Addicted to Porn: Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly Page #10

Be careful with pornography.

Don't treat it like

it's a benign thing.

Because it's not.

And when people perceive an actual

partner in real life as bad porn,

then we've really taken

a real critical shift

for the worse, in my opinion.

The idea of porn addiction

and sex addiction

is about a moral conflict

within the person

and within society.

I think it is really important

that we help people

have that conversation.

And that is precisely

the sole purpose of this film,

to initiate conversation.

It is not to indict,

to accuse, or to demonize.

It is to shine a light into a darkness

that looms over us as a human race.

Some may contend that

pornography is a neutral element

that is harmless

unless used irresponsibly.

To the contrary,

as we've shown,

it is shackling our children

to a powerful,

preconceived notion of false intimacy.

It is teaching them a lie.

It is belittling spouses,

emasculating men,

and destroying the beautiful

essence of women.

It can no longer be the

erotic elephant in the room

that we hide behind the closed

doors of our homes and offices.

It can no longer be

the educator of our youth.

Is it the fear of social disgrace that

keeps us from permitting each other

to be free of its bondage?

Like it or not,

admit it or not,

it is here, and it is harmful.

It's time to talk about it

openly and honestly

in all facets of society.

There is great power

among people

when they learn that they're

not alone in a struggle.

There is, conversely, great power in

the shame that keeps people down.

And shame should not win.

A man named Tinbergen

in 1973, won the Nobel Prize

for describing what he termed

as supernormal stimulus.

In other words,

a stimulus that an animal encounters

that's above the natural stimulus

they would encounter in nature.

He took butterflies,

and it was a species where

the male would find the female

based on the color

and size of her wings.

And so he painted cardboard butterfly,

female butterfly wings

that were bigger and brighter

than natural female butterflies.

And lo and behold, the males would

ignore the female butterflies.

I think humans are

following a similar path

with regard to mating

with celluloid

and mating

with electrons on a screen,

just like the butterflies

tried to mate

with these artificial,

cardboard butterflies.

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