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Posted on November 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Shein bans sex dolls and suspends adult products after French authorities find childlike dolls, aiming for compliance.
PARIS (Reuters) -Chinese online retailer Shein said on Monday it imposed a full ban on sex dolls on its marketplace and temporarily delisted the "adult products" category after French consumer watchdog spotted childlike sex dolls two days ago.
France's Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs, and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) had said late on Saturday it spotted the dolls on the website along with several other pornographic items such as adult-looking sex dolls, and had reported the matter to judicial authorities.
(Reporting by Inti Landauro, editing by Helen Reid)
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