Where is the bottom line of "spoof candy toys"?
Parents: Low-level taste is not an innovative expert: Soft pornographic products are suspected of illegal
● The online sale of sex-related "spoof candy toys" is not innovative, but nasty and inferior. It should be resisted, and children must not be allowed to live in a sexually suggestive, pornographic environment
● Minors are still immature and curious about sex. If they lack the correct guidance, they will be easily misled by pornography, distorting the "Three Views", affecting their health, studies and social interactions, and even embarking on the road of illegal crimes.
● Relevant departments should strengthen the supervision and investigation of manufacturers, curb "spoof candy toys" from the source; strengthen the rectification of e-commerce platforms and businesses, and purify children's growth space
□ Our reporter Han Dandong
□ Guan Chuyu, an intern of our newspaper
Not long ago, Ms. Zhang from Shenzhen, Guangdong Province found a pile of suspected "family planning supplies" boxes in the bedside storage box of her 14-year-old son. A closer look revealed that the contents were actually a kind of "spoof candy".
After the incident was reported, it caused a lot of social attention and discussion.
A reporter from the Rule of Law Daily found that the "spoof candies" discovered by Ms. Zhang is a set of candies sold on some e-commerce platforms. There are many types of these "spoof candies", many of which are related to sex, and some are related to sex. It is even directly related to the shape of the sexual organs, and the price ranges from a few dollars to dozens of dollars.
In addition to "spoof candies", there are also a lot of "spoof toys" on sale that play soft and pornographic sideballs, such as "tinting dolls" and so on.
Many parents from Beijing, Tianjin, and Fujian said in interviews that it is necessary to provide appropriate sex education to their children, and schools can carry out relevant education according to their children's age and acceptance level.
However, children must not be allowed to live in a sexually suggestive and pornographic environment. Selling sex-related "spoof candy toys" online is not an innovation but a bad taste and low-level taste. It should be resisted.
Interviewed experts pointed out that minors are still immature and curious about sex. If they lack the correct guidance, they are easily misled by pornography, distorting the "three views", affecting their health, academics and social interactions, and even committing crimes. the way.
Call on relevant departments to strengthen law enforcement, supervise and rectify "spoof candy toys".
E-commerce platform sales
Can be shipped confidentially
Reporters searched on multiple e-commerce platforms with "spoof gifts" as keywords. Not only products such as "brain fragments", "dog shit candy", and "simulated poop" popped up, but also "sets of gummies" and "sex poses" "Gummy, Ding Ding Pillow" and other sex-related commodities.
A shop called "Candy Mall" is selling a "spoof and tricky lollipop". The price of a candy plus gift box is 13.8 yuan, there are 5 flavors, and the monthly sales volume is 100+.
The merchant also coded some sensitive parts of the picture on the product detail page, and marked "too realistic, not suitable for display" text, but the shape is actually clear at a glance.
The shop also sells other "spoof candies", some of which are directly indecent and even sexual positions, making it impossible to look directly at them.
At the same time, the reporter noticed that some businesses have also worked hard on the outer packaging.
Take the "soft candy set" as an example. Its outer packaging is very similar to the real condom packaging. The cover of the box is also printed with "Love sex", "Ultra-thin, ultra-slim and more sensitive". If you are not careful It's hard to tell.
On another e-commerce platform, the online shop "Creative Unlimited Gift Shop" sells more than 2,000 "sets of soft candies" each month. The price of a single box gift box is 15.92 yuan, and the price of a three-box gift box is 31.84 yuan. .
There are many styles to choose from on the product details page, including "sanitary napkin cotton candy" and so on.
On the e-commerce platform of ordering, the online store "Huicheng Home Furnishing Store" sells "Sanitary Napkin Gummy". The unit price is 17.86 yuan and the sales volume reaches 100,000+. Many consumers said that they bought it for the whole Gu friends.
And on the wholesale website, this kind of products is even more dazzling, and the price is cheaper. For example, buying 100 boxes of "soft candies" only costs 5.8 yuan per box.
Some business remarks can write greeting cards and deliver goods confidentially.
The reporter asked the customer service of one of the merchants how to deliver goods confidentially?
The customer service replied: "The express delivery will be confidential, the store name will not be displayed, the SMS notification will not be sent, no price list or product distribution list will be placed, and the consignment item will be remarked "candy"."
The reporter saw in the comment area that some netizens commented: "It's really similar to a real set. My mother saw that I bought it and almost beat me to death. I explained it several times before she believed it."
In addition to candy, there are toys.
A store called "Xianfu Maternal and Child Products Flagship Store" sold "Ding Ding Pillow" with a sales volume of 100,000 +, and the price was between 12.67 yuan and 36.13 yuan.
In the product details page, it says "Girl XX sleeping in a hug", and the reporter noticed that the merchants in the suitable age group marked "over 6 years old".
