Is this kind of figurine really normal

The questioner is Xiao Yin, a senior high school student in Chongqing, who is a "anime" (a lover of two-dimensional image works such as animation and games). Recently, he found that a large number of hand-made goods displayed on the member purchase interface of a website were exposed, and introduced "fascinating": "You can't see there!" The hand-made female characters should wear underwear to change clothes; At midnight, when I opened the bathroom door, I found my sister taking a shower... "The figurine was the female character changing clothes, with half of her buttocks exposed outside

When I clicked on the push button, I thought I had entered a pornographic website. The female character figurine was wearing various sexy lingerie, stockings, and other 'fabric saving' clothes, and the figurine's posture and facial expressions were also full of charm, "Xiao Yin said,Handmade figurines were originally normal anime merchandise, but now many figurines, especially those of female anime characters, are made extremely sexy, even deviating from the original "persona" in anime works, "making people blush and blush at a glance".

In recent years, various anime and game works with the theme of passion, motivation and youth have become popular, some of which are popular among minors. "anime" works and their derivative surroundings, such as handmade ones, are also popular. However, a recent investigation by a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily found that there are always openly sold figurines with revealing clothing and indecent posture, both online and offline, which are easily accessible to minors. More Than This,On online platforms, there are also some vulgar and pornographic anime that quietly flow to minors.

The interviewed experts believe that it is understandable for minors to enjoy watching anime books, but the negative impact on children caused by issues such as soft pornography figurines and "borderline" short videos behind them cannot be ignored. Minors, especially adolescents, have immature minds and poor control abilities. They have a natural curiosity about "sex" and are exposed to harmful information such as soft pornography for a long time. Over time, this can blur and distort their correct sexual cognition, and in severe cases, even trigger passionate crimes. The chaos urgently needs to be rectified.

Wearing revealing clothing and having an indecent posture

Easy to buy sexy figurines

Xiaoya is a 15-year-old female high school student. As an anime enthusiast, she usually likes to buy anime figurines. In the summer of 2023, Xiaoya purchased some "revealing clothing and indecent posture" figurine dolls from figurine stores and online platforms. Due to her addiction to figurines, her academic performance plummeted, and she was also targeted by the "big bad wolf" on the internet for being exposed to these inappropriate "contents" for minors too early. With the joint efforts of local prosecutors and parents, Xiaoya finally realized the problem and returned to normal learning and life.

The reporter noticed that the "sexy figurines" that Xiaoya has come into contact with can be purchased freely on online platforms.

The reporter searched multiple online shopping platforms using the keyword "figurine" and found that some of the figurine descriptions sold by online stores are all in Japanese, without the product name, manufacturer name, and address indicated in Chinese, which belongs to the "three no" product category and cannot be queried for execution standards and warning instructions. On the promotional images of some online stores, the handmade clothes are very revealing, and the store has hastily coded the private parts of the characters, but the text description indicates "removable" and "detachable". Some online stores will write "Contact customer service for pictures" on tempting product images. After contacting, customer service will send many photos of the figurine from various angles without clothes, including close-up shots of private parts. In addition, some online stores may only show the appearance of some figurines or code key parts, but there are still many people in the comment section below who display the complete content of the figurines in a "photo" format.

Even though some online stores indicate on their homepage in the form of pictures or text that "all figurines in our store are prohibited from being sold to minors" and "purchases under the age of 18 are prohibited", reporters have found that when making a real purchase, the store or platform does not ask the buyer's age, and online shopping accounts registered with minors' ID cards can also place orders without any obstacles.

According to public information, last year, relevant national departments conducted inspections on multiple e-commerce platforms and found that 9 platforms were selling indecent stationery and figurines to minors. According to incomplete statistics, there are over 30000 defective products, which are also labeled as suitable for minors such as "teenagers" and "students". Someone purchased several "pretty girl" figurines online with the label "suitable for teenagers (7 to 14 years old)", but the actual items they received were completely naked, with various sexual poses.

Offline, "sexy" figurines are also easily accessible to minors.

Ms. Li from Heping District, Tianjin told reporters that she now takes her child out to play and avoids the handicraft shop.

