The Strangest Theories About The Invention Of Blow Up Dolls

While there’s no definitive answer, theories about who invented the popular sex dummy are — like a blow up doll full of helium — still up in the air. The earliest report on record dates back to the 17th century when Dutch sailors used a doll made of cloth to “relieve sexual tension” during long voyages. One might say the cloth method was something of a prototype for what was to come. Later on, famed psychiatrist Iwan Bloch showcased a blow up doll in his office that he stated was used for sexual purposes in his 1908 book “The Sexual Life of Our Time” (via The U.S. Sun).

Others postulate that none other than Adolf Hitler, contemporary history’s most notorious villain, manufactured and provided blow up dolls for German soldiers during World War II. His alleged aim was to combat the spread of syphilis through the Nazi ranks that was gaining momentum in Parisian houses of prostitution. Naturally, a partner that could neither give nor contract a sexually transmitted disease was an ideal one. However, evidence to support this theory proved faulty, and it was dismissed as a hoax in early 2000s (per Snopes).

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