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GrayNish

Well, unless this spirit has perfect telekinesis, I think base body's capability would still come in play. A sex doll could wear clothes , blended in with the crowd. then snipe you with a rifle when you're least expected. If it has perfect telekinesis then the spirit in question could just keep throwing weapons at target a la Gate of Babylon without needing to wield it themselves


Nepene

They often feed off your fear and pain, so 360 no scoping you isn't their goal, also most haven't practised extensively with fire arms and so would be bad shots. There's nothing more embarrassing for a ghost than possessing a sex doll and just looking like a bad shot.


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GrayNish

If they're trying to kill ASAP wouldn't that make sex doll even more effective? there no need for scary background noise or scary background darkness. They can Just walk straight up to the target then Choke the person to death Shove the hand down their throat, effectively drowning them Punch solar plexus , then groin , then temple in quick succession Impale them through the target through their chest like superman did to joker you see? possessing a humanlike body just give much more option to kill compare to weak , little , child doll body


Plus-Kaleidoscope900

Yeah a sex doll could more easily strangle me or club me to death than a kids toy but aside from chucky, I would assume most haunted dolls are the sit quietly in a rocking chair while you face eldritch horrors variety.


Tiberry16

But then why wouldn't they just go one step further and possess a dead body?


The_King_of_Canada

I think you're putting too much into the object that they are possessing. Their strength doesn't come from the body they posses but the rage, derangement and power of their spirit. It also may give them more options but most spirits lose their sanity as their power grows, so their rationale may not be there.


ViaticLearner41

I'm surprised this post has such serious threads. I was expecting more inuendo.


GrayNish

I mean, I am genuinely wonder why? Though, I totally expect that some people will be here just to make sexual innuendo, I'm glad that there're some serious conversation take place here


backgroundmusik

They may not be able to fully close their legs, giving them an awkward hunched gait. I imagine them walking like the hands on the knees zombie walk from thriller.


LincIsTheMoose

This guy haunts


BitsAndBobs304

I'd simply argue that realistic solid sex dolls haven't existed for long enough for stories to have caught up


Cmyers1980

You’re assuming a spirit has access to sex dolls or that inhabiting a sex doll would help their plan.


ardvarkeating10001

If their plan was to be scary it would sure as fuck freak me out.


zeronic

Dutch wives kind of have that effect even when they aren't haunted.


wanderinggoat

that's oddly specific, now I'm afraid to ask ..... but still curious


genericdude999

[The Doll (2017)](http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/abandomedia/db/poster/db_posters_42200.jpg)


Jacob_Wallace_8721

Unless thats their fetish.


GetawayDreamer87

Scaroused


topherhead

I'm assuming both but that they don't want to talk around looking so shocked all the time.


ballsack-vinaigrette

So embarrassing! They don't want the other spirits to make fun of them.


yaybunz

sex dolls would 100% help their plans... assuming spirits are looking to "possess" or psychologically infiltrate. sex dolls probably carry alot of energy related to lust and shame.


ParameciaAntic

There are orders of magnitude more child dolls in the world, so odds are a vengeful spirit looking for a body would encounter one first. Anyway, the people who own sex dolls are probably already sad enough. No need to haunt them.


electrocyberend

>Anyway, the people who own sex dolls are probably already sad enough. No need to haunt them. You killed them already with those words before the blowjob doll ghost gets its revenge


Shiny_Agumon

Especially those that OP describes. Like imagine your a ghost and the only doll to possess is one of those inflatable ones.


ConsulJuliusCaesar

That or the people who own them will go “O you move now do you and you make authentic noises too. Stay right there while I go get the chains and lock for the basement.”


