Japaneses Found Love in Silicone Dolls

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About 2,000 units are sold in the country, according to industry professionals. They are equipped with a detachable head and vagina.

Masayuki Ozaki - the physiotherapist

When the fire of passion finally faded between him and his wife, Masayuki Ozaki made a curious decision to fill his void. Bought a silicone doll that became the love of his life.

With a natural looking and very realistic, despite her gaze, "Mayu" shares her bed in a family home in Tokyo, where the wife and the couple's teenage daughter also live.

"After my wife gave birth, we stopped making love and I felt a deep loneliness," told Ozaki to AFP press.

"I read an article in a magazine about the theme of these dolls and went to see an exhibition. It was love at first sight," sighs Ozaki, who takes Mayu for a wheelchair ride, puts wigs on it, wears it and gives her jewelry as gift.

"When my daughter understood that she wasn't a giant Barbie, she was scared and found it disgusting, but now she is old enough to exchange clothes with Mayu," he explains.

"Japanese women have a hard heart," he complains, as he walks with the doll across a beach.

"I'm crazy about her and I want to be with her always, to bury me with her, I want to take her to paradise."

Ozaki's Wife

Far from these romantic words, Riho, Ozaki's wife, tries not to think about the artificial being that occupies the husband's bedroom.

"I confine myself to housework," she says, with tears in his eyes, "dinner, cleanliness, clothes."

Another Cases

Senji Nakajima

"My heart beats a thousand times an hour when I go home with Saori," said Senji Nakajima, 62 y.o., while picnicking with his silicone partner.

"It's human"

"I would never think of fooling her, not even with a prostitute, because she is human to me," explains this businessman, married and father of two children.

Yoshitaka Hyodo

Yoshitaka Hyodo, a 43-year-old blogger, has more than ten of these dolls. He also has a real girlfriend, apparently quite understanding.

"Now it's more to communicate on an emotional level," says this man, also a fan of military objects, surrounded by plastic women, whom he dresses as soldiers.

A craft activity

Two thousand silicone dolls are sold in Japan, according to industry professionals. Equipped with removable head and vagina, they cost 5,300 euros (something more than 6 thousand dollars).

"Technology has made great strides since the horrible inflatable dolls of the 1970s," explains Hideo Tsuchiya, director of Orient Industry, one of the Japanese manufacturers.

"Now they look incredibly authentic and you have the feeling of touching human skin. More and more men buy them because they feel like they can communicate with them."