The original German doll wasn't a sex toy, it was just called a sex toy by jewish feminist Ariel Levy.

The original was based on a German comic strip about a sassy, sexy gold digger but the original doll functioned no differently than modern Barbie dolls with their different clothes and such. It was a doll owned by little girls all over Scandinavia and Western Europe.

The Bild Lilli doll was a German fashion doll launched on August 12, 1955 and produced until 1964. Its design was based on the comic-strip character Lilli, created by Reinhard Beuthien for the German tabloid newspaper Bild. The doll was made of polystyrene, came in two sizes, and had an available wardrobe of 1950s fashion. The Lilli doll was copied, and altered to some degree, for Mattel upon the direction of that company's co-founder, Ruth Handler. Mattel acquired the rights to Bild Lilli in 1964, and production of the German doll ceased, in favor of Mattel's new vinyl doll which they called Barbie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll

Not a sex toy, as far as I can see.

No, but the inflatable sex-doll had a similar origin. The inventor of the geodesic dome was also the inadvertent inventor of the blow-up sex-doll! Architect and inventor, R. Buckminster Fuller wrote about inflatable sex-dolls in a fake advertisement, clearly intended as a satire on the dehumanization inherent in the pornography industry. Fuller was horrified to see his satirical creation being sold as a real sex toy almost immediately after the publication of his essay.

I don't have the links, but I read this long ago, along with Fuller's original article, so it is genuine.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Buckminster_Fuller

No.

Updoots for using RLM in a meme. It would have NEVER occured to me to use Mikes ugly Hungarian honker for this one!

LOL!