SAO PAULO — Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into ...

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Okay, so there's this huge cultural moment happening in Brazil right now, and honestly, it's a bit of a trip. We're talking ...

Hyper-realistic baby dolls featured in TikTok videos have gone viral, prompting curiosity from social media users, and now they've even sparked political debate in Brazil. From trips to the park, to ...

Parenting these infants is a dream: They behave and sleep like a doll — because that’s what they are. For some families in Iran, the prospect of having more children poses too much of an economic or ...

Scrolling through TikTok lately, you’ve probably seen videos of disembodied hands squishing hyper-realistic silicone baby faces (or, um, pulling a tiny baby figure out of their mouths). Some folks ...

In the Reborning subculture, collectors “adopt” hyper-realistic artificial babies–impeccably crafted from vinyl, glass, doe suede, and up to eighty layers of paint. The “parents” care for their dolls ...

A woman who calls herself Mommy of 2 Reborns [realistic dolls that are often purchased by mothers who’ve suffered infant loss or miscarriages] on TikTok has attracted backlash about giving her ‘babies ...

A former labor and delivery nurse, Melanie Peterson, said she would get a feeling of absolute "triumph" when she would hold a newborn she had just delivered. Then she would watch as the newborn ...

In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine, Lisa Katayama tells the story of a Japanese man called Nisan who has a body-pillow with a sexy, young, animated girl printed on the cover. “Her” ...