Introducing 'The Kink Machine: The Hidden Business of Pleasure'

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  Hey listeners, I'm Alex Barker, a journalist with The Financial Times.

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  A few years ago,

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  my fellow reporter Patricia Nielsen and I spent six months looking at how money flows in the porn industry.

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  We gathered our findings in a new audiobook,

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  The Kink Machine, the hidden business of adult entertainment.

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  And today, I'm dropping into your feed to share a preview.

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  Patricia and I quickly learned that while performers are required to literally bear it all,

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  information about the people and businesses who run this industry are kept under cover like a state secret.

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  We started to find a power structure that includes billionaires,

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  tech geniuses and the most powerful finance companies in the world.

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  It's a story about control, influence and an industry with staggering cultural reach.

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  If you want to hear more, find The Kink Machine,

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  the hidden business of adult entertainment at pushkin.fm slash audiobooks or wherever you get your audiobooks.

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  Introduction.

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  How did it feel to you to be taken over by a company that no one knew anything about?

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  Well, the deeper I got into it,

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  the more concerned I became about Just the general level of secrecy around the company.

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  The money has to move sometimes from a personal account, sometimes from a business account.

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  That sounded a bit sketchy to me.

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  If you play that fast and loose in that environment,

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