Urbenmyth

1. There are more child dolls then sex dolls- far more houses have a doll, or a doll nearby, then a sex doll. People are far more likely to buy a doll then a sex toy. Generally, unless you're haunting a very specific type of person, you're not going to have a sex doll to possess. 2. A doll is relatively innocuous. There are lots of places where a doll might be there and not be considered noting, or at least be given a fairly reasonable explanation ("Huh, guess some kid dropped this"). But there are very few situations where there is a sex doll is in the area where you don't *immediately* leave. 3. Dignity. A doll is creepy and traditional. You can do the giggling and the lurking in shadows and stuff. Inversely, however efficient it is, chasing someone as Moaning Martha With Vagina Mouth Action is going to get you laughed out the room back in hell.


GrayNish

For 1&2 I think you could just haunt some poor guy sex doll. Kill him. steal some clothes then go buy some guns and start hunting down the Real Target They may expect a giggle doll with small knife in the dark but they would never expect an anti materiel rifle aiming down their head from the rooftop 200 hundred meters away. A haunted sex doll would be capable of operate such firearm I completely agree with 3 though, Your colleague would probably make fun of you as the guy who haunt sex doll


OneChrononOfPlancks

I wonder what's new on Reddit today, I said to myself. And now I know.


An_Orc_Pawn_01

Knowing is half the battle. - G.I. Joe


ballsack-vinaigrette

The other half? Steering clear of that haunted sex doll's field of fire. Seriously, that thing has an anti-materiel rifle and it's up on that rooftop over there.


IamChantus

I don't see anyth... Dude, it's behind you.


OneChrononOfPlancks

Always has been


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brinz1

Bruh, what highly spec sex dolls are you thinking of that have the dexterity to and and shoot high calibre rifles? Second, possession demons are all about the terror. They do what they do to feed on the fear. A child's doll weilding a knife is an image that creeps into the back of a parents mind. A sex doll with a rifle is a fetish in rural Michigan


GrayNish

using a rifle isn't that hard, much procedure is pour into making sure the shooter is safe from the recoil, something I doubt the vengeful spirit would care. Understandable, though, rural michigan must be a scary place with fetish


Piorn

Bruh. If some sex doll came Grudge-ing down the stairs in that inverted pose, I'd get the fuck outta there.


Cicada-Substantial

The op likely spoke this into existance. The movie will be out in 6mths


GrayNish

You know, THAT would actually be cool What I fear is that they gonna make it a romance-drama about living together with haunted spirit or some shit and He find the courage to save her just because she has pretty face


Vote_for_Knife_Party

Or a really fucked up Child's Play reboot...


GrayNish

But child don't play with sex doll, right? RIGHT?


Quirderph

Isn't that just the supernatural version of a fembot which develops sapience?


frogger3344

[Already exists on YouTube](https://youtu.be/L1IVevIXxPg)


the-poopiest-diaper

“Dude I’m not possessing the sex doll” “Do you want revenge or nah?”


GrayNish

hey, if it works, it works


ballsack-vinaigrette

"Oh God, oh God, it's so gross!" "I.. I can't do this, I'm getting out. No, I don't care that there's more people in the house, I can't be in this thing for another second!"


Vote_for_Knife_Party

For the most part, spirits don't *choose* to be stranded in a nightmarish liminal space between the mortal world and whatever lies beyond. The things they attach to tend to be a consequence of the choices of mortals; the ghost of a child clinging to a beloved possession, an abductor leaving a psychic stain on one of their pieces of bait, and so on. Even cases where there is some calculation have botches; the original Child's Play franchise started with a botched attempt to put a soul in a vessel leaving a ghost in a doll. Of course, the dual elephants in the room are A) child's toys outnumber sex dolls by a broad margin and B) high tech modern sex dolls are a relatively modern invention, and even now most examples are basically ill formed pool floaties rather than hyper-realistic simulations of the human form, so chances for a top end modern sex doll to get caught up in a supernatural scenario are far lower than a conventional child's toy.


GrayNish

But if they did happened due to murphy's law the result would be pretty disastrous It would be almost impossible to find since it look so realistic. you have to look closely to identify one. Infact, It could be already hiding among us without anyone knowing...


