The Perfect Modern Girlfriend
As a "special companion", sex dolls have been on the market for decades and have a huge fan base. New York photographer Stacy Leigh has a collection of 12 dolls, each worth more than $5,000. Recently, she used the camera to make these lifeless dolls "come to life". Stacey used the sex dolls as her photographic models, dressing them in fashionable clothes and adding delicate makeup to show the "model" charm.
Stacey says she has been a collector of fashionable rag dolls since she was a child. When she became an adult, she began buying life-size sex dolls to use as models for her photographs. The sex dolls in her photo project are worth up to £4,000. Stacy dresses them up as party queens or V.I.P. angels, and the dolls strike very sexy poses, almost like real models. Compared to real-world girls, the sex dolls are good-looking, sexy, don't cry, and are "the best partners". Stacey's work has been well received since its release, with some users claiming that she has brought life to the dolls. Stacey herself is very happy with the photos and said she will continue to work hard to show the beauty of the dolls.
In addition to the hobby, many collectors treat their dolls as their only companions, some with their own special hobbies and others sad because of the loss of their loved ones. The man in the photo, Dillman, for example, lost his wife to cancer and has not found a significant other since, so he customized a doll companion based on his ex-wife's appearance, and his daughter knows about the doll's existence. Custom sex dolls are not cheap, with prices ranging from $6,500 to $50,000. Phil quit smoking for a year before he bought Tracy, whose existence is known to Phil's friends, and he says he doesn't care what people think of him.
A 60-year-old British man has collected 240 sex dolls at a cost of £100,000. He said he collected the dolls purely for the sake of collecting them and had no interest in them. He gave each doll a name, took them out to play and passed the time with afternoon tea. His wife not only does not object to her husband's special hobby, but also likes to buy new clothes, wigs and cosmetics for the dolls. A 50-year-old engineer from Tokyo, Japan, even rented an apartment, dedicated to the collection of sex dolls. He says he has more than 100 dolls and he is the most active doll lover on Doll Forum, the world's largest doll forum, with some Internet users calling him "the most blessed doll geek in history.
The Father Of Modern Sex Dolls
All of the above are modern sex dolls, but sex dolls were used in political struggles at the beginning of their existence. Belmer, known as the father of the modern sex doll, devoted his life to rebellion against art, patriarchy, and hegemony, especially against the Nazi ideology that emerged in Germany in the 1930s.
When his wife became increasingly weakened by tuberculosis, Bellmer was attracted to his niece Ursula, who was caring for her attentively, but he understood that he could not have any relationship with her, but he was inspired by Oskar Kokoschka (the inventor of the first sex doll) to realize this dream. He started making sex dolls of his own and with the support of his mother, he and his brothers Fritz and Lopitzer made his first sex doll in 1933.
The Humble First Sex Doll
The body of this sex doll was made of a broom handle and part of a metal bar, with a wooden outer shell. Unlike in the past, this doll was hollow and not filled with cotton wool or rags. To further express his artistic vision, Belmer took the doll apart and rearranged it in a series of sensual poses to express his fantasies, and took many photographs of the doll to do so.
In 1934, Ursula brought these photographs to Paris and showed them to the surrealist pioneers of the time. We don't know if she knew that Belmer made the doll out of a fascination with her, and we don't know what else happened after this family. What we do know is that by the time Ursula returned from Paris in 1935, Belmer had completed a second version of the sex doll.
An Improved Sex Doll
The second version of the sex doll was an improvement on the first doll, a new type of doll with movable joints and a twistable waist. Belmer said, "The body is much sexier." And in what surrealists claim, Belmer's doll image was used as a metaphor for an attack on the rigid dictatorship of the Nazi state. But what most people saw was strange. Belmer broke with the prevailing image of the sex doll, rearranging his characters in a fetishistic and lustful way that allayed his fears of division and expressed his creativity. In 1937, he created a third sex doll, but this time it was even more bizarre and terrifying. It looked a little scary and most people would not want to own it. The sex doll was reduced to a tool for expressing various ideas in the hands of the surrealists. In fact, each owner was able to express their own ideological ideas with the doll, as reflected in the different costumes they gave the doll, and it is not much of a deviation from the line of development of the doll in the hands of different people. Of course, more people are attracted by its original practical value.
When we make modifications to cute sex dolls, it is difficult to avoid incorporating our own emotional ideas, but it is important to note that it is all based on the love for them, and if it is distorted, scandalized, or even destroyed to achieve a particular political purpose, it should not be, and this should be resisted and severely criticized.
