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.”
Very detailed article and covers well how the loopholes are being exploited.
But I can’t help but wonder, why are they called child sex abuse dolls? No children are being abused in this case, so wouldn’t what other news outlets use (just “child-like sex dolls” be more accurate? Otherwise wouldn’t these be equivalent to calling violent video games “murder simulators”? Feels a bit like a slippery slope. Especially since the article ncludes dolls with adult features in the mix too.
I’m talking (mostly) out of my ass here, but it’s probably because calling them “child sex dolls” might be seen to normalize the concept of sex with children. Since AI child porn is illegal, makes sense that a child sex doll is, too.
edit: Looks like there’s a thing in Australian law where they are legally considered sexual abuse material.
It’s being over the top in the way it’s saying “sexualizing childeren = bad,” but at the same time, yes, it is bad. So, eh. It does give the article a sort of strongly PC coded vibe. I’m sure it was written by a leftist the right would call woke. Take what you will from it, despite the language used, the article is still sound.
it is because in australia, materials used for sexual gratification involving minors is called child sex abuse material.
is that woke now? anti pedophilia messaging is woke now?
This is the same country that tried to ban small chested adult women from adult films and were going to have a government “breast inspector”.
Billionaires have private sex islands. I can’t be arsed to care about the rights of a pile of silicone.
Can it, dude, I’m not on that side of the political aisle. I’m not in Australia and the knowledge it had to do with that was not known to me nor posted here at that time. But you bet the right would still call it woke, there’s a reason they’re hiding the epstein files. This isn’t some gotcha, you’re just a wanna-be hater.