Korean Otaku Marries Anime Body Pillow

escapistmagazine.com ^ | 10-11-10 | John Funk

[GeronL]

I had a thread with him too, I wonder if it was one of the deleted ones.

[nothingnew]

...he also takes her out on dates to restaurants and to amusement parts, as chronicled on media sites.

Amusement parts........I can only imagine what the might mean...

FMCDH(BITS)

[Tamar1973]

There's an interesting paragraph later on that says, "Oh sure, it's not a problem now as long as you're marrying pillowcases and plastic Nintendo DS screens, but what happens when we invent realistic sexbots (other than the extinction of humanity, that is)? What happens when AI becomes sentient? Will convincing a computer to fall in love with us save us when the machines take over?"

There was a South Korean movie called Natural City with a story of a cop falling in love with a cyborg so maybe this guy was just bringing the movies into real life.

[LexBaird]

Well, I guess as long as the upholstery is over eighteen years old...

[feralcat]

What argument made in favor of gay “marriage” could not be made in favor of this guy legally marrying his pillow?

His love for the pillow is just a real as love for a person.

Marrying the pillow makes him happy.

Without marriage hospitals might not let him take the oversized pillow into his hospital room.

His health insurance won’t cover repairs for the pillow unless they are married.

No doubt marriage will have as much effect in encouraging this guy to stay faithful to his pillow as gay “marriage” will have in encouraging homosexuals to stay monogamous.

If he has any children, I’m sure the children love the pillow too.

If you say marriage has to be between two humans, then where did you get that definition from? (Don’t you DARE say God!!) To say legal marriage has to be defined as being between two humans is just bigotry and discrimination.

Also, I’m sure that the relativistic, postmodern youth are much more sympathetic to the idea of people marrying anime pillows than their elders, so pillow-marriage is inevitable.