I missed this old thread. CSA survivors should look at childlike sex dolls as a solution. Rather than someone hurting another person they can have a doll. Problem is, the adult that hurt you isn’t interested in them. leaving dolls as a moot point. Neither promoting sexual assault toward children or preventing it. But more likely helping prevent it moreso.
When it comes to dolls, people let their imaginations run riot. Unfortunately it seems all anyone EVER focuses on is the sexual angle. Knowing it’s a doll, their first question ALWAYS is, if you can “use” it sexually. Not “oh, how pretty!” or “How cute!”. Nope! Always imagining the worst, conflating the doll to be a real child, as if, in their mind, someone’s doing that to their daughter. “How disgusting!”
Instead why doesn’t anyone focus on how pretty they are? The effort creating them and expense and time of buying one. True predators are not interested nor willing to invest the money or time acquiring one. How about how someone could love them as a surrogate child? Why would using the doll sexually be OK versus using a real child? We know doing sexual things with a real child is just plain wrong! But because it’s a doll, an inanimate thing, that makes it OK? Well, technically it is OK! It’s not a person!
The marketing and the fact that they’re built with “love holes” is what’s most damaging to their reputation. The argument of “primary purpose” comes to an impass when someone buys one and orders it without the “love holes”. A fair share of doll owners don’t buy them for sexual gratification. And most don’t bother ordering them as “non-functional”. It generally doesn’t cross their mind. They buy them to supplant the real child they don’t have or will never have. To be cherished and loved!
Using dolls to criminalize everyone is no different than using these same arguments against gun ownership. A gun’s primary purpose is to fire a projectile. Many times used to kill a person. Conflating dolls as real children is akin to saying all gun owners will eventually kill someone. Much more serious than a person using an object for sexual gratification. Back to guns, making it non-functional makes it a replica. Not a device that could be lethal. Do the same gun laws apply then?
We can stretch these same arguments to knives, hammers, automobiles; anything a person can use to do something nefarious. At what point does it become ludicrous!
The real monsters want to see the fear in a child’s eyes when they assault them for the first time. They see the child as an opportunity to “get off”. Most offenders aren’t pedophiles. Likely with the child not saying anything, being shamed or feared into silence; and/or the parent being unaware of the abuse taking place. It’s truly evil to assault a young person.
I have dolls because circumstances have not provided me with the opportunity to have children. My dolls are ny surrogate family. Before I understood much about them, I ordered them “as is”. Seeing they’re marketed that way IS the problem. Not as life-size, realistic dolls or surrogate companions. I have no interest in having sex with my children real or imagined. They can’t help how they’re made. Neither can I. However the last two I special ordered as just dolls. Hadn’t realized I could order them without the “love” holes until I did! I’ll never “use” any of my childlike dolls.
I love them dearly! They have helped fill that parental desire in me. If I get busy and don’t play with them for a while, no one gets hurt, or angry, or upset. No one dies from starvation. And for the few people that have found them to be consolation for their grief of a lost child. A particular email I saw about a woman who lost her children and used dolls as surrogates is what inspired me to look past the sexual marketing and see them as a solution to my dilemma.
We’re not sex fiends and perverts looking to “practice” anything!! In fact, most doll owners to my knowledge, being part of a doll community for some years now, have no interest in ever hurting a real child. They love their dolls more! We become more caring, loving, and respectful of others. Interested in make-up, hair, and fashion to make our dolls look their best!