Listen to this articleCommon Questions: Do armies have their own sex dolls to relieve their urge while overseas?
Jon Mixon:
No, I don’t believe there are any current armies that provide their troops with sex dolls. However, as someone who has been in the sex doll industry for many years, there are surprisingly a handful of documented cases that this happened historically. Here are some of these cases:
1600s
During the height of European naval empires in the seventeenth century, there is evidence that cotton sex dolls were created and used by sailors on long voyages. These dolls were referred to as dames de voyage, and used mostly by French and Spanish sailors.
1800s
There are documents from this period that report the navies of Imperial Germany and Japan sanctioned the usage of dames de voyage for long journeys. Interestingly, both navies not only sanctioned, but they manufactured and distributed their own version of the dolls themselves. These dolls were created to satisfy the male urges, and to cut down on homosexuality.
1900s
Finally, we arrive at World War II, where it is rumored the German Navy became the first creator of the modern sex-doll, called Model Borghild. According to the urban legend the Model Borghild doll was part of the Nazi’s ‘field-hygenic project”, which was started to absorb the sexual drive of the storm troopers.
Also at this time, the Japanese had a version of a dame de voyage called “do-ingyo”. Fortunately, unlike the German dolls which remain a rumor, there is literature that directly refers to these Japanese dolls. The description of the dolls comes from a Japanese book titled “The Art of Quickly Seducing a Novice”:
“A man who is forced to sleep alone can obtain pleasure with a do-ingyo. This is the body of a female doll, the image of a girl of thirteen or fourteen with a velvet vulva. But these dolls are only for people of high rank.”
So there you have it! Although none of our contemporaries sanction the use of sex dolls within their military ranks, it is not unheard of, and has been done in the past.
