Mum's petition to ban life-like child sex dolls marketed to paedophiles gathers pace
A petition to ban life-like child sex dolls marketed to paedophiles is gaining momentum in Australia.
A Queensland mother launched an online petition more than two months ago calling on her state to pass laws banning the importation of the dolls, which have been on sale for the past decade.
“I am hoping this petition will prohibit the import of child sex dolls into Australia. Ideally, the manufacture and sale of these sickening 'aids for paedophiles' will be ceased globally,” Mellissa Evans wrote on her change.org petition.
The dolls are modelled on girls as young as five and produced in Japan by a company called Trottla.
On their official website Trottla attempts to clarify that the dolls are not sex toys, however, the company has also argued they help prevent paedophiles from abusing real children.
Beside the disclaimer are images of the dolls in lingerie, in suggestive poses, with cream on their faces or pictured with what appear to be sex toys.
Some of the toys feature pained and distressed facial expressions.
According to Vice, the toys are delivered with ‘heating instructions’.
No male models exist because, in the words of the company’s founder, “demand is small”.
“The designer and head of Japanese rubber products Trottia (sic), (Mr Shin Takagi) says these dolls will stop offending paedophile behaviour,” Ms Evans wrote on change.org.
Mr Takagi is a self-confessed paedophile and recently sat down for an in depth interview with The Atlantic to defend his creations.
“We should accept that there is no way to change someone’s fetishes,” Takagi told the magazine.
“I am helping people express their desires, legally and ethically. It’s not worth living if you have to live with repressed desire.”
In a previous interview with Vice Mr Takagi said sexual activity with the dolls was not intended.
Peter Fagan from the John Hopkins School of Medicine, though, told The Atlantic Trottla’s products would probably have a “reinforcing effect”.
This is the effect those signing the 10,000-plus-strong petition fear.
“How does this protect children from paedophilac depravity?” Jillian Carter from Brisbane wrote.
“It doesn't. It panders to the behaviour; normalises it, excuses it.
“That these devices even exist is abhorrent and diminishes the sanctity of children and childhood and suffering if victims while prioritising the interests of the criminal.”
Sign the petition here.
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