Guilty Pleasure: The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else

This is the story of one of the most influential - and least examined - industries on earth.Worth billions of dollars, and commanding a tenth of global internet traffic at peak times, it has quietly reshaped our world: it has transformed technology, work, culture, love and relationships, and even our sense of self.Most industries of this scale make daily headlines. This one rarely does. 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, sel