Editing Judith Reisman (section)

==Erototoxins==

Reisman postulated a physical mechanism to account for the dangers she ascribed to [[pornography]]: when viewed, an addictive mixture of chemicals (such as [[glucose]]<ref>[http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/The_Sex_Industrial_Complex.pdf The Sex Industrial Complex: The Big Sexology, Big Pornography & Big Pharmaceutical Cabal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417005144/http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/The_Sex_Industrial_Complex.pdf |date=2016-04-17 }} ''The Sex Industrial Complex'' (C) Reisman 2005, Revised 2015, p. 3</ref><ref name="Logue2009">{{cite book|first=Jeff L.|last=Logue|title=Online Sexual Behaviors and Parenting Style of the Father|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Du95xBtoYWkC&pg=PA51|year=2009|publisher=Regent University|isbn=978-1-109-10770-8|page=51}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="e850">{{cite book | last1=Harmer | first1=John L. | last2=Smith | first2=James Bradford | title=The Sex Industrial Complex: America's Secret Combination - Pornographic Culture, Addiction and the Human Brain | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-9791756-0-2 | page=65 fn. 50 | publisher=Lighted Candle Society}}</ref>) which she dubbed "erototoxins", floods the [[brain]], causing harmful influences to it. Reisman hoped that [[MRI]] studies would prove porn-induced physical [[brain damage]] and predicted [[lawsuit]]s against [[publisher]]s and [[Distribution (business)|distributors]] of pornography similar to those against [[Big Tobacco]], which resulted in the [[Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement]]. Further, if pornography can "subvert [[cognition]]", then "these toxic media should be legally outlawed, as is all other toxic waste, and eliminated from our societal structure." Finally, individuals who have suffered brain damage from "pornography are no longer expressing '[[free speech]]' and, for their own good, shouldn't be protected under the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/story/20696/?page=entire|title=From Donuts To Heroin|first=Jacob|last=Sullum|date=8 December 2004|work=[[AlterNet]]|access-date=29 December 2010|author-link=Jacob Sullum}}</ref><ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jul/14/farout|title=Sex on the brain|first=Mark|last=Pilkington|date=14 July 2005|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=16 November 2010|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001005015/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jul/14/farout|archive-date=2013-10-01|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/11/65772|title=Internet Porn: Worse Than Crack?|first=Ryan|last=Singel|date=19 November 2004|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|access-date=28 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227224015/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/11/65772|archive-date=2010-12-27|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/sex/114024/?page=entire|title=Does Sex Addiction Have Any Basis in Science?|first=Cristian|last=Bodo|date=18 December 2008|work=[[AlterNet]]|access-date=1 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/story/20619/?page=entire|title=Your Brain on Porn|first=Annalee|last=Newitz|date=30 November 2004|work=[[AlterNet]]|access-date=1 January 2011|author-link=Annalee Newitz}}</ref><ref name="commerce.senate.gov 2004 f519">{{cite web | title=US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation | website=commerce.senate.gov | date=17 November 2004 | url=https://www.commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1343&wit_id=3910 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050226084253/https://www.commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1343&wit_id=3910 | archive-date=26 February 2005 | url-status=dead | access-date=12 September 2023}}</ref>

[[Endorphin]]s are substances produced by the brain as a result of various things including sexual arousal, physical exercise, strong pain, laughter, etc. They cause pleasurable sensations and are somewhat addictive; drugs like [[morphine]] attach to the same receptors as endorphins. However, endorphins do not fit Reisman's definition of erototoxins, as many things cause them to be released, not only pornography.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

The 2002–2011 Proceedings of the [[American Academy of Forensic Sciences]] state about her public statements about erototoxins: "facts stood in the way of her opinion and testimony."<ref>Nair, Mohan; Friedman, Rob; Maram, Wesley. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120913054714/http://biomedicalforensics.com/AAFS/Psychiatry_and_Behavioral_Sciences_EBook.pdf I20 Pornography and Sexual Violence: Is There a Connection?]", Seattle 2010, ''Forensic Psychiatry and Behavioral Science'', 2002-2011 Proceedings of the [[American Academy of Forensic Sciences]], p. 28.</ref>
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