In addition, the reporter found that the merchant was also selling fun playing cards. There were many types to choose from. They were classified into "rolling sheets", "approximate bubble words", "fangzhongshu" and other categories. The patterns and texts in the middle of the playing cards are all Very explicit.
The price of a single box is a few dollars.
Tricky classmates and friends
Teacher and parents objected
"I gave it to my buddy in front of all the classmates after class. The effect was very good. He has been'community dead'. Now his classmates call him ××× (sex-related nickname)." "It's so realistic! Many people said that they were cheated by me, and my classmates watched me eat and were scared."... The reporter browsed the comment section of these "spoof candy toys" and found that many consumers were minors, and their purchase was to prank classmates and friends .
Regarding the "spoof candy toy", the young people interviewed have different opinions. Some think it is fun and innocuous; some think it is deformed and tasteless and has no bottom line.
Many parents and teachers interviewed clearly expressed their opposition to the sale of sex-related sweets and toys online.
Hebei University student Lin Jia (pseudonym) told reporters that he saw a short video on the short video platform where the blogger shot his boyfriend's "rich woman contact information" spoofed notebook, so he wanted to buy one, but found a sexual organ when searching on the e-commerce platform The shape of the soft candy, "I was shocked at the time and felt very disgusting. There should be a limit to spoofing, not bottomless."
Student Meng from North China Electric Power University felt that there was no need to make a fuss about it. It was fun and creative. It was a joy. Moreover, it is now an open society, and sex is not a secret topic that can't be talked about at all.
During the interview, many parents pointed out that creativity cannot break through the bottom line of morality, and cannot violate public order and good customs.
"The vast majority of parents would not want their children to hold such sex-related candies and toys." Mr. Liu, a Beijing resident whose children go to elementary school, said that unscrupulous merchants are unscrupulous in order to make profits. Mainly young people, using sex to increase sales is shameless and will pollute the pure hearts of children.
Tianjin citizen Ms. Wang’s child goes to junior high school. In her opinion, the child should be given sexual health education, but sexual suggestion and pornography are not sexual health education. This kind of explicit sex-related goods is vulgar and vulgar and goes against Chinese traditions. Moral concepts.
Teacher Chen from Yangjiang, Guangdong is a fifth-grade class teacher in elementary school. She said that she has never seen students eat this kind of "spoof candy" or play with "spoof toys" because the school stipulates that no snacks and toys can be brought into the campus.
"But'spoof candy toys' are definitely not suitable for minors. These products play pornographic sideballs and appear explicit and vulgar, which is a bad sexual suggestion for children. Minors are curious and like to imitate. Such things are easy to deal with. Its healthy growth has a negative impact." Mr. Chen said that some merchants deliberately create some popular products for the sake of sales, and they have no sense of social responsibility.
The sale is suspected of being illegal
Urgent need for supervision and remediation
"Minors are still immature and curious about sex. If they lack the correct guidance, they will be easily misled by pornography, distorting the'Three Views', affecting their health and academics, and hindering normal social interactions, or even becoming illegal. The road to crime.” said Zheng Ning, director of the Law Department of the School of Cultural Industry Management, Communication University of China.
Zheng Ning told reporters that the sale of these "spoof candy toys" was suspected of violating laws such as the Food Safety Law and the Advertising Law.
The Advertising Law stipulates: Products must not interfere with public order or violate good social customs; they must not contain obscenity, pornography, gambling, superstition, terror, or violence.
The Food Safety Law stipulates that the labels and instructions of food and food additives must not contain false content, and must not involve disease prevention and treatment functions.
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said that these "spoof candy toys" are in a gray area in society, and most people don't pay much attention to it. Some teenagers may come into contact with these things out of curiosity. Schools and parents have found that they should actively guide them; and If some young people have psychological problems themselves, exposure may have a greater negative impact, or even commit crimes.
How to solve this problem?
Many parents expressed the hope that relevant departments will strengthen supervision and investigation of manufacturers to contain this problem from the source; strengthen the rectification of e-commerce platforms and businesses, and purify children's growth space.
Zheng Ning puts forward three suggestions: First, schools and parents should work together to give children correct guidance, strengthen scientific sex education, and sex education should be started from an early age; second, online platforms should prohibit the spread of obscene and pornographic information, and use Technology and manual methods are used to filter and delete illegal information in a timely manner; third, relevant government departments should increase law enforcement, resolutely crack down on illegal activities, and encourage the public to report complaints and supervision.
"It is recommended to conduct strict hierarchical management and strict implementation of the e-commerce platform." Chu Zhaohui said that strict implementation is not only dependent on one or two departments, but a relatively standardized and strict management system, and each link should have a corresponding The person in charge has clear responsibilities and powers.