BARBIE Doll Creator's Perverted Sex Life Revealed In Upcoming Book

[JamesG]

This might be a surprise for some; others no.

Barbie Creator's Racy Sex Secrets Revealed

Jan 9th 2009
By Heather Muse


Admit it, you were one of those girls who put Barbie in some compromising positions when you were younger. It turns out that's just part of the doll's history: A new book says that the man who helped design Barbie was "a 'full-blown '70s-style swinger" with "a manic need for sexual gratification'" (as the New York Post so delicately puts it).

In the soon-to-be-released book "Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel," author Jerry Oppenheimer spills secrets about the sex life of toy designer Jack Ryan (no, not the Tom Clancy protagonist portrayed by Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Alec Baldwin onscreen).


Wild Life

According to one of Oppenheimer's sources, designer Ryan would talk about creating his masterpiece in creepy detail: "It was like listening to somebody talk about a sexual episode, almost like listening to a sexual pervert."

The book alleges that Ryan patronized prostitutes, threw orgies and sought out women who looked like Barbie.


Not the First Claim

Ryan's strange psychodynamics with the doll will be no surprise to those who know their toy history. Ryan always seemed to want Barbie to walk the line between sexy and skanky, and when the prototypes of the doll came back from Japan, he filed off the nipples because, according to The Telegraph, "the Japanese had not understood the subtleties of western sexual iconography."

He also was so enamored with Barbie's pull-string talk boxes that he had some fitted into the stone lions at his Bel Air mansion.

The eponymous Ken doll isn't scandal-free, either. The toy was named after the son of a Mattel founder. According to Oppenheimer, the real-life Ken grew up "humiliated" by the link, and became a closeted gay man who died of complications relating to AIDS.

http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/01/09/barbie-creators-racy-sex-secrets-revealed/

[Mikado]

Actually, none of this is very surprising, the truth is that Barbie started off as a ripoff of a German sex doll named Lilli

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

lol gross. I loved playing with Barbie's when I was a kid, little did I know...

[catlover79]

lol gross. I loved playing with Barbie's when I was a kid, little did I know...
Me, too!! :eek: :lol:

[Mikado]

When i was a kid, a lot of bachelors had Lilly dolls hanging from their rearview mirrors :lol:

[Pus$y Galore]

This is the first I've ever heard of some guy at Mattel designing Barbie. I've always understood is was a woman named Ruth Handler (I can even picture her - she was a blonde) who invented "Barbie" - she named the fashion doll after her daughter, Barbara and Mattel bought the license and distribution rights.:confused:

[Mikado]

This is the first I've ever heard of some guy at Mattel designing Barbie. I've always understood is was a woman named Ruth Handler (I can even picture her - she was a blonde) who invented "Barbie" - she named the fashion doll after her daughter, Barbara and Mattel bought the license and distribution rights.:confused:
They probably mean the one who designed the later models Cathie....and yes, she named Barbie after her daughter, and Ken after her son (Dont ask me how i know this! :lol: ) Anyway, as I said, in truth, Barbie was an almost exact copy/ripoff of the German Lilli doll (Which was marketed to men only)

[MonarC]

No wonder kids these days are so screwed up. We got a 4 year old boy shooting babysitter, driving themselves to school and now I find out I played with a mini sex doll when I was growing up. I guess next your gonna tell me there's no Santa Clause. :lol:

[Pus$y Galore]

No wonder kids these days are so screwed up. We got a 4 year old boy shooting babysitter, driving themselves to school and now I find out I played with a mini sex doll when I was growing up. I guess next your gonna tell me there's no Santa Clause. :lol:



You ain't gonna believe who the Tooth Fairy really is either!!!


Well, it does explain why Barbie's measurements are impossible to live up to and my disappointment with Ken's reproductive area. He did skew my vision of guys for a few years there.....

;)

[JamesG]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/JamesGrec/DominatrixBarbie.jpg

Meet Dominatrix BARBIE.

[catlover79]

No wonder kids these days are so screwed up. We got a 4 year old boy shooting babysitter, driving themselves to school and now I find out I played with a mini sex doll when I was growing up. I guess next your gonna tell me there's no Santa Clause. :lol:
:brent

[catlover79]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/JamesGrec/DominatrixBarbie.jpg

Meet Dominatrix BARBIE.
No comment. :rolleyes: :lol:

[MonarC]

Ewwwww! I don't think little girls should be playing with dolls like that.:eek:

[catlover79]

Ewwwww! I don't think little girls should be playing with dolls like that.:eek:
I wouldn't worry - I think those are solely designed for certain lonely men. :eek: :rolleyes: :lol:

[MonarC]

You ain't gonna believe who the Tooth Fairy really is either!!!


Well, it does explain why Barbie's measurements are impossible to live up to and my disappointment with Ken's reproductive area. He did skew my vision of guys for a few years there.....

