These were probably amongst the first dolls ever designed for sex, and the term ‘dutch wives’ is still used in Japan to this day, due to the Dutch sailors who traded their dolls with the Japanese in the 18 th century. The French called these ‘dames de voyage’, the English called them ‘dutch wives’ after the dutch sailors who would use them. He had a little trouble with the stone though, finding it a bit cold and inelastic – imagine what he’d think with the dolls we can get these days!Īt the end of the dark ages and into the age of the long seafaring voyages of the 1500s, sailors who were craving the companionship of women would fashion dolls made from cloth and leather. In the 3 rd century AD, Athenaeus wrote that a man from Selymbria was so in love with a statue of Aphrodite that he locked himself inside her temple just to get some alone time. It was said that a young man was so taken aback with it, that he ejaculated on the leg and stained it! Perhaps this wasn't particularly shocking within a culture which gave us the myth of Pygmalion: the sculptor who made a statue so beautiful he fell in love with it. In ancient Greece, historical documents tell of several instances where men fell in love with sculptures (not sex dolls, but we'll get to that.) Praxiteles was the first to sculpt a full-size nude statue, his most famous statue was Aphrodite of Cnidus. Nowadays, you’re much more likely to hear someone exclaim “Woah! I thought that was a real person!” The choice today is phenomenal, and our manufacturers just keep raising the bar. Today we have modern methods of fabrication using TPE and silicone, with poseable skeletons and fully customizable dolls which create amazing ultra life-like look and feel. The ones that are reminiscent of a frozen Munch-like Scream of perpetual terror somehow having been crossed with a rubber chicken.

Let’s face it, when most people hear the word “sex doll” their mind jumps to those early 1970s inflatable blow-up dolls, you know the ones.

Who invented blow up dolls