The first thing I have to say about this is that by normalizing this kind of object we are effectively setting up a false message to girls and women, sending out the impression that girls this age, or of this body shape and size, should be sexually available to men, regardless of their actual age or legal standing. It sends an implicit message of pornography, objectification and exploitation to both men and women and that’s a sickening thought. We should be sending a message of respect, protection and vibrators reverence, not one of commodification and sexualization.
Then there’s the fact that these forced ‘role-play’ scenarios are being sold as a harmless way for people to express their ‘sexual fantasies’. But the truth is that these dolls offer the kind of unbalanced power dynamic that serves to encourage the kind of controlling and psychologically manipulative behaviour that has all-too-often been witnessed in the real world. It creates an environment which is predatory and can be easily exploited by those in power and is a huge red flag for potential abuse.
Thirdly, it seems to me that this kind of thing is essentially about cheap, immoral thrills with no thought or consideration for the young girls that these ‘toys’, represent. The girls that this fetishises are maybe too young to have any idea about what’s happening and that’s deeply disturbing.
To top it all off, there is the very real danger of allowing this kind of activity to happen unchecked, which can lead to further exploitation of vulnerable girls in the real world by the groomers and traffickers that feed off this kind of market economy. It’s widely accepted that traffickers and paedophiles use this kind of material to normalize the exploitation of vulnerable minors and if we have a booming industry around this kind of object, how can we be sure that this doesn’t lead to even more exploitation of real minors?!
It just goes to show that we are far from getting this right when it comes to the issues of school girl sex dolls. We must start by understanding the real harms that these dolls have, not just to young girls, but to our society and our culture more generally. We must start to take control over this issue, before it spirals even further out of control. We must make it clear that this kind of thing is completely unacceptable and that we will not tolerate it.
We need to create a culture where it is unacceptable to think of young girls as nothing more than sexual objects or toys and rather focus on teaching respect, sex dolls protection and reverence. We need to look to our own behaviour and question if our actions are furthering this problem in any way. We need to make sure that we are teaching our children that it is wrong to objectify or commodifiy one another. And we need to do our part to protect vulnerable minors from being exploited or encouraged to become more vulnerable.
The fact is that school girl sex dolls are nothing more than a symptom of a deeper problem in our society. We have a lot of work to do if we are going to truly create an environment where girls and women are respected, protected, and revered.