…taking a doll to watch you hang-glide? Shooting a doll modeling? It’s all so ‘Buffalo Bill’…
This documentary taught me that RealDolls, $6,499 sex manikins with silicone skin, replaceable tongues and realistically molded pussies, aren’t a joke to the men who love them.
While watching my thoughts flipped between worrying about how close these guys are to understanding the charms of necrophilia, and knowing that in the future when we’re all banging virtual partners with internet connections and rudimentary intelligence – these guys will be seen as pioneers.
I understand elaborate forms of masturbation but taking a doll to watch you hang-glide? Shooting a doll modeling? It’s all so ‘Buffalo Bill‘…
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I was eating breakfast when he pulled out her tongue… I think these people have humanized these dolls to a disturbing degree. Disturbing to the point where I couldn’t watch the whole thing…
Several of the men reminded me of my callers. Underneath it all they are lonely and in some strange way the Realdolls are like their therapy.
I just wish the documentary could have shown more of the factory workers. I found it fascinating to watch the behind the scenes shots of the dolls being made and the receptionist doing her job.
There’s a photo book about Real Dolls that I’ve had sitting on my wishlist for a while: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097667081X/
Winter – Go to your power animal. Worked for me.
Vixen – I don’t think they want you to know that they’re really just a simple metal armature covered in silicone. Not nearly as sophisticated as people might imagine.
Furry – Ask and maybe ye shall receive. Let me know if you get it…
I wonder if any purchase Real Dolls to follow the lifespan? My guess is no. I suppose it bothers me that they seem to be stuck in this idealized relationship without any change or growth. Such escapism.
Seska – What do you mean? Real Dolls that age? Apparently they made an 80 year old doll once but I doubt that’s a common request. I think when you’re into Real Dolls escapism is a given. You life sucks already.
Yeah, I think it would be neat if the person who purchased the 80 year old Real Doll bought it to replace a younger doll so she could age with him.
It seems instead of going the aging route it is all about wear and tear is what happens. In the 2005 Salon article about many of these same people the repair guy spoke of one young man who messed his doll so much in one year the repair refused to repair anymore for him. He thinks he has issues and refers to him as Jack the Ripper.
One part of the doc that really troubled me was the horrible make-up application job by the last fellow. And his choice in clothes. Yikes!
Seska-Interesting idea. But if the guy did replace the younger doll with an older doll what would he do with the first? Bury her as if she died? Return her to the factory?
That also begs the question-What happens to these dolls after the guy does die? Does he get buried with it? Or do his heirs get it? How odd to inherit one.
Vix, Seska – You may be overthinking this…
As for an inherited Realdoll I actually did once. I called the factory after the first time I used it complaining the vagina seemed to be made of Camembert. Apparently it was just full.
In the doc one guy said he wanted to be buried with his two dolls so they could become dust together. Can those dolls actually decompose in any reasonable amount of time? Maybe they get hard and moldy.
But Sam the situation just begs this type of discussion.
Seska you’re right about that one guy. I had forgotten about that. They probably would decay extremely slowly. But aren’t humans decaying slower now because of all the horrid food being put into our bodies? Preservatives, chemicals and all that?
I wish they had a person who owns one of the male Real Dolls. (Come to think of it, I wonder how many gays/lesbians buy those things?) I could be tempted to thinking a male Real Doll could be fun, but if I’m designing a perfect sex toy, it’s not one that sits there and lets me do things to it, it’s something that would do all the work. You know, like Data from TNG. He’s my dream doll.
Vixen – I’m 99% sure that humans aren’t being preserved by the preservatives in food. I would bet they’re passed via our kidneys pretty easily. As for the dolls, they’d last a long time. The skeletons are metal so I’d predict it’d be a few hundred or thousand years before they’re gone – bar the evolution of plastic eating bacteria.
Furry – Male dolls have to be an order less realistic. While men many women love to be on top, a 150lb doll has to be harder to manipulate than a vibrator. I’d guess a having sex with a male RealDoll would be quite a workout. Dolls are about the only area where men have better sex toys than women.