US EditionSweden promises action against illegal sex doll sales
The Swedish government plans new laws to stop e-commerce platforms from selling sexualized childlike dolls after a police complaint and calls from child protection groups.
- Sweden's Minister for Social Services, Camilla Waltersson Grönvall, said the government wants "to make sure these products cannot any more be sold and bought anywhere", referring to childlike sex dolls.
- The child protection group ChildX filed a police report against Amazon and other e-commerce platforms earlier this month over the sale of childlike sex dolls, which Secretary General Ida Östensson said led to the removal of these listings on Amazon.
- Ida Östensson said "Swedish legislation prohibits material that portrays children in a sexualized manner" and "the sale or distribution of lifelike child-like sex dolls may thus fall under criminal provisions related to child sexual exploitation.
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After selling pedophile dolls online, the e-commerce giant Shein and other players were summoned to Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M) on Friday. “The Swedish government expects nothing more than that these products are not available on their platforms at all,” she says.
Sweden warns Shein and Amazon after childlike sex doll complaints
The Swedish government vowed Friday to take action against e-commerce platforms that sell childlike sex dolls after complaints were made against major players Amazon and Shein."One of the things that we discussed was the further possibility to shut down different platforms," Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Gronvall told AFP after summoning the companies and two...
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Sweden promises action against illegal sex doll sales
The Swedish government promised on Friday to fight the sale of childlike sex dolls online after instances of such commerce had been reported earlier in the country.
Minister of Social Services Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M) says after her meeting with e-retailers that there is a broad consensus on stopping the sexualization of children. “I assume that e-retailers now take their responsibility,” she says.
The Swedish government has promised to address the sale of sex dolls resembling children. These dolls were for sale online at various webshops in the country, an activist group discovered. "Your heart breaks when you see the pictures of these dolls," said a Swedish minister.
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