Sen. Lauren Book filed a new bill on Monday (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/160/BillText/Filed/PDF) that would criminalize “knowingly selling, lending, giving away, distributing, transmitting, showing, or transmuting; offering to commit such actions; having in his or her possession, custody, or control with the intent to commit such actions; or advertising in any manner an obscene, child-like sex doll“.
What’s disturbing is not the idea of the bill but Sen. Book’s reasoning behind it. According to Florida Politics, “Book is concerned the dolls will serve not as a replacement for the urges of pedophiles, but as a catalyst for perpetrators to seek out victims.“That is not a cure for anything,” Book argued. “The doll just isn’t enough, and then they act out again sexually on children.””
But by her theory, shouldn’t you ban all sex dolls because they will be a catalyst for rape?
Had Book merely suggested that children should not be sexualized in the form of sex dolls and therefore these items should be banned, we would have all agreed with her. But instead she throws her far-fetched theories and theatrics behind her bill in order to get it passed.
Again – this is not a bill the Florida Action Committee particularly cares about because it won’t change any of our lives – it’s just the absurdity behind it that’s ridiculous.
How does one determine the age of doll? Head size? Aren’t all dolls depicting all ages actually smaller than life size? Will an ordinary sex doll become illegal if hair is styled in pigtails or will a sex doll be considered a child sex doll if the head ratio is proportionally larger than the body? Barbie® dolls have perhaps caused more indirect harm on children than any other doll. The unrealistic proportions of Barbie® is believed to contribute to anorexia nervosa, most common among girls 15-19 and most prevalent in countries where girls play with Barbie® dolls.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anorexia-nervosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie (See “Body Image” section)
Furthermore, Barbie® is actually a sex doll since the doll is modeled after the sex doll, Bild Lilli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll
Since Barbie is supposed to be age 17, below the age of concent, and the doll is modeled after a “sex doll”, AND because this doll is attributed to anorexia nervosa, THIS is the first “sex doll” that should be banned.
Since the newly created crime of creating underage heads for sex dolls will likely be a sex crime, the interesting comment on society is that distributing 3D printer files to create doll heads will carry a harsher penalty than distributing 3D printer files to create firearms.
I’m a registered citizen and I’ve seen/heard of some crazy sh*t in my 48yrs. But I’ve never even heard of this type of thing! So the Books just sit around and think of the the most perverted garbage they can amd submit a bill about it? Amd she’d call me the pervert.
I never imagined them sitting around thinking all this stuff for themselves. I imagine them only sitting around counting their money and looking periodically at their bank accounts and looking at a list of potential future donors that they can take money from. The whole sitting around thinking of the perverted stuff so they can pass a bill is probably left to a special staff group employed by the Books, sort of like a think tank council (most likely college interns) where they research and then think of this crap and report it to the Books.
She filed the same bill last year:
https://www.billtrack50.com/BillDetail/912118
http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/1688
It died in Criminal Justice.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how many times a person had committed a sex offense because he/she got bored with a sex doll? Has it ever happened at all? What exactly was the inspiration for this particularly stupid piece of proposed legislation?
That’s the problem with most legislation today, registry and sex offense laws in particular. They’re always based on either rare, stand alone events or what I call “phantasms”, things that never have and are extremely unlikely to occur. This and the Halloween laws/rules are perfect examples of politicians claiming credit for solving problems that never existed in the first place while disregarding genuine ones.
Dustin,
You have to realize that “they” (Ron & Lauren Book) have to keep this charade going to keep their political careers going.
They have nothing else to stand on.
So to keep their careers going (tell me what “legitimate” piece of legislature have either one of the Books tried to get thru?) Besides sex offense cases…?
Fear mongering, terrorizing, and trying to control/brainwash people (without ANY substantial FACTS) into fear that isnt there is their mantra.
What next? Outlaw Barbie & Ken dolls ? What about Sponge Bob? He lives in a pineapple in a place called “BIKINI BOTTOM” So can we actually call Sponge Bob a PREDATOR?????
