nicvncnt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 2:19 pm
Joe 90 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:10 pm
Fun fact: Inflatable sex dolls were restricted in the UK as they were considered indecent and where not on sale there until the mid 1980's.
Incorrect - inflatable latex and vinyl dolls such as the Hygiene Vital range were widely advertised in UK men's magazines from the early 1970's. They could also be readily bought in licensed sex shops at the time. You may be thinking of the 1987 Conegate trial which led to a definitive ruling that sex dolls were not obscene and could not be subject to legal prohibition. In practice, this ruling had no effect on their continued availability at the time but has been extremely helpful in protecting doll importers in recent years from renewed attempts at repression.
I stand-by @Joe90 cause I travelled
to and from UK on 70s and 80s. The real life of London was that sex shops were unexistent.
Paris (Pigalle) and Amsterdam (Red Lights) were flooded with sex shops and you could find everything, from prostitutes to peep-shows, illegal stuff, no limits.
UK, Soho... zero
I dont know legal laws prevailing at the time but London seemed to have a moral code of not allowing XXX marketing
In the early 1990s I use to shuttle from Rotterdam to Harwich by ferry and UK customs-police would often interrogate me if I was carrying any pornography material. They were obsessed. They didnt ask me about drugs. Specifically they looked for sexual stuff. Guess if I had an inflatable I would have been jailed.
Funny in 1980 Duddley Moore starred in a blockbuster movie "Arthur" in which a scene with an inflatable doll at a motel got viral.
Im kind of like Larry David, speak my mind and that offends some but thats how I am
1965-1978 Long Pillow
1980 Inflatable
2016 Plush Doll
2020 Irontech Torso Mira
2022
Starpery TPE 172F Wayne Winstead and Rozanne, Starpery Silicone Nathalia 165D