"My weirdest request was a customer who wanted me to pack dolls with their arms outstretched like a T and without wrapping them in any sort of plastic. She said she did not want them to suffocate, and that with their arms like a T, their arms would not get as tired."
Eeeeewwwww....
It's an inanimate piece of plastic, FFS!
Yep...musta bin one-a dem rebornin' doll folk.
OK, I'm not going to include a link for this, it is just too frightening, but if you want a good fright, click any web page brought up by this Google Link.
Scared yet?
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It just dawned on me that the "rebirthin' dawls" is like realdoll.com for women whose bioclocks have run out and yearn for more baybees.
Realdoll.com is a hoot, btw. I see they now stock detachable penii in various sizes.
yeah. I was just going to ask about that - what kind of a person buys these re.borns? I realize that pets often help to fill the maternal/parental biological need, and sometimes houseplants. These examples seem like a healthy way to go, seeing as how a cat or an orchid are living things that actually do require care. But a life-like baby doll... something with no pulse, no animas... there is something deeply disturbing about that.
I think the women that get into this must have some emotional arrested development. I watched a video on YouTube called "My Fake Baby" (it was a promo for a BBC doc) and watching these women hold and stroll around with these dolls was like watching 3-year olds with baby dolls. I had to remind myself "these are adult women, not children with their toys." I guess some of them who have lost a (real) baby want some reminder of it, so they get these dolls or have one custom-made based on their dead child's pictures. Gaaahh...it's like getting your pet stuffed! I have lost pets, and never ever would I dream of getting a fake life-like cat or dog to take the place of them. They were unique living creatures and no piece of plastic and fur and glass eyeballs could take their place. I have my memories, which is important, and what should be important to the mothers too, even if the memories were sad. It's like getting a reborn baby doll is halting the natural grieving process. And for the ones who get them that haven't lost a real baby but just like the idea of having a burpless, diaper-free turniphead to tote around, I say, "get a life!"
Yeah, cuddling and nurturing something non-living but that "represents" something alive is deeply disturbing.
it's too much like having a corpse stuffed to carry around. I think that's where the creepiness is.
I've lost a baby; but still, I can't fathom this. I think you're right about the arrested emotional development, bordering on socially acceptable psychosis.
It seems some women may have a very strong maternal nature and these dolls help them fill this need at least on some emotional level.
For me the dolls look a little creepy, but my own paternal instinct, for human children, is very very weak.
In the video one woman said the doll relaxed her - well - I wonder if a yoga class might work just a well to teach someone how to go into relax and recover mode without a plastic prop?
I don't have a strong maternal instinct as far as human children go...I don't feel like I even have a biological clock installed (maybe us time travelers have a bit of difficulty with that..just kidding!). But I do have a strong *nurturing* instinct in terms of animals and plants. The thought of me carrying around and petting a stuffed toy animal or watering plastic and silk plants is just laughable.
It's like someone who would carry around a fake baby must have the ability to consciously dupe oneself into believing that piece of plastic and cloth has some intrinsic human value, which I cannot imagine myself doing. Like they have the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality?
"The 'squish' factor is AWESOME!!"
ewwww! Do NOT squish my baby, thank you. And most newborn babies are butt ugly!!!!! For real! I got lucky, mine were all uber cute, but most are wrinkly prunish nasty looking things!!!!
Ok, saw some pics, and these things are just freaking creepy. These make all of my mom's creepy dolls in her creepy doll collection look- normal! What is wrong with people? Ewww.
These make all of my mom's creepy dolls in her creepy doll collection look- normal!
LOL!!!!
Did you watch the video with the woman boiling heads and body parts? That was just...bizarre.
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