Guilty Pleasure: Patricia Nilsson in Conversation with Shon Faye

About this event

An evening with Patricia Nilsson and Shon Faye to celebrate the release of Patricia's first book 'Guilty Pleasure'. 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 at peak times, it as quietly reshaped our world: it has transformed technology, work, culture, love and relationship, and even our sense of self. Most industries of this scale make daily headlines. This one rarely does. Whether we consume it or not, Nilsson argues, we are living in the world pornography made: one in which our desire and anxieties are relentlessly monitored and manipulated by unaccountable forces. And because this industry has escaped meaningul 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 revolutionised everything, while remaining - until now - hidden from view. Patricia Nilsson is a reporter with the Financial Times , where she has covered a broad range of industries such as retail, media, tobacco, cannabis and pornography. Her discovery that the world's biggest adult company had a secret owner led to a year-long investigation into the business of porn, which culminated in the FT 's first narrative podcast series, Hot Money . Patricia grew up in Sweden but was raised Polish. She has lived and worked in Shanghai, Istanbul and London and now resides in Frankfurt. Guilty Pleasure is her first book. Shon Faye is the author of two Sunday Times bestselling books, The Transgender Issue and Love in Exile . The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Tickets: £10 General Admission, £8 Foyalty Member, £30 Book and Ticket, inc. a copy of Guilty Pleasure (RRP £25)