Child sex dolls

A child sex doll is an anatomically correct, life-size doll that resembles a pubescent or prepubescent child.[1][2][3][4]

Production and trade

Child sex dolls are usually manufactured in China, Hong Kong and Japan.[4] A number of them were made by Japanese company Trottla.[5]

Ethical aspects

Empirical scientific evidence for the claims that child sex doll ownership is directly or inversely related to sexual offending is scarce and neither claim has been sufficiently supported.[6] A 2023 qualitative study reported that child sex doll ownership was inversely related to sexual behaviors including pornography consumption and sex worker seeking.[7]

Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre's Michael Seto said that he hopes "that people can get past their emotional reactions to the idea of child sex dolls or fictional child pornography, in the hope that we might find an option that helps people with pedophilia and makes children safer." Georgia Tech researcher and roboethicist Ronald Arkin and Specialist Treatment Organization for the Prevention of Sexual Offending (StopSO) chair Juliet Grayson have compared the use of child sex dolls to prevent child sexual abuse to the therapeutic use of methadone. In a 2017 paper Université Libre de Bruxelles philosopher Marc Behrendt said that child-like sex robots could be used as an alternative means of therapy.[8][9][10]

Sex offender risk assessment researcher Wineke Smid stated that "there is no evidence" that child sex dolls are correlated to child sex crimes, and that "it is unlikely there will ever be."[3] Toronto-based psychologist James Cantor stated in 2021, regarding laws that ban child sex dolls, that "there is no evidence to suggest that this is a progressive kind of disease or behavior where people go on from imagination to reality."[11]

Some researchers have studies child sex dolls through the lenses of legal moralism, postulating that the perceived morality of such objects are a valid basis for their criminalization, irrespectively of any objective harm that they might cause. The ownership of child sex dolls has also been argued as a factor of symbolic harm.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Harper, Craig A.; Lievesley, Rebecca (2020). "Sex Doll Ownership: An Agenda for Research". Current Psychiatry Reports. 22 (10). doi:10.1007/s11920-020-01177-w. ISSN 1523-3812. PMID 32803480.
  2. 1 2 Harper, Craig A.; Lievesley, Rebecca (2022). "Exploring the Ownership of Child-Like Sex Dolls". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 51 (8): 4141–4156. doi:10.1007/s10508-022-02422-4. ISSN 0004-0002. PMID 36121584.
  3. 1 2 "Banning child-like sex dolls will not reduce sexual abuse of children, experts say". NL Times. 2022.
  4. 1 2 Brown, Rick (2019). Exploring the implications of child sex dolls. Australian Institute of Criminology. pp. 66–72. ISBN 9781922009937.
  5. ↑ Montoro Velázquez, Mónica (2019-09-25). "Pedodolls y pedofilia: límites y evidencias en torno a la utilización de muñecas sexuales con rasgos infantiles". Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica. 17: 1–25. doi:10.46381/reic.v17i0.251. ISSN 1696-9219.
  6. ↑ Loibl, Elvira; van der Aa, Suzan; Hendriks-Lundh, Monique; Niemark, Roel (2023). "Exploring different national approaches to prohibiting childlike sex dolls". Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. 30 (1): 63–82. doi:10.1177/1023263X231176908. ISSN 1023-263X.
  7. ↑ Desbuleux, Jeanne C.; Fuss, Johannes (2024-10-12). "The Self-Reported Sexual Real-World Consequences of Sex Doll Use". The Journal of Sex Research. 61 (8): 1261–1275. doi:10.1080/00224499.2023.2199727. ISSN 0022-4499.
  8. ↑ ""Better a robot than a real child"". ABC Religion & Ethics. 2020-01-09. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  9. ↑ "Leading charity claims that paedophiles should be prescribed child sex dolls". Yahoo News. 2017-08-03.
  10. ↑ "Paedophiles 'should be prescribed child sex dolls'". The Independent. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  11. ↑ Mullin, Malone (2021). "As the law cracks down on child sex dolls, this researcher says science should prevail". CBC.
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