The Asian fast fashion giant says it delisted the items "immediately" from its website and is investigating.
  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    The article doesn’t have a picture, so I went digging.

    It said its team was “investigating how these listings circumvented our screening measures”.

    Clearly Shien “screening measures” are a joke.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
      153·
      8 months ago

      Presumably the thinking is that simulated acts beget real ones.

      I have no idea if that’s scientifically valid or not. Anybody got links to high quality peer reviewed sources?

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        English
        6·
        8 months ago

        I can see the argument there, but I can also see the argument that it prevents real ones by offering a good-enough alternative. I don’t think there’s a lot of peer review on the subject, for obvious reasons.

        • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          Maybe it neither prevents nor causes. Maybe the kind of person who would buy a doll was already non-offending (which describes the vast, vast majority of pedophiles)

          But this also misses the point. How can it be a crime to fuck a doll?

          People worrying whether it causes future harm act like we don’t allow all kinds of other shit that’s much more harmful to our future selves and society. Like, there’s some pretty fucked up porn out there that’s totally legal and probably damages everybody’s brain. We (Americans) also live in a society that allows firearms to be sold at Walmart. We sell cars and debt to 16-year-olds. Alcohol–addictive, causes violence and many health issues-- is pervasive in every strata and facet of our society

          So how is importing and fucking a doll worthy of being a criminal offense-- regardless of what it’s shaped like? Like, what if I just made a fuckdoll at home? Should that also be a crime? What if I modified a toy doll in my garage to be fuckable? Should that also be a crime?

      • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        8 months ago

        simulated acts beget real ones.

        Yeah I’ve heard that argument before, but never saw any logic in it.

        I’ve played every GTA game. Yet I have never had the desire or thought to start jacking people’s cars, or shooting random pedestrians with an ak-47, or whatever.

        I think anybody who’s a fan of videogames would see that argument as pretty weak. But what do I know.

        • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
          32·
          8 months ago

          Yes I too have been killing people violently in videogames for decades. IIRC, there actually has been a lot of study and very little correlation.

          The question here is about real physical sex with realistic child dolls being done presumably by pederasts.

          It’s not at all obvious to me that the psychology work the same in both cases.

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I on the other hand am always shooting people with arrows and bonking them with two handed swords made of granite.

      • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Regrettably there are not too many high quality researchers who endeavor to put their names on such studies.

      • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I remember seeing something about instances of child SA being lower in countries with no laws against fictional CP (drawings or youthful-looking adults), but that was a long time ago, and I don’t know how valid it is. Even if it is useful as a treatment, I think it might be best if such materials were available only via prescription.

      • turdcollector69@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        8 months ago

        The venne diagram of people who would buy this and actual pedophiles is a circle.

        Anyone who’s indulging in this kind of content is literally masturbating to simulated child abuse and that kind of degenerate behavior is a concern to the community.

        I don’t think they should be punished but they should be forced to get help and monitored.

          • turdcollector69@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            7 months ago

            I swear .ml is a magnet for the most chronically online individuals.

            The mental gymnastics and tour de France of degeneracy required to still not wipe your hands of the pedophile aura should be enshrined in some hall of fame or museum for internet history.