Would you want a dakimakura?

[Archae]

It's a Japanese thing, a body pillow with a cartoon character (usually female, scantily clad or nude) printed on it.

I think it's kind of weird, myself.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Nope. I already sleep with enough pillows.

[NV Whino]

2. No. I have three cats. Who needs body pillows with three cats?

[Art_from_Ark]

3. You have to understand the Japanese culture

to know why there's a market for this sort of thing. And that is, most Japanese married couples sleep like they're acting in some 1950s movie-- flannel pajamas, separate beds, even separate rooms. There is little intimate contact, especially after the couple have reached their "baby quota".

For single males, it's also pretty depressing. As a general (but not hard-and-fast) rule, Japanese women don't seem to grow out of their "boys are icky" stage until they're in their late 20s or early 30s, when their biological clocks start ticking. It can be pretty damn hard for a single guy to get a girlfriend, as a large proportion of single young women just want to hang out with other women, or, if they go out with men, it's usually in groups, as opposed to one-on-one dating.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. Nothing wrong with a body pillow.

They can help relive chronic lower back pain. As far as one printed with a character, I wouldn't know, since my king size bed is only for sleeping on. Sex is reserved for the shower, or the piano, or the tall grass beyond the house, or the beach, or....

[Xyzse]

5. Not my thing, but long body pillows are very comfortable.

My grandparents had them, which were at the time bigger than I was.

I think it was at least 5 feet, when I was about 3 feet +.
You can use them for babies too, so that they don't roll too much in different directions.

It might be fun to have again actually.

That way, I'd have more "Cool" sides of a pillow.