I just had to laugh at the debate over this stupid bill that took place in the Florida legislature yesterday. To back up; Senator Lauren Book whose life mission is to perpetuate panic and fear over anything sexual in order to stoke funding for her charity, has proposed a bill to ban ‘childlike sex dolls’. It would be illegal to own, borrow, lend one out, etc…
You have to wonder how they are going to make a determination on what’s ‘child like’. Would the next phase of this bill require that sex dolls come with birth certificates, like a Cabbage Patch Kid? Are they going to train a forensic expert to determine whether the doll is 14? Will there be strict liability or will ‘but officer, the packaging said she was 19’ be a defense? Will the age of consent be a factor on determining whether 16 or 18 are the threshold?
If you thought these considerations on ‘childlike sex dolls’ are laughable, wait until you hear the arguments from actual politicians on the topic of ‘childlike sex dolls’:
- Sen. Lauren Book: “It’s like tempting an addict with their drug of choice, These kids deserve being protected.”
Really Lauren? These are blobs of plastic. Maybe, as Therapist Richard Siegel argued yesterday, the dolls enable someone to get their fix and thereby protect REAL kids?
- Congressman Dan Donovan,”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,”
Seriously? What’s wrong with you, Dan? What goes through your mind to come up with these things? The same can be said of CPR dummies.
We’re not going to waste our effort on doing a call to action for this bill. We don’t really care if it passes because the feedback we’ve gotten is that it’s simply laughable and we all can’t wait to watch the law play out!
Some people cannot let things go, torture themselves, and their hatred just eats them up on the inside. It causes all sorts of emotional and physical problems. For most of my life I was an anger addict, It felt better to be angry and hateful than to allow myself to feel the pain of abuse and let it go. As hard as it was I have forgiven those who abused me. And believe me it wasn’t easy. One of the hardest person to forgive was myself!!! It took 15 years of therapy and soul searching to get to where I am now. Not saying that I don’t get angry at times but I let it go and don’t dwell on it. I no longer feel tense all the time, My stomach problems are no longer bothering me except for the acid reflux. Maybe someone who reads this will take a hard look into themselves and maybe my experience will help.
Thank you for sharing this, Jerry. I think it’s important for our members to find this site as a resource for support and emotional guidance and not just information.
We should ban plastic dolls from the FloriDUH legislature. Lauren can go back to her Malibu dream house and play house with Ken and Skipper.
When will the people of Florida come to their senses and get rid of these bozos in the statehouse? I fear sanity will never return to Florida before global warming inundates the whole place. What I can understand is why the federal courts – in South Florida particularly – are so reluctant to get with the rest of the country and begin to stop warring on sex and sexual expression in all forms. The prosecutors down there are corrupt and think only of convictions if and when they can be obtained. Of course it helps a defendant to be a billionaire, just like it did for Jeffrey Epstein and his case which was almost con commitment with mine in time and space. My offense was non–contact and nonviolent. Yet I got 97 months imprisonment, and “lifetime” everything else — Registration and supervised release. Epstein got a slap on the wrist. Almost no time at all and freedom to go to work every day for the few months he did spend in prison.
I may have said this before, but cannot understand why any person so abused as Lauren Book would want to devote her life to more and more exposure to anything remotely related to her 6+ years of abuse. I understand that it brings more money to her charity, but at the same time must continuously remind her of the past. At some point she may look back and see how her Senate position has been a waste of her time. The intentions may seen rational to her but really have no positive effect on helping children. I agree with other posts that efforts to help children are being overlooked, ie; drug abuse, hunger, education, drunk driving, foster care, not to mention the children of registrants!
Good point, Donna! This law has nothing to do with children! Children are exposed to violent TV shows and violent video games in the home that can influence them to become violent. This law has nothing to do with what goes on in the child’s home. Children can live with violence all around them, but Lauren is concerned with what goes on in the homes without children. Will there be a committee to approve dolls not to be childlike in appearance or will the decision if the doll is illegal be decided after it is determined the race of the accused?
