Police investigations were halted in a small town south of Sydney, Australia, after a suspected human corpse found in a suitcase was identified as a sex doll. Two weeks ago, citizens discovered what they believed to be a mangled body and alerted local police, who issued a statement confirming the discovery of a body in a suitcase.
However, a day later, forensic analysis revealed the 'body' was a sex doll, complete with fake bruises, left on a dirt road. Given the doll's mature appearance, police ceased their investigations. In Australia, the UK, and some other European countries, owning a sex doll is not illegal unless it resembles a child.
The global sex doll market was valued at US$6.6bn in 2025 and is projected to reach US$13.4bn by 2033. Johannes Fuss, chair of forensic psychiatry and sex research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, noted that the research on whether doll use is protective or increases real-world offending risk remains inconclusive.