DAMI OLONISAKIN, better known by her Twitter handle @Oloni, knows how to go viral. The sex blogger and host of the Laid Bare podcast has become Insta-famous for her Twitter threads which spark explicit, unfiltered conversations about all aspects of sex and relationships online. Having built a following of more than half a million across Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, she’s fast becoming the UK’s most popular “sexpert” and this week will appear in rapper Saweetie’s new Netflix special Sex: Unzipped.
I meet her at the Standard’s offices, where she is candid and engaging company and I find myself enthusiastically nodding along to her every word. Her mission, as she sees it, is to address the “double standards” over sex by giving women a safe space (via her Twitter feed) to have the “locker room chat” and banter often reserved for men.
When she puts out a call to her followers for their wildest stories and confessions, they deliver the juice. Most recently, her “falling asleep thread” sparked huge debate among millennial and Gen Z users.
“LADIES & LADIES only! I want you to DM me the craziest story of what TRULY happened when you text him apologising for falling asleep,” she wrote. “Were you on a date? Were you with a person you told your partner not to worry about? Cheating or sleeping with someone else?!? DM ME!” Thousands of outrageous and hilarious responses poured in which she reshared anonymously.
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