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Japanese rent-a-doll blows hooker market wide open
By Ryann Connell
December 16, 2004
It's hard to tell whether it's a condemnation of Japanese men or Japanese
women, but workers in one of the fastest-growing sectors of the country's
thriving call girl market are all absolute dolls - really, according to Spa!.
Several companies are involved in the bustling trade supplying customers
looking to slip it into some silicon, with lifelike figurines that set back
buyers something in the vicinity of 600,000 yen as opposed to the simple,
blow-up types with the permanently open mouths that can be bought from vending
machines for a few thousand yen.
Prime among the sellers of silicon sex workers is Doll no Mori
(http://www.dollnomori.com/), which runs a 24-hour service supplying love
dolls, or Dutch wives as the Japanese call them, to customers in southern Tokyo
and neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture.
"We opened for business in July this year," Hajime Kimura, owner of Doll no
Mori tells Spa! "Originally, we were going to run a regular call girl service,
but one day while we were surfing the Net we found this business offering love
doll deliveries. We decided the labor costs would be cheaper and changed our
line of business."
Outlays are low, with the doll's initial cost the major investment and wages
never a problem for employers.
"We've got four dolls working for us at the moment. We get at least one job a
day, even on weekdays, so we made back our initial investment in the first
month," Kimura says. "Unlike employing people, everything we make becomes a
profit and we never have to worry about the girls not turning up for work."
Doll no Mori charges start at 13,000 yen for a 70-minute session with the
dolls, which is about the same price as a regular call girl service. The
company boasts of many repeat customers and a membership clientele topping 200.
"Nearly all our customers choose our two-hour option. There're plenty of things
you can do with the dolls, like take photos of them. Some customers also prefer
the six hours a week option," Kimura says. "It's probably cheaper for most of
our customers to go out and buy their own dolls, but when you think of problems
like storage and maintenance, then renting them is probably better."
Doll no Mori's four dolls are called Alice, Ai, Mayu and Tina, with the
doe-eyed mangaesque Alice who closely resembles a little child by far the most
popular of its love doll call girls.
Incidentally, though the dolls each have different heads, their bodies are all
the same, with exactly the same proportions.
Doll no Mori is even a fully fledged, registered trader within Japan's sex
business.
"We registered under the requirements of the law regarding adult
entertainment," Kimura tells Spa! "The cops couldn't stop laughing at us."
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