If you have ever wondered what it is like to be in bed with something that looks and acts like your sexual partner, you have found the answer in the form of the “sex doll.” A sex doll can be an entire body or only a specific body part, such as a head, pelvis, or other sexually appealing body part.

History of Sex Dolls

The history of sex dolls dates back to the 16th and 17th century. The sailors of Spanish, French and Dutch ships were the first to sleep with life-size puppets. The purpose of these puppets was to make long-distance travel more bearable for seafarers. At the time, these dolls could not be referred to as women since they were only stitched together from plain rags.

Rubber sex dolls from the early 1900s are hardly ever documented. The vulcanization method, invented in the 1840s, opened the door to a more flexible and long-lasting material. This chemical process improved the physical properties of natural rubber. The finished rubber had better characteristics and was more resistant and elastic. Iwan Bloch published the first mention of sex dolls in 1908, stating that they were made of rubber as well as other plastic materials. These were available in both female and male versions at the time.

Hans Bellmer, a German surrealist artist who worked in the 1930s, was named “the father figure of the modern sex doll” for his sex puppets. He made more realistic models that carried further forward in history. Bellmer created three dolls, each becoming more and more advanced in design. However, this caused outrage in the worldwide art community back then.

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