Kyle Harrison
to-read
Guilty Pleasure
Guilty Pleasure: The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else
- Author
- Patricia Nilsson
- Published
- September 2026
- Pages
- 272
- Recommended
- Once
Guilty Pleasure
Why it’s on the list: Journalist Patricia Nilsson’s first book argues that the porn industry’s business model, built on engineered compulsion, paid intimacy and endless validation, became the template for the wider internet economy. Its ending extends the argument to AI companions designed to be “endlessly affirming and adapting and asking nothing in return except for more of us.”
Where I heard about it
- Pedro Stolf on X (Oct 12, 2026) — “10/10 read and killer ending sentence.”
Connections
- 10-10 read and killer ending… (tweet) — the recommendation, with the closing page photographed.
- Attention Economy.
Referenced in
- Attention Economy note