Child Abuse and Pedophilia :Can Child Sex Dolls & Robots Prevent Pedophiles From Abusing Real Kids?

Pedophilia is one of the world's ongoing problems. It's hard to stop people's twisted sexual attraction towards children, and some think that there should be a way to satisfy those individuals' dark desires without endangering children. This is where child sex dolls and robots enter.

Japanese sex doll manufacturer Trottla said pedophilia can be lessened through sex robots. Shin Takagi, the company's founder and is also a pedophilia, said the world should accept that a person's fetish cannot be changed, Mirror reported. With this disposition in mind, Takagi's company created dolls that resemble children as young as five.

Takagi defended his stance and said that he is "helping people express their desires, legally and ethically," according to a separate report from Mirror. He added that life is worthless if you "have to live with repressed desire."

A technology expert said child sex dolls and robots could protect real children against pedophiles. Dr. Kathleen Richardson of the Campaign Against Sex Robots, meanwhile, stressed that child sex dolls could worsen the problem and would serve as "proxy" for the pedophiles. There would come a time that dolls and robots wouldn't be enough for pedophiles, forcing them to do extreme measures to satisfy their sexual yearnings.

In an interview with Women's Liberation Radio News, Richardson said that she doesn't think pedophilia can be deterred by producing child sex dolls and robots. The numerous amounts of child abuse photographs and images on the internet are proof of this, but it still doesn't stop pedophiles' sexual desires and worse -- it seems that it only exacerbates their urges.

Patrice Renaud, a psychologist at the University of Montreal, Canada, said pedophilia is "very difficult to treat" and that this sexual preference cannot be changed "in itself," Mirror further reported. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders describes pedophilia as a strong and recurrent sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

It becomes a disorder if it gives a person "marked distress or interpersonal difficulty" or if the individual acts on his desires, The New York Times reported. Pedophilia is different from child molestation in the sense that pedophiles can live with their condition and not act on it.

A website called AliExpress also sells child sex dolls that stand around 100-140cm tall, the average height range of young girls aged three to nine. The lifelike dolls' prices range between £390 ($518) and £650 ($864), according to The Daily Star.

The website said the dolls can be used for "emotional companionship" and sex. True enough, the website displays photographs of the dolls in lewd positions such as bending over in front of a mirror.