US EditionShein Removes Childlike Sex Dolls After French Watchdog Complaint
- On Saturday, France's DGCCRF reported Asian e-commerce giant Shein to French prosecutors and Arcom for selling 'sex dolls with a childlike appearance'.
- Le Parisien published a photo showing the dolls measuring around 80cm and holding a teddy bear alongside an explicitly sexual caption, while DGCCRF said the description makes it hard to doubt the child pornography nature.
- Responding to the report, the company said `The products in question were immediately delisted as soon as we became aware of these serious issues` and launched an internal inquiry while reviewing third-party vendors.
- At BHV Marais, the planned Shein store opening on Wednesday sparked outrage, with some top fashion brands pulling their products from the store.
- Against a backdrop of rapid recent growth, EU lawmakers have moved to scrutinize Shein, which France fined three times in 2025 for a total of 191 million, as the European Commission investigates.
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France threatens to ban Shein over child-like sex dolls
France threatened to ban Shein for selling child-like sex dolls. The Chinese e-commerce giant promised to cooperate with investigators who were alerted by an anonymous tip about the dolls — sold by third-party vendors — on Shein’s marketplace. The controversy further inflamed tensions in Paris over Shein’s plan to open its first-ever brick-and-mortar location in a department store this week. Other brands have boycotted the Parisian shopping cent…
France investigates Shein over underage access to porn content | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
PARIS >> Online retail platforms Shein, Temu, AliExpress and Wish are being investigated in France for alleged rule breaches that include minors being able to access pornographic content via their marketplaces, the Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday.
In the shop windows of the BHV shopping center, in central rue de Rivoli, in Paris, the posters announce a world premiere: the opening of Shein’s first physical shop, the Asian fast fashion giant. The trade opens this Wednesday in the middle of a scandal, after the French justice has opened an investigation into the sale of sex dolls looking like girls on this platform. Continue reading
The Chinese platforms Shein, Aliexpress and Temu, in addition to the US Wish, are in the spotlight in France for selling sex dolls or spreading pornographic content without filters for minors, which in the case of the first one led the government to threaten to ban access to it after discovering its offer of some models with childish appearance. “I want to be very clear: if these behaviors are repeated, we will have the right to request that the…
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