Lily Phillips
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Lily Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lillian Daisy Phillips 23 July 2001 Derbyshire, England |
| Education | Sheffield University |
| Occupation | Pornographic actress |
Lillian Daisy Phillips (born 23 July 2001) is a English pornographic actress. Born in Derbyshire, she dropped out of the University of Sheffield to work in the pornography industry; her aesthetic has been described as "that of the girl next door". In late 2024, she uploaded to OnlyFans a gang bang in which she had sex with 101 men and then announced plans to have sex with 300 and then 1,000 men in one day. Both attracted widespread attention after Josh Pieters, who had accompanied her throughout the former, uploaded I Slept With 100 Men In One Day to his YouTube account. Although the documentary itself was praised, Phillips and OnlyFans were heavily criticised for the stunt and a few commentators compared the men to those queuing to rape Gisèle Pelicot. Phillips later defended both the stunt and her occupation.
Life and career
[edit]Early and personal life
[edit]Lillian Daisy Phillips[1] was born in Derbyshire, England, on 23 July 2001[2] and identifies as a feminist.[3] She attended the University of Sheffield, but dropped out to work in the pornography industry.[2] After finding that both sexual images and sex were not drawing sufficient income to her OnlyFans account, she mounted a competition in which the winner got to have sex with her[4] and began filming custom videos and taking fans' phone calls.[5] Helen Lewis of The Atlantic described Phillips's aesthetic as "that of the girl next door rather than a cartoonishly inflated adult performer".[5] Phillips explicitly targets men with her content[3] and promoted herself on podcasts optimised for the manosphere, such as the Whatever podcast.[5]
In October 2024, she released a gang bang in which she had sex with 101 men.[6] For the video, Phillips recruited men by offering sex to any man who completed an application form and took an STI test,[5] with 200 booked.[7] The video was filmed in an Airbnb in an expensive part of London popular with young children, with both Phillips and the landlord reviewing each other positively,[8] and present throughout were both a security guard and Josh Pieters,[7] a South African-born content creator who had previously gone viral for political pranks.[5] One man gave Phillips a rose before taking part, which remained on the bed unwrapped for the remainder of the event.[5] On 5 November, she stated that she planned to become the first woman to have sex with 1,000 men in a day and that she intended to have sex with 300 men on 15 December.[9] Some suggested that the former would beat a world record of 919 set by Lisa Sparxxx in 2004, though Sparxxx has stated that that event only involved 150 men and Lewis suggested that Houston held the record after having sex with 620 men.[5]
I Slept With 100 Men In One Day
[edit]On 7 December,[9] Pieters published to his YouTube channel I Slept With 100 Men In One Day, a 47-minute documentary of the project,[2] and his first.[5] The documentary, in which Phillips stated that pornography was empowering on the grounds that men would sexualise her either way,[10] depicted her selection of sex toys and accountancy spreadsheets and contained footage of her shopping for the event and receiving notifications from prospective co-stars.[11] 100 Men featured a scene in which Phillips did not appear to know that HIV could be transmitted orally,[3] a scene in which the cameraman retched after attempting to film a room full of used condoms, and ended with a tearful Phillips stating that she had disassociated thirty men in.[5] The YouTube version of 100 Men censored its swearing due to the platform demonetising obscene content.[5] The men who had sex with her were not named in the video,[3] although some were interviewed; one flew in from Switzerland and had no regrets, while another expressed concern that his father would find out.[5]
Shortly after release, the video went viral; by 19 December, the video and posts discussing it on Twitter and TikTok had received several million views,[10] with one tweet, which featured Phillips crying, receiving 200,000,000 views.[5] The reaction to Phillips' stunt was described as that of "concern, derision, and curiosity" by Charley Ross of Grazia, who also noted that much of the backlash was directed at Phillips rather than the men who had sex with her. Some argued that she was a victim of the patriarchy, while others argued that she was insufficiently reflecting the dangerousness of the industry and some called for OnlyFans to be shut down. Others suggested that Phillips' stunt was an effort to compete within a hypercompetitive industry.[3]
The video came in for criticism from American conservative pundits Ben Shapiro, who wrote that Phillips had "made herself into a sex robot" whose soul was stained,[5] and Matt Walsh, who also criticised Phillips.[12] Theo Hobson of The Spectator[13] and Brendan O'Neill of Spiked both attributed the stunt to fear,[14] while Lois McLatchie-Miller of Premier Christianity magazine wrote her an open letter[15] and Christian influencer Russell Brand expressed empathy towards Phillips and described 100 Men as an attempt to "defibrillate divinity down here on the lower levels".[5] Julie Bindel of The Spectator,[16] Sarah Ditum of The Times,[4] and Tanya Gold of The Standard all compared the men who had sex with her to those queuing to rape Gisèle Pelicot,[17] with the last of these also writing that Phillips was "not very bright and will soon not be very well",[5] while Sarah Fletcher of The Critic described her as a "Rorschach test for contemporary sexual culture" and discussed her experiences in relation to radical feminism and rape, specifically criticising comparisons to Pelicot.[18] Lewis wrote that the only person exploiting Phillips was Phillips herself.[5]
