Sex doll makers are trying to remove the bad image of adult TPE sex dolls and encourage people to see them as works of art.

For the sex doll industry, recognition from the art world has helped change attitudes toward sex dolls. There are many different customers at uxdoll, some who buy full body size huge boobs wide butts TPE sex dolls just for sex, some who buy them for photography, and some who just want a “human” to keep them company and document their experiences with them on blogs, Twitter or forums.

“Many of our customers are over 40, but there is a trend toward a younger consumer base, with more and more customers from the 90s. A large part of this is because this generation of young people have the material security of a family and are beginning to pursue spiritual, artistic things, and the cost of hiring models required for photography is expensive, and best deals cute lovely young TPE sex dolls are a good substitute for this role.”

Shenzhen-based sex doll maker uxdoll, employs about 30 people including model designers, makeup artists and sculptors, many of whom are art school graduates. The dolls, which range in price from 800 to 3,000 U.S. dollars, are extremely realistic in appearance; the TPE material is very soft to the touch and flexible in the joints, and the hair implants, nails and other details further enrich the illusion of reality.

Of course, sex doll companies are also facing global competition from an emerging industry that wants to use the latest technology to create more realistic sex dolls – robots. Dozens of companies in the “sex tech” industry around the world are developing dolls with features such as artificial intelligence, but uxdoll insists that they are happy to go their own way.

“Our sex dolls are not robots,” Jack says, “Our goal is to make better premium TPE young sex dolls that are affordable to the average person. I know of companies that use artificial intelligence in their dolls, but at about $50,000 per doll, the average person can’t afford it.”