Sex Dolls Replacing Chinese Women - Transcript (Patreon)

This is selestina. sex doll correspondent for TFM News. I’m going to be responding to an article that appeared in Business Insider October 1st, 2017 by May Fong. Called Sex dolls are replacing China's missing women.

The article begins by explaining that China has a growing shortage of women, primarily due to the cultural preference for sons in addition to the one-child policy that was implemented by China’s communist government.

I just want to make a point quickly about how stupid communists are. When communist governments run out of food, instead of blaming their economic policies and lack of market incentives, they think that there are too many people, and that’s why there isn’t enough food. The result of this 30 plus year one-child policy is that there are far more men than women in China. For every 100 women, there are 138 men.

One of the ways that Chinese men are dealing with the shortage of women is to import women from neighboring Asian countries. The article mentions Vietnam alone had an estimated 4,500 women trafficked between 2011-2015, with 70 percent taken to China, where a Vietnamese “bride” could fetch about $18,500.

Most of the article recycles a lot of the arguments for and against sex robots that I’ve already talked about, so I won’t repeat them here. This is actually a well written article if you’re new to the ongoing debate though, so go ahead and read the entire article if you’re interested.

The section I want to focus on comes from the middle of the article.

The article reads. Quote.

Aside from demographics, China has a demonstrated manufacturing capacity to bring prices down and tip sex dolls from niche to mainstream, a combustible mix.

At this point all major companies making high-end dolls were overseas. China was better known for cheaper blow-up dolls that could be easily transported. Leading companies such as California-based Abyss Creations, crafted customizable models capable of limited speech and body warmth costing about $8,000 to $10,000. Hit doll, in time-honored Chinese manufacturing tradition, was looking to replicate this with fewer features and a much lower price point. Unquote

The article mentions the prostitution in China due to the unequal gender ratio. China was mentioned as one of the worst offenders in the global sex trade by the US State Department according to the article.

Due to these issues, and likely pressure from the international community, China has been recently cracking down on prostitution, and this has cause the demand for sex dolls and robots to take off.

Combine a population where there are not enough women to go around, the government cracking down on prostitution, the growing demand for sex dolls and robots, and China’s ability to bring prices down via their manufacturing capacity. What does all of this add up to?

I’ll leave you with that question.

This is Selestina. Sex doll correspondent for TFM News, signing off.