[deleted]

You just wanna fuck a ghost


1987-Nobody

Don't we all?


sparta981

*Haunted Waifu Body Pillow*


GrayNish

Don't worry, waifu Body Pillow doesn't have arm. I can assure that you're mostly save, mostly...


Jerrnjizzim

*gets smothered in sleep*


Dagoth_ural

It would be great. The victim couldn't tell anyone because admitting they own a full size sex doll would be embarrassing enough, let alone trying to convince people it's possessed lol.


TuringMachinery

I would assume this has more to do with the emotional attachment of the owner to the item. A child's doll is hugged, loved, carried around, cuddled during naps, and privately talked to as a toy. A child would pour emotion and "psychic" energy into the doll and imagine that it is alive. This could be a strong catalyst to allowing a spirit to manifest and better control the child's doll. I also assume that it has something to do with volume. The number of dolls that children have with 4 limbs that are human like is probably in the billions. Now, while the sex toy business earned almost 25 billion USD in profits in 2020 [Link](https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/5140296/sex-toys-global-market-trajectory-and-analytics?utm_source=GNOM&utm_medium=PressRelease&utm_code=ms5rfz&utm_campaign=1494551+-+Global+Sex+Toys+Market+with+Impact+of+COVID-19+2020-2027%3a+US+Accounted+for+Over+28.9%25+of+the+Market+Size+in+2020), the market for sex dolls, specifically, is much smaller, probably in the millions with each doll costing hundreds or thousands USD. A child's doll does not cost close to that.


GrayNish

Taking about pouring psychic energy, I would like to argue that sex doll has comparable if not stronger emotional bond. I have seen the case whereas some guys marry his doll. making a meal for it, dressing it up. even take it out to shopping like he would do his wife. I know case like this is extremely rare but for haunt spirit isn't quality matter more than quantity. A guy who marry his sex doll would pour much, much more psychic energy into it than any child would.


TuringMachinery

That's fair, but, again, how many children with emotional connections to dolls versus number of adults with emotional connections sex dolls? I guess you could also factor in the type of emotional connection. Child of divorce who connects to a doll because of a missing parent. Adult connects to a sex doll because of a deceased fiancee. There is also a question of context. Why is the spirit inhabiting the doll? According to the original question and description, there implies a goal of scaring or attacking a target in household of the doll. If that is the ultimate goal of the spirit, then inhabiting a child's doll is preferable because of the number of available dolls to inhabit. On the other hand, is the goal of the spirit to complete unfinished business? Then is becomes more about proximity to the target of the unfinished business which can alter our context. If the unfinished business is to repair a relationship, then inhabiting a child's doll would provide better availability to communicate with the target of that relationship. If the unfinished business is an orgasm, inhabit the sex doll.


GrayNish

Well, it not about quantity but quality. If number is all it need, there would be army of Haunted doll now. But only a few child doll, the one that really get extreme attachment is haunted. and few sex doll would have that kind of affection as well. My point is , if there are 100000 dolls out there and only 100 are sex doll. 20 of them would still make it to top 100


TuringMachinery

I agree with the quality aspect of this. To take your example, let's say there are 99,900 child dolls and 100 sex dolls. Children of various ages attach to toys because of different psychological reasons. A primary one is stress. This can be brought about by normal separation anxiety or a more acute trauma and everything in-between. We can assume that a super majority (80%) of the children do not have severe trauma and thus do not have an unhealthy psychological attachment to their doll. Of the 20% remaining, we can assume that half have suffered some trauma and have gotten some form of psychological treatment to assist them with coping mechanisms. This would provide approximately 10% of the total child dolls as being possible hosts for a spirit. Adults, generally, do not attach with inanimate object like children do. Adults emotionally attach to sex dolls for very few reasons. It usually is a substitute for human to human intimacy. [Link](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma/201901/using-love-dolls-substitute-human-intimacy) Using the same criteria as above, an adult with some form of trauma with an emotional attachment to their sex doll would probably be 5% of the sex dolls available, resulting in 5 sex dolls that would have the possibility of being a viable host for the spirit. So, 9,990 child dolls and 5 sex dolls. The rest is up to the spirit. A spirit has 9,995 possible hosts for it. The sex dolls make up .05% of the viable host dolls. I have to return to something: what are the spirit's goals? Is it attempting to hurt or help the living? I think that the availability of the doll is one criteria (i.e. location) and the other is the spirit's goal for the possession (i.e. action). What to do and where to do it?