Reviewing the documentary for Rolling Stone, sex worker Jessie Sage praised the documentary for "the attention Pieters gives to the work that goes on behind the scenes of any sexual transaction and the respect shown to Phillips as a successful businesswoman" and praised Phillips for "allowing people outside the industry to see her vulnerability and her complex feelings about her labor".[11] Lewis connected 100 Men, and internet pornography more broadly, with the logical endpoint of liberal feminism and liberalism and deregulation,[5] and wrote that "as a pure artifact of internet culture and social mores in 2024, I Slept With 100 Men in One Day is hard to surpass". She also praised Pieters' demeanour throughout the film, writing that he appeared "to be the only person on-screen who cares about Phillips’s happiness rather than fulfilling their own fantasy or enabling her career".[5]
In a later interview, Phillips attributed her tears to men shaming her for not allowing them to orgasm, even though none of them had made her do so, and expressed regret for not resting between sex and fielding questions. She also stated that for her 1,000 men challenge, scheduled for February 2025, she would be instituting rapid HIV testing and allowing men to penetrate her once only, and that those attributing her stunt to the industry's oversaturation ignored the success some creators have with much less explicit content. In addition, she argued that telling people how to use their body was what feminism sought to get away from and encouraged those direct messaging her expressing concern to redirect their energy into supporting "someone who was an actual victim".[3] Later that month, it was reported that the event violated multiple Airbnb policies.[8]
Filmography
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[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | I Slept With 100 Men In One Day | YouTube documentary | [5] |
Podcasts
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Curiosity Couch | Guest; 1 episode | [19] |
| 2024 | One Night with Steiny | Guest; 1 episode | [20] |
Pornographic films
[edit]| Year | Title | Company | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Nerdy Nympho Gets Her Dick Fix | Brazzers | [21] |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Ceremony | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | XMA Awards | Fav Female Creator | Nominated | [22] |
References
[edit]- ^ Phillips, Lily [@lilyphillip_s] (12 December 2024). "passed with flying colours ☺️" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 January 2025 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b c Bradley, Faye (16 December 2024). "Meet OnlyFans' Lily Phillips, who plans to bed 1,000 men in a day". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f "OnlyFans Model Lily Phillips: 'I Love Sex And I Love My Job, But I'm Also A Person'". Grazia. 20 December 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ a b Ditum, Sarah (10 December 2024). "Why a 'feminist' on OnlyFans plans to have sex with 1,000 men in a day". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Lewis, Helen (18 December 2024). "The Outrage Over 100 Men Only Goes So Far". The Atlantic. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ Jennifer Ullrich (25 December 2024). "Onlyfans-Model Lily Phillips: Challenge mit 101 Männern, Rekord und Doku". Watson. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ a b "Lily Phillips in Tears After Sleeping With 101 Men in a D..." Complex. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ a b Berard, Caitlin (30 December 2024). "OnlyFans Model Lily Phillips Had Sex With 100 Men in an Airbnb—and Could Be Banned for It". VICE. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ a b "OnlyFans Star Lily Phillips Breaks Down in Tears After Revealing She Slept with 100 Men in One Day". People.com. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ a b Trepany, Charles. "An OnlyFans model's viral documentary and why it sparked a major conversation about sex". indystar.com. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ a b Sage, Jessie (14 December 2024). "What the 'I Slept With 100 Men in One Day' Doc Gets Right About Sex Work". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ "Why This Viral OnlyF*** Model Deserves Zero Sympathy". YouTube. 12 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ^ Hobson, Theo (11 December 2024). "Lily Phillips is scared of real sex". The Spectator. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ "Don't blame the sexual revolution for Lily Phillips's gross stunt". www.spiked-online.com. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ McLatchie-Miller, Lois (18 December 2024). "'You've been sold a lie. But the truth can still set you free' - an open letter to Lily Phillips". Premier Christianity. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ Bindel, Julie (11 December 2024). "Shame on the men exploiting Lily Phillips". The Spectator. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ^ Gold, Tanya (17 December 2024). "Lily Phillips, OnlyFans and the big lie that sex work is good for you". The Standard. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ "Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test | Sarah Fletcher". The Critic Magazine. 20 December 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ "Lily Phillips Reveals The Truth Behind Being an OnlyFans Model: The Struggles, Rewards, And Backlash". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Candace Owens & Lily Phillips | Ep. 57". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Nerdy Nympho Gets Her Dick Fix With Vince Karter, Lily Phillips | Brazzers Official". Brazzers. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "XBIZ Announces Nominees for Fan-Voted XMA Awards | AltPorn.net - alt.porn erotica". Altporn.net. Retrieved 7 January 2025.