Adult content creator Lily Philips, whose ‘100 men challenge’ has gone viral, has shared why she became a film star and what drives her to create more extreme videos
Adult star Lily Philips has gone viral for sleeping with 101 men in one day and now she’s revealed her true motive behind the ‘challenge’.
The OnlyFans creator, 23, pushed her limits to complete the stunt back in October, and now, a behind-the-scenes look has been aired on YouTube. Filmmaker Josh Pieters documented the aftermath on his channel as he followed Lily around and spoke to her about her career choices and motive to film extreme content.
Emotional scenes from the documentary, titled I Slept With 100 Men in One Day, spread like wildfire on TikTok, with Lily captured looking overwhelmed and tearful following the ‘sex marathon’. The adult film star said the day had been more intense than she anticipated and said she didn’t know if she’d recommend it.
After filming, Lily told YouTuber Josh: “It’s not for the weak girls if I’m honest – it was hard. I don’t know if I’d recommend it. It’s a different feeling. It’s just one in one out, it feels intense.” Josh asked if it was more intense than she thought and she broke down in tears, saying: “Definitely.” But despite getting emotional in the clip, Lily has plans to sleep with 1,000 men in a day next month and has reassured fans that she is healthy and mentally strong.
Speaking on the documentary, Lily explained her reasoning behind her niche and said: “You have to stand out with unique content. You have to be different… Because there are so many people on OnlyFans,” Mail Online reports.
However, the newfound drive to create extreme content has raised concerns with fellow creators and viewers. Film star Alex Le Tissier, who appeared in the doc, said: “I just think it’s really sad. I just worry about her mental health. I’m hoping it’s a hoax and it’s not going to actually happen, I don’t know. From what I’ve seen of her. I think she’s young and beautiful, I just don’t think she has to sleep with a hundred guys in one day for attention.”
Alex also expressed fears about other creators being driven to ever-escalating extremes. She said: “It is scary because people are starting to do the most outrageous things online. It just keeps being like levelled up and up and up of the expectations.”
In response to the widespread concern about her welfare, Lily recently told the Daily Star: “I mean obviously I was quite emotional [in the documentary] and just very, very overwhelmed. But, yes, my mental wellbeing is really good and physical health is really good.
“The thing is, I’m not a victim, so I don’t deserve this sympathy. I would much rather people put their efforts into someone who’s an actual victim. And so it just makes me feel a little bit sad because I feel like I’m taking a lot of energy away from someone who actually needs help.”
Lily has previously said that she enjoys sex and feels it’s empowering to make money from your body. She explained: “I do what I want and I do it because I enjoy it. I think there are obviously some women that maybe go into it because they have to or because they need the money and stuff like that.
“Or they’re kind of coached into it by men. But my personal experience is that I’ve only ever felt empowered by the fact that I’m making money off something that I think guys will do anyway. Like guys are always going to sexualise me so I may as well try and profit off that a bit.”
A number of those who watched the controversial documentary were concerned to see that male participants didn’t undergo criminal record checks. Although Lily has clarified that all men involved had to wear protection and undergo instant HIV tests, viewers were left worried about her lack of understanding of STIs, with the model expressing confusion about how exactly HIV is spread.
She has since said that she was “naive” not to vet participants for past sexual offences. It comes as OnlyFans faces serious scrutiny for facilitating extreme content, with industry professionals sounding the alarm on the intensifying pressures now placed on creators to make content with shock value.
Experts have warned that the current online landscape, which favours viral content, could be putting creators at risk. Cyberstalking expert specialist Demelza Luna Reaver, of The Cyber Helpline, told the Mirror: “In terms of the trends developing, there are always concerns that these can become quite dangerous. And when I say dangerous, I mean in terms of security and safety.
“More personal information is being shared. I know that in the documentary there was a conversation around personal commissioning for videos. One-to-one videos, and so on. And it’s ensuring that, if this is participated in, what level of detail is being shared? Is there still a safety barrier between the creator and the person who is purchasing that video or any type of content for that person? Or are they sharing personal details with a person online that they’ve never met, and it could put them at risk in the future?”
There are also grave fears that impressionable young people are getting a warped idea of what sex and relationships actually involve. Health psychologist Jo Rodriguez, from Straightforward Psychology, told the Mirror that younger “brains are not adaptive enough to recognise actually that’s not the real world”. She warned: “It can create all sorts of problems for both men and women because it is not an accurate reflection of reality.”
Online critics are now even calling for the platform to be banned as more stars push boundaries to attract and maintain subscribers, with seemingly very little in the way of safeguarding. The Mirror has put these concerns to OnlyFans and has asked for clarity on their safeguarding measures with no response.