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The Butterfly Effect Ep. 6: Anxiety Nov 03, 2017

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The PornHub butterfly effect takes us to a man in Georgia trying to resurrect his long-lost love, Darlene, and a man in Canada who can only eat fried chicken. Plus, a return to the Valley, where the most surprising thing happens during a porn star's gangbang.

The Butterfly Effect Ep. 5: The Yes Ladder Nov 03, 2017

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The Ashley Madison hack of 2015 resulted in the leaked names and email addresses of 37 million aspiring cheaters around the world. In this episode, Jon unravels PornHub's relationship to Ashley Madison, and the catastrophic effects the leak had on some users. Jon visits Louisiana, where he meets a community profoundly impacted by one outed user – their pastor.

The Butterfly Effect Ep. 4: Children Nov 03, 2017

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What are the consequences of children's unlimited access to free, easily accessible porn? Meet a mom who thinks 13 is too young to tell her daughter what she does for a living – until her daughter makes a discovery online. Then, Jon travels to Oklahoma, where one young man's relationship to PornHub lands him in a veritable purgatory with few options for moving ahead.

The Butterfly Effect Ep. 3: Something Happened Nov 03, 2017

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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.

The Butterfly Effect Ep. 2: The Fallow Years Between Teen & Milf Nov 03, 2017

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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.

The Butterfly Effect Ep. 1: A Nondescript Building in Montreal Nov 03, 2017

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Join bestselling 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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