What about TV commercials? Take all the kids off the commercials because they might cause a person to go out and look at/molest kids? Then you would have to take down the Shriner’s/Walmart/Chevy adds too.
SEE HOW STUPID THIS SOUNDS (or can get?)
not to sound crass but this is the slippery slope of stupidity. The idea we still allow for morons to write and pass laws on emotion is why we have the mess of a justice system we have.
Mind you,I am not for and I am not advocating sex with minors. I in no way am advocating for thinking about such acts. But really now..A manufacture can claim anything they want and claim any purpose they want and a deviant mind can imagine any purpose and create any imaginary they want. Absolutely useless law, almost as useless as the idiot that sponsored it. Idiot legislators can not even figure out what bathroom to use or what gender they are and they want to
Criminalize sex with latex? oh…my… That is sheer stupid on a million different levels. We dont need more stupid laws any more then we need more stupid law makers that cant follow the laws. Reminds me of the south park episode with the v-chip that the government would use to deliver shock therapy to anyone using “bad words”. And really how are you going to identify the latex is “under age?”
I see where this is going ..Next time a paramedic try’s to train a classroom CPR and Heimlich techniques they may wind up on the sex offender registry since the dolls didn’t give consent to being touched on the mouths….hahaha
there really is no cure for the imbeciles in governance of America at this point.,.The only thing good about all the election rigging is I hope that means there really are not that many factual stupid people that voted for them.
Lauren Book is evil and filled with hate…which is fine since most Americans are exactly the same.
The problem is that she is a so-called law maker and as such she uses her position to abuse a small artificially created minority labelled “sex offenders” and her entire career revolves around them.
This golden goose to too good for Lauren and her daddy to ever let go of and forget facts when you can emotionally manipulate parents with fear. They are going to ride this train as long as they are allowed to do so.
The time to derail the train is NOW!
Sex Offender Truth,
I think I speak for everyone on here and I ask you this one question:
HOW???
(How are we to stop her?)
She has money, clout, a raging line of BS, and a daddy that is more interested in “at the end of the day”……
Any suggestions would be heart-fully welcome!
I can tell you that since politicians like Lauren Book use false data and outright bold face lies we do have the truth but everyone seems to forget that!
We have the data…we have facts…we have reality.
We need to get the word out to the average Joe. We need to show the reality that their children are NOT made safer by the registry but the opposite by being lied to and given a false sense of security which leaves the door wide open for the person they already know and NOT a stranger and NOT someone on a registry to molest their offspring!
Parents might be a little bit PISSED to find out that not only have they been lied to BUT those lies actually put their children in MORE danger.
I am doing my part running a blog (SexOffenderTruth) on which I discuss the real reasons behind the registry and how it benefits those in power like Lauren Book. I also post relevant links to stories related to the abuse of those on the sex offender registry and the further harm being done!
Much like the gay rights and every other minority won the rights that they already had in American we need to public behind us to make that change and only through education will that happen – BUT – as I stated we have facts and science. They have the boogeyman and lies!
considering how blatantly congress and the courts are breaking laws and how boisterous they are about ignoring them?
the only way to clean up the mess we allowed to happen is found in four numbers. I let you decipher them. 1776
1861
She is some special kind of crazy.
With Lauren Book’s reasoning, revealing clothing and bathing suits should be banned in public because it serves as a catalyst for rape. Has she also tried to ban child beauty pageants? It makes the same sense as the widespread assertion that registered sex offenders will prey on children if they are allowed too close to a school: NONE. I doubt that any of her actions have ever prevented one assault of a child. She has certainly done a great job of lining her pockets though.
Sex is the center Lauren, revolves around
I just looked up forgiveness. I am a Jew. So is Lauren Book’s affiliation. I am taken aback naturally by her inhumanity. In our religion forgiveness is a way of life
. This is just a part of of a reading. Most notably the offended, should not be cruel. Lauren Book most likely has never read anything about HOW NOT TO BE CRUEL. She claims she was abused and probably abuse is her only way to act?
