The appeal of human-like figures runs throughout human history. From snowmen to the first rag dolls, passing through puppets and mannequins , the idea of playing with these anthropomorphic imitations fascinates children and adults. One of the reasons that anthropologists use for this spell is the possibility of rehearsing certain actions (parental care, fights, ways of dressing …) with an object that is allowed to be done passively, unlike if we tried those acts with beings for the first time. humans.
In many cases, this seduction ends up becoming a true obsession. This is the case of Anastasia Reskoss and Quentin Dehar, a French couple who have invested more than 250,000 euros in cosmetic surgery to become their idols: Barbie and Ken dolls. Or Jian Yang, a Singaporean who has also spent many thousands of dollars on his more than 6,000 dolls.
The obsessive is not only in the quantity. Sometimes what strikes us is the quality of the objects. This is what happens, for example, with the disturbing world of reborn , hyper-realistic dolls for adults that, for example, some parents order when their babies die.
In addition, there is a strange paraphilia, ursusagalamatophilia, which consists of getting sexually aroused with people disguised as animals and, in some cases, with stuffed animals. The young American Charles Marshall, for example, was arrested four times for having public sex with a teddy bear.
Photo: reborn doll.