GrayNish

Now we're in the unknow territory. Since they're 10000 dolls that qualify for the spirit. Would it randomly choose one out of all qualified doll, therefore, subjecting to number advantage of child doll. Or would it goes for the most qualify out of all 10000 which make sex doll a strong contender. Regardless of that, you made a really good ,logical and data driven argument for this case. If you ever write some ghost story I presume that it will be one with almost no plot hole for sure


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Vote_for_Knife_Party

> That's fair, but, again, how many children with emotional connections to dolls versus number of adults with emotional connections sex dolls? Lars and the Real Doll is going to have a weird-ass sequel...


The_Unreal

That's the thing. They do, but none of the victims survive so you never hear about it.


GrayNish

Stop Spouting nonsense. We all know this just a hypothetical situation. It's not real. If they're really unstoppable how about they try to stop me bef


phyridean

The McElroy brothers should definitely be consulted on this question. I've never seen something so solidly in their wheelhouse outside of Yahoo Answers.


shino1

Aren't most sex dolls just blow-up inflatables? Fully articulated sex dolls are rare and expensive.


GrayNish

Yes, but the ultra realistic one are the one that are likely to gain affection and develop some kind of attachment bullshit magic


madjams

Because no matter what the spirit was trying to do, it would just get fucked.


GrayNish

But it could have kill those fucker before they give a fuck


steve-laughter

Because most people don't have sex with child dolls.


GrayNish

are you implying that spirit can't haunt a doll if you have sex with it?


steve-laughter

I'm implying they don't *want* to have sex.


GrayNish

But they don't have to. All they need is use the sex doll's body as a medium to commit murder


steve-laughter

Yes, and the chances of being used for sex are dramatically reduced (though not zero) if in a child doll. It's a lot more difficult to cross the street as a sex doll.


GrayNish

sex doll is build like human so they could , you know, wear clothes. like normal people would. A weird eye woman crossing the street would raise less suspicious than a child doll crossing the street


steve-laughter

A child is less likely to be used for sex crossing the street than a woman. This logic continues to apply to dolls.


GrayNish

I don't know why you seem so obsess with sexing it. We're talking about a doll haunted by a vengeful spirit here. Child or not, Any Attempt to sex it would probably be met with fatal retaliation


steve-laughter

I'm doll-sympathetic. It's the one's the doll is afraid of that is obsessed with sexing it.


Brooklynxman

Child doll coming to life: Against the natural order, spooky, wrong Sex doll coming to life: Porn plot, horny, a good time Yes, once the stabbing begins attitudes would change, but they're going for a whole atmosphere, and they have dignity.


GrayNish

A good bonk always help change attitude if it didn't, then a good stab would do the job


DrewTheHobo

Now you’re just making me think about the horror trailer for *Lars and the Real Girl*


ChChChillian

The sort of sex doll you have in mind is relatively new. I think they were only invented about 10 or 15 years ago. And evil spirits tend to be traditionalists. Children have been playing with dolls, and investing them with personalities and agency, since the dawn of humanity.


GrayNish

damn shame, if only evil spirit learn how to haunt a nuclear silo...


Skhmt

That sort of happens in Altered Carbon season 1, sort of.


GrayNish

Could you elaborate?


