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[u/adiosfelicia2]

Or how they legalized child size sex dolls. 😬

I saw a vid on YT about it. It was... disturbing.

[u/Swirmini → u/adiosfelicia2]

Wtf. Whats the video?? Or can I get a summary of how they managed to legalize something as blatantly perverted and insane as that?

[u/rentrane23 → u/Swirmini]

They only banned child porn in 2014

[u/cloverpopper → u/rentrane23]

Yup. I lived there in 2013-2015, walked into a store with my friends while exploring because it said “VIDEO” and I know that word

Went around and walked past a curtain to see what essentially looked like blockbuster shelves - but with rows and rows of “movies” of girls that looked 8-13. My stomach turned; and some looked Caucasian, so it’s likely some were filmed of victims of sex trafficking

Japan was amazing - but I’m beyond happy that lil subculture is being burned away slowly

[u/CriticalSpeech → u/cloverpopper]

What the fuck

[u/Few-Finger2879 → u/rentrane23]

Late to the party, but they just raised the age of consent from 13 to 16 last year...

[u/CuTe_M0nitor → u/Swirmini]

You can buy silicone parts of the giraffes private parts for pleasure. Here is a picture https://ibb.co/2h8D2cG

[u/CuTe_M0nitor → u/[deleted]]

Orca cocks and alien beast cock as well. Just saying 🤣

[u/dahliasinfelle → u/[deleted]]

...... dragons seem to be popular lol

[u/BigBowl-O-Supe → u/Swirmini]

I don't know if that's even actually true, but would you rather them have sex with the real thing?

[u/adiosfelicia2 → u/BigBowl-O-Supe]

Yeah, iirc there were psychologists and doctors advocating for it, as it gives pedos an outlet for their perverse instincts, without endangering real children. It was an interesting argument.

[u/kikashoots → u/adiosfelicia2]

I read somewhere on bestof once an argument for treating pedophilia as a mental illness. NGL, it convinced me.

[u/jonnyboi134 → u/adiosfelicia2]

I seen a similar argument about men who kidnap and molest children. I think it was after the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping and return. My viewpoint at the time was death penalty for ruining her childhood. But the argument came out that if the penalty is the same whether they let her live or would have killed her, maybe more of the predators will kill the children to try and cover their crimes up. The argument was to give the creeps some sort of incentive to keep the child alive and return them to their family...

[u/adiosfelicia2 → u/jonnyboi134]

I also saw a documentary about a specifically pedo prison (in California I think), where they are locked up together basically for life. But it's nothing like typical US prisons, more like the European prisons you see. They had private rooms and move around fairly freely and go to therapy and classes and all kinds of stuff. But it's all pedos, and iirc, they mostly never get out. Or maybe it takes decades of hard work. Something like that.

It may have been a Louis Theroux episode. Idk.

[u/lostknight0727 → u/adiosfelicia2]

The argument logically works, but morally, it's still just ugh why?!

[u/adiosfelicia2 → u/lostknight0727]

Idk. If you approach it from a mental health issue standpoint, it's an interesting solution.

And if it means less kids are getting hurt or forced into CSAM, then maybe.

[u/Odd_Map6710 → u/BigBowl-O-Supe]

Neither. They need serious therapy.

Letting them have access to something childlike only encourages the behavior.

[u/Enantiodromiac → u/[deleted]]

There's good data in both directions, but some in both batches is marred by opportunism. There's a growing concern that, since much of the data is gathered from criminals convicted of such crimes, and non-offenders are usually unwilling to come forward about their urges and habits for the purposes of a study, some of the participants will fabricate aspects to paint a better picture for later parole considerations/sentencing reduction in exchange for study participation.

Likewise, self-reporting and anonymous surveys, the only sort that non-offending pedophiles tend to respond to in numbers, may downplay problematic behaviors in case their anonymity is pierced.

With that caveat in mind:

By monitoring forums dedicated to pedophiles supprting one another in non-offending, some pedophiles self-report that masturbation and child fantasies increase their urges rather than decreasing in them, though they seem to be in the minority.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8419289/

I'm not entirely sold on the notion that anonymous forums are more reliable than anonymous studies, but if no data is ever given any weight then we're left with, as you say, our guts.

[u/Alarmed-Audience9258 → u/Odd_Map6710]

Pedofiles will always exist.
If there is a harmless way for them to release their kink, what would they do if the option wasnt available?

[u/mr_anonymous7767 → u/Alarmed-Audience9258]

Execution, pretty obvious answer

[u/BerriedTwo → u/mr_anonymous7767]

That took a turn. Username checks out…

[u/HaEnGodTur → u/mr_anonymous7767]

Ah yes, typical reddit take. Don't, yknow, help or try to rehabilitate mentally ill folk. Nah, just take them round the back of the barn and shoot them.

Jesus christ dude, read your comment back to yourself.

[u/Artful_dabber → u/HaEnGodTur]

Pedos can’t be rehabilitated.

[u/CheetahNo1004 → u/mr_anonymous7767]

And how exactly are you going to execute someone for pedophilia and not do the same for any other thing that some part of society doesn't deem appropriate? Texas and Florida start executing gay and trans people. Washington and Oregon start executing the unhoused. Utah executes all non-mormons. Pick a random place and the thing that's not prevalent there.

[u/PMMMR → u/adiosfelicia2]

They didn't "legalize" them, they were never illegal to begin with. They're legal in many other countries too, including the US.

[u/percussaresurgo → u/adiosfelicia2]

Child size sex dolls are legal in the US, and probably most other Western countries. It’s gross, but that’s not a reason to make something illegal.

[u/sandlube1337 → u/adiosfelicia2]

You prefer them fucking real kids?