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    lucylooo: Soooo. . .I guess I was the only one who alternated between playing "Little House Barbies" and "Lesbian Alternative Barbies" when I was a kid. Good t... more »
    o-line: This (and my own disturbing childhood Barbie universe) is why my kids will get cornhusk and flower dolls. more »
    Katxyz: The first one, with the caterpillar body, frightens me on a visceral level and I can't articulate why. It looks like she's been tortured with some ho... more »
    bluebears: Hm. Apparently I didn't realize I was creating "art" back in the day when I'd arrange my barbies and kens into a little game my friends and I called "... more »
    Aesop's Foibles. YES.: You shush. My mam's still got her vintage Barbies and they are AWESOME. You just know they were so cold-hearted and would smoke cigs in those holder t... more »
    gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy: Am I the only one who had Francie? Barbie's boobs scared the shit out of me, and Francie was more modestly built. Of course, it was the 70's and I was... more »
    Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: "The book says that young Ken "grew up embarrassed and humiliated by having an anatomically incorrect boy doll named after him . . . [with] no hint of... more »
    thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: For Christmas, my niece got gymnast barbies that you attach to a bar and they do flips. I played with it for 2 hours on Christmas. My niece couldn't... more »
    BorgQueen: So it never was "Adam and Steve." It was "Adam and Ken." Good to know Also I punked out all my Barbies at one time, ripping their clothes and giving t... more »
    Bunny_of_doom: I was a strange child. My doctor Barbie performed weird experiments on all the others. One of her more memorable experiments happened on the newest Ba... more »
    EdnasEdibles: My mom refused to buy me Ken dolls, perhaps because she knew that I would just make them have sex with Barbie. So I got an off-label barbie doll for a... more »
    scullymurphy: My Barbies got their hair done and went out on sexdates with my blonde and dark haired Ken dolls who were always George Michael and Andrew Ridgely fro... more »
    hfree: If you haven't already, you should all read "Forever Barbie". It's such a fascinating read. I think it's been updated since it's first printing as well. more »
    hydrogen_jukebox: All my Barbie storylines would be loosely based off of books I'd recently read. Needless to say, I had re-appropriated Jem and Scout as a Teen Skipper... more »
    PartyOfOne: As the years passed, Jack Ryan finally taught Barbie to bring him his slippers, pass for a princess (and a doctor, and a cowgirl, and an astronaut, an... more »
  • #barbieworld

    A Doll's House

    I thought we'd seen it all, Barbie-art-wise. And having seen this, I wish we had. And yeah, NSFW, to the extent that you probably wouldn't want your boss to walk by while you were looking at, say, number three. [BuzzFeed]
  • #barbieworld

    XXX! Sex Secrets Of Barbie And Ken

    As everyone has always suspected on some level, America's favorite fashion doll Barbie has a seriously sordid past. More »
  • #livingdolls

    Point/Counterpoint: What's Up With Lipstick For 1st Graders?