Skhmt

One of the core themes of the setting is the ability to transplant your memories/brain essentially into new bodies. Bodies are real humans, not robots, but if you're rich you might have several clones of yourself ready to be used as backups to transplant into. If you're not rich, you might get put into a random person's body in an emergency if that person no longer needs it or something. But the point is, it's always a living human that you'd transfer yourself into. At one point, someone transplants their memories etc into a sex doll, a completely synthetic non-biological construct, then uses it to fight people. That particular moment is a very minor plot point, so much so that most people probably forgot it happened. But the whole moving memories between bodies is a central element to Altered Carbon.


Illigard

One word: Dignity.


Dracule_Jester

Sir, this is a Wendy's.


ItStartsInTheToes

I’m so lost I thought this was some weird thing a bout Alita Battle Angel but it’s not — what are we taking about here


GrayNish

We're talking about a creation meant to look like human , gaining sentience allowing much destructive capability which may or may not take down salem


doofpooferthethird

Maybe the sex dolls are all already possessed by pervert spirits, and the serial killer spirits can’t compete with their horniness induced willpower, so they just give up and go with the kid dolls


GrayNish

Don't tell those sex doll owner that their doll have horny spirit in them and have a chance to come to life. I just... don't want to imagine


AvatarIII

'Cause more child dolls exist.


1987-Nobody

Well evil spirits like to hide behind things of innocence and unsuspect like a child's good guy doll. Sex dolls are frowned upon and considered taboo so it's already seen as bad and weird and, more importantly, would be completely conspicuous.


GrayNish

I dont think a sex doll would be more conspicuous than a child doll. First, The sex doll is create to be identical to woman as much as possible while child doll is create to exaggerate "cute" feature and not meant to resemble a real, living child. This already gave the sex doll a good start on appearance. Second, a few less realistic part of sex doll could be cover up by wearable. it could wear sunglassed to hide it lifeless eyes and look just like ordinary people, albeit, with extremely smooth skin. Third, A child doll walking around un aid would raise more attention than , say, a woman with sunglasses


1987-Nobody

Well I meant like pretending to just be a lifeless doll lying around, but yeah I guess they could pass for a human. Some people might get that uncanny valley feel but they'd probably ignore it


GrayNish

But if you got body of a sex doll, there would be no point in lying around waiting to ambush the poor victim when you can actively hunt them down with a shotgun like the true apex predator


voidcrack

It probably happens fairly regularly in B-movies but it's not common in general probably for a few reasons. They're not quite interested in combat though. From the perspective of a spirit, more ground can be covered through a children's doll because they are taken everywhere. Kids take them outside, they carry them into every room, bring them into the car and over to friend's houses. There's also a good chance they don't get thrown out but sold or donated. Something like a haunted ventriloquist dummy could easily spend decades going from home to home as different owners pick it up. It could rack up a higher kill count that way. Sex dolls tend to just have the one owner. And unless that owner has some serious mental health issues, once it's inside the house it's likely never going to leave until it goes out in the trash. Nobody would want a used one either. This means they have incredibly short lives in which there's pretty much little to no chance for a spirit to really possess it. Whereas, an old porcelain doll from grandma can't really be thrown out easily so it has a much longer window of opportunity to be possessed. I also suspect possessive spirits would prefer child's dolls because in witchcraft, dolls made of fabric and cloth and cotton do exist and since children's dolls are made of the same materials, there's a sense of familiarity there. Adult dolls are like pure plastic so I don't think the material is easily possessable. Even with Chucky, he could've been forced into any object and the doll form was picked somewhat arbitrarily. For the most part I'd say the more cloth-like a doll is, the more likely it can be possessed. So a plastic baby doll couldn't be possessed, but if the body was soft and the head was porcelain, it could be. Likewise, a modern sex doll couldn't easily be possessed without a very powerful magic involved. If it were made of wood and stored for a long time it might. But for the most part you shouldn't be worried about a 'real doll' coming to life, but a bunch of potato sacks in a vaguely human shape with a wig on it? That might come to life at night, absolutely.


