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airehead
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 Posted: 09/29/04 - 12:56 Post subject: Sleeping with another man...
when Mr Aire is gone. 
This is something Mr. Aire and I have always joked about due to my fondness for lots of pillows. Now someone is making money off of this idea!!!!!
| Quote: | Man-shaped pillow for solo sleeper
By Kaori Hitomi in Nagareyama, Japan
29sep04
AFTER a long night at work as a radio DJ, Junko Suzuki likes to snuggle at bedtime - and she says she's found the perfect partner: a man-shaped pillow.
Linen maker Kameo Corp.'s new "Boyfriend's Arm Pillow" - which consists of a headless torso and a stuffed arm that curls around the sleeper - might make some people uneasy.
But not Ms Suzuki, or about 1000 others in Japan who have bought the pillow, which Kameo says is the first of its kind. The product went on the market last December.
"I like to sleep holding someone's hand," Ms Suzuki, 34. "And this pillow makes me feel relaxed because I can hold the arm and feel something warm at my side."
Kameo, based in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka, says the pillow is not only an emotional comfort, but that its shape keeps the body balanced by supporting the sleeper from both sides.
Sleepers typically curl up in between the body of the pillow and the crooked arm, with the sleeper's head resting on the pillow's "bicep."
"My grandmother used to say that there is nothing more comfortable pillow than human," Kameo President Tomoki Kakehashi said. "So, I thought that maybe women would want to sleep on an arm-shaped pillow."
The pillow is only on sale in Japan, where customers can buy one for Y8500 ($106. . Covered in a shirt-shaped pillow cover, it comes in blue, pink or green.
For Ms Suzuki, who is estranged from her husband, the pillow has definite advantages: It doesn't squirm or thrash in the night, and you know it'll be there in the morning.
"It keeps holding me all the way through," she said in her home outside of Tokyo. "I think this is great because this does not betray me."
One-size pillows do not fit all.
So Kameo is working up new models: muscular pillows for sleepers who like their pillows well-built; slender models for those after a more sensitive, vulnerable partner.
The company also has a prototype for its next big project: a female pillow for men. This one will be shaped like a woman's lap, with a "skirt" cover.
"I always thought someone's lap would the best pillow for me," Mr Kakehashi said.
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Cappy
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 12:57 Post subject:
If the pillow shares the covers I may be on the sofa forever.
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Pug
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 12:59 Post subject:
Bearing in mind the post from a week or two ago about the battery operated appliance with the interesting name,
What do you expect from a company based in a city called Fukuoka
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brie k
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:01 Post subject:
Hmmm. I don't know. I think I'd rather either have the real thing or nothing at all.
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airehead
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:05 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | | Hmmm. I don't know. I think I'd rather either have the real thing or nothing at all. |
I am a pillow freak. Unfortunately a trait passed on to my son. He and I steal pillows from each other. Especially new or fun ones.
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HighHeat
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:05 Post subject:
"Where's your hand?" 
"Between two pillows" 
"THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!" 
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alyson98
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:15 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | | Hmmm. I don't know. I think I'd rather either have the real thing or nothing at all. |
 Nothing like waking up to a cold pillow. 
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elkid
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:16 Post subject:
Looks like coach will have that new friend, after all.
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:18 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | Looks like coach will have that new friend, after all. |
And on another note, it won't be long until males aren't needed for anything. Gentlemen, we could be the last of our kind.
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:19 Post subject:
I don't want one of those. I agree with brie, the real thing or nothing at all.
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:22 Post subject:
| coachmarkos wrote: |
And on another note, it won't be long until males aren't needed for anything. Gentlemen, we could be the last of our kind. |
Then who would the wimmins blame then
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:24 Post subject:
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Then who would the wimmins blame then |
that's true. the position of whipping boy might be our last hope.
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:27 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | | Hmmm. I don't know. I think I'd rather either have the real thing or nothing at all. |
That is a whole lot of nothing you got in August. 
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:28 Post subject:
| coachmarkos wrote: |
that's true. the position of whipping boy might be our last hope. |
Finally, a purpose for men! 
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 09/29/04 - 13:28 Post subject:
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Finally, a purpose for men! |
what do you mean finally? We been serving in that position for a long, long time.
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