Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material

BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  While extraordinarily distasteful, I decidedly prefer the idea of a pedophile using one of these distinctly-not-abusive dolls instead of practicing their sexuality on an actual child

  I’ve heard arguments both ways, and frankly I don’t know which is better supported by evidence. One, that things like this, AI CSAM, etc. might provide a safe outlet for people with paedophilia, and the other is that it can encourage them and act as a “gateway drug” of sorts. It’s an area that I assume the experts are already doing/have already done research on, and I’ll defer to them because I don’t really want to investigate too much further. It may even be the case that some substitutes work well and others don’t.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sooner or later they would want the real thing, if they become desensitized to the fake ones

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just like how I started my car jacking career in GTA

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that’s down to each individual case, but I’d fear that some, if not most, users would eventually want more than just screwing a doll…

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ok i draw the line at “relatively healthy” as being sexually attracted to children literally requires the part of your brain that identifies viable sexual partners to be malfunctioning

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  • BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Relatively” was the direct comparison I made between practising sexuality on a childlike doll, and practising sexuality on a child. That is relatively healthy. In comparison.

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