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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 ][ 17 ][ 18 ]In their heart-of-hearts, all men would like a Real Doll. Soragesum suggests that doll taboos are a function of their price point: “I would bet my money that any single one of the guys [who say they have no interest in dolls] if they secretly had access to a realdoll, if they thought no one would know or find out, would fuck her silly, at least for awhile.” He added that if Real Dolls cost less – more in the $200 range – half the men in the world would own one at some point in their lives. Doll love should be considered healthy and normal. Technoguy speculates that if Real Dolls were cheap and accessible to Everyman, they would be championed: “…then practically every guy in the USA would want and get one for his 18th birthday. It would then suddenly be considered a ‘healthy’ part of one’s ‘normal’ sexual development. Adolescent psychiatrists would be recommending them, anti-abortion groups would be saying that they were a wonderful way to prevent unwanted pregnancies that had to be aborted, and the law enforcement experts would claim that they would drastically cut down on sex crimes.” Elvis921, owner of Kim, writes that when his wife was both clinically depressed and terminally ill, she condoned his use of sex toys, including Kim, who is in fact just a torso. (Real Doll torsos, which actually are more just hips, stretching for the top of the thighs to just above the navel are surprisingly popular. Abyss has built a total of about 500 torsos. Some are likely for parts fetishists, but others satisfy skeptics in search of a no-cost test-drive. If you order a whole doll, you get a $500 credit if you’ve already bought a $1,500 torso, which one then can easily unload on eBay for $1,000). Others, like Darkland, speculate that doll love could be an important tool for controlling human population growth. “Our species as a whole is heading for a train wreck, and no one is particularly paying attention to it,” Darkland wrote me in a separate email. The Doctor Is In From a clinical standpoint, doll love is a mystery. No studies have ever been done of doll lovers, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for professional speculation. According to Dr. Douglas Tucker, a psychiatrist who specializes in sexual offenders, the pro-doll arguments are actually not off-base. Broadly speaking, intercourse with a love doll doesn’t signal anything particularly wrong or unhealthy, and arousal by such a lifelike depiction of a beautiful nude woman is a natural male response. “I think most guys would approach this as a novelty and could muster some arousal,” he says, adding that he would hesitate to label men who enjoy sex with Real Dolls as pathological. But Tucker dismissed the notion that Real Dolls are no different than women’s dildoes or vibrators because lifelike dolls, unlike vibrators, are simulated humans -- they have what he called ‘pull.’ “All of the stimuli are telling you it’s human,” he says. end of page 19 [ 19 ] read more ... [ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