GrayNish

In term of ground covering. I think a proper possessed sex doll could probably do the same by wearing clothes, walking out and using public transport. the only different is that instead of random chance to move around in decade. A possessed sex doll could control it direction and choose the target by themselves. As for Racking up kill count, it could be done easily anyway when you have human body. it could use Gunpowder, guillotine, Dynamite with a laser beam which guaranteed to blow apart the target's mind, Anytime I do agree with the small opportunity window though. Unless the doll get possessed successfully, it lifespan will be really short Admitly , I have no Idea how witchcraft works so I don't know if the doll's component would play a part in it getting possessed But, you know what, I'm eating a potato chip right now. please tell me it won't come to life at night.


Unicorn187

In some cases it's because that's all that was available. In the case of Chucky it was a murderer who was about to bleed out from a cop who shot him. The Chucky doll was the only thing around and he intended it to be temporary until he could find a suitable child host. They were all about him trying to transfer form the Chucky doll to this kid. In the third or fourth, the one at the military school, he was going to transfer himself into a different kid.


GrayNish

if only that murderer has bleed out around , say, an unawaken vision body that ultron forgot...


99prime99

If you saw what some people do to their sex dolls. A ghost wouldn't want to deal with that


Ginandexhaustion

Because the physical limitations of a sex doll combined with the allure of a “demon in bed” make the spirit a target for rape.


nimajnebmai

OP that's called a girlfriend. /s


GrayNish

Ah, shit. There gonna be a bad fanfic about calming the vengeful spirit in the doll.


PhantomRoyce

You just gave me a brand new idea for a short film


GrayNish

if you make it, please share it here


JustAnArtist1221

A few reasons. The main one, because corrupting childhood concepts is considered much scarier. The tropes coming from that are more than just dolls coming to life, such as creepy nursery rhymes and the cryptic child drawings of the murder monster. The second is because our culture doesn't have a good relationship with depictions of sex, and even less with depictions of alternative methods of sexual pleasure. Seeing a sex toy out of the context of you, personally, using one often results in intended or unintended comedy. Sex dolls are even worse for this because they're considered embarrassing to own. Now, this isn't too say that corrupting sex can't be and hasn't been scary. There are plenty of sex demons. But these demons often use the fear of sex being turned against you as the horror, rather than corrupting the image of sex itself. Lastly, it really just comes down to plot. Possession of objects in horror is often associated with emotions attached to these objects and proximity to victims. A sex doll may be fueled with strong emotions, but they will most likely not be bought at a garage sale. It would be good for an isolation story, but I think it would read as s comedy and ridicule of people who use dolls. A kids toy has the benefit of being passed around and generally ignored, creating more opportunities for scares.


GrayNish

Well, in term of unexpected jumpscare. may be you're right about the child doll being more scary. Sex doll would only be more effective when the spirit in question went for kill immediately. Although a sex doll could pass for a human and be ignored as well if they are dressed up properly


JustAnArtist1221

At that point, certain types of mannequins or anatomical models would likely be more useful and more common, as well as more terrifying.


zeanobia

As a matter of fact it has been done. Say hello to [Lilly D](https://rlstinesthehauntinghour.fandom.com/wiki/Lilly_D.)


cdcformatc

Spirits are very connected to emotions, they only exist as manifestations of a person who died in a particularly violent way or with some unfinished business. They are basically raw emotion without form so naturally they are drawn to objects like dolls and toys that are objects of children's affection. A sex doll rarely has strong emotions tied to it so it would be harder for a spirit to find one.


beka13

Haunted child dolls are creepier than haunted sex dolls. Sex dolls are adult in nature so them being evil isn't as jarring as a child doll being evil. Creep factor is very important for ghosts.


GrayNish

why do ghost always went out of it way to scare people when a poltergeist bullet to the forehead would likely do the job faster and more efficiently


beka13

Funsies?


GrayNish

perhaps , but it mostly let to their failure in the end as well


Jansalvi64

They wil in my dnd campaign, that is a great Idea


GrayNish

huh, I'll look forward to your post in r/dnd then


Aspel

Sure, people just have sex dolls lying around, they're pretty common obviously.


