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Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone Meghan Laslocky -- 10/17/2005  [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ]His first silicone doll, in 1996, had some problems: its joints were too fragile, it weighed too much, and the silicone was too hard. Still, his early customers were thrilled with how good rubber can feel, and with how well their dolls photographed. Soon they launched their own photo web sites, and with that free viral promotion, within months McMullen had a business. Only then did he coin the term “Real Doll.” Lovers I: The Adoring Boyfriend According to Davecat and many other Real Doll owners, sex with a Real Doll is quite satisfactory. “For the most part, it’s just like sex with an organic woman…who doesn’t say anything and is brimful of Quaaludes,” Davecat writes on Sidore's web site. Thirty-two-year-old Davecat is African American, and he’s studying to become a court reporter. He’s traveled little beyond his native Detroit, an exception being a trip a few years ago to visit the Real Doll factory. A garrulous and imaginative guy, he affects a British manner which comes across in emails, through his web site, and in word choices -- “arse,” “bloke”, “fecking” -- in telephone conversations. In a list of 100 random things about himself on his rollicking blog, he writes: “My favourite aromas are bubblegum, old typewriter, new car, pine, silicone, and, fighting for last place, clove cigarettes and lavender. My ideal olfactory fantasy would be a RealDoll chewing bubblegum, who is driving me around in a brand-new car with a couple of pine air fresheners hanging off the rearview mirror, and a just-extinguished Djarum in the ashtray. She mentions that she’s just washed her hair with a nice lavender conditioner, when I notice the backseat is filled with old Smith-Coronas.” Artificial women first caught Davecat’s fancy when he was about eight years old, he estimates. In a department store in Detroit, his mother emerged from a dressing room to find him talking to a mannequin who was, he recalls, wearing a short tennis skirt. “I was trying to chat her up, in my eight year old way.” He remembers, he says, “the beauty of her stillness.” When he entered adulthood he has owned a regular mannequin for a number of years, but it never made it into his bed. But of Sidore, Davecat says, “I like having her in bed beside me, holding her, cuddling her. I like to sleep with my doll. I’ll be blunt: She’s a girlfriend,” he says. Because Real dolls’ silicone flesh holds heat well and becomes more pliable when body-temperature warm -- like wax in sunshine -- he toasts her with an electric mattress pad. Aside from getting up for occasional photo shoots, she mostly stays in bed to keep her butt from getting flat (she also frequently wears an athletic bra to keep her lovely 34D breasts from sagging). end of page 5 [ 5 ] read more ... [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ][ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ][ 17 ][ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
