Child Doll Manufacturer Claims They Stop Paedophiles Offending

A man who makes and sells life-like child dolls has claimed they prevent paedophiles from offending.

Shin Takagi has been shipping the anatomically correct dolls of girls as young as five to clients for more than ten years.

He said he set up Japanese company Trottla because of his own attraction to children and his belief that they should be protected.

The dolls he sells come with lingerie, although he insists they are not to be used for sex. All of the dolls produced in his factory near Tokyo are female.

In an interview with The Atlantic, Takagi said he has never acted on his attraction to children, but wanted to give people like him an option other than self-control.

“We should accept that there is no way to change someone’s fetishes,” he said.

“I am helping people express their desires, legally and ethically. It’s not worth living if you have to live with repressed desire.”

Research by the Mayo Clinic in the US concluded that treatments for paedophiles such as cognitive behavioural therapy and chemical castration do not alter the subject’s “basic sexual orientation towards children”.

Takagi believes his dolls save children from sexual abuse.

“I often receive letters from buyers,” he said.

“The letters say, ‘Thanks to your dolls, I can keep from committing a crime.’”

He added: “While most people buy dolls for sexual reasons, that soon changes for many of them.

“They start to brush the doll’s hair or change her clothing. Female clients buy the dolls to remind them of their past, or to reimagine an unfortunate childhood.

“Many of them begin to think of the dolls as their daughters.”

In the interview, he admitted that the solution he uses in his dolls to replicate skin is carcinogenic.

Michael Seto a psychologist and sexologist at the University of Toronto, told The Atlantic there were two different groups of paedophiles.

He said: “For some paedophiles, access to artificial child pornography or to child sex dolls could be a safer outlet for their sexual urges, reducing the likelihood that they would seek out child pornography or sex with real children.

“For others, having these substitutes might only aggravate their sense of frustration.”

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