Right up their skirts... for some strange reason...

I suppose it depends on your attitude toward panty-peeking, wouldn't you say?

 

I will admit that I've done this myself, or a group of us did at a small doll meet. I mean, a SwD School A in a skirt? We had to know if it was a boy or a girl. :3
However, for strangers or at least people who haven't been given permission to hold or handle the dolls, I can see the negative reactions. I let my friends play with my boy, and don't mind if they pants him, but I would be upset to have a non-friend or someone without permission doing the same thing. I've come across that situation, I do have dolls in college afterall, and was a bit offended by that sort of thing.
However, I think a lot of it is curiosity. Whether to see if they have cloth bodies, see if they have lacy undies, or just closeted perversion. As long as it's in certain bounds and with people I trust to let my doll around, I don't mind all that much...

 

hehe, i think everyone just wants a sneaky peek, lol, its quite hard to imagine a doll being anatomically correct, so every one wants to check, my maste at college, has had a rather good look at my little lad, but hes a vampire fae so hes usually naked 'cept wen hes at home where my dad demands he at least wear bottoms, lol

 

It's universal. People remember, on some deep molecular level, what it's like to play with dolls when you're a kid... and when you're a kid, and you get a new doll, the first thing you do is strip all its clothes off. Why? I'm still not sure of that part. Perhaps it's a subconscious urge to make sure that this thing in our arms isn't as human as we are. Who knows. XD But yes-- this phenomenon happens just as much with boy dolls as with girls, perhaps even more.

Another funny division I've noticed:

(a) The first time that men see a boy BJD, the first thing they do is ask, "So? Is he packing?" They may or may not ask to actually see it.
(b) The first time that women see a boy BJD, the first thing they do is pull his pants down. No questions asked.

My theory is that there's this lingering "respect distance" between one man & another man's private parts, even if it's a resin man-- but women don't seem to have this. For the obvious reason. -_- Again, this is just a theory, but one which amuses me constantly to ponder it.

Once people see it, their reactions vary wildly, depending on the person. (And depending on the doll.)

Most men, however, react with some pity. "Wow, that's barely a handful, even for HIM. Poor little guy!" *snork*

One particularly savvy man, who happens to be a sculptor, had some compassion: "Poor little guy-- if they didn't sculpt your hands & legs so disproportionately long, maybe your shootin' iron would look a little bigger." XD

Women mostly seem to say "Oh how CUTE", or else they giggle and hide their faces. ^^

Since I live in the USA, I also commonly hear, "Eww, he's not circumcised?!"

(Or, in the particular case of certain circumcised big-guns, like the Iplehouse boys, it's "WHOA! He's huge, and he's Jewish!"

 

I read a story about a lady who paid four hundred bucks for a doll and all the doll had underneath her floor-length skirt were a piece of netting and a pair of "old, cheap shoes." If I'm looking to purchase a doll I do want to see what she's got on underneath...I'm a bit of a quality snob and I want to make sure I'm getting what I'm paying for ALL OVER. If a doll has undergarmets it says to me that the maker cared enough to make her complete.

That being said, I probably would not upskirt a doll that someone's already bought and paid for (not without asking, anyway). It seems a little impolite, kinda like I'm trying to project my own standards onto someone else's property--not everyone cares what a doll looks like underneath, like I do. As for me, I usually don't get bent out of shape if someone upskirts any of my dolls (it's happened before), provided they pull the dress back down! I've had folks look under my girls' dresses and just leave the skirts popped up, and that really flies all over me. I'm not sure why, but that bugs me.

 

haha lol…were the people who tried to look guys?
funny because most people who have seen my dolls are too scared to even touch them because they look so delicate.

 

I think it must be a natural curiosity.
I mean, if I didn't collect BJDs and I *just* learned that the males and females are both anatomically correct I'd want to see. That's one of the first things I did when I got my first male doll, I stripped him of his pants to look at his wang. Is it tiny? is it large in a funny way? Or is it silly to see a little resin man with a tiny peenie between his legs?
I'm not really sure what it is that makes people want to look at them. But it's something I know that most people go through as children. When I was little and got a new doll, I'd strip it down. I know majority of children did the same thing. So, I'm guessing it's just human nature.

