Imagine your teenage son goes upstairs to do homework — and just hours later, you discover he has taken his own life. For <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/02/25/teenage-boys-mental-health-suicide-sextortion-scams/78258882007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">too many families</a>, this nightmare is a grim reality, the result of a rapidly growing and devastating crime known as sextortion. 
Sextortion is a powerful form of exploitation where predators trick and coerce victims, often young boys, into sending explicit images online. The exploiters often pose as teen girls and reach out with flirtatious messages. This is no haphazard operation, research has found that thousands of Instagram accounts perpetrating sextortion were linked to <a href="https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-takes-down-63k-instagram-accounts-5700-facebook-groups-1300-facebook-accounts-linked-1725744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only 20-25 individuals</a> — in other words, this is often an organized criminal activity, something no teenager is prepared to go up against. They are trained and skilled at building trust quickly, shifting the conversation to sexual topics and eventually sending pictures or videos and requesting some in return.
In mere minutes, the blackmail begins. Predators threaten to expose the victim’s nude photos to their contacts or social media connections unless they pay a demanded sum — fueling fear, shame, and deterring them from seeking help. To heighten the pressure, some blackmailers may falsely accuse teens of criminal activity, warning that they could end up on sex offender registries.
For some, the shame and fear of being exposed are so overwhelming that they see no way out, leading to tragic actions like suicide within mere hours of being targeted.
Sextortion has been connected to dozens of deaths of teen boys by suicide in <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sacramento/news/sextortion-a-growing-threat-preying-upon-our-nations-teens#:~:text=The%20sextortion%20involved%20at%20least,the%20activity%20to%20law%20enforcement." target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent</a> years. Tragically, these numbers are likely underreported as family members may not know the circumstance that led to a loved one’s death by suicide.
There are an average of 812 reports of sextortion <a href="https://www.thorn.org/research/library/financial-sextortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per week</a>, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
This crisis demands immediate attention and action.
For too long, online platforms have failed to prioritize safety. Take Snapchat, for example. New Mexico’s attorney general recently brought a lawsuit against Snapchat. According to a report from <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/new-mexico-attorney-general-says-internal-snap-documents-show-company-rcna173486" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>, documents from the lawsuit reveal “‘Snap employees were discussing 10,000 user reports of sextortion each month,’ which is most likely ‘a small fraction of this abuse.’”
“In addition, the suit alleges internal documents show that reports of grooming and sextortion made about specific users largely went unanswered or unaddressed,” according to NBC NEWS.
Meta’s Instagram appears to be the <a href="https://info.thorn.org/hubfs/Research/Thorn_TrendsInFinancialSextortion_June2024.pdf?sm_guid=NzcxOTIyfDc4MzA5NjAxfC0xfGNlc2VAbmNvc2UuY29tfDcyMDIwMTJ8fDB8MHwyMjU0MzA0NTd8MTEzMnwwfDB8fDc2NjM5Nnww0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#1 platform for sextortion</a>. One key reason is the availability of follower lists, which predators can leverage against victims. While the platform has <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/new-tools-to-help-protect-against-sextortion-and-intimate-image-abuse/">taken steps</a> to identify and protect kids from sextortion, there’s still more they can do to prioritize the safety of minors.
According to <a href="https://www.thorn.org/research/library/financial-sextortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a report</a> from Thorn titled “Trends in Financial Sextortion,” online payments are another avenue for exploitation. “The most common payment methods were Cash App and gift cards, followed by other easy-use payment apps such as PayPal and Venmo. The dominance of gift cards and Cash App has slightly increased over time relative to other payment services.”
With Cash App ranking as the <a href="https://info.thorn.org/hubfs/Research/Thorn_TrendsInFinancialSextortion_June2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#1 payment method</a> for financial sextortion, there is valid concern over many of their default features like public profiles and limited identity verification. These vulnerabilities could expose younger users to predatory behavior.
It is time to require a higher standard of care from online platforms.
One vital step to combat sextortion and image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) is the “Take It Down Act,” a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). This legislation has already gained significant momentum, passing unanimously in the Senate. Now, it is time for the House to act and make this bill law.
The “Take It Down Act” is a bold step toward creating meaningful protections for sextortion victims and victims of nonconsensually-shared explicit content. It addresses the crisis in two key ways, first, by mandating quick removal of harmful content, and then by criminalizing image-based abuse. Under the &#8220;Take It Down Act,&#8221; social media platforms and websites would be legally required to remove explicit images within 48 hours of a survivor’s request. These platforms must also make efforts to prevent the images&#8217; reappearance, reducing the cycle of trauma for victims. This bill also makes it a federal crime to publish explicit images of a person without their consent, including AI-generated or “deepfake” content. This brings critical accountability to perpetrators who weaponize private imagery.
By passing this legislation, Congress can empower victims to regain control while ensuring that perpetrators face appropriate consequences for their actions.
For young boys targeted by sextortion, the bill’s immediate removal mandate could mean the difference between life and death, offering assurance that exposure is not inevitable and their situation is not hopeless.
If you are a parent or guardian, use this article as a reason to talk with your kids now about this threat online — before they ever find themselves in a dangerous situation. It’s natural to react with fear or anger if a child makes an unsafe choice, but we never know what difference maintaining an open dialogue can make.
Sextortion is a profoundly isolating crime — but no victim or family needs to face it alone. If explicit images have already been shared, resources are available. &#8220;Take It Down,&#8221; a free service from the National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children, helps remove nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images taken before the age of 18. Visit <a href="https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">takeitdown.ncmec.org</a> for more information. The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative also offers critical support and resources for those affected. 
Congress can and must pass the “Take it Down Act,” helping to give every child the safety they deserve and ensuring no life is stolen by this devastating fraud.
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Haley McNamara is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Programs at the <a href="http://www.endsexualexploitation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Center on Sexual Exploitation</a>, the leading national non-partisan organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health harms of pornography. On X: @NCOSE
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Sextortion Is A Rising Crisis Linked To Teen Suicide, Action Cannot Wait

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Kansas Senator Roger Marshall will introduce a bill on Wednesday that would codify President Donald Trump’s executive order defining “male” and “female” in biological terms.
Marshall’s bill would “establish clear and consistent biological definitions of male and female,” according to a copy of the bill shared with The Daily Wire. The bill is in line with Trump’s day one executive order that made it official government policy to only recognize two sexes grounded in biological reality.  
“The Democrats’ radical transgender agenda is dangerous and wrong. We shouldn’t need legislation to tell us the basic reality that there are only two sexes, but here we are,” Marshall told The Daily Wire. “I’m thankful President Trump has made this a top priority and signed an Executive Order on his first day in office recognizing that there are only two sexes. Congress must ensure this historic action is written into law by passing the Defining Male and Female Act.”
The bill defines “male” as a “person belonging, at conception, to the biological sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing sperm” and female as a “person belonging, at conception, to  the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing eggs (ova).”
A man is then defined as an “adult human male” and a woman as an “adult human female.” 
Marshall’s legislation would also make clear that the term &#8220;gender identity&#8221; is not a proper replacement for sex. 
“‘Gender identity’ means an identity that reflects an internal and subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an indeterminate continuum, and, because such an identity does not provide a meaningful basis for identification for purposes of Federal law, the term shall not be recognized by the Federal Government as a replacement for sex,” the legislation says. 
Illinois GOP Rep. Mary Miller is also expected to introduce a companion measure in the House.
&#8220;Now more than ever, we must unite to uphold the truth and biological reality established by God that there are only two sexes,” she told The Daily Wire. “I am proud to stand alongside Senator Marshall in introducing the House companion to the Defining Male and Female Act to ensure our nation upholds common sense and puts an end to the Left’s dangerous and extreme sexual fantasies.”
Marshall <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-sen-marshall-pushes-to-define-male-and-female-in-biological-truth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a similar bill in November, before Republicans had taken control of the Senate. 
In his January executive order, Trump rooted his definitions of male and females in biology. 
“It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.  These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” the executive order said. &#8220;When administering or enforcing sex-based distinctions, every agency and all Federal employees acting in an official capacity on behalf of their agency shall use the term “sex” and not “gender” in all applicable Federal policies and documents.&#8221;
Trump later took action to ban funding for entities that promote transgender procedures on kids. In December, Marshall <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-ban-transgender-procedures-on-kids-across-the-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put forth</a> a bill that would ban doctors from performing the procedures on kids nation-wide.

