A Love Doll is exhibited at Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese sex doll maker Orient Industry exhibited their life size Love Dolls in “Artificial OTOME (girl) Museum,” in collaboration with Vanilla Gallery. The main market for these Love Dolls are not only the collectors who love to live with them, but also others including widowers.: photo by Taro Karibe, 28 April 2016
Not only to learn to love to live with them but to learn to love them is all that's required of us during the exhibition
They don't ask very much of us really
But / and to live with them
Is a step up for us a step out of the lowly husks of beings we were in our miserable permanent toil and squalor
But / and
The slots were not what we thought they were we thought they were eyes
Smiling at us with happiness
Love and happiness
Happiness and love and that other thing
What was it again
The love dolls with their smiling slots have come to promise all these things to us and these are the best
Promises anyone has ever made to us
So we do the best we can to learn to love to embrace them and to live with them and to love them
Not that the mud and squalor ever really bothered us all that much but still just saying
A palm-sized baby ray in its ‘Kindergarten Aquarium’ at AquaDom; Sea Life in Berlin, Germany. The slots above the mouth that look like eyes are gills on the animal’s underbelly. When fully-grown these endangered animals reach a range of one meter.: photo by Jens Kalaena/EPA, 17 June 2015
Suspects involved in an alleged wire fraud sit on a plane flanked by security officers as they arrive at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing: photo by Yin Gang / Xinhua News Agency via AP, 13 April 2016
Chinese fans of Kimi Raikkonen wait for him to arrive to sign their memorabilia ahead of this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai: photo by Mark Thompson via The National, 14 April 2016
A paramilitary police officer (right) turns around as hostesses line
up for roll call ahead of the Beijing International Automotive
Exhibition in Beijing: photo by Qilai Shen/Bloomberg, 25 April 2016
A paramilitary police officer (right) turns around as hostesses line
up for roll call ahead of the Beijing International Automotive
Exhibition in Beijing: photo by Qilai Shen/Bloomberg, 25 April 2016
civic bunny. at the civic center in san francisco: photo by patrix, 17 April 2016
Le bambole esposte alla Vanilla Gallery di Tokyo: photo by Taro Karibe via Io Donna, 28 April 2016
Le bambole esposte alla Vanilla Gallery di Tokyo: photo by Taro Karibe via Io Donna, 29 April 2016
Le bambole esposte alla Vanilla Gallery di Tokyo: photo by Taro Karibe via Io Donna, 29 April 2016
Le bambole esposte alla Vanilla Gallery di Tokyo: photo by Taro Karibe via Io Donna, 29 April 2016
L'ultima trovata giapponese: la sposa di plastica @JattoniDallAsen #LoveDoll #SexToys: image via IO Donna Verified account @iodonnalive, 29 April 2016
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ReplyDeleteWonderful poem. Those dolls are spookily real-looking. With love dolls, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality porn, what shall become of poor Libido in the human future?
ReplyDeleteAh Poor Libido -- fond memory, collector's fetish, convenient scapegoat, answer to a trivia question, uninvited guest to the Future Party!
ReplyDeleteThat awful moment of near passion when one notices the seams... and at the same moment, the fact she's looking so adoringly and teasingly not at you, but at your scapula!