OnlyFans stars Lily Phillips and Bonnie Blue, among others, are inspiring a new stage show set in the world of adult content creation.
Writer Issy Knowles has written and is set to star in a one-woman play, Body Count, about an OnlyFans creator on a quest to have sex with 1,000 men, reported Deadline Friday, June 13.
Knowles is set to play Pollie, described as giving up her failed consulting career to make quick cash via the popular subscription service. Knowles will also play 10 of the men who queue up to take part in Pollie’s competitive sex challenge.
Knowles told Deadline that she hopes the play will interrogate the public reaction — and fascination — with the likes of Phillips, Blue and others, particularly among women.
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“For many of us, we know how it feels to be objectified, and we can’t help but put ourselves into that scenario and see this queue of men, and inherently feel like we understand,” she told the outlet.
“There’s this real need to other these women, when actually I think there’s more that unites us,” she added.
Body Count is expected to preview at the Seven Dials Playhouse in London in July before opening at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Pleasance Courtyard from July 30 to August 25.
Philips, 23, made headlines in 2024 after she slept with over 100 men in a single day, an experience she later detailed in a December 2024 YouTube documentary. In January, Blue, 26, claimed she had slept with over 1,000 men in under 12 hours.
In a March interview with The Sun, Phillips said she was “not being forced” to make OnlyFans content. “People think it’s some kind of trauma or I’ve been abused or I’m being forced into doing this and that’s just not all the truth,” she explained. “But I guess at the end of the day, everyone’s going to have their own opinion on it and you can’t really change that.”
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During an interview on BBC’s Newsnight that aired in April, Phillips detailed her initial discovery of pornography. “Honestly, I probably watched pornography first when I was maybe 11,” she said. “I’ve always known about it, I always knew it was a thing. I always thought it was very normal to watch.”
She continued, “I personally don’t think pornography is a bad thing, in moderation. I just think when … younger adults have a lot of access to it, that’s when it does become a problem.”
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