Justin Lee Collins visited a real doll factory in Japan
and they did make kid versions. The owner of the factory gave the very reason you've just mentioned.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 18 May 2012, 13:51, 1 reply)

sure
that a reporter i used to know heard in court that paedos' possession of child porn helped him avoid acting out his fantasies in real life (that was the actual excuse)
(fivetide, Fri 18 May 2012, 14:01, closed)

Did it work?
I think probably not.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 18 May 2012, 14:11, closed)

In fact, in studies of convicted paedophiles in New England many of the subjects progressed from child porn to real offences (the average time from 1st viewing child porn to molesting their first actual child was just under a year).
I guess the process goes: whet the appetite: fantasise about children - Seek visual stimulus of children being molested when fantasy is no longer enough - molest children when the porn ceases to stimulate you sufficiently (ie when you've seen it all, and now want to do it)
(JennaTaylor is gleaming like a well oiled Danny DeVito, Sun 20 May 2012, 15:39, closed)

Ah, just like many crack addicts progressed from pot.
And many serial killers progressed from breathing and eating.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, eh?
(EvilTerran rearranged his letters on, Wed 23 May 2012, 9:32, closed)