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The Butterfly Effect

By: Jon Ronson
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  • Summary

  • Join best-selling author Jon Ronson as he traces the story of one very strange butterfly effect: What happened after a teen in Brussels figured out how to make porn free and easily accessible on the internet. Traveling from the tech world of Silicon Valley to the San Fernando Valley, where most porn films were made, you learn the consequences of free porn, which turn out to be mysterious, shocking, sad, and, at times, even surprisingly sweet. A 7-part series takes you on a journey to places you'll never expect. [Explicit]

    When you add The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson to your library you will receive all 7 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 30 minutes.
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  • Ep. 1: A Nondescript Office Building in Montreal

    Ep. 1: A Nondescript Office Building in Montreal
    Oct 24 2017
    [Contains explicit content] Join best-selling author Jon Ronson as he traces an intriguing butterfly effect. Many years ago, a teenager in Brussels had an idea - make porn free and easy to stream online. The consequences of that idea are surprising, delightful, and sad. They reach into areas of life no one could have expected. In this series’ first episode, meet Fabian Thylmann - that teen from Brussels.
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    26 mins
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  • Ep. 2: The Fallow Years Between Teen & Milf

    Ep. 2: The Fallow Years Between Teen & Milf
    Oct 24 2017
    [Contains explicit content] Jon travels to California’s San Fernando Valley, where most of the world’s porn is made. There he finds pornographers with lives upended by Fabian’s business plan. But it isn’t long before Jon discovers something extraordinary: a community within the porn world fighting back by embarking on a very strange enterprise - pornography written, filmed, and performed for an audience of one.
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    35 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Something Happened

    Ep. 3: Something Happened
    Oct 24 2017
    [Contains explicit content] Jon journeys deeper into the mysterious and delightful world of custom porn, which may never have existed if it weren’t for Fabian. He meets producers and their clients, and discovers that these films offer a remarkable window into our inner lives.
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    31 mins
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Jon Ronson: storyteller extraordinnaire!

Devoured this without expecting to feel moved then, by the end, found I was utterly.

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Really enjoyed it

It was very insightful with a lot of information about the industry and the backlash

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surprisingly fun and interesting.

You learn a lot and it never get d uncomfortable but can be sad at times

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Thought provoking

Not what you'd expect. It's a really gripping look into the consequences of tube sites

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The best audible original series

This was easily the best audible original I've listened to. Several of the others seem to be stringing out a non story into 8 episodes. This one was fascinating every time. And I learnt an awful lot too.

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FANTASTIC LISTEN

So say what you want about Ronsons voice but the style of his journalism is one of the best i have seen.

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Great Book

I really enjoyed listening to this book it really makes you think about the world we live in today.

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Good audiobook

Listened to this on my commute to work.
was very interesting, has changed my opinion on porn. It put perspective into the industry

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Interesting, shocking and surprising

Jon Ronson has a voice tone I struggle with but the content is great. A real insight into another world and the affect it has around us.

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I couldn't listen because of Jon Ronson's voice.

When he first started speaking, I thought it was a joke. Sometimes he sounds Welsh, which he is, but sometimes from Leeds, sometimes like he is deaf, sometimes transatlantic, sometimes posh, sometimes like Joe Lycett, or Professor Brian Cox, at times high pitched, then low and inaudible and always like he is doing an awful impression of a stereotypical gay guy in a 70s sitcom. He is married. I cannot believe it.

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