Child Sex Dolls Made For Paedophiles Are Being Imported Into Australia

A mother has launched a campaign to ban realistic sex dolls that look like children which are being imported into Australia.

Queensland mum Melissa Evans has started a petition calling on Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk to ban the ‘paedophile aids’ that are being sold from Japan.

Evans’ petition on change.org has already attracted more than 9,000 signatures, well on its way to the current goal of 10,000. It’s specific focus are life-like child sex dolls that are being shipped into Australia as toys for paedophiles. Evans claims that “child sex dolls are not a game” and that she hopes the “manufacture and sale of these sickening ‘aids for paedophiles’ will be ceased globally”.

Who Makes Them?

The dolls are manufactured by a company called Trottla, which has been producing them for more than 10 years. The man behind Trottla is self-confessed paedophile Shin Takagi, who believes the dolls serve a purpose in protecting children. Takagi claims to be a part of the group of paedophiles who, despite their impulses, have never acted against children. Many of the individuals in this group rely on self-control to stop themselves, with no proven medical or psychiatric cure, but Takagi believes the dolls provide another way.

While struggling to balance his own sexual urges with the belief that children should be protected, Takagi started Trottla. The company specialises in producing eerily realistic child sex dolls, and Takagi has been shipping these anatomically correct replicas of girls, some as young as five years old, to customers all over the world. Takagi believes that there is no way to change someone’s fetishes and that he is “helping people express their desires, legally and ethically. It’s not worth living if you have to live with repressed desire”.

Would They Stop Paedophiles From Offending?

Melissa Evans certainly doesn’t believe that the child sex dolls will make a difference to the rate that paedophiles offend. In her petition letter she states:

“The dolls are made to be lifelike therefore the idea normalises paedophile behaviour. This raises serious concerns.”

“I do not believe in any way that this is an appropriate deterrent against children being sexually abused.”

At the moment there have not been any studies to suggest that Tagaki is correct in his belief that the dolls provide an outlet for sexual desire in paedophiles. Indeed, Peter Fagan, a researcher from John Hopkins School of Medicine, doesn’t believe there ever will be. He sides with people like Melissa Evans, saying, the dolls are more than likely to have a “reinforcing effect” on the paedophilic urges and may even, “in many instances, cause it to be acted upon with greater urgency”. Fagan does admit that his assumptions have been drawn from conclusions drawn from offender studies, so there’s no saying what might be true for those who haven’t offended.

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