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Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone Meghan Laslocky -- 10/17/2005  [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ]In the midst of making dolls, Joey and Maureen sometimes field phone calls from customers. Maureen takes a break from scraping buckets to wander over to a rack of dolls and report to a customer in Holland on the specifications of Body 3, which is 5’10”, has 38DD breasts, a “dancer-type body,” and is compatible with heads 1, 2 and 5. “He’s kind of a perfectionist,” she sighs when she hangs up. “He’s an architect,” – she says it “arki-teck” -- “but he and his wife are ordering two dolls, so I’ve got to pay a lot of attention.” All of the dolls are quite petite because silicone is dense, and if the dolls are too large they’re too heavy to move around. For example, the Body 3, at about 130 pounds, is a task to lug, and anything heavier is out of the question. “Not because I don’t appreciate larger sizes,” McMullen says. “There are a lot of people that want it. They ask why the dolls are all so skinny. Some people want, like really big, which I probably won’t do. But a lot of people want a little more meat on the frame, that’s what I like, so once we figure out how to make it lighter we can do that.” Upstairs from the studio, in Abyss’ showroom, finished sample dolls, each the product of 80 man-hours of labor, hang from specially designed racks that suspend them from holes in the back of their necks, all of them dressed in lingerie. The tasks downstairs might be messy, but the results are remarkable. Every face is different -- even ones peeled from the very same mold -- as if the act of making them incarnated individuals. Eerie and expressionless, yes, but they have a haunting glow. Their bodies are cool, even clammy, and without the softening effect of heat and the slick of lubricant, their private parts are stiff. But the breasts -- full, high-peaked, soft and supple, with delicately airbrushed peach aureoles -- are a thing to behold. Lovers II: The Hobbyist Mike Kelly says that when he first heard about Real Dolls on some now long defunct web site, “They said they were one step above fucking corpses, and I figured it had to be better than that.” No one who had “reviewed” the dolls had had sex with them, he said, so he decided to find out for himself. “The thing that amazed me about the dolls was that in real life, they’re as attractive as they are in pictures. The orifices look and feel just like their natural counterpart.” Kelly is a 45-year-old Texan who now owns three dolls – Mysti (H3/B2), Jazzi (H4/B5), and Britti (H11/B7) – that he stores under his bed. He tells me that Jazzi resembles Jenna Jameson, “the most beautiful woman in porn,” adding “If you have a Real Doll and put in a Jenna Jameson video, you’re jazzed.” end of page 8 [ 8 ] read more ... [ 9 ][ 10 ][ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ][ 17 ][ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
