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Jon Ronson on free porn, anxiety and empathy

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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The Butterfly Effect and the Last Days of August

I would never want to do a TV thing about porn because you know what everybody will do. So I could never make people on television is such a powerful thing that your mind can't concentrate on the human stories in the nuance. There's also something very powerful about just hearing what these very young, very beautiful women have to say and only being able to hear it. Like I didn't google any of these women to see what they even looked like before I'd listened to everything and actually I liked not knowing. Especially with the last days of August I learned so much making that show about ethics, about gender. You know a whole bunch of things that I've thought a bit about.

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