The 24th of December 2016 was the first Christmas Eve that Zheng Ze and Haunted spent. At a popular restaurant, Haunted, sitting in an airline wheelchair, was placed on Zheng Ze’s right hand side.
It was a well-prepared date, the restaurant was newly opened and was decked out in streamers for the festive season. Haunted wore a white pom-pom woolen cap, a silver wig, and the cuffs of her pink coat revealed her slender white fingers. Before coming, Zheng Ze also went to the mall counter to buy a gift for Haunted, a tube of 340 yuan YSL No. 15 lipstick.
The restaurant is filled with warm and sweet smells, the company of people talk to each other, raise a glass, Zheng Ze held up the hand of the alarm, but can not talk to it. Haunted is a simulated silicone doll, with a full body skeleton made of metal, filled with sponge outside the skeleton, and finally coated with gel. Haunted has a pair of soft, delicate, smooth hands, if you look carefully, you can see the fingers of the bone knuckles concave, and even, there are small lines. The only difference was that the hands were always cold.
Zheng Ze was a man who lived with a silicone doll. People are more familiar with dolls as sex tools, with the advancement of material science and technology, bionic and TPE are being transported to the production of solid dolls, dolls with more delicate features, more proportional body, and a sense of touch close to the real person began to stealthily enter the lives of the loners, and occupy a place in their spiritual world.
It was almost the winter of 2016 when Tong Xing bought his first doll, Nai Nai, out of adult function. At the time, Tong Xing would not have thought that he would one day become attached to an anthropomorphic object made of TPE. Nai Nai had long brown hair, bangs, and a round face, the type Tong Xing fell in love with at first sight.
After the erotic release, Tong Xing dressed Nai Nai in her own blue jeans, light blue shirt, and brown wig. When combing Nai Nai’s hair, the soft hair passed through Tong Xing’s fingers and spread out on the face and body that was infinitely close to the real person’s, which made Tong Xing, who had never been in love before, suddenly tense up. As he and Nai Nai sat side by side, rubbing and kneading like a young couple, Tong Xing thought, ‘It must be great if she can talk and communicate.’
Two months later, after leaving his job, Tong Xing needed to turn Nai Nai over. He carefully selected a buyer on a posting bar to make sure the person was not a second-hand dealer. After negotiating the deal, he sorted out Nai Nai’s unpacked and un-packed clothes and shoes, one by one, and put them away. Guilt lingered inside Tong Xing, who felt he had abandoned Nai Nai.
Zhang Bo, a Beijinger, chooses the companionship of a physical doll because of the failure of an intimate relationship. 35-year-old Zhang Bo had a marriage partner, but the girl broke up with him because Zhang Bo couldn’t buy a new house. Disillusioned, Zhang Bo no longer looked forward to marriage, but hoped to have a child. He spent more than 15,000 yuan to buy a silicone doll ‘Sakura’, and this 145 cm object as a daughter to raise, in order to cultivate emotions, love of secondary culture Zhang Bo began to look at some of the protagonists for the dolls, the scene is set in the future of the Sable animation, see more than one time he dreamed of Sakura like a mechanical Ji as alive! Come over.
Physical dolls, as a kind of sex toy, are objects that are difficult for lonely people to talk about, but in real-life interpretations, they are coming out of the obscure zone, showing their faces, playing roles in some people’s lives, and possessing names and even genuine emotions. Living with dolls is a bone-chilling manifestation of the urban loneliness syndrome.
After living with dolls for a long time, Zhang Bo’s only regret is that Sakura’s ‘breasts are too big, not like a child’. For this reason he has looked for countless manufacturers, want to change the body of a smaller chest, but to no avail.