When you hear a terrible story – something shocking, something that recalibrates your understanding of what people can, will, have done to each other, some new depth of horror plumbed – it is natural to want to look away. Protect yourself from new horrible knowledge, especially when each fresh set of morning headlines from around the world, delivered in a neat, appalling batch to your phone, have you pretty much maxed out on a daily basis.

But we’re going to talk about porn star Bonnie Blue and what happens when the instinct to look away becomes so deeply and widely triggered that when a new, terrible thing happens, it goes largely unreported, uninterrogated and so unexamined that it is effectively accepted by society – or, at the very, very least, its executor and its facilitators can pretend to themselves that this is so. And then – the worst of human nature dictates – start casting around for something even worse to do.

So – what has Bonnie Blue (real name Tia Billinger) done? For those of you pure of heart and internet search history, Blue made her name (and soon millions of pounds a year) specialising in providing “barely legal” content on her OnlyFans account (if I need to explain to you what an OnlyFans account is – I’m not going to. Please read no further and just be on your way. Head for Amish country and don’t look back). The twist was that instead of being the barely legal party herself, she had sex with very young (or very young-looking) men instead. For free, as long as they gave her permission to upload........

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