 

Most always with non-doll people, as we have established.

I think it's natural. People are curious. They might wanna know if it resembles a barbie in anatomy. Most people know what a Barbie looks like naked, and most people know what a American doll looks like naked. So they might think, "it's not an AG, it's not a Barbie... what does it look like" and then they'd go in for a closer inspection.

Or they might wanna see how truly realistic it is. That doll looks really nice,.... does it go all the way?

 

Somehow that never happened to me. They just want pose them and complain about how heavy they are. ^^;

 

My mom always does this, with everything for as long as I can remember XD Most of the time I'm sure she doesn't even know she's doing it, it's like a compulsion with her. I asked her why once and all she could say was "I wanted to see if they had any panties on!" Even with dolls and stuffies that she's done this with before >_<

 

I dunno if you were directing that at me or not, but I'm gonna answer it anyway. Yeah, the person who did it was a guy, and I think he just did it to be ornery more than anything. He loved to tease, and if he wanted to use my dolls to tease, he did it. No harm done, really.

 

My friends don't look up my girls skirt as much as they look down her shirt! They even strip my boys' pants to make sure they're actually male! I'm an easy going person so it doesn't bug me when a close friend does it, but it does bug me when people I don't know very well ask to see, but then again I feel uncomfortable by non collectors or people i don't know very well handling my dolls anyways

 

i only have one female doll and nobody has ever wanted to look up her skirt.
with my male dolls, people always end up asking if they anatomically correct but nobody has actually asked to see (or just pulled their pants down). o_o; maybe it's because i'm a guy with mostly guy dolls? no idea.

 

The first dolls I got were Iplehouse JID size and I ordered them with the mobility hip, which has a distressing tendancy to make them flop over at the hips with their butts in the air if you hold them by the legs in the wrong way. I guess in my case people got the up-skirt look without seeking it out.

I think one reason might be that people who have never seen a BJD up close are curious about how they are jointed and wonder whether or not the whole doll is made of the same material since alot of older dolls had bodies of cloth or wood with porcelin only for the exposed bits. For a doll with shoulder joints covered, up-skirt would probably be a more accessable area for trying to figure out how they are put together. Just a theory, but I know when I first held a BJD I was fascinated by how the joints fit together, especially the joints in the hips, knees, and torso. I was too afraid to pull the joints apart even though the owner was telling me to try it so I just sat there for twenty minutes verrrrryyy cccaaarreeeffuullly bending all of the joints to figure out how they worked while the owner chuckled at my fear of breaking something.

 

First thing my sister did was look up her skirt too, she was curious if she was anatomically correct.
I feel her embarrassment and It really un-nerves me when people do that.
I probably wouldn't mind so much if she had bloomers or undies on, but I haven't gotten a pair yet.

 

I would imagine it's because they're not used to seeing an anatomically correct doll. I've learned that usually when people think of dolls, they think of children's toys like Barbie's, which don't have 'naughty bits'. I've also heard of male dolls losing their pants because a non-doll person wanted to see if they really had a wang. I guess it all kind of boils down to curiosity more than anything.

 

Most of the people that actually see my dolls actually ask if they anatomically correct on more than one occasion my boy Aya who wears dresses and skirts and things including panties often gets up-skirted by people just wondering. My boy Nicky often got his pants pulled down to prove he was a boy. Or my girl Ally her top pulled off to see her boobies. Which I felt was kinda embarrassing.

 

With a really elaborate outfit I know that I want to know if the underpinnings are as elaborate. By which I mean the petticoats and bloomers and all. Victorian dolls, for instance, had underwear that was a little work of art all on its own.

 

I have never had that happen to me... then again my boys are boys and I dress them like so. Nothing against cross dressers, I just really like pants; lol. I never handled a doll and thought... oh lemme see they're intimates! Its a doll... wuts the issue?

 

Myfriend's doll has this habit of flopping over or tipping over in such a way that her panties are quite visible.