A while ago, my child just went on summer vacation, and I took him to the mall to play. At a figurine shop, I found that besides the figurines of anime characters such as Ultraman, One Piece, and Digimon, there were also many figurines with exposed chests or bare thighs. I wanted to hurry up and take my child out, but he still saw them, "Ms. Li said." Although my child is only about to enter the second grade of elementary school, he has already become aware of some things, such as asking the little people above me 'why are they wearing them like this' and' what is this posture for? '

Ms. Li told reporters that she later deliberately went to some toy stores and figurine shops to see them, and found that some of the figurines displayed in the stores were either dressed provocatively or in sexy poses, with "adult colors", and even some were sold together with children's toys. Can such figurines be sold publicly? I think at least a notice should be posted at the store entrance, or they should be separated from younger toys when displayed in the store

At the beginning of this year, prosecutors from the "Childhood Without Min" team of the People's Procuratorate of Minhang District, Shanghai, investigated and found that some shops had posted advertisements for figurines containing soft pornography content, selling soft pornography figurines without warning underage consumers and their parents. The "Beautiful Girl" humanoid billboard advertisement displayed in the first-hand shops within the jurisdiction, as well as the female characters on the posters of the girls' figurines posted in the shops, are dressed in thin clothing, with the design highlighting the private parts of women, and accompanied by the Japanese slogan "Girlfriend Lends You to Borrow Satisfaction 5". Some of the "Pretty Girl" series figurines have revealing clothing and sexy body movements, with strong sexual implications. There are many primary and secondary school students in the involved store, but no warning signs are posted inside the store. There are also many soft pornographic figurines sold to minors through online platforms, seriously affecting the physical and mental health of minors.

Platform pushes bad information

Massive traffic diversion in the comment section

Auntie, I often come across videos like this, it's really scary

At the beginning of this year, Ms. Lu, a resident of Changshu, Jiangsu, accidentally discovered that her 11 year old niece Xiaoyuan was often pushed with inappropriate content while watching anime videos. The covers of these anime works are quite normal, but when Xiao Yuan clicked on them, there were a lot of pornographic and sexually violent scenes, and the anime dubbing was also unbearable to listen to. Even when I saw such videos, I felt uncomfortable, let alone minors

Ms. Lu said that when Xiaoyuan registered her platform account, she clearly stated her age and "I don't know how the platform would push this kind of thing to minors".

In May of this year, Ms. Liu from Zhuji, Zhejiang discovered that her 12-year-old child had posted yellow emojis and short videos in the chat group of several of her friends. Some are naked anime girls sticking out their tongues, and some anime characters are having sexual intercourse. Because they are anime characters, the private parts of men and women are very exaggerated. I was shocked and don't know where the child found these things

After having a candid conversation with her son, Ms. Liu learned that these harmful resources come from the comment sections of anime websites, anime discussion groups, and other places where people often post pictures or text introductions to "attract traffic". For example, some people may send text such as "The sky is falling" and "Who still has it", accompanied by images of "The website you want to visit contains a large amount of illegal or irregular content and has been stopped". The reply below this comment contains many links to pornographic websites. Or someone may send a message saying 'This anime has been edited, click on my profile picture/click on my homepage to see the full version', and the result will be a semi transparent text in the profile picture with links to pornographic websites or only one or two works on the homepage, as a screenshot of the QR code for a social group sharing pornographic resources.

At first, I was curious, but after watching it once, I felt stimulated and couldn't control myself. "After a long conversation, Ms. Liu's son realized the problem, and Ms. Liu and her husband also decided to do sex education for their child at an age when they were" sexually confused ".

It is worth noting that during the investigation, the reporter found that when searching for "anime" and "figurines" on short video platforms and e-commerce platforms, some soft pornographic content is pushed to the front, while normal and healthy content needs to be flipped through several pages to be seen.

Interviewed experts believe that nowadays, the Internet has become an important tool for minors' leisure and entertainment. In this context, inappropriate content disguised as "anime" may make many minors relax their vigilance and quietly be eroded. Some platforms indiscriminately push inappropriate anime content to minors, which may have a negative impact on their physical and mental health.