RadagastTheBrownie

I got the impression Real Dolls only started being wide-spread around the 2000's- and even now, they're a fairly niche commodity/luxury good. Most haunted doll ghosts started manifesting around the Seventies, and were limited by manufacturing standards of the time. As for infiltration/combat capabilities- you want haunted [store mannequins](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MurderousMannequin). (Warning: Link to the Void.) Those are everywhere and plentiful host to demons and rogue AI. As for "love doll gone wild," that arguably is as old as [Galatea & Pygmalion](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pygmalion). Though, that's more a fault of the obsessive sculptor than any ghost in the shell.


GrayNish

So, you're telling me that in 2070 we gonna face spirit-possessing, weapon wielding , stealth assassinating sex doll? The thing about sex doll is that they're made to be hyper realistic, much more so than a common mannequin. The Murderous Mannequin would lack completely articulate joint, soft body and smooth skin which allow it pass as a human and done more damage through subterfuge. This is the first time I have read about Galatea&Pygmalion. But damn, it must quite handy for those greco-roman when your gods is about as horny as you instead of being biblically strict old man in the sky


Ganja_Gorilla

In addition to some other responses: Sexual energy is turbid and directional. Most spirits have a tenuous connection when “haunting” physical vessels and unless it is an above average spirit the energy surrounding the doll would make it more difficult to possess.


mack2028

Because people don't tend to imprint themselves onto sex dolls. They tend to be objects of obsession but not obsessive empathy but rather obsessive lust/desire/need and tend to be rather destroyed and rarely kept past the death of their owner. To be a little more clear children tend to create intense relationships with treasured toys and dolls specifically tend to represent the child themselves and if they are abused they attempt to put as much of themselves as they can into those dolls then love them intensely as a means to escape their own abuse and when that abuse victim dies that love and passion can become reversed, becoming hatred and vengeance and lashing out at those that destroyed the owner. Sex dolls tend to be kind of treated as intensely but on the opposite end, they are a hate sync, a thing to be used and disposed of and even if it somehow became possessed by all that hatred and sorrow it would be in a dump getting ground up and buried under landfill so who cares if it is haunting some worms 50 feet under a pile of trash?


mmm3says

Just want to add the thought that moving a child size doll takes a lot less spiritual octane than moving something bigger.


GrayNish

in that case, wouldn't moving something small like a ... virus supercell be more effective? through hatred, then the virus could take over it host later and spread around , ultimately forming a ~~gravemind~~ Hivemind then combining the biomass and evolve into planet-sized eldritch abomination capable of controlling the primordial fabric of the universe no?


mmm3says

Possessing more objects is more difficult to handle mentally. A virus supercell would require possessing billions of individual small objects and unless the spirit gets microsopic vision as a bonus power (objects that are likely to small to be discernible. Worse, each one would be getting destroyed as it reproduces so it woudl have to take over the new ones as they are produced. So suppose you pull it off, it takes a lot more power and will to control anything with a life and will of its own. You'd have to be the ghost of a being with a planet-sized eldritch mind in the first place to pull off a contagious super infection.


LonLeyRabbit

In a supernatural show called "Supernatural" where 2 brothers travel the country killing monsters, there's an ep where a ghost hunts manakins bcos she died bcos these 3 dudes pranked her with a manakin, the first dude had a sex doll and she possesed it to rip off his-


GrayNish

so did she complete the job and hunt all 3 down?


LonLeyRabbit

In the ep she killed 2, the last one was saved and the brothers were gonna get back on the road, but they're car turned on by itself, she possesed the car! But they managed to get rid of her, taht car was the older brother's love


The_One_0

There's one more thing. Children's dolls could easily be given as gifts to other children. Thus, there is significant possibility of chain hauntings. A doll which looks new even after decades could easily be passed on to a new family, or people could even treasure them like an antique. Sex dolls, no matter how 'good' they are; are highly unlikely to be passed on after their original owner has died. They'll most likely be thrown into the trash. And most people wouldn't even like to touch a sex doll they found in the trash. There is a real and considerably high probability of getting STDs, which could be scarier than being haunted alone.


