Japanese Women Settle for One-Armed Men

[Captain Japan]

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Women of all ages have reportedly been rushing to buy their very own Boyfriend Arm Pillow - a snuggly alternative to the real thing.

[Taro Toporific]

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Headlessness I think is the more important point.

[GomiGirl]

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Headlessness I think is the more important point.

No sale here..

It is missing something a little more important as well!!

[gkanai]

Just when you think you've seen it all in Japan...

[Cubed]

[url=http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10349617^13762,00.html]Singles queue for man pillows[/url]

Headlessness I think is the more important point.

No sale here..

It is missing something a little more important as well!!

They only show the top half in the picture. Those extras are optional, and such options cost extra ...

From the article:

" ... and one model has a vibrating alarm function to gently shake their sleeping beauty awake"

Yeah right.

[torasan]

you know, i thought of this idea two years ago.....but didn't know how to manufacture it.

another idea i had was to make t-shirts with real yakuz tattoos on them, so real the shirts look like tattoos, and guess what, someone in california already did it. google it.

nothing new under the sun

[GomiGirl]

" ... and one model has a vibrating alarm function to gently shake their sleeping beauty awake"

Do they have one that throws a glass of cold water to wake up the sleeping beauty?

Or better yet, picks her up and throws her lazy arse in the shower to get ready for work?

Prepares a healthy but nourishing breakfast?

Brews a fresh pot of coffee?

Makes the bed?

No? Didn't think so..

[cstaylor]

" ... and one model has a vibrating alarm function to gently shake their sleeping beauty awake"

Do they have one that throws a glass of cold water to wake up the sleeping beauty?

Or better yet, picks her up and throws her lazy arse in the shower to get ready for work?

Prepares a healthy but nourishing breakfast?

Brews a fresh pot of coffee?

Makes the bed?

No? Didn't think so..

I hear you can order out to Korea for one of those models...

[kansaiboy]

thats the last time i ever pay when on a date...Damn...im in the wrong job... how much u think i could charge a JF per night to be her love cushion...?

[Marvin Feltcher]

I just showed this to my girlfriend (who lives in Fukui). She told me she'd rather have the real thing. It was a huge ego boost...until she said nothing could ever be as soft as my beer belly.
I noticed there's also an arm there. I wonder if when the Girlfriend Arm Pillow comes out whether it can't be automated to give a handstart upon being greeted by a morning glory?

[DrBlue]

This may be new in as there's a girl's version, but the (male) geeks have had stuff kinda-like this for years.



[Note: Some of these images contain anime girls in various states of undress:]
Dakimakura pictures via images.google.com

[kotatsuneko]

the pillow got a mention on fridays Jay leno show , but no picture, unusual for Jay..

[Guile]

By Kaori Hitomi in Nagareyama, Japan
29sep04
AFTER a long night at work as a radio DJ, Junko Suzuki likes to snuggle at bedtime - and she says she's found the perfect partner: a man-shaped pillow.

Linen maker Kameo Corp.'s new "Boyfriend's Arm Pillow" - which consists of a headless torso and a stuffed arm that curls around the sleeper - might make some people uneasy.

But not Ms Suzuki, or about 1000 others in Japan who have bought the pillow, which Kameo says is the first of its kind. The product went on the market last December.

"I like to sleep holding someone's hand," Ms Suzuki, 34. "And this pillow makes me feel relaxed because I can hold the arm and feel something warm at my side."

Kameo, based in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka, says the pillow is not only an emotional comfort, but that its shape keeps the body balanced by supporting the sleeper from both sides.

Sleepers typically curl up in between the body of the pillow and the crooked arm, with the sleeper's head resting on the pillow's "bicep."

"My grandmother used to say that there is nothing more comfortable pillow than human," Kameo President Tomoki Kakehashi said. "So, I thought that maybe women would want to sleep on an arm-shaped pillow."

The pillow is only on sale in Japan, where customers can buy one for Y8500 ($106.. Covered in a shirt-shaped pillow cover, it comes in blue, pink or green.

For Ms Suzuki, who is estranged from her husband, the pillow has definite advantages: It doesn't squirm or thrash in the night, and you know it'll be there in the morning.

"It keeps holding me all the way through," she said in her home outside of Tokyo. "I think this is great because this does not betray me."

One-size pillows do not fit all.

So Kameo is working up new models: muscular pillows for sleepers who like their pillows well-built; slender models for those after a more sensitive, vulnerable partner.

The company also has a prototype for its next big project: a female pillow for men. This one will be shaped like a woman's lap, with a "skirt" cover.

"I always thought someone's lap would the best pillow for me," Mr Kakehashi said.

[Russell]

Macho gorilla pillow lets you snuggle on its ripped chest for a comfortable sleep

Whether you swear by the adorable Pikachu tail pillow or even the sucking Kirby plushie cushion, having a good night’s rest depends very much on your choice of pillows.

But for people who prefer a solid, reliable companion who will always offer an arm to rest on, perhaps a different approach in the form of the Shabani Arm Pillow (6,300 yen) would fit their needs better. Made of 100 percent polyester and measuring 45 x 90 x 15 centimeters (17.7 x 35.4 x 5.9 inches), the cushion provides a safe haven to rest.

The notion of snuggling up to a random gorilla my turn some people off, but rest assured that it is modelled after a celebrity lowland gorilla by the name of Shabani, who resides in Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya.

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