Physical dolls: a factory that makes ＂humans＂, and the desire market for false ones

When we came to the production line, what we saw was a "human" mass-produced in the factory. The overall model was derived from a real person's mold, and the veins on the body were clearly visible. The head of the physical doll looks pale before the makeup is applied, but when the makeup is applied, it is endowed with various styles, embedded in countless "bodies" and sent out. In the end, the workers carefully polished the skin to make it look breakable, then painted halo patterns, and implanted a pair of pupils, all of which combined into perfect objects.

 

The physical dolls in the past were very empty and were objects, but today they have evolved into machine dolls embedded with artificial intelligence, which can respond, communicate and relieve loneliness for people, with the intention of moving toward "real people" and emotional relationships. The physical doll factory is the starting point. In a "human" factory, we will nakedly witness the creativity of human beings that come from desire and loneliness.

 

Emerging Market of Desire

 

A company that produces physical dolls in China, the dolls produced in the factory now have measurements from unreal to real, and appearance from imperfect to perfect, realizing the ultimate fantasy.

 

"Breast enlargement and thin waist, big ones, small ones, the body that real people can't achieve, we make it according to the ideal shape of the customer." The worker said that the corrupt atmosphere that was once criticized is now unbearable to men, women and children Staring sideways and even reaching out their hands, everyone grandiosely began to touch the taboos of the past.

 

Compared with Japan, which has been developing for 30 years, it has produced physical dolls that are indistinguishable from real and fake, while my country only started in 2010. my country's national conditions do not allow to talk about adult products carelessly, and adult products including physical dolls are regarded as auxiliary medical equipment. In recent years, the overall sales volume of domestic sex toys has increased by 10% for dolls alone. Domestic authoritative analysis agencies even estimate that its potential output value is hundreds of billions of RMB. In the past, 80% of the products were sold abroad, but now the domestic sales volume is increasing, and the proportion of foreign and domestic products tends to be even.

 

Mr. Xu, the boss, estimates that there are more than hundreds of large and small physical doll factories in China. Nearly 80% of the dolls are manufactured in Guangdong Province. In recent years, they have transformed into "smart technology" and "high-tech" doll factories. "The future development of physical dolls must move towards artificial intelligence."

 

"In the past, consumers would complain that they were cold and had no interaction. But with the addition of artificial intelligence, it feels different. This is lifelike life, not lifelike death." Mr. Xu said that most of the so-called smart physical dolls in China now mainly can In the blink of an eye, the human body has a constant temperature of 37 degrees, a chip that emits sound is installed, and dozens of intelligent responses are preset.

 

Most of the popular faces in China are Internet celebrity faces, and the sculpted outlines are all made by students from the Academy of Fine Arts. Imagine that while they are sculpting artwork, they are sculpting physical dolls, and they can have whatever face they want. In our country, this is an emerging desire market, and factories large and small are breaking through the circle to grab the beach. The price of each one ranges from 2,000 to 10,000 yuan. The advertisements are "fake dolls, true love", "a more perfect partner than real people", and then you think of a line from the American drama "Western World": "Make you into this Sad, messy look, flesh and blood, like me, because it's cheaper."

 

The world of desire that can be reached

 

Physical dolls are emerging to be ostentatious, but they have to be suppressed in the depths to hide the invisible light. The purpose of some desires may be bottomless. The owner is afraid of attracting colored eyes, and will not admit that he owns a doll.

 

“I think the people who buy these dolls are kind of perverted,” said a woman who powders the dolls at the factory.

 

Another female worker who pasted the nails one by one answered: "I definitely don't know how to use it, it feels weird, like a dead person."

 

Touching dolls has become a habit for them, and they are no longer shy, but the sexual meaning is still lingering. In their hearts, they can't guess how the dolls will be sent out after they are put into boxes, and the recipients will be psychological. Some people also say that it is the distance between this shore and the other shore. Once the truth and the fake are blurred, you will not be able to turn your head back. You ask the merchants what kind of people are mainly buying babies, but you only know that they are all kinds of ordinary people.

 

There are two types of users of Shu Ruibao, one is nerds/female, in their twenties and thirties, they don’t have a partner, and their interpersonal relationship is their weakness; The two places are separated, and the wife bought it for her husband, thinking it is better than him fooling around outside. After all, such illegal transactions are prohibited in our country.

 

Ms. Liu, the company's marketing manager, said that they mainly sell to the domestic market. The small dolls cost more than 1,000 yuan, and the big ones cost 3,000 to 4,000 yuan. In China, more and more young people have no love and sex experience, reject marriage and intimate relationships, and have entered the lonely generation.

 

"There was a client in his twenties who had just graduated and came out to work. He told me that this doll is good, and he didn't even want to have a girlfriend after buying it." Ms. Liu was worried for him. manage?

 

In a research report titled "One Child", the author pointed out the social consequences of my country's one-child policy. The author analyzed that the prosperity of physical dolls is closely related to the imbalance of the male-female population ratio. Due to China's long-standing preference for sons over daughters and the one-child policy that has lasted for more than 30 years, it is estimated that there will be 30 million more men in China by 2030, which will seriously affect the relationship of a generation.

 

There is much convincing evidence that our country's gender imbalance has created a huge market for physical dolls. In addition, due to the increasing migration of people who leave home to work, many couples are separated from each other or live alone. In recent years, the demand for physical dolls and other adult products has also begun to increase.

 

When the gap between human body and heart is getting bigger and bigger, creations are needed to fill the loneliness. If creations exist in lifelike human form and appearance, the uses of some desires may be bottomless, and the boundaries between people in the real world and fantasy may be blurred, and a self-centered relationship may be established? Affect the living world of human relations?

 

Mark, the designer of the American intelligent physical doll "Harmony", said that many people scolded him for doing this kind of business, causing the collapse of the relationship between the sexes and disrespecting women. He said: "I see a bigger problem from my product, people don't know how to connect with the people around them."

 

Human beings have the desire to create "human beings", as well as the instinct to produce emotions and illusions. As long as the doll facing you has eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands and feet, and as long as "she" is with you, "she" is alive.

 

We are never alone?

 

Domestic self-media Arrow Factory once filmed a set of "Tell It/She Said" documentary, which filmed the lives of three domestic baby friends, the married anime fan Qixi Festival, the single otaku piling uncle, and the 70-year-old Mr. Tai Boring who replaced his dead wife with a doll. The director spoke of her observations after filming:

 

"They all have different reasons. Playing with babies has never been a single reason, but I have observed that they all have a common feature, which is to avoid their responsibilities and roles in society, just like the uncle in the movie who doesn't want to get married, and Mr. Tai Boring who doesn't want to remarry. , Qixi doesn’t want to be a father. They inject a part of themselves into the doll, just like communicating with themselves, they live in their own world, but they want to be with them.”

 

"It's like the baby friend Qixi in the documentary. He has a wife and a daughter. He seems to have completed the tasks given to him by the society, but he is still lonely in his heart. He can only find the perfect fantasy in the dummy."

 

She continued: "However, I cannot understand where his loneliness comes from."

 

In the past, many doll factories were based on the concept of satisfying sexual needs, but now they are increasingly emphasizing "companionship and solving human loneliness". This seemingly more humane label can get rid of the stigma of "sex" and let the general public try Then accept these dolls more.





--Reprinted from the public account: Entity doll combat experience