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Did you do anything to sexualize your Barbie or Ken dolls? (Original Post) milestogo Jul 2023 OP
No. Barbie. I thought she was ugly. LakeArenal Jul 2023 #1
I never had a Barbie; I didn't care much for dolls Ocelot II Jul 2023 #2
Ditto Ditto! elleng Jul 2023 #5
Never had EITHER. elleng Jul 2023 #3
Absolutely Tree-Hugger Jul 2023 #4
I had a GI Joe action figure PJMcK Jul 2023 #6
Well these dolls were adults in the hands of adolescents. milestogo Jul 2023 #8
Well, GI Joe had his right forefinger extended PJMcK Jul 2023 #12
I did not know that. milestogo Jul 2023 #14
It was designed so he could hold his gun (n/t) PJMcK Jul 2023 #36
When I was eight I was mesmerized by Barbie's boobs..... but they were too hard Shellback Squid Jul 2023 #7
They went along with those pointy bras women wore in the sixties. milestogo Jul 2023 #10
OMGAWD..... perfect example of this was Cloris Leachmen in Young Frankenstein...... a kennedy Jul 2023 #17
The Bullet Bra, they called it. milestogo Jul 2023 #19
You could dial a phone with those Major Nikon Jul 2023 #20
Dail a phone ... Hotler Jul 2023 #46
You know... The Unmitigated Gall Jul 2023 #34
My sister had some Barbie doll where you turned her arms AZSkiffyGeek Jul 2023 #28
You know why Barbie had red nipples? Effete Snob Jul 2023 #9
Nope! 50 Shades Of Blue Jul 2023 #11
My mom and dad couldn't afford Barbie, so we got Tina dolls.....they were too fat to EVER fit a kennedy Jul 2023 #13
Well we had trolls, those little ones. milestogo Jul 2023 #15
I had a Malibu Barbie thinkingagain Jul 2023 #18
My sister and I were the only grandkids on my father's side. Laffy Kat Jul 2023 #29
I was a saver of my things as a kid thinkingagain Jul 2023 #30
Same here. Laffy Kat Jul 2023 #33
We had Barbie and Ken get on top of each other...kissy, kissy and more LeftInTX Jul 2023 #16
I remember being disappointed I couldn't go down on Barbie or blow Ken ... Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2023 #21
They couldn't really do each other, either, despite the efforts Ocelot II Jul 2023 #24
I eventually found out they both could do me though ... Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2023 #26
Perv. Ocelot II Jul 2023 #27
This is one of the best responses on DU...ever. LuckyCharms Jul 2023 #38
LOL Auggie Jul 2023 #53
no Skittles Jul 2023 #22
I was a quiet kid that liked to play alone and almost never got in trouble (boy did I do an about MLAA Jul 2023 #23
How would you sexualize. Barbie had no sexual parts except for the nipple less breasts and Ken had debm55 Jul 2023 #25
You had to use your imagination. Ocelot II Jul 2023 #32
Tammy and GI Joe... consider_this Jul 2023 #31
Ok... The Unmitigated Gall Jul 2023 #35
She thought the whole scene was pretty hot. milestogo Jul 2023 #41
I think she did. I sure thought SHE was hot. The Unmitigated Gall Jul 2023 #43
I made GI Joe and Barbie have missionary sex on top of a washcloth... LuckyCharms Jul 2023 #37
Thats hot. milestogo Jul 2023 #39
You're not kidding. LuckyCharms Jul 2023 #40
My sister and I used to make our Barbies and Kens have sex all the time. Mad_Dem_X Jul 2023 #42
Sometimes, that's all there is. milestogo Jul 2023 #44
How true. roamer65 Jul 2023 #45
! Mad_Dem_X Jul 2023 #48
I remember these. roamer65 Jul 2023 #47
I when I first started receiving Barbie's as Christmas I was 4 years old. Niagara Jul 2023 #49
I'm pretty sure Ken was gay. milestogo Jul 2023 #50
Enjoy this 1996 Nissian commercial, milestogo. Niagara Jul 2023 #55
Warning: graphic..... IcyPeas Jul 2023 #51
... milestogo Jul 2023 #52
We pulled their heads off and exchanged them GenThePerservering Jul 2023 #54
The head transplant. How dolls transition to the opposite sex. milestogo Jul 2023 #56

Ocelot II

(130,536 posts)
2. I never had a Barbie; I didn't care much for dolls
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 09:35 PM
Jul 2023

and I was getting a little too old for them anyhow, but some neighbor kids had Barbies and Kens, and often placed them in compromising positions notwithstanding Ken's, um, shortcomings.

Tree-Hugger

(3,379 posts)
4. Absolutely
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 09:36 PM
Jul 2023

My Barbies had plenty of sex.....with various genders. While I didn't do it to my own dolls, I had friends who drew penises on their Ken dolls.

PJMcK

(25,048 posts)
6. I had a GI Joe action figure
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 09:38 PM
Jul 2023

He had a Mercury spacecraft.

My sister had a Barbie doll in a leotard.

I would put the two of them in the spacecraft and fantasize about what they could be doing.

I was about 12 years old.

