normal. Now it’s a career of supposed “choice” for the Tia’s of the world, a girl of just five years old when Nuts was first published. The choices she makes as Bonnie, the freedom she enjoys only as much as that world – built for the pleasure and enrichment of men – allows.
Terri White is a social affairs and culture journalist, author and documentarian living in the northwest
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