Don’t listen to the naysayers: the world today remains an endlessly fascinating place, full of people living a life so unknowable and alien to your own that a decade spent cramming existentialist literature and macrodosing psilocybin wouldn’t help you relate to it. Case in point: the consumer preferences of different nationalities when it comes to buying sex dolls.

A few days back, behind the paywall, VICE writer Arielle Domb spoke to ULoversDoll, a major Chinese vendor of these packaway plastic companions, to find out what separates Italians from Americans and the Japanese from the French when it comes to purchasing a lover who lives in the little storage hatch under your sofa.

“American customers are more likely to purchase unconventional designs, such as animalistic dolls or alien dol

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