On Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved a squeamish ban on the importation of sex robots and sex dolls that resemble children, claiming that they “normalize sex between adults and minors.” Now the bill—named the Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots, or CREEPER, Act (because of course it is)—is moving through the Senate.
The bill claims “there is a correlation between possession of the obscene dolls, and robots, and possession of and participation in child pornography.” In an even more macabre passage, the bill says the “dolls and robots not only lead to rape, but they make rape easier by teaching the rapist about how to overcome resistance and subdue the victim.” A Change.org petition, signed by more than 165,000 people, echoes these fears.
There is not much evidence to support this, writes Liz Wolfe.
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