{"id":25166,"date":"2026-09-29T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/online-sex-workers-literally-have-to-bare-it-all-why-patricia-nilsson-is-exposing-the-worlds-biggest-porn-bosses\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:37:29","slug":"online-sex-workers-literally-have-to-bare-it-all-why-patricia-nilsson-is-exposing-the-worlds-biggest-porn-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/online-sex-workers-literally-have-to-bare-it-all-why-patricia-nilsson-is-exposing-the-worlds-biggest-porn-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Online sex workers literally have to bare it all\u2019: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world\u2019s biggest porn bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet \u2013 and our lives as a whole<\/p>\n

There was a time, a few decades ago, when the men who owned the world\u2019s biggest pornography businesses were happy to be famous. They paraded a lifestyle they hoped looked glamorous, appearing in public dressed in silk pyjamas or with a woman in swimwear on each arm. Porn moguls like Hustler\u2019s Larry Flynt or Playboy\u2019s Hugh Hefner were household names.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay what you want about these old perverts, who once set the tone of our sexual culture, but at least you knew who they were and what they were selling,\u201d Patricia Nilsson writes in her new book, Guilty Pleasure: The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else. \u201cThese days, the men calling the shots are nowhere to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nAs a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet \u2013 and our lives as a whole
\nThere was a time, a few decades ago, when the men who owned the world\u2019s biggest pornography businesses were happy to be famous. They paraded a lifestyle they hoped looked glamorous, appearing in public dressed in silk pyjamas or with a woman in swimwear on each arm. Porn moguls like Hustler\u2019s Larry Flynt or Playboy\u2019s Hugh Hefner were household names.
\n\u201cSay what you want about these old perverts, who once set the tone of our sexual culture, but at least you knew who they were and what they were selling,\u201d Patricia Nilsson writes in her new book, Guilty Pleasure: The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else. \u201cThese days, the men calling the shots are nowhere to be seen.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet \u2013 and our lives as a whole There was a time, a few decades ago, when the men who owned the …<\/p>\n

\u2018Online sex workers literally have to bare it all\u2019: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world\u2019s biggest porn bosses<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}