Addicted to Porn: Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly Page #2

How does one define it?

Trying to define pornography is like

trying to describe air, sometimes.

I mean, the reality is it's gonna be a

different sensation for different people,

but at the end of the day, from a clinical

perspective, when I'm working with clients,

they're the ones that can articulate

pretty well to me what pornography is.

I'm simply just asking them

what they're looking at,

what they're

exposing themselves to.

"What makes

something pornographic

versus just sexually explicit

or sexually provocative"?

I think is also a debate

that needs to be had.

We are learning so much about

sexuality that we never knew before.

And we're having our ideas challenged

of what we think is normal

and what we think is healthy

by finding out that there are

a lot of people out there

who are interested in all kinds

of kinky sorts of things.

So how do you define something

so broad and so subjective?

In this case, you look

for a common denominator.

For the purpose

of this documentary,

that common denominator

is right here, the brain.

The spectrum of pornographic material

is infinitely wide at this point,

but the physiological and

neurological responses by individuals

seems to be the same,

regardless of the content.

In short, no matter what

a person looks at,

the mind and body seem to have a

similar reaction across the board.

To use a more simple analogy,

Bob likes football, Jim like baseball,

and Suzanne likes golf,

but they all like sports.

Just like everyone's brain releases

messages of pain when a person gets hurt,

experts agree that it releases chemicals

of pleasure when it is aroused,

chemicals like DeltaFosB.

There are engines of desire,

molecular engines of desire,

chemical engines

that cause us to want.

And when we see something that

we've trained our brain to want,

we turn those engines on.

DeltaFosB is a switch that turns

on these engines of desire.

And we know that DeltaFosB and

other signaling, cascade chemicals

are very important in building these wires,

these brain wires of wanting.

So sex looks

just like those drugs.

Pornography, in and of itself,

is designed to just expedite

a sexual experience.

It's meant for an instantaneous hit,

just like a drug,

um, and it gets us there faster than

we're typically designed to go.

So, at the end of the day,

pornography, in my opinion,

is simply those things

that are designed to quickly

get us to a sexualized state,

an erotic moment.

And it could be, as I said,

from a visual, a verbal,

it could be something written

it could be something...

Anything that's designed

to activate those senses,

separate from an interaction with

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