man fighting charges for owning child-sized sex doll

The fools would be happy to see a child suffer if it provided the spectacle of a bogeyman figure being tried and punished. Never underestimate the tabloid readers' bloodlust.

So I take it my dreams of having child-size gynoid aren't going to happen, ever?

That's the very reason I want to distant myself from real girls hoping in some future people would see the 'dolls' for preferd age/sex rather than have frustraded people wander about. =="

Yet more proof that this is not now, nor has it ever been about protecting children.

YouthRightsRadical wrote:Yet more proof that this is not now, nor has it ever been about protecting children.

The book I've been reading on age of consent laws explores how they were introduced in a patriarchal system bent on preserving the valuable commodity of female virginity. It also shows how consent is a very recent factor in (what we now refer to as) age of consent laws. As late as the 1970s in England and Wales some rape cases went the defendant's way because the woman hadn't struggled enough. More generally, the book looks at how age of consent legislation has been used primarily to police the conquests and specific activities of men and only secondarily to 'protect' children. One might argue that, irrespective of the history, the primary motive now is protection. But perhaps a rhetoric of protection merely eclipses our ulterior motives.

The handling of rape cases in this country is still appalling, Ctithe. There's a long way to go. Look at the Ched Evans case. Every news article with comments underneath it is swamped with crap about the victim supposedly asking for it, as though women should have no right to get drunk without men helping themselves to them.

Then look at these cases of 'grooming gangs', and see how many people are saying that these girls, some as young as eleven, are 'slags' and 'chavs' who deserve no sympathy.

There's a lot of double standards and hypocrisy in this country, and the police, prosecutors, and juries all come from the same pool of dimwits making the comments I referred to above. It's no wonder these crimes are under-reported, and have notoriously low conviction rates.

As disgusting I think it is he shouldn't be charged. Rather this then have him abduct an 14 year girl and lock her in his home. What are people really scared of? Having a child kidnapped and never seen again or ... a plastic toy?

I know that people see things like using a child sized doll as a stepping stone to abusing a child, but that isn't how it always is and the government shouldn't be assuming that that will happen. Another alleged stepping stone is masturbation and fantasizing about children. I am a pedophile and I have been fantasizing and masturbating about children since I was a teenager. My frequent masturbation keeps my desires at bay and I haven't abused a child. Things like that sex doll can be very helpful.

When I was 18, they lowered the gay age of consent to 16. At that time it was not illegal to poses pornography of 16+ either, that law was not introduced until 2003, the famous page-3 girl Samantha Fox was 16 when all her bits were displayed on the leading national newspaper (one which now prides itself on naming anyone over 18 who goes with anyone under 18 as a paedophile).

So gay men slept with 16 yr olds legally - as I have said elsewhere, they were also sleeping with under 16's but no interest was taken, as a point of interest in these cottages they would make advertisements and charts for boys on the walls, and boys like me would fill them in. I met the first guy I dated because he had written “lonely 17 yr old seeks boyfriend” and left his mobile no. I grew up with the impression that a 16 yr old was fully able to consent.

The current legal status in the UK I believe, is that if you meet a 16 yr old that you don't work with and have sex with them, not crime has occurred. If you meet them via the internet, you have groomed a minor. If a 16 yr old goes on grindr or cam 4 (and they do) and exchanges rude pics with you, then you have made and possessed CP (presumably they have too but they will not wind up on a register for it).

The current social view is that anyone over 18 who goes with a 16 yr old is a paedophile.

The bought the consent law down, but then bought the porn laws up and the moral panic of the paedophile now extends to someone who is over the legal age of consent.

And I can see where this is going. The middle classes very much consider their 19 yr old uni students to be “kids” now. All that collage rape stuff in the USA. Then so much amateur, self produced “borderline” stuff that could be interpreted a 16 yr old or a 19 yr old is rife on gay porn sharing sites. So if things keep going the way they are, then the first step will be applying the thinking of alcohol ID laws (where unless you look over 25 they wont serve you) to pornography. After that I fully expect the age of consent to be raised to 18 in the coming decades.

Every gay guy who ever looked at “twink” porn will be liable for possession of CP and a paedophile. Much hard work was and still is done to align homosexuality to paedophilia. And the new sex laws bought out target BDSM, another major gay fetish.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've read regarding sex laws. The guy sent to jail for Simpsons cartoon porn was bad, but this takes the witch hunt to a new level.

And what about women that have thumb-sized vibrators? Should we arrest them because a thumb-sized vibrator is clearly a faux pas that they want little boys' penises, and therfore dangerous sexual molesters to society?

Oh, I forgot... we can't arrest women... only men. !!!!

My view is that they should not be generally available. But if true exclusive paedophiles exist (and I am sceptical about this, I am new to this topic), then they should be available via a practitioner if it will maintain a quality of life for said paedophile AND most importantly prevent a victim.

But we would have to get therapists on board with treating paedophiles and hebaphiles/ephebaphiles, raise awareness of stop it now, make virtual CP and these dolls available under a sort of prescription. Then within a generation you could cut contact abuse and real CP by perhaps 2/3 - and what would remain would be only the truly wicked and we would know exactly what we are dealing with.