Humanoid Hugging Pillow
Uh, I don’t really know what to file this under. It’s just interesting that someone would have thought to make something like this at all. In this case, a Japanese fellow by the name of Misako Yasuda. What is it? Uh, well, see, it’s a pillow. Yeah. A lifesize pillow, in the shape of a comely Japanese, uh, lady. And since it’s called a “Huggin” pillow, I imagine that you’re supposed to, ah, hug it. Yeah, just hug it.
I mean, hey, who exactly will buy this? And why? I should know better than to ask those questions, but it’s hard to help.
If you must know, it weighs about 300g, and is 170cm tall. That’s about 5ft7 or something.
And it’s 143$. Yup.
Update: So, reader Hadi tells us that this might just be one big, regular pillow. As in, a big rectangle pillow, with this picture printed on it. Also, I’m beggining to suspect that Misako Yasuda might just be the girl on the picture. Making this a, though titillating, altogether banal, 143$ affair.
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Great Caesar's Ghost! Dear Japan: I know Tokyo is a big city and it gets lonely sometimes. But you don't have to resort to purchasing a human shaped sleepy-time pillow on which to furtively spew your indelible need while your...
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This humanoid love pillow article is via Gizmodo via OhGizmo via Popgadget via Tokyo Times....
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Need I say more? Ok, I will, these are called 'dakimakura', hugging pillows, or dutch wives and are quite popular among the geeks, dorks, nerds, dweebs, jugheads, eggheads, gaywads, dickwads, dorkwads, dingbats, cretins, shut-ins, and socially inept of Japan. They come in two flavors: bikini idols, and underage anime girls.</img>
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Need I say more?
Of course not, but I will anyway. Also known as 'dakimakura' or Dutch wives, hugging pillows are quite popular among the geeks, dorks, nerds, dweebs, jugheads, eggheads, gaywads, dickwads, dorkwads, dingbats, cretins, shut-ins, and just plain socially inept of Japan.
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This is a piece of celebrity memorabilia. Misako Yasuda is one of a couple hundred of Japan's supermodel celebrities.
Now, keep your mind clean, otherwise you'll never understand.
Japanese Culture is extremely different from American, so they don't think the way you do. Ideologically, Emotionally and Sexually, the Japanese are a much more liberated people. This means they're actually a lot less likely to have psychological issues. On the other hand, most people have issues with them.
This pillow is the same idea as a cardboard cutout, bedsheets, or a body pillow. The Japanese don't automatically think "sex toy" whenever they see something that turns them on.
"Hugging Pillow" is a poor mistranslation of "Body Pillow"
In Japan, they have "Modeling Videos," a kind of nerd's music video based upon (nonsexual) beauty. Unlike Americans, they don't jump from "Divinely Gorgeous" to "Sex Goddess" in a nano-second. They stay fixated on beauty the way a 9-year-old does. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? Not really, in the minds of Japanese anyhow.
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