Australian customs is trying to stop child sex dolls that are being imported into Australia from a Japanese company called Trottla.
Self-confessed paedophile Shin Takagi makes the dolls, and claims that he is an artist ‘saving’ children from the desires of paedophiles all over the world.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that experts have no evidence to suggest that it is actually reducing the rate of sexual abuse of children, and more than 60,000 Australians have signed a petition against letting the dolls into the country.
The company sells over a hundred different child dolls online, with many of them posing in lingerie or swimming costumes.
Shin Takagi told The Atlantic that he was running the business as a way for paedophiles to express their desire without acting on it.
“We should accept that there is no way to change someone’s fetishes,” he said. “It’s not worth living if you have to live with repressed desire.”
Possessing ‘anatomically correct’ child sex dolls is an offence in Australia, and 18 dolls have been seized by border force officials since 2013.
Border forces are continuing to work to bring people before courts who are found in possession of the dolls.