The content related to pornography and violence may trigger problems such as precocious puberty and sexual crimes in minors, causing serious impacts on their mental health. Long term exposure to harmful content may lead to distorted values and indifferent moral concepts among minors. Wei Guanjie, a lawyer at Beijing Yinghe (Guangzhou) Law Firm who has long been concerned about children's mental health, told reporters that minors are easily exposed to soft pornography products and information, which exposes some problems in supervision and other aspects: firstly, the enforcement of laws and regulations is ineffective. Although there are relevant laws and regulations in China that regulate the protection of minors and the management of online content, there may be loopholes or insufficient enforcement in actual implementation, which can give criminals an opportunity to take advantage. Secondly, the regulatory mechanism is not perfect. There may be problems with multiple departments such as cultural departments, market supervision departments, and internet information departments managing and unclear responsibilities, resulting in low regulatory efficiency and inability to timely and effectively detect and crack down on illegal activities. Thirdly, the main responsibility of the platform is not fully implemented. Some online platforms may neglect their social and legal responsibilities in the pursuit of commercial interests, and lack effective review and management of harmful content on the platform. There may be vicious competition between platforms, relaxing content review standards in order to attract users, and even tacitly approving or condoning the spread of harmful content.

Clarify standards and strengthen supervision

Develop and implement age appropriate guidelines

According to the website of the Ministry of Public Security, in 2023, public security organs across the country cracked 84 cases of online child pornography, 17 cases of producing and disseminating pornographic novels, comics, games, and figurines, and seized more than 17000 pornographic games, comics, and animations.

With the arrival of summer vacation, how can children avoid being exposed to content that is not their age while fully resting and entertaining themselves?

Yu Zhiyun, a lawyer at Beijing Cube (Shenzhen) Law Firm and senior advisor to the Education and Unprotected Committee of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association, believes that anime and game peripheral products are not children's toys in nature, but rather consumer goods without age restrictions. Therefore, the production and sale of such products should be in accordance with regulations such as the Consumer Rights Protection Law and the Product Quality Law. On the one hand, clear labels such as "age limit" and "use purpose" should be set up. On the other hand, if the product itself has obvious exposure, pornography and other factors, and is identified by professional institutions as "obscene materials", then the producer and seller may be guilty of producing, selling, and disseminating obscene materials for profit.

Yu Zhiyun said that the "Regulations on the Governance of Network Information Content Ecology" have made clear provisions on the legal responsibilities that network information content producers, network information content service platforms, and other entities should bear. The act of intentionally selling pornographic and violent resources to minors through drainage is already a violation and can be punished accordingly by the relevant competent authorities. If the resource is identified as "obscene materials" and reaches a certain quantity, it may also constitute the crime of producing, selling, and disseminating obscene materials for profit as mentioned above. The relevant competent department may transfer the case clues to the judicial organs. If it meets the standards for filing and prosecution, it may be criminally prosecuted and held criminally responsible in accordance with the law.

Detailed regulations should be introduced to address soft pornography products and information, including category standards, review standards, sales requirements, etc., to enhance regulatory operability, eliminate ambiguity, and promote regulation that is' visible and achievable ', "said Yu Zhiyun.

Yuan Fang, partner of Beijing Kangda (Haikou) Law Firm and consultant lawyer of the "12355 Hainan Youth Service Desk" legal advisory team of the Hainan Provincial Youth League Committee, suggested that relevant government departments should strengthen the supervision of the market for anime games and their peripheral products, curb them from the source, require peripheral products that do not meet standards to be prohibited from being launched, deleted, rectified, and investigate and punish illegal production and sales activities. Anime and related enterprises should strengthen self-restraint, comply with laws and regulations, and not produce or sell products harmful to minors, such as strengthening product labeling and implementing age appropriate reminder requirements. The platform should establish a strict content review mechanism, utilize technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to improve its ability to identify and filter out illegal content, and reduce the spread of harmful information.

Wei Guanjie suggests that families and schools should cooperate to jointly pay attention to the online situation of minors, as well as their related physiological, psychological, and behavioral habits, to prevent minors from being exposed to harmful or potentially affecting their physical and mental health through online information, to reasonably arrange the time for minors to use the internet, and to prevent and intervene in minors' addiction to the internet. Schools can offer relevant courses to educate and guide students; Parents should take on the responsibility of guardianship, attach importance to family ethics construction, and guide minors to use the internet safely and reasonably. At the social level, encourage public participation in regulation, timely report violations, use social media and public platforms for public opinion supervision, and create a good atmosphere of social governance.

Manga/Gao Yue