Men who dress up as living dolls

Subject: Men who dress up as living dolls Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:46 am

It began with the filmmakers stumbling upon a Youtube clip of a woman named Julie. In the video, the Jocelyn Wildenstein look-alike complains about spending “another long day in a wig and a girdle”. The 30-second clip was grainy and almost unremarkable, until we see her pulling off what looks like a heavily Botoxed face from her jaw. Julie, as it turns out, is a man in a female mask.

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This video became a seed for what would eventually turn into a captivating documentary project, The Secrets of the Living Dolls, which recently aired in the UK. In it, producer Luke Malone and director Nick Sweeney follow the lives of maskers, also known as 'living dolls', who are part of a hidden community of seemingly ordinary men dressed up in elaborate rubber suits as their ‘ideal fantasy women’.

Unlike transgender people, maskers do not necessarily identify as a different sex. Nor is their motivation always sexual. In fact, many see masking as a form of ‘escapism’ or just “a way to have fun”.

Men who dress up as living dolls

Men who dress up as living dolls

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