https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382465676_Reported_Consequences_of_the_Ban_on_Sex_Dolls_With_a_Childlike_Appearance_-_A_Content_Analysis_of_Affected_Persons'_Reports
Unsurprisingly, if a party with a name like the Party of Jesus Christ gets elected (what happened to keeping religion out of politics?), you might get morality based policies which are not based in science and violate human rights (although, "won't anyone please think of the children?"* would not be new rhetoric from politicians). Curiously, this country happens to have a branch of the notorious white savior fundamentalist group, IJM, and they come up more often than you'd think.
I haven't looked into this particular law though, so I don't know how it works in practice. I'm going by what Jeanne is saying here. Jeanne makes it sound disturbingly broad.
I haven't looked deeply into this but this feels like a likely forensic adjacent group (especially with the emphasis on whether it increases or decreases crime, and the author being a student in a forensic field), rather than a more representative sample which better represents the general population. Also, I don't think a representative sample (though that is one example she picked out) would use that identity. It concludes that the dolls reduce crime though.
https://qoto.org/@olives/113204617130506428 For my science based piece on such things (among other things like porn), there is this post.
Jeanne also makes an error here about why things might happen. It is a *political* issue. It is not a *scientific* issue. Going back a decade, there is more than enough grounds to show that it does not drive crime. This is a *political argument*. While more science might be helpful, it doesn't necessarily change the politics.