I’m so embarrassed!

milestogo

(23,084 posts)
8. Well these dolls were adults in the hands of adolescents.
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 09:41 PM
Jul 2023

Even if they didn't quite have all the right parts.

a kennedy

(35,983 posts)
17. OMGAWD..... perfect example of this was Cloris Leachmen in Young Frankenstein......
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 09:58 PM
Jul 2023

Am I right…..her nurse outfit!!!!!

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,744 posts)
28. My sister had some Barbie doll where you turned her arms
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:36 PM
Jul 2023

And her breasts grew. Like “Growing Up Barbie” or something.
I remember my grandmother getting her some anatomically correct dolly too. Bought it at some Amish market!

a kennedy

(35,983 posts)
13. My mom and dad couldn't afford Barbie, so we got Tina dolls.....they were too fat to EVER fit
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 09:51 PM
Jul 2023

in Barbie clothes…..so our Tina dolls only had the outfits they came to in. We couldn’t afford any clothes for them. I really forget where I was going with this…….just that we were rather poor, and I still feel and donate to all the causes I can. EAT THE RICH.

milestogo

(23,084 posts)
15. Well we had trolls, those little ones.
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 09:53 PM
Jul 2023

Built troll houses out of all kinds of packing. But there was nothing sexual about them except that the little ones didn't wear clothes.

thinkingagain

(1,350 posts)
18. I had a Malibu Barbie
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:02 PM
Jul 2023

But didn’t get clothes so made my own out of old socks.
Worked pretty good and the for furniture used things like thread spools.
Somewhere along the way I got one green dress for her I still have it.

When my girls were young
I showed them the sock trick.
but they were lucky yard sales and second hand stores they got clothes for their Barbie’s I saved and added to that batch for my grandkids and nieces.

Laffy Kat

(16,952 posts)
29. My sister and I were the only grandkids on my father's side.
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:39 PM
Jul 2023

So my grandmother and aunt would make our Barbies these beautiful and extravagant outfits and elegant gowns. When we visited a couple of times a year, they would gift us everything they had created; they were exceptional seamstresses. We had the best dressed Barbies in the neighborhood. I wish I still had them. I think my step-mother threw them away. I'm sad that we took it all for granted.

thinkingagain

(1,350 posts)
30. I was a saver of my things as a kid
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:46 PM
Jul 2023

But after I graduated high school and moved. things boxed up to catch up with me but somehow they never did that still saddens me.
but all the things I saved from my kids growing up. I’m pretty sure my kids will go. Why the heck did mom save this?

Laffy Kat

(16,952 posts)
33. Same here.
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 11:49 PM
Jul 2023

With the exception of some books that were also "lost" after my mom died and my father remarried, I had girl stuff, and my two children are boys. I can't imagine them being interested in my things.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
21. I remember being disappointed I couldn't go down on Barbie or blow Ken ...
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:15 PM
Jul 2023

Does that count?

Ocelot II

(130,536 posts)
24. They couldn't really do each other, either, despite the efforts
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:19 PM
Jul 2023

of millions of children for decades.

MLAA

(19,745 posts)
23. I was a quiet kid that liked to play alone and almost never got in trouble (boy did I do an about
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:19 PM
Jul 2023

Face around 18 and became very outspoken). Anyway the one time I did something bad was about age 4 I took my older sister’s Ken doll with the fuzzy blond hair turned him upside down and scraped his head on the sidewalk giving him a nice bald spot 😬.

debm55

(60,612 posts)
25. How would you sexualize. Barbie had no sexual parts except for the nipple less breasts and Ken had
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 10:23 PM
Jul 2023

no privates. Christmas morning when I receive my first Ken doll, I ran downstairs and took off his swim trunks. Nothing. I was bummed.

The Unmitigated Gall

(4,710 posts)
35. Ok...
Fri Jul 21, 2023, 01:59 AM
Jul 2023

Best friend in junior high had a younger sister had tons of B’s and K’s. What prompted it I don’t recall but we went into her room one afternoon, stripped them all down and laid out one HELL of an orgy. We put nipples on the barbies with tempera paint and hog-legs on the Kens with silly putty waving around the action…it really was something out of the minds of two thirteen-year-old pervert boys. Craig’s sister was crying, his mom was furious but I was totally in love with her, ever since she accidentally fell out of her robe one day (the face of God). She shot me a quick smirky glance as she was turning away from her stern lecture that almost made me pass out. It seemed to say “I’m marking you…you’re going to be trouble!”.

Mad_Dem_X

(10,193 posts)
42. My sister and I used to make our Barbies and Kens have sex all the time.
Fri Jul 21, 2023, 08:56 AM
Jul 2023

Of course, we knew nothing about sex, so we just undressed them and put the Ken on top of Barbie and that was it.

Niagara

(11,851 posts)
49. I when I first started receiving Barbie's as Christmas I was 4 years old.
Fri Jul 21, 2023, 06:48 PM
Jul 2023

It wasn't until after I started to bloom that my multitude of Barbie's were defiled frequently with plastic dry-humping from my only Ken doll.




Apparently I wasn't the only one trying to figure out what it was like being an adult and being curious about sex during my pre-teen days.



I have no desire to watch the new Barbie movie, but I love the fact that this movie has the Nazi AKA GOP) party in a tizzy.



GenThePerservering

(3,379 posts)
54. We pulled their heads off and exchanged them
Fri Jul 21, 2023, 10:04 PM
Jul 2023

then would dress Ken-head in Barbie's clothes and laugh hysterically.

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