From best-selling writer Jon Ronson and the executive producer behind the TED Radio Hour and Invisibilia, Audible Originals presents a new seven-episode series, The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson.
[Contains explicit content] Hear the story of what happened when the tech industry gave the world what it wanted: free porn. Lives were mangled. Fortunes were made. All for your pleasure. Follow writer and narrator Jon Ronson as he uncovers our web of desire.
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(Audible Original, 27 July 2017, 3 hours 25 minutes, audiobook, bought from @audibleuk)
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I enjoyed this podcast. It reminds me of Ronson's other podcast The Last Days of August. This also deals with the porn industry but looks at it as a whole while August focuses on one specific incident, the suicide of a porn star. The podcast is well researched. Ronson focuses on both the people who make free porn available and the people who are negatively impacted by this. I loved the episode where a woman talks about the moment her thirteen-year-old found out she does porn because of video of her in action was passed around her daughter's friend. I was moved to tears by the teenage boy with autism who was placed on the sex offender's register for sending sexual text messages to a girl. His sentence seems totally unfair and to refer to the girl as a 'victim' is OTT.
