Going viral on the internet usually opens one up to opportunities but for 23-year-old porn star from the UK Lily Phillips, it has brought on a wave of scrutiny and worry.

What stirred up netizens is Phillips' unfathomable plans to have sex with 1,000 men in 24 hours. This outrageous goal has led people online to question her mental state and the quality of advice she gets from friends and family.

OnlyFans is a highly competitive platform with many creators never seeing success. This has pushed the adult creators to resort to extreme measures, such as Phillips.

One recurring comment across her social media is that does not need to pull such a stunt as she is successful on OnlyFans but that she wants to engage in this act as a form of self-harm.

In the South African Medical Journal, MM Campbell and DJ Stein who both have PhDs in psychiatry argue that hypersexuality (an obsessive urge or desire to engage in sexual activity) is a trauma response.

"In making the diagnosis of hypersexual disorder, it is important firstly to differentiate the disorder from normal sexual behaviour. Because there is no consistent, normative pattern of sexual behaviour cross-culturally, a diagnosis of hypersexual disorder arguably has the risk for pathologising adaptive human behaviour.

"Secondly, it is important to ensure that the diagnosis is not due to another underlying psychiatric or general medical disorder. Patients with bipolar disorder, for example, may present with hypersexuality," they wrote.

Although Phillips is hypersexual, only a professional can diagnose her, not armchair phycologists online who do so out of concern.

In a documentary with Josh Pieters where the YouTuber documented the process when she bedded 100 men, she said: "You can't do this if you're a normal girl."

Surprisingly, after the stunt, she was emotional and shed a few tears which made people even more people worried.

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