Next they are going to push to forbid sex with adults that look child like in appearance
For the sake of argument, if someone purchases such a doll before this bill becomes law (and it will), is that person in violation? If so, the law would be retroactive, thus, theoretically, illegal. But as we all know, when it comes to “sex offenders,” no law is illegal.
Doesn’t help when you have ass kissing registrants like Craig Crenshaw…..how did they dig that fuck stick up? Smh
You are referring to someone who, when contacted by a reporter, simply commented, “I would support banning those ’cause children aren’t sex toys.”
Is that correct, or am I missing the full story?
Because I find it unnecessary to be engaging in personally attacking and name-calling against a defenseless registrant on this forum. The man simply expressed an opinion.
Were I the moderator of this forum, I would not have posted that garbage.
Nothing personal, I am just blowing off steam here.
Or what did they offer him under the table is what has me thinking.
What did WHO offer him under the table, in exchange for doing what, exactly?
Sorry to be cranky about this, Mary, but I am seeing a lot of FAC posters beating up on a registrant for doing nothing more than making a comment when a reporter called.
Y’all are acting like he lobbied the legislature to hurt registrants rather than express a casual opinion about some rather silly legislation for which reasonable people could go either way and about which FAC takes a neutral position.
If FAC is going to turn this registrant into an enemy for expressing an opinion, then count me on his side as one of his defenders (regardless of my own view of this silly legislation).
I google this guy up Craig Crenshaw and I wonder what he thinks sucking up to this Bill gonna do for him I agree with Matt. This fellow register
citizen sucking up to the politicans’ ass isn’t helping anyone. He comes out of the wood-works like he something special!
I rather see someone get off on a plastic bag then do it to a child. Shout Out to Craig go back to your rock where you slidden from!
Craig Crenshaw has not done anything associated with this bill or its sponsors, other than state an opinion when a reporter called. I can assure you that his commenting had no impact whatsoever on the viability of the legislation or on the lives of his fellow registrants.
So, what’s the age of consent for the dolls? I’m sorry officer, she looked 17!
I’m not too surprised this is coming out of Florida. I’ve long thought of Florida as in competition with other states to have the largest percentage of their citizens become felons.
What’s next Lauren? Store mannequins?
You’d better outlaw toy guns while you’re at it.
Candy cigarettes, if they still exist. Bicycles..
Anything that is potentially harmful to kids.
“Dolls teach the rapist.” Really?? IS Dan Donovan really that stupid?
The old generation of offenders that sexualized children, are what teaches the new generation to rape & molest. IF he cant even acknowledge that cycle, how can legislation possibly help break it?
I cannot believe that Ron Book wasn’t watching Lauren when she was being abused… Hard for me to understand how a rich man doesn’t have camera’s in use…. Seems strange he believes that because of his inadaquacies he and his daughter are punishing every other felon… Just saying, he was the dad….
The Buck Stops Here!
Where is this going to end. Some of this is just laughable. Florida is just getting so bad. If it weren’t for the weather I would move back North to PA. I have been here for seven years now and own my home and have good neighbors and love the weather. so I guess I’m just going to have to stay where I am. One thing that has no bearing on the subject, but I received an invoice from the Toll enforcement with my license number which is on my Dodge 2500 truck. and a picture of a car which I don’t even own a car. It is only $0.80 but I have never been on any Toll road in Florida. And I am not paying it… Just another screw up from Florida.
I fell out of chair laughing The insanity of the People of Florida elected I sure other states represents are laughing their socks off.
My son received two driving violations from Southern Florida County. 1. He had never been to that county. 2. He was in prison @ the time.
Perhaps this bill will save the lives of children! Assume only persons registered in teaching pediatric first aid are allowed to purchase lifelike CPR manikins: Pedophiles will learn pediatric first aid including CPR to obtain a child CPR manikin. Any parent needing to obtain 1st aid for their child can use the sex offender registry to locate men who may have obtained this training!
This “senator” must be as drunk as her daddy was when he just got busted for DUI when he put his Lamborghini in a ditch and caused another driver to flip his vehicle and then refused a breathalyzer.
