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Baring it all: Silicone dolls are creepy, disturbing

By Katie Grace

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Published: Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Updated: Sunday, October 5, 2008

I grew up in the' 90s without cable. No Double Dare, no Hey Dude. Not only did I grow up deprived, but I apparently grew up to be surprisingly innocent from a lack of pornographic television shows.

The other night I was flipping through channels at my boyfriend's house and came across the series Real Sex on HBO. I was immediately whisked away to a place that I had grown up without: nudity, graphic sex, fetishes and sex toys. This particular episode was about the "Real Doll," a sex doll that costs about $7,000.

I've never seen anything like the Real Doll. Check out the Web site at www.realdoll.com. A long-haired brunette named Angela wears a white baby doll nightie, her hands resting on her naked thighs. An exotic Asian-looking Mai has lips slightly parted and wears elbow length black gloves.

Both dolls have an expression saying, "C'mon. I need you. Fill up my realistic silicone parts with love." There is also a disturbingly childlike looking Asian doll, complete in school-girl attire, by the name of Kaori that apparently caters to pedophiles.

The options for the Real Doll are endless. You can give them A-cup or double-F breasts. Want your babe to have tan lines? Done. Want her to come with an attachable penis? Done.

Would you prefer the pubic hair to be shaved, trimmed or natural? Red, blonde or black? Want them to custom-make a doll for you? Just send them a photo of who you'd like the doll to resemble. Here's a creepy thought: What if a friend harbored a secret obsession for you, and you went to his house only to discover a sex doll that looked just like you?

You can play around on their Web site creating a custom doll, but it unfortunately costs money. I was about to make one to see how close I could get it to look like me, but I wasn't about to whip out a credit card for the experiment.

The HBO show mainly showed a group of five young women experimenting with the fairly new release of the male Real Doll. The women were shocked by how realistically the penis bobbed and were delighted that it stayed erect all night and that you could choose a penis size from 6-9 inches long. There's even an ejaculate feature, but they didn't say what kind of solution they used and I found no information on the site.

I'm not sure what can be pleasurable about performing on something that can't appreciate your sexual prowess, but whatever.

Is this creepy to anybody else? Call me old fashioned, but I thought sex was about a connection with a person. I understand masturbation and I'm all for it, but this is something altogether different and disturbing.

It's all a illusion. It's made to look and feel just like a human, but there are some critical things missing - a pulse, for one.

Shouldn't sex be a bit more reciprocal? Shouldn't there at least be some element of emotion involved? Plus, after a man or woman has had sex with a custom made dream man or woman, how will the next lover compare if he or she has love handles, a 4-inch penis or AA-cup breasts?

The Real Doll online store offers a variety of products from T-shirts to squeezable "boob balls." There is also a porn video starring the Real Dolls and Ron Jeremy. Pretty soon human porn stars won't even be necessary.

I guess the positive side to Real Dolls would be safety from STIs and unwanted pregnancy, provided you don't share your Real Doll with five of your sexually-active friends. All we need are outbreaks of herpes contracted through sharing silicone.

E-mail me at baringitall4uc@hotmail.com. I love hearing from you.

Comments

7 comments
matena
Sat Aug 29 2009 23:15
I wish people would get out and find real mates. THis is sick.
Buttman
Fri Aug 28 2009 18:20
Among non-living things I searched for an object I could love. I got me a manikin and sawed off its rear end. And putting soft quivering gelatin therein jelled previously from a mold, I sewed on wires from an electric blanket: warm veins in which flowed the electricity of love, over which I stretched satin-smooth skin of a fleshly hue, forming a butt utterly perfect quivering in warmth and tenderness. And gluing on her hair and sprinkling perfume over my fair I pronounced her my bride. O my beautiful gelatinous quivering bride: thou art my wife and my life, my handiwork and my pride! Thou wilt remain eternally young my love for thy gelatin is treated with preservatives. Forevermore shalt we lie side by side two corpses vibrating into the night.
marx.we
Tue Apr 28 2009 07:56
25% of human life is real, rest is imaginary, from the day the little chimp became man or woman its life is full of make believe, be it god, socialism, Venus de melo or real dolls of abyss incorp. it is rather strange that we can not live with out fantasies when we live decently , only sub Saharan abject poverty can deprive us of our dreams, our surrogate life and happiness. it is the dream that take way our life and it is the life that drugs us to perpetual live in our dreamland, never to wake and face the life as it is, face to face.
Ron Jeremy
Sat Apr 11 2009 23:35
Do you really not have anything better to do than write about some crazy pathetic show on HBO? Please stop using the News Record as a platform to share with us your sheltered childhood, and your welcoming into normal society by actually being exposed to "creepy television" on HBO. Have you ever heard of the internet? It's even more repulsive than anything you'll find on the HBO.
lovedolls
Sat Apr 11 2009 23:15
You can get a cute doll at www.realsolidsexdoll.com Some dolls are under 600.00
For a solid doll this is a good price.
JennoMate
Mon Jan 26 2009 21:52
Howard Stern raved it was The Best SEX I've ever had!" Why wouldn't you want the best sex of your life with your fantasy girl? While it is true most of the JennoMates sell over 6K. Look at the Realdoll website, but if you want to know where to buy them for $2,700? Call Keith at 512.739.5902
Madartist
Fri Dec 26 2008 01:11
What of this guy who made an android who can say over 1300 words in English and Japanesses, and understand what you say. Real Dolls will have to advance. The day of just laying on the bed will not sell? It made be soon then later that a doll that can talk and walk is in the near future?

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