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JON RONSON - THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: How FREE PORN Ruined The Lives Of Sex-Workers | TRAILER

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Jon Ronson, is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.

His work includes “The Men Who Stare at Goats”, “The Psychopath Test” and “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed”, with several of these books becoming major Hollywood movies that featured actors like Ewan McGregor, George Clooney and Michael Fassbender. As a gonzo journalist, he explores unique personalities and unusual situations.

Most recently he produced two podcasts, “The Butterfly Effect” and “The Last Days of August”, both focusing on the world of pornography.

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0:00.0

Somebody said Campagne ethical and I said it depends on the director.

0:05.0

Hello!

0:07.0

Welcome in my room.

0:08.0

With a few of my more recent projects, I think it started with the psychopath test I turned the focus onto

0:14.7

onto us, until our hypocrisies, our biases.

0:18.3

Two different pornography projects, tell me why and how and was this something that I've been on your mind for a long time?

0:25.0

I think there was an origin moment and it was when I was writing,

0:28.0

Say you've been publicly ashamed. I met my first ever porn star, Good Princess Donner,

0:32.0

and I walked towards it. I happened to glance over at the receptionist and the receptionist was looking at her and the look on his face was one of total contempt dirt bag sex worker doing an hour pristine lobby.

0:47.0

I bet you'd be okay with Princess Donna,

0:49.5

if she's on the safety of your laptop,

0:52.0

but you're disgusted by her being in your vicinity.

0:55.8

So the days of me doing things like the many stoic goats, like finding people doing

1:00.4

eccentric things over there and then me gently, you know, making fun of them is long gone.

1:06.5

Why is that?

1:07.5

Because you want a bigger message, you want people to kind of wake up and think about their

1:11.2

own behavior a bit more than just marvel at a

1:13.7

peculiarity. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's hypocritical because if you're saying

1:18.7

look at those crazy people over there then you don't have to confront your own biases

1:22.4

and your own capacity to do harm in the world.

1:25.4

Enough is enough!

1:28.2

John, for any writer is watching us, what advice would you give them?

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