FAC, this made my day! I couldn’t stop laughing! The truth is, Florida does not need an legislative session annually. We have too many laws on the books now. They are running out of practical, rational laws to propose so they dream up garbage like this. In my opinion, it makes them look like idiots. The sad thing is these shallow, selfish individuals could care less that their own future generations will deal with this foolishness….
They need to stay relevant. I wouldn’t be surprise if senators like Lauren Book already has the next decade planned with ideas for bills. She is just bringing them light gradually on an annual or seasonal basis.
But yet therapist uses dolls to see if children were molested by someone so who really buys the dolls
It make sense. Sure Maybe dummies used in crash tests should also be banned. After all they look like real people and people that drink and drive might think it’s alright to drive because after all car manufacturers smash up these dummies as shown on TV. Some of those dummies resemble children too.
I think someone’s imagination is getting the best of them. Maybe Lauren needs to start writing fiction novels, What ever she is smoking I think she needs to change brands.
I guess since the sex dolls are out I guess its back to knot holes in trees. But you have to cut them open and count the the rings to make sure the tree is 18. This is what the Ron and Lauren Books of the world think of us anyway. We’re just a bunch of perverts. Well at least my parents didnt let my nanny sexual assault me for years. But that just be because we couldn’t afford one
” Congressman Dan Donovan,”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 ,”
Sounds like Dan Donovan here is speaking from experience. I would have immediately retorted his statement with ” interesting Mr. Donovan, and how exactly would you know this now ? ? “
And right after your question, I would of put more pressure on him and asked him to give us a brief demonstration as well – handing him a sex doll. Maybe I’ll get him to sweat and blush. What an idiot.
Maybe should get Ex rep Mark Foley input, John “Scumbags” Walsh, and Mark Lunsfords’ two cents worth. Now that be a barrels full of Laughs!
I can’t believe that the Senate is actually spending time on this, lets not forget session is only 60 days and most years they can barely get a budget passed…
In the hearing we heard the typical “what ever it takes to save a child”. Last year the meal gap report stated that 19.4% of children in South Florida are fund insecure, so if the Senate is truly all about the “children” then why not stop waisting time kissing the a$$ of the Book’s and implement policies that could truly benefit children.
According to the Meal Gap report, a food budget shortfall of 120,661,900 meals occurs every week, a total shortfall of $408.7 million per year in South Florida. These meals are missing from the tables of 706,130 people at risk of hunger in South Florida. Most striking about these statistics is that 19.4 percent of children in South Florida are food insecure, meaning approximately 240,190 children go to bed hungry every night.
source: https://feedingsouthflorida.org/south-florida-continues-to-face-hunger-challenges/
Professional victim aka Senator Lauren Book knows perfectly that S-E-X get’s a hell of a lot more attention then hunger and that is why it is the only thing this one trick pony uses!
Sex offenders – sex traffickers – sex dolls – her daddy taught her how profitable it is (Lamborghinis are not cheap) and while child hunger and drunk driving would save countless ACTUAL LIVES it’s not as easy to “sell” so keep painting those lurid sexual images Lauren and you will pass your new law in no time…what would the children of the world do without you and your father.
Ironically, a federal public defender once testified that he was more concerned about his family being on the roads with drunk drivers than those who view child pornography. But, do NOT share that with any Floridas legislator as they have ‘drank the kool-aid’…Book kool-aid that is. Watch the Untouchable documentary where David makes certain he and the viewers would understand a statement by a Florida legislator! No specific flavor….any will do!
Well Said, I 100% Agree! Maybe Senator Book could propose a modification to our Sex Education Courses to include language that would teach and inform teenagers about the consequences of inappropriate sexual conduct that would land them on a registry. I know, mind-blowing common sense, right? Wait a minute, if Florida could educate individuals and decrease the number of people required to register annually, they would lose money… It was a nice thought.
I certainly hope that Lauren also pushes a bill to ban all advertising for alcoholic beverages because they tempt addicts (like her dad) with their drug of choice, and then they get into their vehicles drunk, threatening the lives of anyone in their vicinity, including children. Better ban bikini waxing too, because the lack of pubic hair on an adult must certainly fuel the desires of pedophiles.
So right! no pubic hair will be the next felony crime for women! Not allowed to shave in the pubic area!!!