It’s the Chinese turn to be Weird Asians of the Week.
An AFP-Jiji article doing the rounds promises that “high-end China sex dolls offer alternative to adultery”. Well, nothing wrong with that. Japan has been doing it for years!
Still, we think they need to do better branding. Apparently the “stand-in companion” is simply called “156″. Hardly has the same ring as “Candy Girl”, does it?
Named for her height, she is a high-quality sex doll made of thermoplastic elastomer, a rubbery material softer than silicone, with adjustable hands, a removable head and genitals, and available from specialist shops in Beijing for around $2,500.
Elastomer is used in Japan for many masturbator toys but the best dolls are actually made of silicone, as opposed to latex in America.
The article focuses on the clients for the Chinese dolls.
Liu has been married for more than a decade, and does not want to be unfaithful, but still needs to satisfy his sexual appetite.
“Honestly, it is very easy to just pay a little money to find a woman in China, but I simply cannot bring myself to cheat on my wife, so I have never considered it,” he said with a nervous laugh.
But a blow-up alternative was not an option.
“There was no way I would have sex with that kind of cheap inflatable plastic,” he said.
Instead he forked out 15,800 yuan, almost a month’s pay, for his more realistic Chinese-made 156.
Her removable parts make cleaning or replacement easier, but despite lengthy prior research — Liu can explain subtle differences between an exhaustive list of Chinese and foreign doll brands — he was disappointed.
“As an industrial designer I can’t neglect the lack of realistic details,” he lamented. “So I just used it a few times.
“The only way a doll is better than a woman is that it won’t resist, so people can do whatever they want with it,” he added.
Not realistic or detailed enough? He should have tried an Orient Industry model!
The article claims that sometimes it is even users’ wives who make the purchase.
“The Chinese sex toy market is estimated at up to 100 billion yuan per year,” it says, though that hasn’t been without pressure from the puritanical Communist Party.
The one-child policy has also led to too many men and not enough men.
“Many young men in China have difficulty finding girlfriends or socializing with women… That’s why they might use a doll as (a) replacement.”