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The Department of Education on Friday announced that it would enforce the 2020 Title IX rules implemented during the first Trump administration.
Upon entering office, former President Joe Biden attempted to alter those rules to remove due process protections from students and to change the definition of sex to allow boys in girls’ sports and bathrooms. The Trump administration’s <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-enforce-2020-title-ix-rule-protecting-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> means the Biden rules are null and void.
“The Biden Administration’s failed attempt to rewrite Title IX was an unlawful abuse of regulatory power and an egregious slight to women and girls,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in the announcement. “Under the Trump Administration, the Education Department will champion equal opportunity for all Americans, including women and girls, by protecting their right to safe and separate facilities and activities in schools, colleges, and universities.”
The administration sent out a “<a href="https://www.ed.gov/media/document/title-ix-enforcement-directive-dcl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dear Colleague Letter</a>” announcing the move, noting that the Education Department would “enforce Title IX under the provisions of the 2020 Title IX Rule, rather than the recently invalidated 2024 Title IX Rule.”
In December, the Biden administration officially withdrew its proposed Title IX rule that would have allowed biological males to participate in women’s sports as long as the men “identify” as women, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-public-blowback-biden-finally-withdraws-insane-title-ix-rule-about-gender-in-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In January, a federal court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colossal-win-for-women-and-girls-federal-court-strikes-down-biden-title-ix-rewrite-nationwide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> the Title IX rewrite to ensure no states followed Biden’s regulations, which also gutted due process protections for students accused of crimes on campus.
Tyler Coward, lead counsel for government affairs at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), applauded the due-process component of the Trump administration’s previous rules in a statement to The Daily Wire.
“The return to the 2020 rules ensures that all students — whether they are the accused or the accuser — will receive fair treatment and important procedural safeguards,” Coward said. “That includes the right of both parties to have lawyers present during hearings, the right for both attorneys to cross-examine the other party and witnesses, and the right to receive all of the evidence in the institution’s possession. Colleges are also required to adopt a speech-protective definition of sexual harassment that enables schools to punish genuine harassment instead of merely unpopular speech.”
“Restoring the Trump administration’s rules means that students can once again feel secure that their rights to due process and free speech will be respected while ensuring administrators have the tools they need to punish those who engage in sexual misconduct and harassment,” Coward added.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Jennifer Love Hewitt</a> discussed being sexualized when she was a teenage actress working in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a>, saying she didn’t fully understand what it meant to be a sex symbol at the time.
The 45-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">actress</a> made the remarks during a recent episode of Mayim Bialik’s “Breakdown” podcast.
“In my 30s, I sort of went back and looked at that time again and I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Hewitt said during the episode. “There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts just openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it.”
Hewitt’s career took off when she was cast as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama Party of Five (1995–1999). She was 18 when the massively popular teen horror movie &#8220;I Know What You Did Last Summer&#8221; was released in 1997. 
“In hindsight, it was really strange, I think, to become a sex symbol sort of like before I even knew what that was,” she continued. “I didn’t know what being sexy meant.”
The actress continued, “I was on the cover of Maxim magazines, and people would openly walk up and be like, &#8216;I took your magazine with me on a trip last week.’ I didn’t know what that meant, you know what I mean? It’s kind of gross. I think later it sort of hit me more&#8230; but at the time, it felt very innocent and exciting and fun.”
Later in the conversation, Hewitt recalled some of the jokes made after “I Know What You Did Last Summer” was released. 
“After the movie came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer’ and that was the joke,” she told Bialik, per <a href="https://pagesix.com/2025/01/29/celebrity-news/jennifer-love-hewitt-recalls-grown-men-making-jokes-about-her-boobs-at-16/">Page Six</a>. “Everybody would laugh, and so I would laugh, ’cause it was supposed to be funny, I guess. It didn’t register with me that this was a grown man, talking about my breasts on national television.”
The actress said she doesn’t blame the people making jokes, explaining that it was standard procedure then. 
“It was a culture that was fully accepted. They were allowed to believe that that was appropriate, and I answered the questions, laughed right along with them,” she said.
Hewitt said she was embarrassed by her figure and wore baggy clothing to hide it. “I had bigger boobs for a smaller person, and so it was embarrassing. I didn’t want to be looked at by a 40-year-old in Pizza Hut,” she said. Hewitt also recalled being “so mad” that she was only noticed for her looks in the film. 
“I had worked so hard trying to be good in a horror movie, and I really wanted people to walk away from the movie going, ‘That’s a really good actress,&#8217;” Hewitt said. “And instead, every headline — and I’m not even joking — for 10 or 12 years after that … it was always about my breasts, always first. …That was heartbreaking for me.”

