I’ve heard about those lunatics-a psychologist on one of the Fox Sunday morning shows called it an eating disorder of the weirdest kind, because it is rooted in a delusion, and said she considers it a form of anorexia-people can die from it, too.
The living doll thing is wacko, too-a lot of those who get really into it have multiple surgical enhancements-so much plastic they would melt if they got too close to a flame. I think it started in Japan, where there are a lot of very strange fetishes-like that cosplay thing...
Wow