Posted on June 23, 2008 - by Lance Ong

How Could You Love a Zombie?

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In this article, I am leading on from the previous one about Evolving Sexual Preferences, a social phenomenon where men are taking on artificial lovers as opposed to live breathing women.

Some people question whether a person who loves such dolls is in their right state of mind. Like the 42 year old engineer, Tabo, (video in the previous article) who owns a harem of one hundred sex dolls… is he just lonely or has he lost it?

I don’t mean to be offensive and we should be sensitive to why such a social phenomenon is developing.

Currently, having sex with a love doll might seem like doing it with a corpse. The doll’s body is cold and dead still; it stares at you blankly while you grope its silicone parts.

Despite the oddness of such interaction, I would reason that to love a love doll is normal. How can this be so? How could someone love a mannequin? There are at least two reasons.

Let’s watch this video to find out:

Non-Human Eroticism and Fetishism (documentary)

How’s the video? I like the part where the doll is sitting around the house without her head.

From this documentary, we understand that nature has programmed man with a biological mechanism which makes woman attractive to him. However, this biological mechanism is primitive and can be easily fooled.

The mating instinct is triggered by signs and stimuli coming through the five senses. Men look for a pretty face (genetic compatibility), bust size (for nurturing babies), wait-to-hip ratio (fertility and birthing success rate), a melodic voice (high estrogen) and such.

Of course, when they see a woman, men aren’t consciously thinking of all the survival factors I put in the brackets up there… all men know is that they feel turned on when they observe such characteristics. Nature did the thinking for them.

The funny thing is, the object of desire doesn’t have to be alive… as long as it displays some of these physical signs and characteristics, arousal is activated. This fascination with being turned on by lifeless things is called non-human eroticism and it describes how we try to arouse sexual desire by creating representations of reality in non-living things like cartoon erotica (Hentai) and silicone dolls. Even though we know it’s not real, our biological arousal mechanism is easily fooled.

Knowing this gives us an insight into human nature. By understanding this primordial force within us, we are in a better position to handle our unconscious urges.

The second reason which makes it normal to love a doll is fetishism, which many of us might already be guilty of. Fetishism is an urge to engage in sexual behaviour with non-living and often non-sexual objects. For example, if you’ve ever kissed your teddy bear or tried to hump your bolster, you are already a mild fetishist.

In it’s extreme form, fetishism is where people become turned on by an unsuspecting object like a leather glove, a piece of silk, an undergarment, a shoe; or a non-erogenous body part like hair or toenails. There is no clear explanation for this condition, only that many people have it in one form or another.

So if you think that doll lovers are sick, think of the doll as being an upgraded version of your bolster. Of course, the doll is a very premium bolster – $4k-6K. There are cheaper alternatives for ordinary men or women:

Something for men…

Something for women…

Something for old men…

To love a love doll is normal. But it comes with consequences. Like Tabo and his hundred love dolls… without a wife and children, wouldn’t this man be weeding his genes out of existence? He spent all his time and energy loving his dolls, he never got to procreate with real women. However, perhaps this has benefits….

The dolls might be good for population control in an overcrowded country, and for reducing the number of perversion related crimes like rape, molestation, and sexual harrassment. Japan suffers from two major social issues… one is overcrowding and two is loneliness from isolation. I originally found it strange that there would be so many lonely people in a country with such a hyperactive culture.

Then I realised… it’s because of their hyperactivity that people work incredibly long hours and are left with little time to socialize and build relationships. Karōshi is the term describing the hazard of ‘death by overwork‘, a condition which has manifested among Japan’s working class.

So if overcrowding, stress, and loneliness are problems these people face, why not give them a love doll to help them de-stress and find a moment of happiness amidst their hectic day?

A love doll may be nothing like a real woman, but she can comfort those who are lonely, disabled, or overworked, and provide a safe outlet for weird fetishes — making society a safer place for real women.