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The online prostitution website OnlyFans has been in the news quite a lot recently. Last week a prominent OnlyFans prostitute went viral for propositioning a Five Guys employee while he was on the clock at the burger restaurant. Fortunately, the young man kept his dignity and turned her down.
This week, the same predatory degenerate — I think we should treat these people like mass shooters and try not to use their names, when possible— has now claimed that she set a “world record” by having sex with 1,000 men in a 24-hour period. Actually it was 1,057. Far be it from me to deprive her of that extra 57 strands of gonorrhea she likely contracted.
Here she is talking about her big accomplishment:
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OF Bonnie Blue says she broke the World Record by sleeping with 1,057 men in 12 hours.
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You often hear people, especially conservatives, say that they feel sorry for women like this. I have to admit I don’t. I reserve all of my sympathy for whoever owns the AirBnB they used for this stunt. You’ll have to go in there with hazmat suits to fumigate that room.
Now, you may remember a few weeks ago the story of the OnlyFans prostitute who had sex with one hundred men. These are not the same people. That woman also planned to jump in bed with a thousand men, but she was apparently beaten to the punch. There is now an arms race among cyber hookers to see who can have sex with the most men in a day. Eventually someone is going to figure out a way to crack a million, which will be a pace of about 11 men a second. I don’t see how that’s physically possible right now, but someone will figure it out. This insatiable quest for sexual self-debasement will be the primary driver of scientific and technological advancement in the future, I have no doubt.
Needless to say, business over at OnlyFans is thriving. Back in the fall, it was reported that the website’s revenue for the previous year had cracked $1.3 billion. They are generating all of that money from the approximately 300 million “fan” accounts on the site. But the “fans” are all there for the hookers, or as OnlyFans refers to them: creators. This euphemism makes no sense, of course, because these women aren’t creating anything. They are selling their bodies — that which has already been created, by God Almighty — to the lowest bidder. They are profiting from their own degradation and humiliation. This is not an act of creation, but of destruction — self-destruction.
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But whatever you call these women, how many are there? According to recent reports, there are currently about 1.4 million American women producing pornography for OnlyFans. 1.4 million. That number is undoubtedly a severe undercount. It doesn’t count all the women who “created” on OnlyFans in the past. And it doesn’t count the women who use other platforms to sell their bodies. All in all, it’s impossible to know exactly how many women in this country have elected to become prostitutes. We only know that the number, whatever it is, is well into the millions.
This is a truly unprecedented circumstance. Prostitution itself is not new or unprecedented. It is the world’s oldest profession, as the saying goes. And there’s nothing necessarily new about having such a high percentage of women in a given population turning to prostitution to make a living. You could almost certainly find more per capita prostitutes in most third world countries today. Historically, it’s thought that something like 1 in 5 women in 18th century London were prostitutes — 20% of the female population. There are a lot of OnlyFans “creators.” But there aren’t that many, percentage-wise. So the sheer numbers do not reveal the full scope of this problem.
As I tried to explain a few days ago, although prostitution has always been prevalent in basically all human societies, in one form or another, it has almost always been the province of young, poor, desperate women. You would have to drive down to the sections of the city where these women congregated. That’s because prostitution was not a part of polite, mainstream society. It was kept out on the fringes, in the shadows, in the dank, dark places where normal people would never want to go.
That is all changing now, and very rapidly. Suddenly, prostitution has become a career option, or a way to earn extra spending cash, for middle class and upper middle class women. The kinds of women who would never stand on a physical street corner now have the opportunity to sell their bodies on a virtual street corner. And a depressing, even terrifying, number of women have jumped at that chance. Some of them have even become multi-millionaires in the process. That is another thing that separates old fashioned prostitution from the newer variety. There are OnlyFans “creators” making $20 or $30 million a year. The highest paid star running backs in the NFL don’t make that much.
That’s not to say that most of the hookers on OnlyFans are raking in millions. The sad reality is that the vast majority are debasing and dehumanizing themselves for the sake of a few hundred bucks a month at most. They could earn as much selling homemade candles on Etsy. They could earn significantly more if they went out and got real jobs. Instead they choose to become masturbatory aides for random, unseen men. And in return they make only enough money to feed their Starbucks habit. It is hard to imagine something more pathetic than that.
But even this does not fully capture the width and breadth of this crisis. It’s not just that so many women are becoming prostitutes. And it’s not just that women who have many other options are choosing to be prostitutes anyway. It’s that, through platforms like OnlyFans, prostitution — or “sex work,” as it is euphemistically called — is now mainstream. It is a part of popular culture in a way that it never was before. It has been validated, accepted, and therefore elevated, so that prostitution is not just a common practice, but a conventional one. Prostitution may be the oldest profession but it was never considered a “normal” one. Until now.
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This didn’t happen out of the blue. The stage was set over the course of decades, with the proliferation of internet pornography. Nearly all of the moral guardrails around sex were torn down and replaced with a flimsy, woefully insufficient consent-based moral structure which says that anything is permissible so long as both parties verbally agree to it. But it turns out that just because both parties agree to something, that doesn’t make the thing good, or acceptable, nor does it mitigate the harm done by it. If you sacrifice your dignity while robbing someone else of theirs, it doesn’t matter that you consented to it. A thing is not dignified merely because it was done on purpose, with the willful acquiescence of all parties.
Most of all, we have removed shame from society. At least we have removed it from the things that are actually shameful. History shows that we can put an end to pretty much any type of conduct, or drive it into the shadows and out of public view so that very few people engage in it, simply by using shame. We stopped shaming whorish behavior, and now we have soccer moms turning to prostitution for some extra spending money. One follows from the other.
50 years ago, around half of all adults in the country smoked cigarettes. Now that number is down to about 10%. We have cast cigarette smokers out to the edges of society, and this has been accomplished largely through shame and social pressure. Our culture has relentlessly demonized cigarettes as disgusting, dangerous, and low class, and as a result cigarettes went from cool and mainstream to obnoxious and odious. It used to be that you could smoke cigarettes anywhere. Now cigarette smokers are given an eight foot wide box outside, 100 feet from entrance of any building. Society is more welcoming of sex offenders than cigarette smokers at this point.
Now, I think the anti-cigarette campaigns are quite overdone and hysterical. My point is only that when a behavior is targeted and shamed — even an addictive one — you will end up with less of it, and when it does happen, it will happen out of view, on the margins, where shameful things belong.
We cannot get rid of prostitution entirely. It will always be one of the unsightly barnacles that attaches itself to the hull of civilization. But that’s what it should be. A slimy, crustaceous thing clinging to the outside of the ship, below the water line. Not sitting up on deck, reclining on a beach chair in full view, while the wait staff serves it margaritas.
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This kind of behavior should be shamed. That goes for the customers, the men. Most people aren’t hesitant to call them out, nor should they be. But it also goes for the women. The women who choose this lifestyle. They are not resorting to it out of desperation, or forced into it. We should look at that choice with disgust and contempt, not acceptance and understanding. We should treat it with shame. Which is the primary reason why OnlyFans and all similar platforms should be outlawed. Prostitution is already illegal in most jurisdictions. It makes no logical sense that prostitution should be legal only if it is done with a camera and sold for a subscription. Why should the more accessible version of the thing be legal? If anything, it should be the other way around. Though I prefer for both versions to be banned. Would banning it stop women from selling their bodies online? No, not entirely. But it would go a long way towards ostracizing the behavior so that otherwise normal and financially comfortable people would not engage in it.
There is one side of the ideological divide that wants to actively normalize the most debased forms of human behavior. And the other side which, though not seeking to normalize it, has largely lost the wherewithal and appropriate sense of moral indignation to treat shameful things as shameful. Which is why the conversation around OnlyFans so often centers on how much pity we should have for the prostitutes, and how hard their lives must be, and the deep sadness you can see in their poor little puppy dog eyes. There is almost no one stating plainly what used to be commonly understood: that this kind of conduct is disgusting and reprehensible, and we are revolted by it. That message is harsh and impolite. It also happens to be true. It is honest. And if the recent history of our culture should have taught us anything, it’s that it is better to be honest than polite.

