Today just about everything in our daily lives, from banking to dating, from getting a pizza to watching porn, has shifted online. So how is it changing us?
In the latest episode of Pantisocracy on RTÉ Radio 1, Panti Bliss is joined by the American-Syrian podcaster/philosopher Conner Habib, who gave up academia to become a gay porn actor, but who has now moved to Ireland to complete a PhD on things like fairy lore and ghosts.
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Listen: Conner Habib - from academic to porn star and now cult podcaster
With them in the parlour is Dubliner Caroline West, who has just finished her doctorate on sex, sexuality and porn, and award-winning Galway-based writer Lisa McInerney. Lisa's final chapter in her gritty, dark trilogy of novels, that started with The Glorious Heresies, is out next year.
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Watch: Lisa McInerney reads from The Glorious Heresies
Making music with the conversation is singer-songwriter Leanne Harte, who now works in digital media. Leanne shares her coming out story.
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Watch: Leanne Harte sings Wrote Away
Adding to the blissful and sexy gaiety of the house is Cian Kinsella, one half of the acrobatic comedy duo Lords of Strut, who perform with Panti Bliss in the stage show RIOT.
Pantisocracy, RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesdays at 10pm - listen back here.
