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The famous La Redoute catalog. The glossy paper pad that sat on the coffee table in the living room. The reference for mail order sales… But also “ the best-seller of erotic literature of the 1990s » for Samuel Ruffier who, like many teenagers of his generation, browsed the lingerie pages with excitement. By diving back today into this “ Everest of eroticism »Samuel is disappointed. No longer the slightest jolt of fantasy. “ I put the directory down with the disappointment of an adult who realizes that he no longer likes the candy of his childhood. »

From the start of the documentary, the tone is set. The director shares, not without humor, his personal and intimate perspective. At 40, and now the father of three children, he wonders about the evolution of his own fantasies… But also about this new generation which, nourished by screens and social networks, “ pass from [ses] cuddly toys to porn videos. By placing his camera in an MJC, at the heart of a workshop dedicated to sexuality, Samuel Ruffier tries to understand what perception these young people have of it. Throughout the discussions, the observation is clear: everyone has already seen porn images (and sometimes from the age of 10), divided between disgust and fascination. X-rated images discovered out of curiosity, by accident or simply to do like the others. A trend confirmed by figures from Arcom announcing that more than 2.3 million minors view videos on pornographic sites each month. It's as if porn, accessible in one click, was imposed on them… We can then wonder what the consequences of this early exposure are on their fantasies and their perception of sexuality.

While the director continues to look at his childhood with his adult eyes (the images of naked women on television, the sexualization of girls in Dragon Ball Z), he questions the values ​​conveyed by our society for years (the power of virility, the hypersexualization of women in advertisements, etc.), with today a dangerous relay on social networks. For the director, it is not porn that influences society, but society that influences everything, porn included.
Throughout his investigation, and his meetings (educator, sociologist, philosopher, directors and actresses of porn films), the director offers different points of view in order to analyze, without ever judging, the impact of online pornography and the new challenges of sexuality education. Faced with his own parental responsibility, and going beyond his modesty as a father, Samuel Ruffier goes to the end of his approach by himself, in front of the camera, opening a dialogue with his children… A rich investigation with the appearance of an intimate and universal film .