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Over the weekend, France’s anti-consumer fraud agency, the Directorate General of Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF), released a report. Explosive press release About Shin, alleging that the Singapore-based, Chinese-founded e-commerce giant was “marketing childlike sex dolls.”
Other publications have since published work-safe images of puppets and, Yes, they look like babies. Mercifully, it’s not at all clear that the “sex” part comes from just looking at the photos. Still, according to the DGCCRF, “the description and categorization of the content on the site makes it difficult to suspect child pornography.”
According to the New York TimesFrance’s economy minister, Roland Lescure, threatened to ban Shin in France if the dolls continued to be sold, and quoted him as saying, “These monstrous objects are illegal.”
Dolls, and indeed all sex dolls, are now removed from the shin. “These publications come from third-party vendors, but I take personal responsibility,” said executive chairman Donald Tang. According to the Guardian.
The reveal of the doll’s availability on the app came amid protests over Shayne’s plans to open one Physical stores in Paris this week.
Another apparent issue with a third-party seller — a minor SNAFU compared to this one — came over the summer when a floral print men’s shirt was displayed on a devilishly handsome model who looked an awful lot like it. AI-generated portrait of alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangioni.