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There is something deeply broken about our society. Egregious symptoms show that being the case.
One of those symptoms is Lily Phillips.
Lily Phillips is 23-years-old. She&#8217;s become quite prominent because she has a very lucrative OnlyFans account where she earns millions of dollars to take her clothes off and have sex.
Back in October, Lily Phillips did a stunt in which she had sex with 101 men in a day. She did a documentary about it titled, &#8220;I Slept with 100 Men in One Day.&#8221; 
In the documentary, she says, “It’s not for the weak girls, if I’m honest. It was hard. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d recommend it. I think if you&#8217;re a different type of girl, it&#8217;s very like… it&#8217;s kind of like being a prostitute in a sense of like, it&#8217;s just a different feeling. I don&#8217;t know how to explain it, like.”
“It&#8217;s not like just having sex with someone,” a man says to her.
“Yeah. Yeah. Just one in, one out. Like, it feels intense,” she replies.
“Like, more intense than you thought it might,” he suggests.
“Definitely,” she answers, then breaks down in tears.
She says, “I think by the 30th, when we&#8217;re getting on a bit, I&#8217;ve got a routine of how we&#8217;re going to do this and sometimes you disassociate and it&#8217;s not like normal sex at all.” She admitted not remembering much of this. She said, “In my head right now I can think of five, six, 10 guys I remember. And that&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s just weird, isn&#8217;t it? If I didn&#8217;t have the videos, I wouldn&#8217;t have known I did 100.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/lifestyle/onlyfans-model-lily-phillips-cries-after-sleeping-with-101-men-in-a-day/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Phillips shared that it’s not just the physical intimacy of having sex with so many men that made her feel “so bad” but also disappointing them by not being able [to] talk with them, or even being interested in doing so.
She said that conversing with them was also “hard” and recounted how one man complained that they only chatted for about two minutes when she had said beforehand that they would talk for about five minutes.</blockquote>
Then, she breaks down in tears.
But none of this is apparently stopping her from taking on a new challenge now because the money is too good. She has claimed she wants to take on a new challenge in January. She <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14166101/middle-class-graduate-sex-Lily-Phillips-OnlyFans.html">posted</a> on social media: &#8220;1,000 men in 24 hours. Male talent casting call. 18+ only. Location TBC.&#8221;
“I dreamed it up with my assistant. I can’t wait … It’s very exciting. It will be a world record. A real challenge!” she enthused.
“The current world record is held by Lisa Sparks, an adult film star who bedded 919 men in one day at a sex industry event in Poland back in 2004,” the Post noted.
The question here: Why is this wrong in our modern society? What&#8217;s the big problem for a lot of folks, particularly on the secular Left? That&#8217;s a relevant question. After all, she&#8217;s engaging in consensual activity. Why is this wrong? Why is this bad?
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We live in a society in which consent is considered the highest and perhaps only value.
That&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve largely bought into the liberal framework for how society ought to run.
According to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, there are six moral matrices for how we measure morality. The first is care versus harm. The second is liberty versus oppression. The third is fairness versus cheating. The fourth is loyalty versus betrayal. The fifth is authority versus subversion, and the sixth is sanctity versus degradation.
For example, care versus harm would include feeling compassion for a suffering human being. That&#8217;s one value system. Liberty versus oppression would include seeing an unjust rule being promulgated that oppresses someone versus that person being free to make their own choices.
Fairness or cheating would be if somebody cheats, it&#8217;s unfair because somebody has cheated. Loyalty versus betrayal would be if someone betrays a group. Authority versus subversion is if somebody disrespects legitimate authority, and sanctity versus degradation is if, for example, somebody does something disgusting.
Leftists and conservatives think of the world in very different ways from one another. 
Leftists are interested in only three of these six matrices: care versus harm (compassion); liberty versus oppression (individual rights and individualism); and finally, fairness versus cheating (the final outcome of a system as fair or rights as fairly distributed).
Conservatives, people on the Right, care about all six of those matrices, including notions like loyalty and betrayal, authority and subversion, and most importantly, sanctity versus degradation.
Thus, what does the Left do about somebody like Lily Phillips? Theoretically, the argument could be made that she&#8217;s harming herself, that this violates the sort of care/harm principle. That&#8217;s why what she&#8217;s doing is wrong.
But that runs directly against the liberty foundations of liberalism, because after all, she&#8217;s the one who has volunteered her consent to it. How can you tell her? Can you be paternalistic enough to suggest she has harmed herself under the rubric of leftism? And also, is it unfair that she did this if she did accept the arrangement? In fact, she sought the arrangement; she&#8217;s being paid by the tonnage for this arrangement.
For conservatives, the answer is actually quite easy. Phillips and women like her are engaging in self-harm. Liberty is not libertinism; it is bound by rules. Fairness is not implicated because she has no right to engage in this sort of conduct on a moral level. She has no moral right. She does have a legal right, but that is not the same thing as having a moral right to engage in this.
She&#8217;s being disloyal not only to any boyfriend she might have, but to the standards of her society and to humanity at large. You&#8217;re being disloyal to humanity when you violate yourself this way. She is undermining the authority of basic morality.
But most of all, and most importantly, what she is doing is disgusting.
Now, I know that word has fallen out of usage. “Disgust.” “Disgusting.” The idea in modern left-wing parlance is that if you talk about something being disgusting, it means that you&#8217;re being judgmental.
In his book “The Righteous Mind,” Haidt wrote about asking college students if it would be immoral to have sex with a frozen chicken. Liberals will initially say maybe, and then they&#8217;ll think about it and say, “No, it doesn&#8217;t violate my principles of consent. It doesn&#8217;t violate the care/harm matrix. It&#8217;s a violation of liberty to say that it is disgusting, problematic, or wrong.”
Conservatives would react, “Yes, that&#8217;s gross. It&#8217;s wrong. You&#8217;re degrading yourself.”
Disgust is useful and has kept human beings alive for eons. Originally, it evolved as a way of naturally driving people away from things that are quite bad for them. The reason human beings have a reaction of disgust when they see a snake is because snakes can kill people.
Now, that does not mean all disgust historically is proper. Sometimes human beings are disgusted by behaviors or traits that are perfectly legitimate or have arisen through no fault of the person by whom they are disgusted. So, for example, many primitive cultures found people with mental disabilities to be disgusting. In ancient Sparta, if you had a disabled baby, you left it out on a cliff somewhere.
But disgust as a general human emotion is a response to the violation of the sacred.
So what exactly is “the sacred”? 
The sacred is the thing that we as a species place beyond question. That&#8217;s what sacred means. Sacred means to declare something holy.
To be holy means to be separate from the secular. It is something that is not to be questioned. It is something that has such high value that to question it would undermine the entire society. To throw away the sacred is to throw out that which is most important in building a society.
There are some things we find so sacred that we will not violate them.
An entire community cannot come together to share the same values unless they agree on a concept of the sacred and the profane; things that are so high in value that they are not worth arguing about — and to argue about them should generate a feeling of disgust.
It is community, says Robert Nisbet, that gives to the sacred its most vital expressions everywhere: birth, marriage, death, and other moments of the human drama.
These are all of such high value that they become sacred.
In the case of Lily Phillips, what is sacred here?
The individual human soul.
You do not own your own soul. It does not belong to you. You have duties attached to the stewardship of your soul.
Your innate humanity is made in the image of God. You as a human being are sacred. You are the sacred property of the Divine.
After all, whatever disgusting substances this woman has anointed herself with can be washed off, but her soul can&#8217;t be washed off without repenting of what she has done to herself.
