Pornography is one of the internet’s biggest businesses. It has shaped how platforms are built, how algorithms hold our attention, how payments are regulated, and how billions of people experience intimacy. Yet remarkably little is understood about who controls this vast industry, or how much it has influenced the digital world we now inhabit.

Join us for an evening with Patricia Nilsson, award-winning Financial Times investigative journalist, whose new book Guilty Pleasure uncovers the hidden history of the online pornography business and its long reach into modern life.

Drawing on years of investigative reporting, including her acclaimed Financial Times podcast Hot Money, Nilsson traces the rise of an industry that evolved from a niche corner of the internet into one of its defining commercial forces