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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 ][ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ]A savvy and determined doll owner could, McMullen noted, rub off all of a doll’s makeup, and even remove silicone from her breasts to flatten them. Three Cheers for Doll Love In the doll community, justification notions about doll love are as varied as Mysti’s wigs. To McMullen, his dolls are often therapists-cum-transitional objects. ”By and large, most customers buy a doll because they just broke up or got a divorce and they don’t want to go out into the dating scene, but they still have physical needs.” A doll, he says, gets them through difficult times, and often they move on. Other customers have used a doll to overcome premature ejaculation. Doll owners confirmed that dolls offer stop-gap love, and that, often enough, owners move on. “Lonely men who don’t have anything in their life, they have some fun with it, then they meet the right girl, they sell the doll, and off they go,” one doll owner observed. Another, Jagxfan, wrote to the Hello Dolly crew that he had a new girlfriend, a real one, who was staying at his house, leaving him the problem of what to do with Natalie, who was locked up in a closet for the time being. Hello Dolly friends advised him to hang on to Natalie until the relationship was solid, then he could either sell her or introduce her to his girlfriend. Doll owner Mike Kelly subscribes to the doll-as-healthy-transitional-object theory, but also posits that dolls play a needed role in natural selection. “There’s definitely people out there who shouldn’t be in the gene pool. This is a way to keep people happy that shouldn’t be having kids anyway,” he said. He says that some men – himself excluded, of course, because he has a 25-year-old flight attendant girlfriend – can’t attract high quality women because they lack top-notch genetic material. Men like that, he says, should just build mates and not perpetuate their genes. Maureen, one of the craftsmen who works at Abyss, has proposed a more benign version of Kelly’s theory that dolls may serve a social good by keeping their owners away from human relationships. She speculates that the domestic pairing of guys and dolls is more or less a safety valve. “These lonely guys, instead of going out and causing trouble, they have something like this to keep them home and keep them company. A lot of them, it’s like they marry them, which is kind of creepy, but whatever keeps them out of trouble.” end of page 17 [ 17 ] read more ... [ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
