France’s consumer watchdog has reported the Asian fast fashion giant Shein to authorities for selling “sex dolls with a childlike appearance” on its website.
The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said the online description and categorisation of the dolls “makes it difficult to doubt the child pornography nature of the content”.
Shein later told the BBC: “The products in question were immediately delisted as soon as we became aware of these serious issues.”
The annoying part is having healthy alternatives actually reduces real world harm. So punishing these people for seeking healthy and harm free avanues to deal with their mental issues and sexual needs. Is just baffling.
The scant amount of good research we have all indicates it’s not a choice but a developmental or mental health issue. For the vast vast majority of people who struggle with this problem.
But we just keep demonizing any hopes to let people get mental help or express themselves with out harming a minor.
So all we keep doing is reinforcing the taboo and driving those who struggle to associate with those who actively choose to be abusers. Thus only creating more abusers.