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Porn is everywhere.
Millions stream it every day, yet nobody seems to know who really controls the business.
I'm Alex Barker.
I'm a journalist at the Financial Times.
Years ago,
my fellow reporter Patricia Nielsen and I started digging into the porn industry to find out how the money flows.
And in our new audiobook, The Kink Machine, The Hidden Business of Adult Entertainment,
you'll hear our investigation into the power and influence that drives the most taboo corners of the internet.
Find The Kink Machine,
the hidden business of adult entertainment at pushkin.fm slash audiobooks or at Audible,
Spotify or wherever you get your audiobooks.
Two U.S.
special agents are trying to enter a secret world.
Can you imagine trying to infiltrate, like,
a gang or a mob where the only way you were admitted entrance is if you were to abuse a child?
How do you do that?
How do you get in there?
Into a shadow network built by pedophiles.
This was life for them.