"erototoxin" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004 November 19, Ryan Singel, “Internet Porn: Worse Than Crack?”, in Wired, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Judith Reisman of the California Protective Parents Association suggested that more study of \"erototoxins\" could show how pornography is not speech-protected under the First Amendment.",
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          "ref": "2005, Ron Luce, Battle Cry for a Generation: The Fight To Save America's Youth, Colorado Springs: Cook Communications Ministries, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99:",
          "text": "As we saw in the previous chapter, pornographic erototoxins always bypass cognition and speech, reaching the right brain instantly to trigger excitatory transmitters and to overcome inhibitory transmitter functions.",
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          "ref": "2005 May/June, Jack Hitt, “The Diddly Award”, in Mother Jones, →ISSN:",
          "text": "And the winner is...Sam Brownback, who considered spending more tax money to explore the “addictive,” “mind-altering,” porn poisons that one witness called “erototoxins.”",
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          "ref": "2005 July 25, Ed Brayton, “Robert O'Brien Trophy Awarded to Judith Reisman”, in Dispatches from the Creation Wars, archived from the original on 2012-03-08:",
          "text": "There is no such thing as an \"erototoxin\", of course, but there are pleasure chemicals that are released in the brain called endorphins and they are released in a wide range of activities, including physical exercise, laughter and — surprise, surprise — sex itself.",
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          "ref": "2007 October 1, Mark Pilkington, Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge, New York: The Disinformation Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:",
          "text": "Not Reisman: erototoxins aren’t about pleasure; they’re a “fear-sex-shame-and-anger stimulant.”",
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          "ref": "2010, Bettina Arndt, What Men Want in Bed, Melbourne University Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53:",
          "text": "But there is no good evidence to support the claims of pseudo-experts like Dr Judith Reisman that pornography is what she calls [an] 'erototoxin', producing an addictive drug cocktail of testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin, which cause the brain to be ‘structurally’ changed.",
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