South Korea lifts ban on imports of sex dolls

Sex dolls can now be imported again into South Korea: The ban, in force since 2018, has been lifted, after years of debates on the issue of government interference in citizens’ private lives.

New revised guidelines allow dolls to clear customs, but only if they look like adults: those that have the features of minors or well-known characters, on the other hand, remain prohibited (the same rule, on the other hand, is also in force in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States). Sex dolls are not illegal in South Korea, but thousands of items arriving from overseas have been seized at customs in recent years under a law that restricts the importation of goods if they are harmful to traditions and culture. South Korean morals.

Importers – according to whom these products do not harm human dignity – have continued over the years to ask for the ban to be lifted.

In 2019, the Supreme Court upheld a decision that sex dolls, used for personal use, fall into the same category as pornography, which is strictly regulated, but legal. Nevertheless hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition to stop the import of these dolls, because – this is the motivation of the signatories – “they could lead to an increase in sex crimes”.

Customs officials have decided to lift the ban, saying the decision was taken after reviewing recent court rulings and the views of relevant government agencies, including the Ministry of Gender Equality and the Family. The decision also allows importers to recover their products, which had been seized by the government in recent years: according to officials, there are more than a thousand sex dolls at customswho have arrived in South Korea in the past four years.

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