People who own silicone dolls often call themselves "doll friends", or even "doll daddies" and "doll mommies", and call their little circle the "doll circle".
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The doll circle can be divided into two categories of people. The first category mainly relies on sex dolls to meet their psychological needs. They enjoy dressing up life-size dolls, role-playing, and taking pictures of the dolls. Some people in this category seek spiritual support, others are childless couples who buy a realistic love doll to raise as a daughter, and there are also widowers who use a doll as a replacement for their deceased wife.
The second category focuses more on fulfilling physical needs. However, many users combine both needs. According to Yang Dongyue, the founder of Tiais, about 30% to 40% of those who fulfill their physical needs still have girlfriends or families. There is also a group of people who live alone and have difficulty fulfilling their needs in normal social life, and they rely on silicone dolls to fulfill their physical needs.
In 1977, Orient Industry, the famous Japanese manufacturer of adult sex dolls, launched their first "premium sex doll" called Smile. The goal was to make sex dolls easier to use for a specific group of people. At that time, only inflatable dolls were available in Japan, and mainly disabled people and single seniors used them. However, these inflatable dolls were large and cumbersome to secure, making them difficult to use. At that time, "Smiles" were expensive, and Orient Industry had a discount program for the physically and mentally disabled to ease the burden on this group.
Despite the “sexual” stigma that has been added to the perception of silicone dolls, a silicone doll is actually much more than just that label. It encompasses much, much more than just an adult object.
Silicone doll manufacturer CST Doll has calculated that approximately 40% of their buyers use the sex doll as a sexual aid.
In addition, about 40% of buyers are willing to treat a life-size doll as a "lover", projecting their emotions and desires onto the doll and thus satisfying the need for mutual companionship of soul and body.
Moreover, about 20% of people buy these dolls as mere objects that they no longer need.
According to psychologist Dr. Aaron Ben-Zeev, intimacy is much more than just sex. Its main defining characteristic is a meaningful, lasting and friendly mutual relationship that feels unique and irreplaceable. Sexual encounters, of whatever nature, are essentially brief and superficial. It doesn’t matter who the partner is, it can even be imaginary.
Even today, when silicone sex dolls are seen less and less as mere “sex instruments,” many people’s initial reaction to them is still “perverted” and “disgusting.” This stereotype is rooted in society’s sense of shame and dirtiness when it comes to sexuality, as well as the way people talk about sex in different ways. In this way of thinking, TPE and silicone dolls are automatically associated with sex, making them just as shameful and dirty as sex itself, as well as the people who use them. This makes sex doll owners feel inhibited from openly expressing their feelings, just as people with other hobbies can. But stereotypes aside, should sex doll owners who do not steal, harm, violate moral boundaries, or harm others really be stigmatized as “perverts”? Every sex doll owner is a living, breathing human being with joys and sorrows, who experiences difficulties just like everyone else, and sometimes feels lonely, ordinary, and mundane. Maybe all they need is a little respect, tolerance and understanding.
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