We blogged the most recent the Japanese one last year at Fleshbot without really even lifting an eyebrow, but now there is a sex doll brothel in China. Which is pretty eyebrow lifting when you consider how, um, open-minded they are there. Snip from Sex doll brothel = prostitution? (via digg):

“Local media report that the faces of these dolls replicate those of popular actresses / singers. These dolls are said to be of very high quality and can make specific sound in response to various actions and touches. Johns come in to the brothels, pick their “prostitutes” and go into one of the rooms.

There are no laws banning prostituting sex dolls in China (and I bet no where else!) and police have no way to tackle them.” Link.

Update, reader comment: David Thurlow emails me with some very thoughtful comments saying,

“I read your words, listen to your pod casts and appreciate your making the world a generally better place to be. So with coffee in hand and hair still unbrushed I checked my inbox and then hopped over to your sight to see what’s been happening in the tinnynibbles realm.

I was…well…puzzled by the story of the sex doll brothel in China. Puzzlement aside there was an important thought it brought into my head beyond ‘why would someone pay to have sex with a doll?’ You mentioned some surprise over it existing in China at all because of the Chinese government. Well I didn’t know until I was there last summer visiting my wife’s parents but the Chinese government is pretty ok with sex. The attitude is different from the west and I think a bit healthier.

If you go to a Chinese sex shop in Shanghai it will be located on a main street between maybe a shoe store and a candy store. They’ll have big glass windows like any other store. The shop keeperes are well groomed middle aged women with a bit of a maternal vibe. Shops seemed mostly to be broken into 3 sections…one for sexual health, birth control etc, one for sex toys and fun stuff, and one for maternity clothes. ‘Mommy to be’ is buying her maternity clothes the same place she bought her strap on, her nipple clamps and her favorite double headed dildo, and the same place she buys Monostat. Imagine that in our culture.

Also just outside Shanghai there is a sex museum (I’ve read false reports that the government closed it down) and in fact at one public transportation terminal there were 3 temporary museums that contained what were considered to be more or less family oriented exhibits. One was a small sex museum that studied the history of sex in China and ends with some good positive safer sex information.

Not only that, go to any vending machine on any subway and you will find at least two flavors of condoms.

So, those are my words about sex and China. There are some less positive aspects to things sexual as well. Plenty of brothels filled with girls who come from rural areas to find better work. But really I do recommend a visit.”