;)


:brent ^^^^



So Barbie was named after her daughter and Ken after her son. That's kinda gross when the Ken and Barbie were boyfriend and girlfriend as dolls. Ewww.

[MonarC]

I wouldn't worry - I think those are solely designed for certain lonely men. :eek: :rolleyes: :lol:


:lol:

[catlover79]

:lol:
Like I'm wrong. :lol: Not ALL men - mind you.

[catlover79]

:brent ^^^^



So Barbie was named after her daughter and Ken after her son. That's kinda gross when the Ken and Barbie were boyfriend and girlfriend as dolls. Ewww.
:rofl: It does give one pause.

[Pus$y Galore]

Ewwwww! I don't think little girls should be playing with dolls like that.:eek:


'Course, look at those Bratz Dolls that are out now. My neice loves them and I couldn't believe how racy those things are - way more so than what Barbie was ever portrayed as!

lol I remember my mom bought me Skipper (Barbie's little sister). I never liked her nearly as much because she was flatchested and "boring" compared to Barbie. I'd make my own "dresses" out of tissues and they just never hung the same on poor Skipper! :lol:

[Mikado]

So Barbie was named after her daughter and Ken after her son. That's kinda gross when the Ken and Barbie were boyfriend and girlfriend as dolls. Ewww.
As I recall it, Ken was jealous that his sister had her own doll and he didnt , so, they named the male doll after him.........In later years, he grew to regret it! :crazy: :lol:

[Mikado]

This is the first I've ever heard of some guy at Mattel designing Barbie. I've always understood is was a woman named Ruth Handler (I can even picture her - she was a blonde) who invented "Barbie" - she named the fashion doll after her daughter, Barbara and Mattel bought the license and distribution rights.:confused:
My guess is that the man in this story was the one who actually made the molds/models for the dolls (Although, all he really seems to have done was buy a Lilli doll and copy her :lol: )

[Mikado]

The Lilli story


http://www.dollreference.com/bild_lilli.html

[catlover79]

As I recall it, Ken was jealous that his sister had her own doll and he didnt , so, they named the male doll after him.........In later years, he grew to regret it! :crazy: :lol:
This whole discussion is just sick. :rofl: :brent

[MonarC]

I always thought there was something wrong with little girls playing with dolls. There are so many more things that you could play with besides dolls. Im so glad I had a baby boy instead of a girl. :D Girls are so much trouble.

[Pus$y Galore]

There are so many more things that you could play with besides dolls. Im so glad I had a baby boy instead of a girl. .


Yeah - boys have the thing they play with already attached to them! No need for all those accessory items dolls require! :lol: ;)

[MonarC]

:lol:

[Mikado]

Yeah - boys have the thing they play with already attached to them! No need for all those accessory items dolls require! :lol: ;):eek:
Oh Cathie, Cathie , Cathie....Am i going to have to put you over my knee? ....Please??? :lol:

[Pus$y Galore]

:eek:
Oh Cathie, Cathie , Cathie....Am i going to have to put you over my knee? ....Please??? :lol:
And you talk about ME?! :lol:

Ya gotta admit, it keeps the little guys busy and you can't get bashed in the face like you can with a Tonka truck! ;)

[Mikado]

And you talk about ME?! :lol:

Ya gotta admit, it keeps the little guys busy and you can't get bashed in the face like you can with a Tonka truck! ;)
:rofl: Oh Cathie, Im a Canuck, youre a CaNUT ;) :heart: (love ya)

[Pus$y Galore]

:rofl: Im a Canuck, youre a CaNUT ;) :love:


:lol:

[JamesG]

'Course, look at those Bratz Dolls that are out now. My neice loves them and I couldn't believe how racy those things are - way more so than what Barbie was ever portrayed as!

Well I don't know if this happened where you are but here in the US the BRATZ dolls are now off the market.
I posted a thread on it a while ago.

[catlover79]

Well I don't know if this happened where you are but here in the US the BRATZ dolls are now off the market.
I posted a thread on it a while ago.
Yeah, Cathie's in Canada so I don't know if Bratz dolls are still available there.

[Pus$y Galore]

^^

I'm not sure, I think they yanked them here too, but hell, they had already been on sale for years so there's lots out there in little girls homes already.

It was their cartoon that shocked me more than anything. Had them out clubbing, etc.. What little girl needs to know about that?

Hell, in my day, Barbie just went shopping, or maybe out to dinner with Ken. And once Malibu Barbie hit, she was off to the beach in her convertible or camper - not in a Viper with some pimp! :lol:

[MonarC]

:brent

http://www.weirdthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/crack-ho-barbie-and-pimp-daddy-ken-new-doll-range.jpg

[catlover79]

^ Now that's just awful. :eek: :crazy: :rofl: