The Florida Legislature has passed a bill to ban childlike sex dolls, sending it to Gov. Ron DeSantis to be signed into law.
Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, sponsored SB 160, which would make it a first-degree misdemeanor to own, show, lend, sell or advertise child sex dolls. If someone possesses one without the intent to do the above, it would be a second-degree misdemeanor. And if someone does it more than once, it would become a third-degree felony.
I can’t understand why Book’s parents allowed it to happen. They must have been parenting from a distance, too involved in themselves to be concerned about their child.
No kidding on that one Capt.! It is definitely an anomaly for such abuse to go on for so long in the home. Someone other than the person found directly responsible needed to be held accountable also. I would be guilt ridden and so full of remorse if such a thing had gone on in my home. I do believe that I would not be obsessive about taking it out on others who had nothing to do with my situation. In suspense already to see what she comes up with for next year…..
What do you expect from a person who was tortured sexually and molested etc, etc for 6 years and never tells anyone? Something is gravely amiss here that has caused this person and her father to do what they do. I for one and probably most of you would want to stay away, as far as possible from repeated exposure to anything remotely related to the horror she experienced for so long. Very odd to say the least.
I guess the waste of tax payers dollars over something so silly is so important then 1000’s if not hundreds of children going to bed hungry at night. Perhaps removing the needless and godless registry would direct funds for much needs programs such as education, vocation training and most important having a nutritionist meal.
“My size Barbie” is still being made, she is 38 inches tall. There is also now a “Baby Bump Barbie” and if you look you can still find the “Pregnant Barbie” in some places. The “Pregnant Barbie” was yanked from the shelves in the U.S. as many parents found it “offensive” because the child would remove a small portion of Barbie’s belly to take out the ‘newborn baby’. Supposedly the “My Size Barbie” was intended for lonely children to feel as if they had a ‘sibling’ or ‘friend’. The “Baby Bump Barbie” and the “Pregnant Barbie” dolls were supposedly supposed to make children understand more if a family member or family friend were pregnant and make them have a closer more understanding relationship with their parents.
It has come down to this that we are now banning dolls and making something that is not a living breathing thing into a bonafide victim.
Wondering if when someone is charged with possession of a sex doll, would the doll be treated as an evidence of a crime like in CP ? or would it be treated as an actual victim of a sexual assault and would have to be present in court and sit on a chair and most likely testify as well against the defendant ? The latter sounds ridiculous and funny doesn’t it ?? But once again, it would not surprise me because this is what we have come down to.
I wonder if the doll will have to be paid restitution?
It would not surprise me with some of these Kangaroo court style decisions in Florida.
my wife is 4ft 10inch Asian lady dress up in kids cloths and ill get arrested..
by the way US immigration Banded her took a risk assessment less then 2% redisivism to reoffend lol the most funny part of all this I have the child of the marriage female 4 yrs old
Speaking of Lauren Crook:
http://flsenate.gov/Media/PressReleases/Show/3103
Loves to toot her own horn.
So, if a person wants to avoid prison time for a sex doll, they have to wait until the doll turns 18 years old? Who the hell keeps receipts that long? Do you have to have a doll that has a tamper seal so you can prove it wasn’t used before it turned 18 years, then document with video or in front of a State sex doll compliance referee that the doll was indeed untampered with ’til it’s 18th year of existence from the date of manufacturer?
What’s to stop a shady manufacturer from selling pre-aged dolls? What if a person bought a doll and touched it inappropriately but didn’t penetrate it? How would anyone know?
I have so many questions. This law seems stupid.
If only these people actually cared and spent our tax resources on mental health. But since not…thanks for the laugh.
Buy them anonymously while still legal and ship to the Books. Then they’ll be in unlawful possession of child like sex dolls. Let them fight their own laws.
I’m sure half the legislative bodies of grumpy old republican evangelical males are hiding their own sex dolls with its receipts in a safe place of their own.
