作为一名商业记者，尼尔森开始深入报道那些隐匿在幕后、掌控着成人产业的巨头们。
As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows.
在此过程中，她揭示了色情产业如何塑造了互联网以及我们的整个生活方式。
Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a whole There was a time, a few decades ago, when the men who owned the world’s biggest pornography businesses were happy to be famous.
几十年前，那些拥有全球最大色情企业的老板们乐于出名，他们公开炫耀自己所谓的‘魅力’生活方式，穿着丝绸睡衣出现在公众场合，或者挽着穿着泳装的女性。
They paraded a lifestyle they hoped looked glamorous, appearing in public dressed in silk pyjamas or with a woman in swimwear on each arm.
像《Hustler》的拉里·弗林特和《Playboy》的休·赫夫纳这样的色情产业大亨已经是家喻户晓的名字。
Porn moguls like Hustler’s Larry Flynt or Playboy’s Hugh Hefner were household names.
‘尽管你可以对这些曾经主导我们性文化的老变态说三道四，但至少你知道他们是谁，以及他们在卖什么，’帕特里夏·尼尔森在她的新书《Guilty Pleasure: The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else》中写道。‘如今，那些真正掌权的人却踪影不见。’
“Say what you want about these old perverts, who once set the tone of our sexual culture, but at least you knew who they were and what they were selling,” Patricia Nilsson writes in her new book, Guilty Pleasure: The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else. “These days, the men calling the shots are nowhere to be seen.”