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I recently learned about two Kentucky men who were arrested for ordering "child-like" sex dolls from China. While they were also charged with actual child pornography (images of real children) and drug possession that was revealed during the investigation, the charges related to the dolls were dismissed because they did not portray an actual child. Then Kentucky moved to make possession of child-like sex dolls a felony, which passed the Senate but I can't figure out if it also passed the House:
Pedophelia is an emotionally volatile topic. The act of manipulating or forcing an innocent and helpless child to have sex is just plain despicable for about 1000 reasons that I don't even need to mention here. Nothing more really needs to be said about how wrong it is to act on fantasies with a living, breathing child.
But therein lies a subtle yet very important distinction: There are fantasies and then there are actions. One leads directly to tangible and palpable harm inflicted upon an innocent victim, and one does not. Additionally, I believe that fantasies provoke actions, not the other way around. Just think about any sexual act that is repulsive to you and try to imagine doing it until it actually becomes a fantasy. That doesn't work at all, does it? So again, fantasies provoke actions, not the other way around.
The medical science community has not yet been able to figure out how to change anyone's sexual orientation. Conversion therapy for homosexuals has proven to be more harmful than helpful. Unsurprisingly, conversion therapy for pedophiles isn't much better. We've made pedophelia a serious crime, we've made convicts register publicly as sex offenders and humiliate themselves by going door-to-door to tell all their neighbors, and we've enjoyed years of watching them get caught red handed on Dateline. All in the interest of motivating them to keep their internal fantasies from becoming harmful acts. But isn't there anything else that could be done?
Yes there is! Let them experience their fantasies with an inanimate object instead of a living human being. Until doctors can find a treatment that actually works, give them an alternative that is simultaneously effective for them and harmless to others. So what if it's sick and demented and gross to the rest of us? At least they're not doing it to an actual child. And any assumptions that it would just encourage more abuse of living children are unfounded and nonsensical. Assuming the Kentucky House passed that bill, I think they made the wrong decision based on emotional repulsion instead of reason and objectivity.
Not illegal to own a child sex doll? KY man remains jailed on separate child porn charges
The Ft. Mitchell man arrested for ordering an underage sex doll from China has had those charges dropped.
www.nbc12.com
KY man facing child porn charges after police were notified he ordered child sex doll
He is charged with 20 counts of possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor.
www.fox19.com
19RS SB 102
apps.legislature.ky.gov
Pedophelia is an emotionally volatile topic. The act of manipulating or forcing an innocent and helpless child to have sex is just plain despicable for about 1000 reasons that I don't even need to mention here. Nothing more really needs to be said about how wrong it is to act on fantasies with a living, breathing child.
But therein lies a subtle yet very important distinction: There are fantasies and then there are actions. One leads directly to tangible and palpable harm inflicted upon an innocent victim, and one does not. Additionally, I believe that fantasies provoke actions, not the other way around. Just think about any sexual act that is repulsive to you and try to imagine doing it until it actually becomes a fantasy. That doesn't work at all, does it? So again, fantasies provoke actions, not the other way around.
The medical science community has not yet been able to figure out how to change anyone's sexual orientation. Conversion therapy for homosexuals has proven to be more harmful than helpful. Unsurprisingly, conversion therapy for pedophiles isn't much better. We've made pedophelia a serious crime, we've made convicts register publicly as sex offenders and humiliate themselves by going door-to-door to tell all their neighbors, and we've enjoyed years of watching them get caught red handed on Dateline. All in the interest of motivating them to keep their internal fantasies from becoming harmful acts. But isn't there anything else that could be done?
Yes there is! Let them experience their fantasies with an inanimate object instead of a living human being. Until doctors can find a treatment that actually works, give them an alternative that is simultaneously effective for them and harmless to others. So what if it's sick and demented and gross to the rest of us? At least they're not doing it to an actual child. And any assumptions that it would just encourage more abuse of living children are unfounded and nonsensical. Assuming the Kentucky House passed that bill, I think they made the wrong decision based on emotional repulsion instead of reason and objectivity.