Mathieu Lacambre, psychiatrist: "Giving a child pornography doll to a pedophile will not solve his deviance problem."
Interview: While sex dolls representing children are being sold illegally on the internet, the head of forensic psychiatry at the University Hospital of Montpellier explains the use of these objects.
At the opening of the first Shein store at BHV in Paris, November 5, 2025. VALERIE DUBOIS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
80cm sex dolls with the body and features of a child: this is the type of item that the notorious e-commerce platform Shein and the website AliExpress, as well as other online stores, were still recently selling illegally. In the past, similar items were available on Amazon. Mathieu Lacambre, head of forensic psychiatry at the Montpellier University Hospital and a member of the French Federation of Resource Centers for Professionals Working with Perpetrators of Sexual Violence, discusses the origin of these objects and their use with "Le Nouvel Obs".
How long have child pornography dolls existed?Mathieu Lacambre: I first heard about them about twenty years ago, but they've been around for a very long time. Pornographic dolls in general, which are embodied masturbatory objects, appeared in the adult film industry…
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