violette_22 wrote:
First off, calm down, unless you are importing a love doll in the 80cm-140cm range that's flat chested and/or dressed as a school girl and/or has a baby face, it's not likely to look very child-like. Secondly, if a PayPal purchase is unlike your usual purchasing habits due to it being overseas or a very large purchase, that's just a credit protection feature. The US police do not show up at your door due to a doll, and don't let anyone make you believe that. That's just an SJW strategy to shame 'pedo-phobics' and attempt to gain your trust while they are up to no good. The police show up because something suspicious you have done online, in the view or neighbors or in public has caused concern that you could be a predator. Simply buying an adult toy online doesn't make anyone a predator. Most of these people that get seriously busted and a doll is involved also have other illegal media, or a doll that strongly resembles human trafficking victims featured in illegal media (they just don't mention that to save face, pretend they are completely ignorant of what actual minors looks like). It creates suspicion that predatory abuses are happening. This is why the authorities always investigate media files and devices. After they check, it's basically a matter of paperwork vs any sort of criminal activity prosecution. The worst that happens is the items are confiscated, the same happens to items deemed 'drug paraphernalia' It's really not worth the legal fight for anyone unless they're those SJW types trying to fight 'pedo-phobia' to serve their own needs. Nothing good will come of it. Lots of things are illegal to import like potentially unsafe food, animals and plants.... it's not often a matter of 'morals' at all. It's stupid that these laws even need to exist, but people sometimes don't have any ethics or sense. It's sort of like driving down the road with a bong on your dash, if the vegetation that's used in said product is illegal, it's reasonable that the one in possession of that bong also has possession of illegal vegetation while driving. It's just the law of your region and the logic of those that are tasked with keeping the law in force. Those with ethics and sense often experience the most freedom and the least amount of trouble.
The only reason that the smaller scale dolls are being targeted anywhere in the West is because BAD VENDORS are selling the same models, styling, presenting and labeling in a very predatory manner. It's very profitable and unlikely to stop.
Shipments sometimes do 'get lost' while shipping around the globe. It also happens to shoes and shower curtains, so don't be so upset and paranoid if it does happen. That's the nature of shipping companies. Items made and manufactured as sex toys are sometimes considered obscene and/or pornographic depending on your region, but that doesn't mean you can't have them. It means you can't have them around actual minors or harass others with it. Sex dolls are always marketed as pornographic, that's why they sell, it's their primary function. The laws about what's obscene and what's pornographic varies by region. That really doesn't affect anyone that purchases a toy online, but it can prevent you from opening and operating an Adult Novelty shop. Some regions only have laws about
importing them and that's what this thread is warning.
Your best bet is to purchase a domestically manufactured love doll, they are sure to look adult if a Western person has designed it and markets their products publicly. Secondly, purchasing from a domestic importer will divert any liability to that vendor, not you. What does or does not qualify as obscene or pornographic as far as possession goes does not apply to everyone, it depends on your region. If your item has passed customs, then it's passed customs and it on it's way to you. There is nothing else to fear unless you are using the doll in a way that alerts your neighbors or other actual people around you.
Now, stop worrying and start enjoying your new hobby.