Importing these products is illegal. Possession is also a Commonwealth offence carrying a maximum penalty of 15 years’ imprisonment.
Available figures indicate the scale is significant, but difficult to track consistently. The Department of Home Affairs recorded 103 detections in 2020–21, 88 in 2021–22 and 29 in 2022–23.
An Australian Institute of Criminology review called for more research in the area, but identified plausible risks involved with owning them, including desensitisation, sexual objectification of children, escalation and use in grooming.
The appropriate response is therefore neither to dismiss these objects as harmless fantasy nor to treat possession as automatic proof of future offending. It’s to recognise them as potential risk indicators that may justify investigation.
i believe it’s quite an accepted pattern of human nature that what we dream/ fantasize/ aspire to do, we would want to do and carry it out in the real-world. hence these child-sex-dolls are dangerous for kids in the society.
No.
That’s actually quite dangerous wording that has very visible roots in purity politicking and censorship. Fantasy by its very nature is disconnected from action in a healthy human psyche.
I am being very clear that i am not advocating any form of csam, but the subject to hand is being used to permit entry of a very broad accusation here.
That’s the type of rhetoric they used against video games, rap music, and D&D.
The evidence suggests that the use of sex toys reduces the drive to actuate those desires
You haven’t proven this, just asserted it poorly.