And she knows that. Why is she breaking down? Why is she upset? It&#8217;s not just because of the physical exertion. It&#8217;s because she made herself into a sex robot. She made herself into something profane. She engaged in profane behavior, and she should be disgusted with herself. She should be ashamed of herself.
A society should be able to look at that behavior and declare it wrong. It is not just a mere matter of moral apathy because a society that greenlights, celebrates, or pays people millions of dollars for this sort of behavior gets more of it.
It reduces the humanity of all of us to the level of the animal. It removes the sacred completely. Then, all that remains is the profane.
No community, no workable society, can be built solely on the profane. Human beings have a natural understanding of the sacred. We have a natural understanding, a desire to worship, a desire to understand there are things that are of eternal value.
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This is why, by the way, when it comes to sex, the concept of consent is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Of course consent is necessary to sex, but it is not the only marker of whether sex itself is a good thing or a bad thing in regard to how people engage in it.
It&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve lost the concept of the sacred and the profane.
In the #MeToo movement, there is a phenomenon that has arisen many times where women will consent to sex with someone they should not have. They will treat themselves badly; then, they&#8217;ll wake up the next morning and decide they didn&#8217;t like it.
And they don&#8217;t have the language to even express what it is they don&#8217;t like because they already gave consent. Un-giving consent is not possible. So then they go to the language of consent again. In some cases, they&#8217;ll go so far as to say they were raped when they weren&#8217;t actually raped or the evidence shows they weren&#8217;t raped.
But they&#8217;re not wrong to feel bad about themselves.
They&#8217;re not wrong to feel bad about the decision-making. Regret is a realization of having taken something sacred and having made it profane.
The relationship between two people who love one another in a committed bond is sacred. That&#8217;s what makes sex sacred rather than profane.
If sex is treated in a profane way, a lot of the time, it will feel profane. You might wake up in the morning and feel degraded because you degraded yourself.
Then, people look for an excuse for why they feel the way they do, but they don&#8217;t even have the language to explain why they feel the way they do. This is particularly true of young women who are engaging in activities they later regret. They don&#8217;t even understand why they regret.
The answer is that we are all, men and women, capable of sullying ourselves, of disgusting ourselves. And that is a worthwhile tendency in human beings to recognize: that sometimes when we look at the behavior of somebody like a Lily Phillips, we should be upset. We should be upset that as a society we have decided an OnlyFans kind of society is fine, decent, and good.
It is not. It is not fine, decent, or good. Pornography ought to disgust us because it is disgusting. It should disgust us because it turns something that should be about commitment and love into something that is simply about rutting. Sex is meaningful — not because it is a matter of consent, but because it is a matter that has meaning attached to it and has throughout human history.
Pretending that people don&#8217;t have emotions connected to sex is one of the most ridiculous aspects of the modern feminist movement and the modern secular Left. Even Phillips acknowledges that. She says, “I didn’t even get to talk to the guys.”
That’s the most pathetic expression of the problem, but she’s not wrong. It turns out that very often, both women and men actually want to know the person with whom they are having sex because it means something beyond pure consent.
A society that boils its morality down to consent alone is a society that doesn&#8217;t even have the language to express why it&#8217;s corrupting itself. It&#8217;s why we as a society have such trouble declaring pornography is morally bad or OnlyFans is a blight.
Young men are being destroyed by OnlyFans. Young women are certainly being destroyed by OnlyFans.
And this should not be a matter of moral apathy in our society. I&#8217;m not talking about regulation or legislation. Perhaps that&#8217;s appropriate, but that&#8217;s not even the question. The question is: Do we even have the moral language anymore to look at human behavior that ought to disgust us and say it&#8217;s acceptable to be disgusted by that behavior?
It&#8217;s ok to look at what violates the nature of being made in the sacred image of God and say, “That&#8217;s bad, and I have an innate sense of being provoked by it into disgust.”
It&#8217;s ok. We were made that way, and that is a good thing.
A society that loses any concept of the sacred and trades the sacred for the profane is a society that is not long for this world. Because in the end, if we can&#8217;t place certain principles above and beyond debate and in the realm of the sacred, then we&#8217;re not going to have a society for very long.
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Democrats in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan&#8217;s</a> state House are attempting to ram through &#8220;radical&#8221; sex education changes in the weeks before control of the body flips back to Republicans.
Earlier this week, nearly two dozen Michigan House Democrats introduced <a href="https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/House/pdf/2024-HIB-6068.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HB 6068</a>, which seeks to make major changes to the Revised School Code Act of 1976. The changes range from allowing schools to distribute condoms to giving schools a green light to teach students that abortion is a &#8220;method of family planning&#8221; and &#8220;reproductive health.&#8221;
One of the biggest revisions proposed in the new bill is to remove a ban on distributing &#8220;a family planning drug or device&#8221; on public school property. The proposed amendments to the 1976 law would also add leftist gender terms and require that schools &#8220;affirmatively recognize that individuals have different sexual orientations and gender identities and, when discussing or providing examples of relationships, be inclusive of various gender relationships.&#8221;
While the changes would still allow schools to teach that abstinence is a &#8220;responsible and effective method&#8221; of preventing pregnancy and infections, the bill would remove a line referring to abstinence as &#8220;a positive lifestyle for unmarried people.&#8221; The new bill also keeps in place an option for parents to pull their children out of sex ed.
Some Republicans have raised alarms about HB 6068, with Republican state Rep. Jaime Greene calling it &#8220;a clear overreach that strips away the foundational emphasis on abstinence, undermining a responsible approach to sexual health education.&#8221;
&#8220;It introduces sensitive topics like gender identity, sexual orientation, and reproductive rights, which many parents feel are completely inappropriate for young students,&#8221; Greene added in a statement.
Greene told The Daily Wire in a phone call on Thursday that &#8220;people are tired of partisan politics&#8221; and she expects many parents to opt their children out of sex education if the bill passes. Greene stressed that teaching age-appropriate sex education is still important, but said that Democrats&#8217; proposed changes to the 1976 law aren&#8217;t in line with the average Michigan resident.
&#8220;Sex ed is supposed to be teaching about biology and how your body works, how it makes a baby, not necessarily you&#8217;re identity,&#8221; she said.
The bill was referred to the Education Committee after it was introduced by state Reps. Rachel Hood, Emily Dievendorf, Samantha Steckloff, Kara Hope, Veronica Paiz, Natalie Price, Jenn Hill, Penolope Tsernoglou, Lauri Pohutsky, Regina Weiss, Felicia Brabec, Jennifer Conlin, Donavan McKinney, John Fitzgerald, Amos O&#8217;Neal, Cynthia Neeley, Julie Brixie, Carrie Rheingans, Phil Skaggs, Noah Arbit, Kimberly Edwards, and Helena Scott — all Democrats.
Hood, one of the bill&#8217;s strongest advocates, <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-dems-want-overhaul-sex-ed-allow-schools-distribute-condoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Bridge Michigan, “Comprehensive sex education takes a wider lens: enabling students to make healthy choices for themselves and their relationships — and lets these conversations begin long before sex or puberty at developmentally appropriate levels.”
Pohutsky, the Speaker Pro Tempore, said the bill &#8220;is absolutely a priority&#8221; for her to get passed in the lame duck session, which continues until the end of December. Greene blasted Democrats for continuing to push a &#8220;radical agenda&#8221; in Michigan despite losing the state House in the election.
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&#8220;Clearly Michigan spoke, and we had a major overturn in a lot of school boards as well just on the transgender issue,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;re exploiting children for political gain and for a political ideology that has just taken off in the last couple of years and is not what most people in our country or even in the world actually believe.&#8221;
