
Over the weekend, France’s anti-consumer fraud agency, the Directorate General of Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF), published an explosive press release about Shein, alleging that the Singapore-based, Chinese-founded e-commerce giant “was marketing child-like sex dolls.”
Other publications have since published safe-for-work photos of the dolls and, yep, they look like children. Mercifully, it’s not at all clear where the “sex” part comes in just from…

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