Tbh the child sex doll thing has been made more complicated in part because of things like novels, movies, art, and books.
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Lolita being probably the most infamous example, which follows a man who becomes obsessed with a pre-pubescent girl to the point he eventually murders the girl's mother and then kidnaps the girl, who he calls Lolita (Idr her real name).
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This book is, iirc, is connected by name and in themes to the Loli/Shouta genre from Japan (which features people who either ARE children, or who bear a strong resemblance to and/or the mannerisms of a child). It's also why Epstein's plane was known as the Lolita express
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There are games such as "Rapeplay"(sp?) In which you play as a man who stalks a mother and her two daughters (one around 15 I think, and the other probably 11 or 12). The game focuses on the man raping each character individually, and then together for the end of it
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Godspeed

Lol I'm glad

Well fincher could hand it over to someone else and see where it lands. It'd be a gamble, but considering a lot of the interviews are based on the real interviews, they have a lot of material to work with
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And yes haha. Tbh it kind of blew my mind a bit to see him in Umbrella academy later

Yeah, I mean there was the occasional scene that was entertaining, but by and large that felt more distracting than contributory

Sadly the prospects of a 3rd season aren't looking great - which is a shame because it was easily one of the best shows out there. And I agree, Kemper's actor was absolutely amazing in the role

Child sex dolls are sex dolls ranging in forms of realism (some hyper realistic) that are designed specifically to look like children. They are banned in many places
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Some people make the argument "better a doll than a child..."
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There was a controversy awhile back where a company seemingly took a photograph of a child a woman had uploaded and attempted to replicate it with their sex doll
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You can read more about it here:
https://childrescuecoalition.org/educations/child-sex-doll/

Sounds like BC

I've heard a lot of the old forests in Ireland were destroyed and they've been trying to regrow them. But I've seen pictures from some lovely looking places where also

I think you might be confusing Pocahontas with Sacagawea

In a weird twist I was looking into the word paedophile and apparently it was originally intended to more or less mean someone who has the inclination but doesn't necessarily offend. And then it was taken over to largely be accepted as meaning someone who has raped children. So people invented MAP. Which now is largely synonymous with pedophile.
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But since we're on the subject, where do child sex dolls fall in all of this from what you've observed @jasonmon
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I'm also curious what, if anything, your research has shown on female predators

They have redwood forests in BC if I remember right

If that's the context then he's 100% correct

I was debating tagging you here Jason haha
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I don't have time to read and reply to all of this currently, But just to clarify: the stat for re-offense I had was without treatment or supervision. Basically a pedophile released back into the world with no one monitoring their behavior on a regular basis.
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Granted it could be a stat that is no longer accurate, or perhaps inflated somewhat(?) - I genuinely couldn't be say. I believe it came from people previously employed to work with offenders and victims
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With supervision and treatment, child rapists do have far less opportunity (and perhaps desire - that's something that's hard to measure)

The problem with leniency in terminology is that it often offers protection for offenders, is often ineffective, and complicates an issue too important to be complicated
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Which is kind of the same point we've gone round about on already
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And it's not an issue exclusive to the pedophile discussion. Political correctness never works in the long run in the face of human nature. we have I don't even know how many terms for people with learning disabilities, and many of them were once the socially acceptable version of an older, previously socially acceptable word. The original socially acceptable version gradually became offensive and had to be replaced. And the cycle has repeated ad naseum
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I'm not sure what the solution is - if there is one at all

There are the ones who brag openly in prison about the children they've raped and how they intend to rape again. There are the ones in positions of power who are never held accountable for the lives they've destroyed. And then there are the falsely accused, who often never escape the stigma. Which, aside from the fact that it is entirely ineffective, is part of why castration (or the female equivalent) isn't a solution.
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There are nuances to every issue. But at the same time, without letting ourselves get bogged down in the incessant diatribe of labels, it does become incredibly simple:
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Does the person in question want to rape or abuse a child?
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Are they actively seeking ways to prevent this from happening?
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If the answer is anything other than yes, we now have a problem.

Even in the face of his life being destroyed.
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I hope he is getting the help he needs, but at the end of the day, if he isn't supervised, the likelihood that he will attempt to rape a child again is extremely high. He will need to either be locked up, or kept in close check for the rest of his life. If he had managed to connect with a real person willing to sell their children (which is far less common than it seems), that child would have to live forever with the scars he left behind.
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i've listened to the stories and/or spoken with at least a dozen victims of abuse, people who work with both them and the offenders
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One tells the story of an offender who filed his teeth to points. He liked to use his teeth on his victims. I don't remember if the child survived or not.
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Then there are the people who are like 23 and have sex with a 17 year old and are put in the same category as a pedophile when often that's not the case.
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