The Daily Wire has reached out to Pohutsky for comment.
Republicans took back control of the state House in the 2024 election and will hold 58 of the 110 seats at the beginning of January. If the sex ed reform bill is passed before then, it would go to the Democrat-controlled Michigan Senate, and then to the desk of Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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Liberal women are vowing to go on a sex strike in protest of President Donald Trump’s 2024 election-night win.
The trend is inspired by the feminists in South Korea who started a movement called “4B” which rejects traditional gender roles and “the patriarchy”. The “4” represents no sex, no dating, no childbirth and no marriage while the “B” represents a negative as “bi” is a prefix for negative words in South Korea.
American liberal women are announcing on social media that they’re joining the movement with the intention to punish men for “voting against women’s rights.” Translated: liberal women are throwing a temper tantrum because the majority of Americans agree with commonsense restrictions on abortion opposed to allowing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason under the sun.
Ironically, liberal women who have largely rejected abstinence as an option to prevent pregnancy are now admitting it works.
X user @solitasims <a href="https://x.com/solitasims/status/1854042435695129072?s=46&amp;amp%3Bt=Jk-5UdakQacqfxlUcsYByg">posts</a>, “ladies, I’m being so fr when I say this, it’s time to close off your wombs to males. this election proves now more than ever that they hate us &amp; hate us proudly. do not reward them.” 
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ladies, I’m being so fr when I say this, it’s time to close off your wombs to males. this election proves now more than ever that they hate us &amp; hate us proudly. do not reward them.
&mdash; solita (@solitasims) <a href="https://twitter.com/solitasims/status/1854042435695129072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She <a href="https://x.com/solitasims/status/1854042963971858666">goes on to say</a>, “I am very much a radical feminist, I just don’t talk about it much. But I am literally so serious. Guard your womb, SERIOUSLY. IF you choose to be with a male, make sure he actually values and respects you at a human f***** being. This is ridiculous.”
The inauguration is over two months away and somehow there seems to be a “President Trump effect” that is making America more wholesome already. It seems far-fetched that a radical feminist would be encouraging women to guard their wombs and wait for a man who values and respects them, but that’s exactly what we’re witnessing. Who is going to tell them this has been a conservative talking point all along?
In some cases within the new obsession of the 4B movement, liberal women are shaving their hair to make themselves less attractive to men. X account @libsoftiktok shared a selfie-style video of a woman cutting her own hair while telling women not to have sex with, date, or talk to men.
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This woman shaved her head to protest Trump’s win and to fight the patriarchy
This might be the best meltdown yet 😂 <a href="https://t.co/9DCw0uHCRc">pic.twitter.com/9DCw0uHCRc</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854263018865242321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Regardless of the reason causing women to pursue abstinence to prevent pregnancy, the pro-life movement considers this a win.
It proves what we’ve been saying all along; women have always had control over their bodies. Women have always been able to abstain from casual sex. In fact, it would be real misogyny to suggest women are incapable of being responsible and accountable for their own consensual decisions.
If women elect to abstain from casual sex with men who don’t value them, unplanned pregnancies will be prevented. If there are less unplanned pregnancies, there will be less women seeking abortions.
There is no scenario where this is a negative, unless you happen to be Planned Parenthood or any other part of the $2 billion abortion industry. It must be difficult witnessing their clients and biggest supporters commit themselves to abstinence.
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As ironic and full circle as this moment is, it shines a light on the lies and manipulation of the pro-abortion Harris/Walz campaign and one of the democrats largest donors, Planned Parenthood. When President Biden was still the Democratic nominee, Planned Parenthood pledged to spend <a href="https://apnews.com/article/planned-parenthood-spending-45-million-2024-election-a6b9252fec64d1e051816ea173dab32f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$40 million</a> to bolster Biden and leading congressional Democrats according to a statement shared with The Associated Press.
Tens of millions of dollars behind corrupt politicians are intentionally manipulating women to think their lives are at risk with any sort of abortion restriction on the books. That number increases to hundreds of millions if you include the pro-abortion referendums across the country this election cycle.
There have been political speeches, news headlines, social media posts and more fearmongering women to believe it is illegal to get miscarriage care.
The new 4B movement posts are full of the same reiterated falsehoods and misinformation.
It is worth noting there is no state in the country, including those that have restrictions on abortion, which bans miscarriage care or ectopic pregnancy treatment and there are no states that don’t have an exception for the life of the mother. Legislation for each state is very clear on this.
It is also worth noting that there have been no women killed by abortion bans, despite pro-abortion, legacy media headlines. Of the fatal cases we’ve seen highlighted in headlines, the cause of death has been a direct result of abortion or medical malpractice.
If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz cared about women, they wouldn’t have repeatedly lied on the issue of abortion, instilling fear among women across the country. If they hadn’t campaigned on abortion lies and simply told the truth, we likely wouldn’t be seeing as many women shaving their hair off and screaming obscenities in the middle of a mental break on social media.
However entertaining and ironic these videos have been to many over the past few days, no one deserves to live in politically manufactured fear.
Women deserve to know the truth. America deserves to know the truth.
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Christine Yeargin is the host of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGZnJj6tJYhhoVUuKiA8mPQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speak Out with Christine Yeargin</a>, a podcast encouraging others to boldly defend their values, the founder of a social media movement that supports vulnerable women in unplanned pregnancies, a public speaker, and a homeschool mom.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Former Abercrombie &amp; Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and two of his associates were reportedly arrested on Tuesday morning on federal sex trafficking charges.
Prosecutors out of the Eastern District of New York charged the men with more than a dozen counts for alleged criminal activity that happened between 2008 and 2015, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/business/abercrombie-ceo-mike-jeffries-arrested-sex-trafficking/index.html">reported</a>.
The men allegedly engaged in a scheme where they recruited young aspiring male models and then pressured them into performing sex acts at parties, sources told the network.
Prosecutors are expected to hold a press conference later on Tuesday when they will release details on the case.
All the defendants are expected to make their initial court appearances on Tuesday with two of the defendants, including Jeffries, scheduled to appear in federal court in Florida and the third scheduled to appear in federal court in Wisconsin.
The identities of the two other men were not immediately known.
Brian Bieber, the lawyer representing Jeffries, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abercrombie-fitch-ceo-jeffries-sex-charges-f95f6b480dcb41e5365fa9b49f6206bd?taid=6717b12d56474d000110b28b&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">told</a> the Associated Press that he would “respond in detail to the allegations after the indictment is unsealed, and when appropriate, but plan to do so in the courthouse — not the media.”
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The FBI <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-67991750">opened</a> a criminal investigation into Jeffries after a report from the BBC was published last October that alleged: &#8220;Jeffries and his partner Matthew Smith had exploited young men for sex at events they hosted in their New York residences and worldwide in luxurious hotels.&#8221;
Eight men told the publication that they attended these sex parties in cities around the world where they were &#8220;direct[ed]&#8221; to engage in sexual activity with them or with each other.
After the report was published about Jeffries, who was with the company for two decades, Abercrombie &amp; Fitch was &#8220;accused in a civil lawsuit of funding a sex-trafficking operation led by Mike Jeffries and Matthew Smith between 1992 and 2014.&#8221;
The lawsuit alleged that there were more than 100 male victims.

