i-doloids! Love Dolls for Japan and the rest of the world
Today I stumbled across i-doloid magazine, which is Japanese Playboy Magazine for love dolls—the clever name of the magazine is a spoof on the i-Everything fad and the Japan-engrish word “idol” (アイドル; aidoru). Better than the real thing, hee, hee.
When I was looking for pictures of love dolls, I noticed that the Kokoro Dreams website has changed recently and is pushing “maid” and sex themes (rather than robo-receptionists). The 3Yen has covered this before in “My Girl in Tokyo” as well as other times.
This all reminded me somehow about an interview with the “official” supplier of love dolls to Japan’s Japanese Antarctic Research Station, Hideo Tsuchiya, president of Orient Industry. The maker was very proud and straightforward that his dolls were being fucked by Japan’s “elite” scientists. He referred to the fact that he was the leading edge of Japan’s “world-beating care industry” and that he was “helping the handicapped” from the Mainichi’s report of December 11, 2003 entitled, “Durable love dolls turn amazing tricks, but at a fat price. A precious quote of president Tsuchiya went as follows:
Company [Orient Industry] employees say dolls brought in for disposal are not being dumped, but instead have “come home.” “Daughters who come home to us tell us much about the treatment they have received while away from us. You can see it on the face of daughters who’ve been treated well,” Tsuchiya tells Asahi Geino. “Our prodigal daughters are taken to the nearby temple, where we say mantras for them.”
UPDATE:Author Cory Doctorow just posted this about science fiction great Warren Ellis’s angry, profane take on the Three Laws of Robotics. 
2. Robots do not want to have sex with you. Are you listening, Japan? I don’t have a clever comparative simile for this, because frankly you bags of meat will fuck bicycles if they’re laying down and not putting up a fight. Just stop it. There is no robot on Earth that wants to see a bag of meat with a small prong on the end approaching it with a can of WD-40 and a hopeful smile. And don’t get me started on that terrifying hole that squeezes out more bags of meat.
…more… warrenellis.com
The photo above is from the 3Yen report:
‘Milky Lovers’: love doll brothel for Akihabara otaku
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December 13th, 2006 at 6:44 am
i forget… is there a place in akihabara where they rent? and thinking in equal opportunity way. are there male love dolls yet?
December 13th, 2006 at 8:01 am
Hi Tim!
There are many shops that rent in Tokyo–not just “Akiba”, but rental men are rare as far as I can tell. They do sell “boyfriend arm pillows” for women in Japan—those are a big mainstream seller.
March 25th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Why are they called Dutch Wives?
Japansugoi.com
more-on-japanese-adult-love-dolls-called-dutch-wives
I still don’t get it.
March 25th, 2007 at 11:40 am
The term “Dutch Wife” (’datch waifu‘) originates from the insulting British term, for the thick rattan or bamboo bolster, used to aid sleep in humid countries of Asia by keeping one’s limbs lifted above sweaty sheets.
When the term was first used, the Dutch and English were beginning a fight over the control of Malaysia and the south Asian region. There are many of these insults dating from the Anglo-Dutch Wars and colonial rivalries*.
*In 1824, the United Kingdom/British took control of Malacca following the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 which divided the Malaya archipelago between Britain and the Netherlands, with Malaya in the British zone.
June 1st, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Will Hideo Tsuchiya’s dolls ever be available to the rest of the world? Or are there any other companies that sell dolls of this quality?
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:38 am
RealDoll(tm) is the most famous.
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealDoll
The RealDoll is a life-size sex sex doll manufactured by Abyss Creations in San Marcos, California, and sold worldwide.
http://www.realdoll.com/
The RealDoll has a durable, posable PVC skeleton with steel joints and silicone flesh, which is arguably the state-of-the-art for life-like human body simulation. Prices begin at around $6500 US, with some models costing over $10,000 US.
The Mechadoll company once offered a model named Sophie and now produces one called Leeloo. These are considered by some to be at least as good as a RealDoll in reproducing the female anatomical shape and feel. As of mid-summer 2006, the Leeloo doll was to be manufactured by MyPartyDoll of Lakewood, California.
SuperBabe, by N/C Dimensioning, was at one time the closest competitor in the U.S. to the RealDoll. However, the company has temporarily ceased doll manufacture. In comparison to RealDoll, SuperBabe did not offer extensive customization of its doll, but it was slightly less expensive.
The CybOrgasMatrix doll, created from a lifecasting of the body of Pandora Peaks, is made of an gel. This material has significant advantages over silicone in softness, elasticity, tear resistance, and shape memory.
Silicone Doll Works is another manufacturer of dolls based in the U.S. Similar to Abyss Creations, they offer torsos< and the option of exchangeable heads. Their Sexy 18 doll uses a Fleshlight as the receptacle for the user’s penis.
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Or, make your own!
January 9th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Ah! A friend of mine translated an Orient Industries field trip and they even take you into the factory to see how the girls are made (or is that “maid” ;)) We present to you : Until You Get a Real Woman – Love Doll Factory Tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEch_17CdpU
I can’t rememeber if this video has been posted in the past.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:24 am
lol. this is freakin’ hilarious:D why do they do this? freaks!
March 19th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Nothing wrong with this, at all, people should get it more.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Love your site—might borrow a little for my own website if you don’t mind
May 18th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Ok, Mr/Ms “RebornDoll.”
Check out the “Puppet Show.”