New Trend: People Are Having Sex With Stuffed Animals. What The Hell.

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any weirder, the UK has been swept by a new trend: People are having emotional and sexual relationships with their stuffed animals.

According to The Sun, “plushies” are “people who are either emotionally attached to or sexually intimate with their stuffed animals.” This fetish is commonly known as “plushophilia.”

Plushies become intimate with their furry toys, usually placing vibrators and other sex toys inside of them. Some buy lingerie for their stuffed animal to “make it a little more enjoyable to undress them,” notes The Sun. (Though it seems rather redundant to dress a teddy in a teddy.)

There are even dating sites, blogging sites and Skype groups for plushies to meet and share the intimacies of the intimacy with a teddy bear.

A Reddit thread of undercover plushies looking to voice their love for stuffed animals gives us a little insight into the weird world of stuffed animal sex:

One user “fastfider” says, “So far, all my girlfriends found it cute. I think they find it cute the same way guys find it cute when a girl snuggles up with a plush or kisses it. The best thing to do if you’re embarrassed, but want to have clean plushies that look normal: Add a zipper, a good 10″ inches is good for most plushies. This lets you de-stuff and turn inside out so it can be washed. If you’re into actual penetration with your plushie, then the opening will allow for you to do some interesting stuff like you can put a water wing up there, a masturbator, etc. When you’re done, zip it up and that mod is invisible.”

“Aaa Throwie” explains that having sex with your stuffed animal is totally normal.

“I embraced my plushie love and have felt much better for it,” writes the Reddit user. “You’d be surprised by how accepting people are, or how little they care at all. I’ve felt like there’s no sense fitting in to something I don’t like. Being in a super sexy relationship with a giant teddy is much funner [sic]. Totally worth any consequences, of which I’ve had none. Plushies are just good for you.”

Another redditt dweller says that plushies should not “be ashamed of what you love!”

“Nothing to be ashamed of,” reads another comment.

This is all the natural progression, right? Not only do we not need marriage for sex, we don’t even need another human.

Yeah, we’re all screwed—kinda like those teddy bears in the UK.