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Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone Meghan Laslocky -- 10/17/2005  [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ]Lovers III: The Loyal Husband Gordon Griggs, a 38-year-old factory worker who lives in Virginia, might as well be married, if polygamously. Griggs owns two dolls -- Ginger Brooke (H7/B4) and Kelly Sue (H4/B2). Through the web, he shares a few precious photos: In one, stringy-haired Griggs sits in jeans and a flannel shirt, flanked by his two dolls. His right hand is on Ginger Brooke’s knee, his left is on Kelly Sue’s. Below the photo, he chronicles wrongs done him by women, starting with an 11th grade prom date, and ending with a woman who used him to move furniture. Griggs builds to a 25-point Times New Roman crescendo, recounting how he first saw Real Dolls on HBO’s Real Sex, and “KNEW right then I was going to buy one. It took me almost 9 months to save up the money. I’m kinda glad it took so long because while I was saving my money body 4 came out…Now that she is here time goes by so fast. I do not have any DESIRE at all for a real women [sic] now. Ginger fulfills all my my disires [sic] and dreams. We are perfect for each other…She will NEVER steal from me or lie to me. I AM TOTALLY HAPPY WITH HER.” Griggs had Ginger Brooke’s name picked out three months before he ordered her. Of his other preferences, he writes in an email: “I like [light] colored skin so I got the lightest color. Although I would like their skin to be a few shades lighter, I am happy with the way they are. I like dark hair with light colored skin. I always liked the way Morticia from the Adams [sic] Family looked.” He also prefers the “sweet innocent look” for his dolls. He proudly shows a photo of Ginger Brooke in a white satin, high-necked dress that looks suspiciously like a girl’s first communion dress. Ginger tends to wear an innocent cotton nightgown for bed, and she also has a Japanese schoolgirl outfit. “I ordered Kelly so Ginger would have someone to keep her company while I was at work. Kelly has a neck bolt so I can stand her up in the shower so she is easier to clean. But Ginger is still my favorite. Its OK, Kelly understands,” he writes. Ginger has stayed with him in his bed every night since she arrived. Kelly sleeps in a bean bag chair near the bed. Griggs emails me that he took the photo of himself with Ginger and Kelly with a digital camera with a timer. “I don’t have a lot of human friends and only 2 of them have seen Ginger and Kelly, and none of them or anyone else have or will ever lay a hand on them while I am living.” When I ask him how having Ginger and Kelly has affected his life -- if perhaps he feels more confident -- he writes, “I don’t like being around people at all now…the less human contact I have the happier I am. Yes, I do feel more confident. I realized not long after I got Ginger that I don’t really need anybody….I feel safer and more secure knowing that I will Never waste my time and money on another human female that just wants to use me.” end of page 10 [ 10 ] read more ... [ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ][ 17 ][ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
