recently(The VC must hurry up to make the last bucks...as you said they've some advantage over others in S.E.&S. asia)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11177888/sex-doll-shortage-coronavirus-china/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/2084051/robot-sex-doll-sex-brothel-paris-cost/