To avoid any ‘two click’ rule violations about NSFW content, if you want to see the documentary I’m talking about, do a google video search for ‘Realdolls’.
What follows is a documentary about Realdolls, and the people that own them…
:eek:
I’ve heard of Realdolls, and while the concept of what is basically a $6,000 sex toy warrants little more than a :dubious: to me, the lifestyles these people have just rub me the wrong way. I dunno, maybe I’m just experiencing major culture shock here. It feels bizarre beyond bizarre. I’d love to hear some feedback and hear that I’m not totally crazy here.
Like I said, I can imagine a modest percentage of people might have some curiousity about giving something like that a test drive. But many of these people are on a level beyond that. I’m also surprised that these people often have not one, but two or more. Considering how much these things cost, the degree of obsession is rather startling.
If you’ve got the money for a $6000 sex toy, good for you.
If you then spend more money buying actual women’s clothes, and actually dressing the doll and actually giving her a name and makeup and hairstyles and a “life” then that’s scary.
If you have more than one, and/or you’ve gone into debt buying and “supporting” them then you’re beyond the twilight zone here.
I don’t really think this belongs in Cafe Society, but I’m not sure where it does belong. I’m going to let it stay here for the time being, on the grounds that it is about “leisure activities” … although I fear the slippery slope that might put us on.
Since we’ve all spent time on the internet, we all know there is no shortage of lonely, sexually frustrated men out there in the world. I’d rather see men who can’t form relationships with actual adult women for whatever reason get their kicks with a doll, or even a harem of dolls, than by doing stuff like preying on naive young girls, so the weirdness of treating the dolls as actual companions doesn’t bother me all that much. Yeah, it’s obviously unusual behavior, but it isn’t hurting any of the rest of us!
The thing that I find interesting is that I think that this is the beginning of the sort of thinking behind the sceraios of the ST: TOS episode, “I, Mudd,” the movie Cherry 2000, the book (and the original move) The Stepford Wives, or even the “wife” of Mr. Universe from Serenity. (Note, this list is far from being exhaustive, I’ve deliberately left off any number of other examples, including all the anime ones - and those are just ones that come to mind without any attempt to really think hard about the topic.)
IOW, it’s not an idea that seems to be new, rather simply that technology is getting to the point where it’s becoming feasable to generate these fantasy objects.
