National news coverage: Our call to Amazon to dump child s*x abuse dolls in the media

Yesterday, Australian Associated Press (AAP) ran a piece on our campaign to get child s*x abuse dolls off Amazon. 

Here’s an excerpt: 

"What these dolls do is they normalise and legitimise children as appropriate objects of adult male s*xual desire. They normalise child s*xual abuse," Caitlin Roper said. 

Collective Shout has launched an online petition calling on Amazon to stop the sale of these dolls, gathering more than 5000 signatures.

Ms Roper said Amazon had removed at least 13 listings since the petition went live, some of which had been active for eight months.

But she said when listings disappeared they were often replaced with new ones, as she called for Amazon to ban known sellers from the platform, and for more effective mechanisms to prevent future listings.

"Policies are meaningless if they're not enforced," she said.

Read the full article here. 

It’s great to see media coverage on this issue! Hopefully it puts more pressure on Amazon to get rid of child s*x abuse dolls once and for all.