In Osaka, Japan, there is a strange little store called "Reverse Transformation Store". Look at the name seems to be a styling transformation store, but once inside, the customer is greeted by two silicone dolls. Further inside, you can see a white coffin, next to two candles lit. Inside the coffin, there was a doll with eyes wide open! What, what the thing ah, the first time customers will come in exclaim.
Funeral For Sex Dolls
In fact, this is the service provided by this small store. They specialize in organizing funerals for discarded silicone dolls - how the funeral of the living, how the funeral of the doll. The manager of the store is the photographer Leia Xin, a woman who claims to "love and hate humans". She knows many people who use silicone dolls and often have to throw them away for various reasons. But how to throw them away is a big problem. If you throw them in the trash, it would be embarrassing to be seen by passers-by. If you cut the dolls into pieces and throw them away, hey, you can't bear to, so many days and nights, they have feelings. If the doll is secretly thrown away during the night, this may work, but it is likely to be mistaken for a corpse by passers-by ......
After learning about their difficulties, Leiaxin felt that she could help out. She opened this small store in 2017 to undertake "sex doll funeral services". Customers who want to say goodbye to their dolls need to book a package on the store's website first. The cheapest 5,000 yen (about $35), including only the posthumous photos (that is, the doll placed in the coffin to take a picture); the most expensive 90,000 yen (about $625), including posthumous photos, memorial services, funeral certificates, funeral videos and photos, as well as the doll's body processing. They will dismantle the doll into parts for preservation, rather than handing it over to an industrial waste disposal company for shredding, as in other packages. Online, customers need to say with them whether they will come to the site to say goodbye. If they come, Leyasin and the store staff will also be very considerate not to ask more than one word to protect the privacy of customers. The doll's funeral is similar to a normal person's funeral, with a monk officiating. The monk is a transgender porn actress named Kato, who converted to Buddhism a few years ago.
Leyasin said that no one she knows understands the bond between sex dolls and their owners better than Kato. When the dolls come into the store, they are first cleaned, dressed in mourning clothes and placed in a coffin. Then, Kato sits on her knees and recites the incantation and does the puja. Everyone joins hands and observes a moment of silence. Then, Leahya Shin would read a eulogy written by the owner, recalling how the doll had added beauty to the world in her short waifu life. In the heavy atmosphere, the coffin board gradually closed, the whole funeral is over. (The coffin is reused, after which the doll is taken out of it and shipped to a disposal company.) "They really loved them." Lea New said in an interview with the Spanish news agency, "They treat the dolls as if they were part of their family, like human beings. The owners of these dolls, who are very nice people, just have too low self-esteem. They long to change, to be accepted, to be loved. This desire is so strong that it makes them give the dolls a decent funeral and complete the whole process."
Transforming Real People Into Sex Dolls
In addition to funerals for dolls, Leahyin's small store also offers a service to transform real people into sex dolls. "Real people into dolls" was originally a common photography project in which Leahyin wanted to show the similarities between human and inanimate objects. But as she continued to shoot, she was approached by many women who said they wanted to experience what it was like to be a doll. In order to make the experience more realistic, Leyasin stipulates that customers who choose this service need to forget themselves for a while when they enter the store. Try not to speak, and do not ask, and most of them will not be met. Leyasin will give them a cute makeup, a wig and a doll name. They need to take the doll's name as their real name. After the makeup is done, Leyasin will ask the customers to keep their bodies stiff and put them in a cardboard box full of plastic wrap. Once inside the cardboard box, they become "real dolls". After a period of time in the carton (which is not completely sealed), Leahyin opens the carton as if it were a sex doll carton. Then, one by one, she breaks the hands and legs of the "dolls". Then, with her hands on the back of the "doll", sitting up. After the box is opened, the "dolls" lose all control of their bodies, and Leahyin will take pictures of them and manipulate them as if they were works of art. This is the whole process of the service. Although it looks very strange to the onlookers, the experience is very good.
One of them is a 39-year-old single nurse, Ai Kinako. She came all the way from Tokyo and said she wanted to be beautiful and loved and cherished, "just like a sex doll. So, she was put into a cardboard box like a sex doll and then unboxed, and came with a "doll instruction" along with the doll's name and number. After completing her transformation, she felt complete. She said that 15 years ago, she had witnessed her boyfriend hang himself, and without love and security, the thought of suicide had haunted her. Now, she feels that the thought is gone.
