So visa and mastercard are gonna swoop in and turn off facebooks money tap, right? No? Oh. Oh well.
Anyways, are these dolls illegal in the UK? Does the great firewall of Brittain age block facebook?
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As much as this makes me uncomfortable, wouldn't it be preferred for someone to use a child-like sex doll to fulfill their fantasies rather than them seeking an actual child? I'm certainly no expert in the mental workings of pedophiles, but it seems like this is a healthier or preferred alternative for society?
What's fucked up is actual real human trafficking probably happens on all these social media sites... But they don't talk about it because it would interrupt the data mining intelligence campaigns.
It's a moral panic, and the funny thing to me is that the resources spent on controlling what dolls people may own could have been spent on actually helping children.
I've read that pedophilic tendencies tend to escalate. Like. Drawings can lead to actual CSAM can lead to actually seeking out the real thing.
How valid this is I don't know, but if this is the way it tends to go then I can see how these dolls could actually be problematic.
That's not even mentioning the "holy fucking shit, this is fucking disgusting" factor of the whole concept of these dolls existing.
Not sure. But there are tons of non-pedo heterosexual men who still have not progressed past anime girls. As much as people wished it progressed to real porn or real girls.
Things also tend to get worse when kept hidden and insulated from help. When even talking about attraction to minors is a social death sentence, or even a literal one, it really doesn't help keep people on a sexually healthy path in life.
A significant portion of America is obsessed with the concept of just quashing anything you don't like, rather than practicing harm reduction and therapy.
If this is supposed to be used as harm reduction and therapy then it should be prescribed and monitored by medical professionals and not advertised on social media platforms.
I agree.
The prison system disagrees.
This article is about Britain.
This is a laughably simplistic view.
Harm-reduction approaches are frequently of dubious value (read the studies, the evidence isn't strong), and often advocated by people who have a vested interest in normalising the behaviour. See Carl Hart who is an open heroin addict, or Terence McKenna who was a delusional shroom-head who performed no research of value. Do you really think that people like Hart or McKenna should be empowered to "reform" substance abusers?
Therapy can be an aid, but just going to therapy doesn't fix anything, and certainly doesn't stop substance abuse.
Unless someone has an internal motivation to quit, they won't and we can't mind control them to do so. Interestingly enough, studies actually do show that jail time does provide a motivator to quit. This is why US drug courts combine it with mandatory rehab and halfway houses, it's actually fairly effective. Much more so than, "pwease go to thewapy!"
this is disgusting and I hate it. but not a real problem.
unless this moral panik hurts Facebook, in wich case. yours is terrible
At this point it's pretty much just Russians and pedophiles that use Facebook. Probably also Russian pedophiles.
When I left it was just boomers unironically shitposting minions and joker memes with odd quotes over them
We can post unironic minion memes here if you ever get homesick.
Hmm I think I’ll pass but if the need arises I’ll reach out! Thanks for caring (hehe)
Why would Russians specifically use Facebook? They have "Ok" and "Vkontakte"
I mean the bot farms, not actual Russians.
Put this shit back to trash bin 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Oh boy. The ever looming how real is too real pornography/sex toy debate. One of my favorite conversational bombshells to drop on my unsuspecting friends lol