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Sex Dolls In China
Treated As Members
of The Family
Custom-made sex dolls are being brought in China to be more than a toy, they are used as fami- ly companions.
Businessman Zhenguo Yu lives in a small town in Southwest China with his teenage son and their 11 sex dolls.
It has been years since the Chinese man has been with an actual woman. With his lack of success with romantic relation- ships, he turned to sex dolls for companionship, he told Quartz News.
"Whenever I order custom- made dresses for them, the tailors would think I'm joking because the measure- ments are far from the normal size of a human," Yu told Quartz, as he revealed
multiple outfits he had brought for his sex dolls.
"Nobody has such big boobs and a small waist."
In China, there are 34 million more men than women according to the latest cen- sus which is par- tially a result of the previous one- child policy. This has resulted in men turning to sex dolls for com- panionship.
The dolls that are made to look as realistic as possi- ble cost around US$2000 ($3120) each on Taobao, China's largest online shopping platform. The website has esti- mated that around 1500 sex dolls are sold on the site every day.
Although there is no exact number of how many
people in China own the dolls, Yu, who has built an online following among the com- munity of the sex doll owners esti- mates that num- ber to be at least six digits.
Yu's photos he shares online of his dolls posed on outings and in photoshoots are praised in com- ments by a grow- ing community of
sex doll owners in China. He is so well respected in the doll communi- ty that some have asked Yu to adopt their dolls when they get married because they know that the dolls will be in good hands.
His care for his original sex dolls is part of the rea- son why he has ended up with so many.
Yu previously ran a company that fixed TVs and sound boxes which has allowed him to make and sell adaptors for the sex dolls that allow customers to mix and match the heads and bodies made by different manu- facturers.
"If dolls can speak and move
just like humans, I bet all men would prefer to spend their life with dolls," Yu revealed.
Artificial intelli- gence sex dolls are currently in development by a company in China due to China's rapidly growing sex toy industry.
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