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Duplicates of minors sold as "Love Dolls": disturbance in sexual representation

Des duplicata de mineures vendues comme « poupée d’amour » : malaise dans la représentation sexuelle

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In January 2016, a “grandmother” starts a petition to ban the sale of child sex dolls, portrayed as “sickening aids for pedophiles.” The media then started discussing the legitimacy of laws similar to George Orwell’s thought crime. What is the point in mistaking a depiction for reality? The petition lays the blame on Takagi Shin, managing director of Trotlla. He is one of the most important love doll manufacturers in Japan. Love dolls are romantic and/or sexual human replicas. The best-sellers look like prepubescent girls. What is the meaning the designers and doll users give to such transgressive representations? By studying the way love dolls are made and used, I would like expose the logic behind this phenomenon. This article is a translation made (in 2018) by Nicolas Cognard and Ana Wolf of a paper published in Dec 21, 2017 by HYBRID journal: “Des duplicata de mineures vendues comme « poupée d’amour » : malaise dans la représentation sexuelle” ⟨hal-01638640⟩
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Agnès Giard. Duplicates of minors sold as "Love Dolls": disturbance in sexual representation. Hybrid. Revue des arts et médiations humaines, 2017, Malaise dans la représentation, 4. ⟨hal-03088950⟩
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