Abercrombie & Fitch Store Opening on 5th Avenue in New York City

Former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries Arrested On Federal Sex Trafficking Charges

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As Americans Drown, Kamala Chats On A Brain-Dead Sex Podcast

2024 Election

Call Her Daddy

Kamala Harris

Podcast

Tim Walz

It was a normal night in St. Petersburg, Florida, when an elderly couple passed me by. Typical in Southwest Florida … until I realized the woman was wearing a mesh crop top and dog collar, and the man, a leather harness.
That was the first sign that something was … off. A few seconds later, another couple stood waiting to cross the street: a man in his 70s, arm-in-arm with a young girl, 21 at most, wearing an “I Love Daddy” t-shirt. Something DEFINITELY wasn’t right. I inquired to my friend, “What the hell is happening right now?”, without even realizing just how accurate the word “hell” was. Staring down at his phone, he replied, “Fetish Con is in town.”
Fetish Con? Did I just hear that correctly? Like, the feet-lovers and the furry people? That had to be the weirdest thing I’d ever heard. I had to go.
&#8220;Weird” didn’t do it justice, as you’re about to see. If you’re like me, you’ll want to laugh, but won’t be able to. You’ll be too busy worrying about your children, schools, our country, the consequences of the internet, and, well, life as we know it.
Let’s get into it.
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As I approached the St. Petersburg Hilton, women were casually returning to their cars, topless save for the tape they wore to comply with the conference’s no-nudity policy, while men dressed in animalistic garb loitered near the entrance. The hotel&#8217;s interior was blocked from public view, with curtains guarding the entrance until tickets were purchased.
A hotel employee directed us to the vendor halls and, intriguingly, to something called &#8220;The Dungeon.&#8221; The name conjured images of childhood museum exhibits, but as I would learn a few minutes later, the reality was far from childhood innocence.
As I crossed the threshold into the event, the scene was surreal. An elderly man dressed as a baby—complete with a diaper, bib, and bonnet—sat alone. Whose grandfather was this? A mix of attendees filled the halls. Some dressed in outfits that appeared to be from Spirit Halloween and the majority dressed in…well…I don’t even think you could call them “dressed.”
Advertisements for adult sites plastered the elevator doors, while a red carpet photo op and a massive balloon display proclaimed “Fetish Con 22.” (Yes, this is the 22nd Fetish Con). As if things couldn’t get any stranger, a couple sat straddling each other on a strange piece of furniture I initially thought was hotel decor in the most vulgar display of PDA I&#8217;ve ever seen.
Off to a flying start.
Upon entering the first vendor hall, it became clear my outfit was not Fetish Con-appropriate, so I immediately purchased a pair of cat ears in an effort to blend in. The room was packed with booths offering every conceivable (and inconceivable) sexual accessory. A display sat in the back corner that allowed attendees to vote for their favorite fetish. The winner in St. Petersburg? Farting.
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It was around this time that I realized these people weren’t simply into the “typical” fetishes. A young woman hung (not hung out…literally hanging) at another vendor station while being degraded by a male employee. Whose daughter is that? And I was continually met with the sight of fresh bruising on the rear-ends and necks of women at literally every turn (I’d soon find out the source). Satanic imagery was scattered throughout the halls, adding an unsettling layer to an already bizarre atmosphere.
Finally, I made it to The Dungeon.
The Dungeon required visitors to put away their phones — a rule strictly enforced by event staff.  I slipped my phone into my clear purse and the employee declared, “Any purse except that.”
That should have been my first red flag.
My cat ears couldn’t mask my shock upon entering. I was greeted by a dimly-lit room with a series of stations where attendees could engage in acts of submission and domination, each one more disturbing than the last. The two stations near the door sat empty, manned by an older male employee eagerly awaiting his next guest. The sight was enough to make me want to leave immediately.
My friend and I looked at each other and simultaneously exclaimed, “Yup, we’ve seen enough.” We made our way to the exits, but not before being handed a pamphlet promoting a production company with the title, “Have You Accepted Satan As Your Lord and Personal Savior?”
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The implication was clear: this was more than just a niche community — it was a culture with its own insidious undertones.
After returning home I took to “X” to explain what I saw, carefully trying to withhold too much judgment until I had more time to process what I had just seen. My post quickly went viral, amassing over 8.5 million views.
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Update: I lasted approximately 24 minutes at Fetish Con.
The first person I saw upon entering was an old man dressed as a baby, followed by countless women covered in only tape, men wearing stripper heels, and couples guiding each other around with dog leashes. I turned to my… <a href="https://t.co/YAjHXIU7cn">https://t.co/YAjHXIU7cn</a> <a href="https://t.co/xOJda54lMN">pic.twitter.com/xOJda54lMN</a>
— Billie Rae Brandt (@BillieRaeBrandt) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillieRaeBrandt/status/1822438275954426035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Since then, I’ve been inundated with messages from Fetish Con attendees, adult film stars, and fetish-community advocates. Some are from men who want to send me money — another fetish I haven’t been able to figure out.
But most of the messages were vicious, including sexual harassment and threats of violence. These messages challenged my initial belief that these people were simply troubled — they were possessed by something far darker and depraved than I could have imagined. These were people who would stop at nothing to drag the rest of us into their twisted worldview.
One of the most striking responses came from a teacher with a master’s degree in education who claimed this community as her “life.”
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It was a reminder that the people I encountered at Fetish Con were not just fringe members of society: they were our neighbors, our colleagues, and, perhaps most disturbingly, the ones teaching our children.
But of all the hate hurled my way during the Fetish Con saga, this was the insult that caused my lightbulb moment.
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And if you influence anything, it is probably ignorance. I am sad you didn’t take the time to see what this gathering of like minded people brings to others. Love. Joy. Friendship. 
Sometimes the family we choose is more impactful than the family we are born with.
— AuthenticallyKinky &#8211; Official Podcast @Fetishcon (@authkinkypod) <a href="https://twitter.com/authkinkypod/status/1823764398655119531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This was an attendee at Fetish Con who claimed that “sometimes chosen family is more impactful than the family we are born with.” And I guess that’s the point, isn’t it?
Why did this person leave that family and “choose” this one? Was her family really that bad? Or were they simply groomed into this culture and taught to hate their family along the way?
This culture is, increasingly, our culture. As we become more and more addicted to instant, short-term gratification, we are slowly losing our basic humanity. Excessive pornography consumption can shrink the frontal lobe, which is responsible for executive functions like decision-making and a dysregulation of the body’s dopaminergic system – in other words, your ability to break bad habits and learn new ones.
The relentless pursuit of dopamine highs dulls the appeal of “normal” sexual experiences, diminishing the capacity for meaningful relationships and driving individuals toward increasingly extreme behaviors. You get into a certain type of person, a certain type of act, then a more extreme person willing to engage in that act, then an even more extreme act… and the cycle continues until porn is your only option for gratification.
Either that, or you embed yourself in the only community that doesn’t see you as damaged and is willing to enable this cycle in a real, tangible way.
It’s easy to rationalize extreme and bizarre in a group setting — no one’s a freak at Fetish Con. But the more we tolerate this behavior, the more we allow it to enter and shape mainstream society. That’s how we end up with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-brinton-dress-wearing-ex-biden-official-who-stole-womens-luggage-gets-cushy-plea-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fetish-loving</a>, non-binary kleptomaniacs working high up in the federal government. It’s how we end up with a trans-identifying man bearing his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-faces-backlash-after-trans-activist-goes-topless-at-white-house-pride-event-a-disgrace-to-our-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fake breasts</a> on the White House Lawn.
It’s how you wind up with Fetish Con enthusiasts teaching young children.
A few weeks ago, I got some bad news: Fetish Con had <a href="https://x.com/BillieRaeBrandt/status/1825536091711017441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked me</a> on X. I guess that means I can’t attend next year. But that’s alright. I’ve seen enough to last a lifetime.
Besides, at the rate we’re going, we may all be living in Fetish Con before we know it.

