Dutch wives

Japanese ‘Dutch Wives’

How did the sex dolls came to be

The bolster and the sex doll

When you hear a term ‘sex doll’ these days it is pretty clear what the name refers too: a realistic silicone, male or female creation that looks just like a human and comes with all anatomical details for safe intercourse or just general companionship. So what the heck are the ‘Dutch wives’?

Sex dolls, love dolls, blow up dolls. So many names for these women who often “take care” of lonely men.

The Dutch wife is a pillow with regional origins, but it has evolved into a sex doll. The name 'Dutch Wives', is an archaic Japanese term for sex doll. In Japan, love dolls were known as “Dutch Wives” until a few years ago because during Indonesia’s colonization from 1602, Dutch soldiers had sweaty sheet problems: they were so used a bamboo bolster in bed to keep their bodies cool. Due to the lack of their wives, soldiers also needed someone (or something, in this case) to hug through the lonely nights.

“A voyage around the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37” written by the surgeon William Samuel W. Ruschenberger and published in 1838, describes his stay on the Indonesian island of Java (passed from the Dutch to the British in 1811): “We found our sleeping rooms pleasant. The beds were supplied with an additional hard bolster or pillow whereon to rest the lower limbs, which has obtained the somewhat equivocal name of “Dutch wife”.

These pillows, lately known in Japan as “Dakimakura” (from the Japanese daki “to hug” and makura “pillow”) became really famous and appreciated over the years and slowly took the shape of a real woman.

Love dolls, at first made of used clothes, are older than they seem: also Spanish and French sailors enjoyed their companionship while isolated on the sea for several months.
So next time, walking through Rembrandtplein or the Red Light District, you’ll meet one of these “beautiful” inflatable women, think about how long that piece of vinyl’s history is!

New-age Dutch wives

As times changed and technologies such as air-conditioning came along, the old Dutch wife evolved to become the modern bolster. But the story of the Dutch wife doesn’t end there. The modern day Japanese have taken the Dutch wife to another iteration, with their creation of what they call the Datch Waifu. 

These gave the beginning to our modern day realistic-looking sex dolls that we are all so grateful for.

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