Reader nightbird emails me saying, “Saw this while reading a Reuters article on Griefers. Thought you might be interested…”

It’s too bad I can’t embed their player, but do visit ‘Love dolls’ woo Japanese men to watch the video (beware: autoplay). There’s no new news in it, but instead a short look at a *serious* personal collector and a visit to a Japanese sex doll factory — the good, silicone kind, with 35 joints and creepy shiny eyes.

In sawyer_shu’s Tokyo set on Flickr, you can see the whole Reuters image set — it’s excellent, though boo on the pixelated nipples. And unlike the video, here we find out that, “A worker bags sex doll torsos at Orient Industry’s factory in Tokyo May 23, 2007. Orient Industry makes sex dolls to order with a variety of bodies, faces and hairstyles that cost from 140,000 yen (US$1,150) for a basic model to 650,000 yen (US$5,400) for models with realistic latex skin and internal metal skeletons. REUTERS/Michael Caronna (JAPAN)”