If you took a stuffed kitty and heated the inside up to the body temperature of a live cat, would it feel cuddly? Could realdolls ever feel like real people?
How do people distinguish the warmth of a creature from the warmth of an object?
Woah! I don’t think that link is work safe, buddy! (Didn’t click it, but I’ve been there before.)
Giving a huge B.O.D. that you’re asking a serious question and not just looking to get banned, I’d have to say that I think movement, including small, nearly imperceptible involuntary muscle movement are what makes cuddling “feel” like cuddling. Heat alone won’t do it, although it feels nice.
Probably it would feel like a slightly warmed up stuffed kitty. My biggest concern here would be how to warm the insides without doing damage and/or presenting a fire hazard.
Well, they might feel like real people wearing an inflated vinyl over-skin - sort of like the Michelin Man? Let’s be honest - if these dolls could feel like real people, the sex trade would die overnight. :eek:
An object (assuming it is passive and has no power sources) can only attain, at most, the temperature of its environment. Therefore a human at 98.6 F is warmer than the surrounding room at 70 F (not including factors such as perspiration, lack of/volume of body hair and multiple other mitigating factors…)
Thank you both for answering my question seriously, I’m not trying to get banned.
If involuntary muscle contractions are part of it, why do girls feel good to hug through a sweater? Could it be mostly psychological?
Well, girls feel good to hug, period. Through a sweater, through multiple layers of down parka, through silky underthingies, or through no intervening layers at all. And no, I think it’s more physiological than psychological.
Hugging another person is more rewarding than hugging a doll or plush toy because they are alive. Yes, they have warmth of their own, and yes, they have things like involuntary muscle contractions, but more importantly, they also have voluntary movement - they can hug you back. They breathe, they have bones and muscles that glide around just under the surface, they have smooth parts and bumpy parts, they shift their weight around, they make various interesting sounds. And we haven’t even started on the naughty bits! :eek:
Because you still feel movement. You feel the large movements of her arms and hands, but also the smaller ones you don’t even register consciously - the minor shift of her traps, a twitch in her seratus. The pectorals are a lot of fun, I hear! Of course, psychology has a huge amount to do with it.
I did report the link, so a mod should be by shortly to fix your post and make it SDMB friendly. We’re not supposed to post any links to websites with nudity or apparent nudity. Since a link to a potato shaped like a penis was closed down, I suspect Real Doll is too much! It’s only your second post, so hopefully the mods will be kind and just tell you to read over the user agreement.
I didn’t realise linking to naked dolls was unacceptable, I apologise.
Although cats have body temperature slightly higher than a human’s, their fur is a pretty good insulator. So I’m guessing a major part of the reason that a cat feels warm when it lies on you is that it’s acting like a blanket and insulating your own body heat.
This is the reason that a plush stuffed animal will feel “warmer” than something like a smooth plastic doll - the air trapped in the plush “fur” is easily and readily heated by your own body, making the toy feel warm.
But the cat lying on your tummy while you watch TV actually contributes a good deal of its own heat - I can break out in a sweat during warm weather if our cat chooses to take this position.