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Common Questions: What are your thoughts about child sex dolls? Designed to look and feel just like young girls, these are completely legal, sold online to customers across the globe. Child sex doll-makers claim that they ‘stop pedophiles committing crimes’.

Vicky Prest:

I recently got into a very long and heated discussion / argument on Facebook, over this very matter.

I was called a paedophile, a paedophile lover, I was told that I should have children kept away from me as I may abuse them etc etc etc

Why?

Because I believe in treating people as human beings, until they prove themselves to be something other than that. But because of this, I must automatically be a child abuser, as only an active paedophile would believe in the power of free will, over immediate, unwarranted judgement.

I am all for child sex dolls. I think they are a great idea.

They are no more a ‘gateway to child rape’ than smoking a joint is to doing heroin.

The one thing that I kept hearing over and over again was how it won’t be enough. It will give a non-offending paedophile a ‘taste’ for children, and they will want abuse a kid.

My question to those people is, how the hell do you know? How do you know that this will be a gateway? How do you know that it will not be enough? Since when does silicon automatically take you from being a very lonely and sexually unfulfilled person, to a criminal sex offender?

If I was unable to have sex with women ever, and I got myself a sex toy that would simulate me having oral sex with a woman, would I go out and rape someone? Do virgin men that have female adult sex dolls go on to sexually abuse women? The overwhelming evidence, is no.

Having an attraction to children is a very sad and lonely place to find yourself in. It is a sexual attraction that the vast majority of paedophiles know that they cannot ever act on. It is no different from me being attracted to other women. I can’t help it, but I am lucky enough that I am able to act on my desires.

So what happened when you are just a normal person? Like you, the person reading this answer. What happens if you find yourself attracted to underage children? Do you stop being a upstanding, moral member of society and automatically become a child abuser? Or do you exercise self restrain and free will and find the idea of harming a child, or viewing child abuse images online, utterly abhorrent?

But what are you left with? You will never harm a child, you will never watch pornography that involved the rape and abuse of a real child. You are totally alone with your desires and even though you will never act on them, the entire world seems to be screaming that you are an evil monster and should be hung drawn and quartered, despite your only crime is the thoughts in your head and your natural instinctual desire.

By giving a person with an attraction to children, a sexual outlet, you are giving them their basic human right to have a sexually fulfilling experience.

A doll is not a real child. It is not modelled on a real child, it is silicone. It is not even like the porn star sex dolls that you can buy that are modelled on real people. You can buy dragon penis dildos, but that doesn’t automatically mean that you would fuck a dragon (if such a thing existed). It’s just a generic smaller sex doll that may give some individuals what they desperately crave, but know they can never have.

Being a paedophile does not automatically make you a sex offender. Nor does owning a piece of silicone.

It’s a fantasy. Nothing more.