The most basic kind of forgiveness is “forgoing the other’s indebtedness” (mechilah). If the offender has done teshuvah, and is sincere in his or her repentance, the offended person should offer mechilah; that is, the offended person should forgo the debt of the offender, relinquish his or her claim against the offender. This is not a reconciliation of heart or an embracing of the offender; it is simply reaching the conclusion that the offender no longer owes me anything for whatever it was that he or she did. Mechilah is like a pardon granted to a criminal by the modern state. The crime remains; only the debt is forgiven.
The tradition, however, is quite clear that the offended person is not obliged to offer mechilah if the offender is not sincere in his or her repentance and has not taken concrete steps to correct the wrong done. Maimonides is decisive on this subject: “The offended person is prohibited from being cruel in not offering mechilah, for this is not the way of the seed of Israel. Rather, if the offender has [resolved all material claims and has] asked and begged for forgiveness once, even twice, and if the offended person knows that the other has done repentance for sin and feels remorse for what was done, the offended person should offer the sinner mechilah” (Maimonides, Mishne Torah, “Hilchot Chovel u-Mazzik,” 5:10). Mechilah is, thus, an expectation of the offended person but only if the sinner is actually repentant.
Nancy,
I am a Christian. I agree with you. The Bible says that if you are slapped on the cheek, (offended) offer up the other cheek. Also, that in order to take the speck out of your neighbors eye, you must first remove the LOG from your own eye first!!!
Also Peter asked Jesus “how many times should I forgive someone? Seven times?”
The Lord said, “NO, Seven times seventy”
It seems to me that poor Lauren has “hateful feelings” towards her father for not being there when she needed him most. Therefore she is taking her “misaligned hatred” towards her father and projecting it towards a group of mainly men. When the real culprit was a woman who abused her.
And what about the “boy blow-up dolls”????
Do they get a free pass? NOTHING was even mentioned about that. That only shows her bias and her hatred toward men. (saying only “girl dolls” should be banned only shows her true colors— her hatred towards women–her nanny).
HOW did she ever have children hating men so much?
WHO is watching HER kids while she is out politicking just like her dad did while she was being “ALLEGEDLY ABUSED”??? (Apple dont fall far from the tree–does it?) A nanny–or a male baby-sitter??
I only wish that Jesus, G-D, Yahweh or any other deity would take the hatred from her heart and turn it into a good, just and righteous cause, not this continuing hate-filled diatribe against men.
Plus she needs to step aside from her much misaligned crusade against men and get into a very intensive therapy session.
There is a perceptive comment below regarding the picture. FAC would you please consider removing it. It ain’t funny. Ick.
Removed
Her theory does NOT suggest that all sex dolls are a catalyst for rape, only that these would be a catalyst for adults to engage in sex with minors, which would, by definition, be rape.
It’s a legitimate question, though, whether there is any evidence— any at all— for her catalyst theory (as opposed to “replacement”). Do we know of any incidents in which a child was abused after an adult was using such a thing as a “catalyst”? That might tell us whether such a law is justified.
It’s a serious question, even though I realize that for Sen. Book, evidence is not really her thing.
I appreciate the information but this could have been sent without the picture.
this woman needs a very good therapist. (and maybe a father who will pay attention to his daughter instead of his career)
I’m not buying that she needs a therapist and her father IS paying attention to her in the area of ” her career ” and not his.
“Politicians” as she is one and her father as well knows how to politicize things….they know exactly what they are doing when stirring the emotions and fears of the masses and even the emotions and fears of her fellow colleagues in the house and senate. They look for something that would stir the emotions and play on their fears because they very well know it will play to their advantage. Nobody in their right mind would want the selling of child sex dolls, add in the word pedophiles and sex offenders into the mix and things like: it will make them worse and later prey on the public when they get their practice with the dolls and its a done deal for them. The bill passes and Lauren Book looks like the hero for all children and families and we need to elect her again to keep us safe from the evil pedophiles and sex predators. This type of political strategy is older than anything else in the world of politics.
I’m not sure what picture, but the one I saw before reading these posts was disturbing even though I think L Book is nuts.