1968 SAW INFLATABLES, 2012 SAW THE RISE OF TPE
Plastic inflatable sex dolls came about in 1968, when it became legal to sell sex toys via mail. By the 1980s, they were in sex shops. While they make for funny gag gifts, these blow up sex dolls don’t feel anything like sex, and the material just isn’t durable enough. Modern technology has (thankfully) made them obsolete. Fucking a sex doll now feels like the real thing, thanks to premium TPE and silicone, which have just the right balance of softness and firmness, as well as self-recovering elasticity, to feel like human skin.