Didn’t know this was an epidemic in Miami lol. I would google more on the story but last thing I need is that being in my history or shopping pop ups lol. I take her word for it.
I build model airplanes…that have model machine guns. What’s next? Will I have to register my models or at least the model machine guns. Is that considered an ex-felon in possession of a fire arm? Our legislators…or at least some of them are in serious need of mental health counselling. Even if I wanted a ‘sex doll’, I wouldn’t know where to buy one…nor do I care to know. Of all the problems this nation and Florida face, surely they can come up with something better than this to waste tax payer money and their time…drug dealing, car jacking, armed robbery, and other ‘minor’ infractions?
I had never even heard of such a thing until this bill. Lauren Book has given a massive amount of free advertising to an industry 99.99% of the population has never even heard of. Way to go, Lauren!
This law will likely have the effect of increasing the sale of the prohibited items, since now many more people who up to now had never even heard of them know that they exist.
And therein is the whole idea. Make something most people never heard of illegal. The demand for the contraband increases. Now they have a reason to arrest more people. Remember how this scheme works, every time someone is arrested, someone else makes money. These laws are enacted with the plan to get richer in mind.
I remember years ago that a man was arrested for concerting one of those 3 foot tall Barbies into a sex doll and was arrested on obscenity for having a “childlike” sex doll.
So, one has to ask what one considers “childlike”? Barbie turns 60 this year. Even the 3 foot tall Barbie is the same style as a regular size Barbie, meaning she has the curves and structure of any other Barbie, that of a grown woman.
Would height alone determine what is “childlike”? Some folks just like midgets or perhaps anime characters. What if the person wanted a small one just because of space constraints, or the man is old and frail and could not maneuver a 6 foot tall doll? Anime characters might have childlike faces despite being old. Etna from the Disgaea video game series would be a prime example of this, she is only 4 and a half feet tall, looks like a young teen, but is a 1400-year-old demon.
I don’t see this as passing constitutional muster. There isn’t much precedent but a man from KY was declared not guilty of having one of these dolls because no child was involved.
If it were left up to Lauren Book you would be prosecuted and convicted on what you think alone you never have act on it just think it
This is the dumbest thing ever.
the thing creepier then needing a sex doll is to loan a sex doll.the thing creepier then using a borrowed sex doll is the police knocking on your door to I.d. and monitor your use of your borrowed sex doll…wknder if you will get charged with sex doll abuse if it pops a hole?..as proven psychological science has told us, people often perceive things based on their views of what they personally would do in given situations because it is what they are most familiar….this Laurene Book is one creepy person and I wouldn’t be shocked to find a little creepy in her dad’s closet considering what she imagines..
Perhaps people could use their dolls for more noble purposes like learning to keep them from choking!
https://www.cpr-savers.com/Child-Choking-Manikin-with-Carry-Bag_p_5806.html
Should be interesting to see exactly how they decide which ones are childlike and which ones are not. Does this one look 18, or more like 17? Ridiculous. What if it looks childlike in one outfit, but not dressed in another? The witch hunt goes on in Florida.
Clarification: As passed, simple possession is a first-degree misdemeanor, second offense a third-degree felony. Possession with intent is a third-degree felony, second offense a second-degree felony.
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/160/Amendment/820239/PDF
Funny thing is that regardless of the age of the doll it’s still infinitely smarter than Lauren Book will ever be!
Indeed if you combined the brains of BOTH Lauren Book AND Ron DeSantis the doll would still beat them hands down.
A doll would probably do at least as good a job as both those useless politicians. Pathetic leadership in the soon to be underwater Florida.
Here’s hoping Ron and Lauren’s houses will be the first ones sunk when Florida goes underwater!
Since Lauren Book is pretty much a blowup doll, could her hubby be charged under this new law? She is certainly childlike, at least mentally.
My sex doll is the same age as me, as far as I know. Not sure if my hands came out first or not, but I’m sure either way it was within minutes, if not seconds. Sometimes I’ll go absolutely CRAZY and use the OTHER hand. The horror!