The British government is looking into graphic “barely legal” content in light of backlash against Bonnie Blue’s 1,000 Men and Me documentary.
“This content is pushing at the boundaries. We will be trying to address the ‘barely legal’ aspect legislatively,” politician Gabby Bertin told The Guardian on Sunday, August 3. “[Bonnie] has become extremely successful. She is an adult, and it is consensual, so it may not be harming her, but it has potentially harmful effects on people who think that this is a normal way to behave.”
She added, “We should be asking more about the men who arrive with balaclavas on their heads to have sex with her.”
Bertin, 47, has been one of the major supporters of the Online Safety Act, which was passed in the United Kingdom in 2023. The law requires any pornography website to have secure age requirements to log on.
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The U.K.’s Channel 4 TV network recently sparked backlash for airing 1,000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story. The film followed 26-year-old Blue (real name Tia Emma Billinger) as she prepared for a competitive sex challenge of being with 1,057 men within a 12-hour span.
The doc featured graphic footage of Blue filming sex scenes and appearing nude, which several viewers slammed as “disturbing” and “sickening.”
“The explicit content in the documentary is editorially justified and provides essential context,” a representative for Channel 4 told Complex in a statement, responding to the backlash. “Making pornographic content is Bonnie’s job, and this film is about her work and the response to it.”
Bertin, meanwhile, is now part of a parliamentary task force that is looking into whether to ban such content altogether.
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“For years we have been fighting to protect our children from the kind of degrading, violent sex that exists freely on their social media feeds,” Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, told The Guardian. “Now this documentary risks taking us a step back by glamorizing, even normalizing the things young people tell me are frightening. Bonnie Blue’s content showcases violence against women as entertainment and allows sexist ideas that women are ‘lesser’ than men to go unchecked.”
Blue has not publicly addressed the backlash to her documentary, though she has long touted her career as empowering.
“I’ve been the only content creator that’s happily slept with the numbers I have and have walked away smiling each time,” Blue exclusively told Us Weekly in June. “I want to be able to sleep with large numbers of people. I want to be able to be pleasured by the public and be able to speak so positively about sex and not think, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m going to get in trouble for speaking about sex.’”
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