Geeze, it's an hour forty-five, so the guy that just said no wasn't far off the mark.

I had a few things to say after the first minute where Nilsson says Trump and Tate are a result of our sadomasochistic tendencies. But that's just an attention grabber. This is all part of a book tour for her book Guilty Pleasures, so the description of that should suffice in lieu of a tldw. I'd say have your grains of salt nearby as she's a journalist and not a researcher.

In Guilty Pleasure, investigative journalist and FT reporter Patricia Nilsson turns her attention to an industry few have dared to confront, and tells the story of pornography in the online age. Drawing on more than five years of reporting, Nilsson reveals how the internet turned the business of erotic art into something else entirely: a vast, secretive industry dominated by obscure owners, platform logic and profit at almost any cost. She traces how porn helped to shape the online world, and then spilled far beyond it – restructuring everyday life and saturating society with its logic of stimulation, self-soothing and craving.

Whether we consume it or not, Nilsson argues, we are living in the world pornography made: one in which our desires and anxieties are relentlessly monitored and manipulated by unaccountable forces. And because this industry has escaped meaningful scrutiny for so long, the power to regulate it has increasingly fallen to political extremists and payment companies. The result is a system that has quietly revolutionized everything, while remaining – until now – hidden from view.