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What I Saw At Fetish Con

Florida

Teachers

Here&#8217;s a side of the Clinton administration you probably don&#8217;t remember. Just a few months into Bill Clinton&#8217;s second term, the federal government announced a major initiative to fund abstinence-only sex education.
As the L.A. Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-01-mn-33685-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> back in March of 1997, Clinton&#8217;s administration allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to programs teaching that sex before marriage is, &#8220;likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects.&#8221; The Clinton-funded programs also taught that abstinence from premarital sex is, “the expected standard” of human behavior. That’s worth repeating: The Clinton administration said that abstaining from sex before marriage is the &#8220;expected standard&#8221; of human behavior.
That may sound surprising now, for obvious reasons. This was not exactly an administration that led by example on this front, or any other front. But at the time, especially in that pre-Lewinsky period, it wasn&#8217;t a particularly shocking move. From Reagan&#8217;s administration onward, there had been significant bipartisan support in Washington for teaching young people to wait until marriage before having sex. Democrats and Republicans agreed on this point: Hookup culture spreads disease and ultimately makes people unhappy. It wasn&#8217;t especially controversial, really.
As recently as 2010, CNN was running segments about how abstinence-education was effective. Watch:
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You won&#8217;t find many reports like that on CNN anymore. Do a quick search of their website, and you&#8217;ll learn that abstinence-only education is &#8220;not evidence-based.&#8221; The science shifted, apparently, as we&#8217;ve seen so often. 
Indeed, around the year that report aired — 2010 — federal funding for abstinence-only education began to wane under the Obama administration. Donald Trump brought it back to an extent. Then the Biden administration limited this funding again, though not as much as many Leftists were hoping.
Throughout all of this back-and-forth, pretty much the only group that&#8217;s remained consistent have been Christian conservatives. We&#8217;ve warned, for decades, that hookup culture will create many catastrophic problems in society. We promoted chastity and abstinence before marriage as the only workable alternative. That&#8217;s a position we took based on Scripture, based on thousands of years of human history, and based on plain old common sense. And for that, we were dismissed and mocked as out of touch and prudish and archaic and old fashioned, again and again, over the past several decades. 
What&#8217;s interesting about all of this mockery is that now — at long last — many of the same people who dismissed Christian conservatives are now coming around to basically agreeing with us. They&#8217;re conceding that abstinence until marriage makes sense, actually. The catch is that they&#8217;re doing it for all the wrong reasons.
New York Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;The Cut&#8221; just published an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240622140615/https://www.thecut.com/article/women-celibate-dating-sex.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> outlining the new pro-abstinence trend that&#8217;s now so popular among young people. It&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240622140615/https://www.thecut.com/article/women-celibate-dating-sex.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entitled</a>, &#8220;A Summer Without Sex: Celibacy is all the rage right now.&#8221; 
The Cut <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240622140615/https://www.thecut.com/article/women-celibate-dating-sex.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports:</a>
<blockquote>Today, celebrities including Khloé Kardashian, Lenny Kravitz, Julia Fox, Kate Hudson, and Tiffany Haddish have touted the benefits of celibacy. Melissa Febos &#8230; is coming out with another memoir next year called &#8216;The Dry Season,&#8217; about a year of conscious celibacy. Other women are celebrating their dry seasons too, even to the point of competitiveness.</blockquote>
The report <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240622140615/https://www.thecut.com/article/women-celibate-dating-sex.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continues</a>:
<blockquote>This Great Abstaining comes amid any number of moral panics about sex, mainly related to young people: They’re texting instead of hooking up, they’re getting off the apps, they’re forgoing marriage and children, they’re deemphasizing traditional romance and instead prioritizing platonic friendships like codependent but chaste Victorian pen pals.</blockquote>
Among the reasons for this “Great Abstaining,” according to the Cut, is that many women all over the world are drawing inspiration from the &#8220;radical-feminist South Korean 4B movement.&#8221;
Women who participate in this &#8220;4B movement&#8221; promise not to do four things: date men, have sex with men, give birth, or get married. Of course, attitudes like this are only making South Korea&#8217;s population crisis even worse. The country&#8217;s birth rate is well below replacement level, and dropping fast. That&#8217;s not going to improve if no one marries or has children. But the media is presenting this as some kind of feminist victory for South Korea, even though South Korea may not exist for very long if it keeps up. South Korea’s great achievement is embracing its own extinction, we’re told.
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Take this article from Vogue, for example. They just came out with a similar piece praising women for their newfound love of celibacy. They <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/why-are-we-all-talking-about-celibacy-lenny-kravitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Is sex-free living going to be a thing? Could it actually be liberating to take the sex out of every equation? Are we entering a second wave of sexual emancipation in which one can simply opt out altogether? Maybe this summer can be a mini-break from the near-constant awareness of our own sexuality, of how (or whether) we attract. A vacation from transmitting and receiving sexual triggers. Will more of us be looking back on 2024 as the summer I turned sexless? No more afternoon delights, no more holiday romances—a veritable Celibacy and the City.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s kind of amazing to see Vogue discover that, in fact, women can &#8220;opt out&#8221; of having random sex with strangers. This is a whole new level of &#8220;sexual emancipation,&#8221; they say. No one has ever raised this possibility before. You can actually just not give yourself away to any random dude who vaguely shows interest. This is breaking news, courtesy of Vogue magazine: Women have free will. Can you believe it?
Several other outlets have been reporting on the same trend for more than a year now, in an equally shocked tone. The Independent, for example, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/celibacy-dating-abstinence-b2260133.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> last year that, &#8220;Celibacy has become all the rage among young people.&#8221; According to the Independent:
<blockquote>In recent years, &#8216;self-love&#8217; has been parodied as much as embraced. But the shift towards celibacy seems to have come from it. &#8230; The benefits from a period of celibacy are endless because, ultimately, it’s about self-development. And that’s a practice that will always provide some sort of enlightenment – regardless of your relationship status.</blockquote>
Imagine that. &#8220;The benefits from a period of celibacy are endless.&#8221; Again, across virtually all of the corporate press this is presented as something that&#8217;s just being discovered now. 
The Guardian, to give another example, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/celibacy-hetrosexual-women-boysober-4b-sex-positive-feminism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that &#8220;Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy.&#8221; That&#8217;s quite a headline from The Guardian, considering it was just a decade ago that The Guardian was running articles with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/24/moral-case-for-sex-before-marriage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">titles</a> like, &#8220;The moral case for sex before marriage.&#8221;
Reversals like this are everywhere all of a sudden. In recent years, outlets like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/style/modern-love-why-i-took-a-vow-of-celibacy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> and <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/sex-relationships/article/im-26-and-ive-tried-the-celibacy-trend-v2c9qtvx0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Sunday Times</a> have published lengthy first-hand op-eds written by authors who have committed to celibacy. In particular, the Sunday Times declared that &#8220;Celibacy has had a reboot, with more people abstaining from sex than ever.&#8221; And it’s important to note, if it wasn’t clear already, that in virtually all of these cases we’re talking about unmarried people abstaining from sex — abstaining from hookup culture, in other words. This is the “reboot,” the “trend,” the bright new idea that the media is suddenly celebrating.
And the trend is not just a media creation. Researchers at the University of Michigan have been tracking the sexual behavior of high school graduates for the past two decades, going back to 2004. They&#8217;ve <a href="https://news.umich.edu/american-young-adults-report-having-fewer-sexual-partners-higher-rates-of-abstention/#:~:text=Among%2021%2Dto%2D30%2D,of%20just%20over%20a%20quarter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found:</a>
<blockquote>Among 21-to-30-year-old males, abstinence rose significantly between 2008 and 2020, from 14.4% to 23.5% — an increase of nearly two-thirds. Among females of the same age, abstinence also rose, though by less, rising from 12.8% in 2008 to 16.5% in 2020 — an increase of just over a quarter. &#8230; Young adult males now have a considerably higher rate of abstinence than young adult females.</blockquote>
There are obviously many factors that might explain this change. A lot of it is likely attributable to so-called involuntary celibacy. We know that, even as celibacy is becoming more common, chastity is becoming less common. The proliferation of internet porn makes that very clear.
So what’s happening here in many cases, it seems reasonable to conclude, is that many young single people have given up on finding love and commitment. They&#8217;ve despaired of ever forming a real romantic connection with anyone. So now they&#8217;re retreating into celibacy like a form of surrender.
The point is that it’s not an embrace of traditional values in most cases. They’ve ended up at the same place — abstinence — but have gotten there from a place of despair and defeat. 
In other cases, as in South Korea, people are apparently resorting to celibacy as some kind of strained, misguided political statement. Here&#8217;s someone by the name of Julia Fox, for instance:
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As twisted as that logic is, it actually makes sense on some level. These people understand that abstinence until marriage is an expression of self-control. And they understand that there&#8217;s a lot of benefits to a society where people practice self-control. But because they&#8217;ve rejected the old code of sexual morality, they have to come up with these bizarre, incoherent rationalizations for returning to it. They have to pretend that &#8220;Roe v. Wade&#8221; is somehow relevant to whether they want to be sexually promiscuous or not. Or they have to pretend that celibacy is part of some newfound &#8220;sexual liberation&#8221; movement — that another wave of feminism is in progress, where women have discovered for the first time that they have free will.
Here’s the point in all of this. The old code of sexual morality that they rejected — the one that those Christian conservatives were promoting, while being mocked and dismissed for it — that code was grounded, all along, in the true and the beautiful: in human dignity, love, commitment, chastity. The great virtues.
Those who repudiated that message for the sake of lust and instant gratification now find themselves living sexless lives anyway. They chose the opposite lifestyle and found it unfulfilling, harmful, destructive, and severely depressing. This is precisely what Christian conservatives warned would happen. This is why we said that hook up culture is bad; that the correct order of events is to find someone, pledge your love and loyalty to them, marry them, and then be physically intimate with them. In other words, we were right all along.
But in all of the coverage of the &#8220;celibacy trend,&#8221; there is of course no acknowledgment of that fact. There&#8217;s no recognition that we had this whole thing figured out many generations ago — thousands of years ago, in fact.
Unless all of these newly &#8220;celibate&#8221; people realize that celibacy is more than a trend or a political statement — then the satisfaction that they all say they&#8217;re feeling right now will be short-lived. &#8220;The Great Abstaining,&#8221; as The Cut put it, will give way to more unhappiness and inevitably more hedonism in short order.
The only way out of this cycle is to recognize why Christian conservatives have been calling for abstinence until marriage for so long, and give them some credit for it. The Religious Right has been repeatedly and consistently mocked for predicting the future for the past several decades now. We’ve always been right. About everything. It&#8217;s time for everyone else to start listening.

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Christian Conservatives Proven Right Once Again As Abstinence ‘Trend’ Gains Popularity

Christian Conservatives Proven Right Once Again As Abstinence 'Trend' Gains Popularity

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