Relationships

The Woman Who Slept With 100 Men In A Day Shows Us Why Our Bodies Aren’t Meant For This

British porn star Lily Phillips made headlines with a shocking publicity stunt: sleeping with 100 men in a single day. Now, she’s revisiting the event in a new documentary that includes a viral clip of her struggling to explain how she felt immediately afterward.

By Carmen Schober3 min read
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Phillips has carefully curated her image as a carefree sex addict who gleefully embraces the extreme, but new footage from her documentary shows her visibly disturbed and unable to articulate her feelings in the aftermath. Reactions online range from dismissive to concerned, with many people alarmed by the emptiness in her face and voice.

At one point, Phillips tried to make things light, saying the experience was “not for weak girls,” but her eyes tell a different story. It’s a look many people recognize on social media—that empty, detached feeling that hits after meaningless encounters, after being used, ghosted, or abandoned.

There’s another moment in the documentary that’s heartbreaking, too. The interviewer casually asks for a cup of tea, and Lily laughs self-deprecatingly, saying, “I’m no good at making tea, I’m only good at one thing.” The room fills with awkward laughter, but the bleakness of the statement hangs in the air. It’s meant to be a joke, but jokes often reveal deeper truths. What kind of life leads someone to reduce their entire worth to sexual objectification?

This moment—offhand yet profound—captures the cost of building a persona around sexual availability. It’s not empowerment; it’s a cry for validation in a world that has commodified her. And it’s devastating to watch.

Despite Phillips' attempt to paint sexual exploitation as something she enjoys, the high cost of reducing intimacy to a transactional act is hard to ignore.

How Did We Even Get Here?

It’s no secret that our society is drowning in porn, and the effects are everywhere. Study after study reveals the damage that porn inflicts on both its consumers and participants. For viewers, excessive consumption rewires the brain, dulling emotional connection and creating unrealistic expectations about sex, particularly the idea that sex is just a recreational activity—an appetite to be satisfied without regard for whether it’s actually good for us.

The porn industry's message is very clear: sex isn’t sacred, meaningful, or even connected to love. It’s just pleasure, a commodity to consume, and our desires—no matter how twisted—are seen as inherently valid. For those on the other side of the camera, the impact is even worse. Women and men in the industry frequently report higher rates of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress.

Phillips’ documentary unintentionally reveals these truths. Her hollow laughter and inability to articulate her feelings post-event are not signs of someone thriving—they’re symptoms of a system that chews up and spits out its participants, all while selling the lie that sex without meaning is empowering.

Our culture loves to glamorize this view, framing sex as a hobby, a quick way to make money, or even a badge of “liberation.” The result? The growing surge of darker, more exploitative content, altered sexualities, and mental health issues that can’t be ignored. Far from empowering, this narrative has left countless people broken, dehumanized, and unable to form the relationships they want.

The Role of Fathers

There's a notable pattern in the comments under videos about Phillips: “Her father must be proud,” or “This is what happens when you grow up without a dad.” While these remarks are often meant to be cruel, they highlight a truth that’s impossible to ignore. For many women like Phillips, the root of their pain often traces back to fatherlessness—not just physical absence, but emotional and moral abandonment.

In Phillips’s case, she does have a father, but his behavior suggests she might as well have grown up without one. A father who responds to his daughter’s public degradation with a shrug and a weak, “As long as it makes you happy,” is abandoning his role entirely. Fathers are meant to serve as anchors, offering their children a sense of security and self-worth that makes them resilient to exploitation. When a father is passive, indifferent, or enabling, he leaves a void that the world is all too eager to fill—with devastating consequences.

Sometimes, fatherlessness is a man standing by, offering no resistance as his daughter’s dignity is stripped away. How does a father reconcile that? How does he live with himself, seeing the emptiness in his daughter’s eyes, knowing he had a hand in her pain—not through force, but through silence? A father’s passivity in moments like these doesn’t absolve him; it condemns him.

What About the Men?

And what about the men in this story? One hundred men lined up to participate in this event, fully aware of what they were doing—to take, consume, and discard a fellow human being. Their lack of regard for her dignity or well-being is a dark reflection of just how broken our views on sex and relationships have become.

And while much of the focus is on how fatherlessness affects women in the porn industry, we can’t ignore its impact on the men who create the demand. A culture without strong fathers doesn’t just fail daughters; it also fails sons, producing men who don’t know how to lead, protect, or even respect women. And when those broken men collide with a culture already drenched in porn and exploitation rebranded as "liberation," the consequences are devastating for everyone involved.

Sex Was Never Meant to Be This Way

Sex isn’t just physical—it’s emotional and spiritual, too. It’s meant to connect us on every level, binding us in trust, love, and mutual respect. At its best, sex strengthens relationships, creates life, and expresses deep care and affection between two people.

So when we strip sex of its meaning—reducing it to a transaction, a performance, or a fleeting thrill—we lose something essential. Women and men alike suffer, and together, we lose the ability to build the kind of meaningful, love-filled relationships that truly nourish us.

No matter how much someone might try to convince themselves otherwise, our bodies and souls aren’t built for this kind of detachment.

We Deserve More

The most fulfilling sexual relationships are grounded in love, trust, and mutual respect—the kind that takes time to cultivate but is worth every bit of effort. These bonds create security, joy, and connection, not emptiness and regret.

It’s time to remind young women like Lily—and the men lining up for spectacles like hers—that they were made for more. They were made for love that honors, intimacy that nurtures, and relationships that bring out the best in them.

Sex is sacred, meaningful, and undeniably powerful—capable of shaping our lives for better or worse. It always has been, and it always will be.