This bipartisan bill would prevent the normalization of pedophilic behavior by banning the importation and distribution child sex dolls.
The federal government shouldn’t ban the importation or distribution of child sex dolls, which may help keep real children safe from pedophiles.
This bill — the CREEPER Act — would ban the importation and distribution of child sex dolls, which are anatomically accurate renderings of children as young as three years old and are bought and sold by pedophiles. Currently there’s no U.S. law prohibiting child sex dolls, although the United Kingdom and Australia have banned them.
The bill’s full title is the Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots Act.
In-Depth: Sponsoring Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY) introduced this bill to ban importation and distribution of child sex dolls:
“It’s a uniquely vile person who preys on children to fulfill horrific pedophilic urges. During my 20 years as a prosecutor, I put away animals who played out their disgusting fantasies on innocent children. What I saw and heard was enough to make anybody sick. Now, as a legislator in Congress, I’m introducing a bill to ban the newest outlet for pedophiles: child sex dolls. They don’t belong in our communities.”
The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws expressed opposition to this bill, writing:
“It’s easy to understand how his revulsion for pedophiles led Rep. Donovan to introduce this bill. But revulsion probably isn’t the best impulse for us to be guided by when writing new criminal laws. The CREEPER Act is at best premature, and at worst could harm those it intends to protect. Let’s avoid making a new class of sex offenders out of those who may simply be trying to manage an unwanted sexual attraction in a way that keeps real children safe.”
This legislation has the support of 33 bipartisan cosponsors, including 30 Republicans and three Democrats.
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