France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls

https://lemmus.org/post/20939520

I don’t understand this. They’re dolls, they aren’t alive. Why people would care? This may be controversial, but I’d rather have a pedophile fucking a doll than raping a child
I believe the last time something like this came up, the argument was raised that it normalizes the behavior and leads to escalation, i.e. “they’re just illustrations” “it’s just a doll” to “I’m just taking photos” or “it’s just touching”, this time against actual victims
Does the research support this argument though? (Spoiler: it doesn’t)
To my knowledge, there is very little research at all - the programs that would look into whether this might protect children struggle to get funded, because it’s icky.
And anyone looking into it immediately gets labeled as defending abusers.