The first sex dolls appeared in Holland in the distant XVII century. More precisely, not in Holland itself, but on the ships on which the Dutch sailed. The sailors spent so much time at sea that they managed to miss the female caress. Well, what else to do, how not to create a mistress with your own hands? The French called them dame de voyage, the Spaniards – dama de viaje. They were made in the literal sense of the word from improvised materials: they sewed old clothes so that they resembled a woman. To be honest, no one aspired to a portrait resemblance.

The Dutch learned how to do it so well that they literally created a trade mark. They sold these dolls to the Japanese, who even called them Dutch wives.

But the first records regarding sex dolls were made, of course, much later. In 1908, the German sexologist Ivan Bloch wrote:

“In this regard, we can refer to acts of adultery with artificial imitations of the human body or its individual parts. In this province live the true geniuses of pornographic technology, clever mechanics who, with the help of rubber and plastic, are able to make a male or female body, which, like hommes or dames de voyage, serve depraved purposes. Their genitals are the most accurate, and even the secret of Bartholin’s glands is imitated, which is placed inside the doll in the form of oil.

During the 20th century, such simulacra experienced several “evolutionary” leaps. By the 1970s, vinyl, latex, and silicone became the main materials for making sex dolls, and their faces and bodies were much more realistic than they were at the beginning.

Let’s start with this:

Yes, this is also a kind of sex doll: it has arms, legs, and the most necessary parts of the body. And it can probably be used as a trash bag. Such a “beauty” costs about a thousand rubles, the main thing is not to let a cat near her.

The next item on our doll menu is inflatable dolls.

Their distinctive feature is that you can take it with you on vacation to Yalta and swim on it in the pool, sipping a cocktail to the delight of tourists. The advantages of these dolls are very compact and easy to clean. Disadvantages – everything else. Not very attractive and completely unresponsive babies.

But among the inflatable sex dolls, there are also “beauty queens”.

And kings.

Here is our favorite:

A higher level – silicone dolls. They are usually quite large (from 160 cm) and heavy – about 30 kg. But such dolls can be customized: choose the color of their eyes, hair and clothes. Do you remember how in childhood they cut out the silhouettes of dolls and tried on paper dresses on them?

In the same segment there are dolls with unrealistic proportions.

In an even more expensive segment, already from 100,000 – dolls of different races, for example. They are made even more realistic.

It’s pretty creepy at times.

The coolest dolls have “body memory”, they are made of more advanced materials, much more elastic, and some of them are able to carry on a simple conversation (well, not difficult at all).

In Japan, on the basis of silicone dolls, they are trying to create full-fledged androids and gynoids, but their main drawback is their excessive weight, which does not allow them to move in any other way than in a wheelchair. Such an amputee doll costs exactly 2 times cheaper than the full version.

Since 2003, the annual Bubble Baba Challenge competition has been held in the village of Losevo in the Leningrad Region – rafting on the rapids on inflatable sex dolls. True, the latest data on their website for some reason is 2011. It’s a pity that such an initiative died.

On the site, the guys say this: “We are talking about rafting along a rapid river on inflatable rubber women, or, more simply, about sailing through the waves and breakers on aunts from a sex shop.” Actually, why not?