     | september 8, 2010
|
 | |
| | |
| september 8, 2010
|
| |
  |
Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone Meghan Laslocky -- 10/17/2005  [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ][ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ]Hello Dolly also functions as a clubhouse, perhaps not unlike that where the Stepford husbands share their travails, as Everhard does of his repeated surgeries on Caroline’s floppy left ankle. In January, Everhard shared with the group the latest setback. “Incidentally, Caroline’s back is broken,” he writes to them. “The first symptom was when I lifted her out of bed this morning. Her body seemed ‘stretchy’…In retrospect I am certain it was broken when we were having sex in bed this morning…” Everhard set to work repairing Caroline, documenting the process in photographs and mechanical drawings he posted for the group. He props her hips on a pillow and cuts into the small of her back. He uses a small mirror to see the hex bolt and screw that have been causing the problem. He uses a belt as a pulley to hoist her backbone up closer to the surface to replace the hardware. Then a photograph shows the belt striking her bare buttocks. “And this for all the trouble you’ve caused me…(whack),” the caption reads. The Doll Shelter In the United States, many damaged dolls find their way to Slade Fiero, doll healer and dealer. Fiero, a.k.a “the Real Doll Doctor” is a part-time tattoo artist and the sculptor of Charlie, the male Real Doll. He scoops up used dolls off eBay or from owners who know of him and want to dump their dolls, repairs them if they are worse for the wear (most are), and resells them. (Sometimes Fiero chauffeurs a cadre of dolls, passenger style along California’s lonely I-5, flashing “doll titties” to truck drivers as he passes them in his BMW.) Fiero’s web site documents breast, head, knee, wrist, butt, hip, and neck surgery; wrist repair; and crotch fill. Some doll damage is normal wear and tear -- even dolls that are stored properly and are bathed regularly can develop a torn breast or “compression fractures” around the vagina. Recently Fiero “realigned” a doll’s vagina and anus and sold her for $5,000 to a fellow who arrived at his house, paid cash, and hauled the doll away in the bed of his pickup truck. “That doll was worth more than the truck he drove away in,” Fiero says. Another doll was willed to him by a fellow who originally bought her used from Fiero. Sometimes a doll comes his way from a love ‘em and leave ‘em owner, a doll who has been “fucked in the first five minutes of her life outside the crate,” he says, and left alone thereafter. end of page 14 [ 14 ] read more ... [ 15 ][ 16 ][ 17 ][ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