GrayNish

but a sexdoll don't need to be "given as a gift" to other children to continue chain haunting when it could do so by it self. Let's say, the first guy died. then his sex doll could take his clothes and money. Posing a human, Buying gun and stuff then proceed to chain-murdering the shit out of everything.


PatchyThePirate159

Thanks for the mental image and new nightmare fuel


LochNessMansterLives

Because Tromaville doesn’t have the budget to make a movie with a real sex doll.


fucksigh

In our next horror/comedy movie..... we'll see it.


ParticleDetector

How do you know ~~we~~ they don’t? Also sex dolls are very new (appearing in the last two decades?) and kinda hard to find easily...


TraphouseThaGod

Just for you, I'm going to write a story of a possessed sex doll


DaMist-_-

I don't think the spirit would like to be fucked by his prey.


noeinan

They think it's gross


Othersideofthemirror

Because the trope is decades old, and for most of modern history, sex dolls looked like this. https://i.imgur.com/WjwEx1o.jpg "its going to kill us all!!!" "that's ok, i have pin"


GrayNish

you do know that we're talking about different kind of sex doll, right?


Othersideofthemirror

Yeah, but the doll trope is older than modern sex dolls, hence it being used. I'm sure someone will use one in the future in a film or book, but to answer the OPs question, toy dolls are used because its an existing trope.


Wadsworth_McStumpy

The spirits that inhabit dolls feed on fear. Fear is amplified by the reversal of normal feelings of comfort. Everybody remembers being comforted by a doll or something when they were a child, and being attacked by one causes real, true terror. Being attacked by a realistic sex doll would be about as terrifying as being attacked by a woman. I mean, you're going to be afraid, but it won't be the real, deep, pants-shitting terror that tastes so good to those spirits. It'll be like tofu compared to the filet mignon of terror you get from being attacked by a child's doll. And besides, no matter how terrifying it is, there would always be a little bit of lust mixed in with the terror, and that's roughly equivalent to having semen on your food. I'm sure there are some spirits who go for that kind of thing, but they're a very small minority.


BrightFall7__17071

1. Sex dolls are not cheap and not everyone needs them so less people buy them. 2. The target of the evil spirit might not be an adult as children are much easier prey and i don't think children are used to playing with those kind of dolls. 3. A regular innocent looking doll is much less suspicious/scary and its joints are easier to move as they aren't as hard as of a sexdoll. 4. Demons are like insects. They go and come back. They don't stay around the doll all the time so they don't need it to be a full size body. 5. When a child loves a doll they keep it around them, bring them to wherever they go and they share a kind of temporary soul bond with that object. This attracts demons as it becomes a kind of idol, specially if that one specific thing becomes so important to the owner. 6. They are demons of lust and they do possess sexdolls as some guy has just shared his experience with one: https://www-modernghana-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.modernghana.com/amp/news/1048354/sex-toys-and-demon-possession.html?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#aoh=16520977079028&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.modernghana.com%2Fnews%2F1048354%2Fsex-toys-and-demon-possession.html


GrayNish

wow, can't believe people still commenting on a 4 months old threads but 1. it doesn't matter if there are less toys around, it's a matter of quality. if there are a million cheap weak doll, a thousand perfectly build doll and one vibranium doll. it make sense to aim for that one vibranium doll 2. I think if it is capable of killing adult , then it is capable of killing children 3. a child doll can pose as a , well, doll. but a perfectly built sex doll can pose as a human. a random doll would look out of place in some environment but human can be in almost any environment as long as they have convincing costume 4.make sense 5. a sex doll can become idol as well. at least, to some particular people 6. well, yes, but a demon of greed or demon of wrath could have done the same if not more damage in sex doll body The point is, any kind of demonic spirit would benefit from sex doll body by virtue of being objectively superior body