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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 ][ 10 ]Unlike many other Real Doll owners, Griggs will not circulate nude photos of his dolls. “I don’t like the idea of someone checking out my girlfriends naked. How many men do you know who like other men to see there [sic] girlfriends?” he wrote. Arm Candy Hello Dolly is a cyber haven for sex doll aficionados, and the bulk its traffic revolves around Real Dolls. (Note that Hello Dolly is not its real name. Out of respect for the members’ privacy I’ve changed the name). In September 2005, there were nearly 12,000 members in this Internet club that features photo galleries and bulletin boards -- a formidable following given that Abyss has only made a total of 3,000 dolls. Hello Dolly is akin to a safe house where for the first time in history, the entire rare breed of agalmatophile can meet and talk doll. As one writes to the group, “You are truly a family of open-minded people and it’s so great to know I’m not alone.” Hello Dolly also functions as an interactive handbook for doll owners. Newbies query old doll hands: Should I wait until my doll arrives to buy her clothes? Is the sex really that good? And old doll hands swap tips: Where to buy fake chest hair that can be trimmed and glued on as pubic hair or how to recycle one’s own strays, gathered from the bathroom floor, as Kelly suggests to the group, and adhere them to a doll; how to remove a doll’s tongue when cleaning her mouth; how to rig an aquarium heater and a dimmer switch to heat your doll’s vagina if you don’t have time to warm her whole body with an electric blanket. Prominently posted rules of conduct prevent members from straying into blatantly illegal territory. Rule #1: “No sexually oriented content involving children [or dolls appearing to be] under eighteen years of age. Additionally, content involving the sexual use of items originally designed for children is also strictly prohibited.” Rumor has it that one doll owner who maintained that posting photos of his childlike doll was okay because she wasn’t real was escorted to the virtual state line and told never to show his face – or his doll’s – ever again. Truth be told, however, some dolls, like Candy Girl 19, who is dressed in a frilly pink dress, walk the line. Hello Dolly also is a parade where men can show off their girls. Thousands of photographs, doll after doll after doll, usually in various stages of lingerie dishabille. Some dolls are quite attractive, say with the lovely aquiline nose of an H5. Others -- even with exactly the same H/B combination, peeled from the same molds -- are downright ugly, ugly enough to scare the Teflon off a frying pan. They’re victims of coral lipstick and green eye shadow, Walmart-shopper bangs, and white go-go boots. Many photos are relatively innocent: Tori in a leopard-print thong, Mari in pink and red Valentine’s Day corset. Some aren’t innocent at all: a dildo penetrating Svetlana, or Anita Dickens-Hyde fellating a man -- a real one -- in a Jacuzzi style bathtub, the latter image viewed nearly 30,000 times. end of page 11 [ 11 ] read more ... [ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ][ 17 ][ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
