Meanwhile, Reuters (
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...070718?sp=true ) adds:
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Orient Industry Co. now makes 80 dolls a month in an eastern Tokyo factory to nine designs that sell for between $850 and $5,500 each. The more expensive models are made of silicon and have 35 movable joints.
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Many have parted lips, prominent breasts and are shown splayed across beds or chairs in poses similar to those adopted by prostitutes in sex shops.
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Well they never nag, never get jealous of each other, and I've head the new models even have internal heating systems.
But seriously, to have this as an "emotional outlet" seems to me to indicate a stunted, warped and pathological emotional status. He's not hurting anyone but himself, so I wouldn't oppose it, but I don't think it's healthy.
Now for something
really icky. I've heard, but cannot confirm, that there are robo-bothels where you can hire these things
by the hour. Eiiiuuwww. Raises all sorts of issues of hygiene and maintenance. Eiiiuuwww.