US EditionShein Removes Childlike Sex Dolls After French Watchdog Complaint
- On Saturday, France's DGCCRF reported Asian e-commerce giant Shein to French prosecutors and Arcom for selling 'sex dolls with a childlike appearance'.
- Le Parisien published a photo showing the dolls measuring around 80cm and holding a teddy bear alongside an explicitly sexual caption, while DGCCRF said the description makes it hard to doubt the child pornography nature.
- Responding to the report, the company said `The products in question were immediately delisted as soon as we became aware of these serious issues` and launched an internal inquiry while reviewing third-party vendors.
- At BHV Marais, the planned Shein store opening on Wednesday sparked outrage, with some top fashion brands pulling their products from the store.
- Against a backdrop of rapid recent growth, EU lawmakers have moved to scrutinize Shein, which France fined three times in 2025 for a total of 191 million, as the European Commission investigates.
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Chinese online retailer Shein has withdrawn sales of sex dolls with childlike images after the French consumer protection office discovered them on its website.
The DGCCRF reported this Monday, November 3, 2025 to the public prosecutor after finding the sale of these sex dolls on another Chinese e-commerce site.
PARIS.- France threatened on Monday to ban Shein from accessing the national market if the Asian e-commerce giant resells child-looking sex dolls, which the company claimed on Saturday to have removed from its catalogue.The French consumer protection agency, the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGccrf), indicated last week that he had discovered the dolls on Shein's website, noting that their descriptions …
Paris, France.– Asian company Shein faces a new controversy in Europe after the French government denounced her for the alleged sale of sex dolls with child traits through its digital platform. The Directorate-General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Suppression (DGCCRF), a unit responsible for monitoring trade and consumer protection, confirmed that she filed a formal complaint after identifying articles whose description, size and appear…
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