“Have you ever thought, ‘I want to give up being human’?”

The Human Love Doll Factory receives reservations from people of all ages and genders, attracted by the alluring slogan on its official website. Originally, a love doll is a doll that is modeled after a human, so it is interesting to see humans being modeled after love dolls.

What exactly is a human love doll factory? What do people who wish to transform into love dolls seek? We took a peek into this fetishistic and aesthetic world.

The trigger was the existence of “love doll brothels”

Arata Layer, the director of the Human Love Doll Manufacturing Factory, currently fulfills her clients’ desire to transform while working as a portrait photographer.

“The reason I started the service was because I happened to learn about a sex service called ‘love doll fuzoku’, where you rent love dolls by the hour. At that time, I wondered why there was a demand for this type of service and what the customers were looking for.

So I did some research and found out that some men who own love dolls even take baths with them and dress them up. Love dolls weigh around 30-40kg, so just maintaining them is hard work, so I wonder how many men can get so attached to them. There aren’t many men who can be that attached to their real partners, either.

“Love dolls, which are supposed to be sculptures, are loved more than real women… I found this phenomenon perverse and wanted to understand the deeper psychology of love doll owners. However, since it is technically impossible to manufacture realistic love dolls, I started this service to apply makeup to real women and turn them into love dolls.”