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Love dolls helping people cope with loneliness

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silent_enigma

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Have you ever heard of people using realistic "sex dolls" as companions? Here's an article so you know what kind I'm talking about.

Some owners also use the dolls as non-sexual companion substitutes, rarely - if ever - having intercourse with them.
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I knew that this was something young men (20s) would do in Japan (live with a doll as a companion, buy her a big wardrobe, give her a personality, etc) and they weren't interested in finding a real human companion. But I came to find that there's a whole subculture of men doing this is Europe and North America as well. I suppose the movie Lars and the Real Girl will make it more well known.

Anyway, the subject fascinated me so I joined a forum for "doll owners and admirers" and found that they weren't weirdos or creeps. Many of them are just making the best of the life situation they have.

Here's a yahoo news article I found on the subject as well. It's worth reading.
 
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Azul

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Re: Love dolls helping people cope with lonliness

I think it would be quite humiliating to live such a life. A great part of the joy of love is the narcistic sense of fulfillment, the recognition from another human being, one gets from it.
With surrogate women like this, or with porn, I think it is very harmful for the self image. While it fulfills in some sense certain needs that are sought to be satisified in the quest for love (ejaculation), it also emphasizes the needs in that quest that are left unfulfilled (the narcistic joy of conquest).
 
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Puddytat

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Re: Love dolls helping people cope with lonliness

IMO its kinda creepy. you do need contact w/ real people, there can seriously not be satisfaction in talking to a doll?! i dont think it rids you of bordom at all unless you have one hek of an imagination. as for it being a sex toy, well, a bit weird but as i dont have any problem w/ getting off on other little toys, i see how it could be classed as similar. but still... eeew!
 
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Blackness

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Re: Love dolls helping people cope with lonliness

hmm interesting.
Six grand! is a bit rich I think.
I'll like a couple, to pose for me for photographs only!
It's kinda sad that little asian guys actually "date" these and fuck them :S eww.
I think they look pretty cool though.
 
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protonaut

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Re: Love dolls helping people cope with lonliness

If dolls creep any of you out, I'll predict you'll be in for more culture shock throughout the 21st century.

Androids designed to look and act like real humans will be manufactured as AI technology improves.

I would bet money that companies in Korea, Japan, and China will one day be producing androids so realistic that they'll be almost indistinguishable from real humans unless examined closely.

Robots will likely take the place of human employees in most labor-related jobs at some point as well.

I could discuss a number of other likely changes for the 21st century, but I don't want to diverge from the main topic here.

My opinion? Let them play with their toys. I'll opt for a real human any day.
 
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LostMyMind

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Re: Love dolls helping people cope with lonliness

I was just trying to find the video I watched awhile ago about these. Can't seem to find it. Most of the guys in the video were pretty strange, one of them had maybe five dolls in his garage and sat them at the table when he ate dinner. I personally find it very weird and creepy.
 
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Isa

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Another alternative to imperfect women. Great. Just what the world needs to make us feel good about ourselves if we arent the most attractive sought-after people in the world.



<< cynical much?
 
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me1

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I do not see how a doll could obviate loneliness. How can anyone develop any emotional connectedness with a piece of latex? That to me is what loneliness represents, a lack of emotional intimacy, and you could feel completely alone in a crowd if you had nothing in common with any of them.
How can a doll ever provide anything on a deeper, more meaningful level, when it is essentially a piece of plastic?
 
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silent_enigma

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TheAM said:
I do not see how a doll could obviate loneliness. How can anyone develop any emotional connectedness with a piece of latex? That to me is what loneliness represents, a lack of emotional intimacy, and you could feel completely alone in a crowd if you had nothing in common with any of them.
How can a doll ever provide anything on a deeper, more meaningful level, when it is essentially a piece of plastic?
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You're wrong! It's not latex, it's silicone!

Anyway, from what I've read from various doll owners is that it makes the loneliness much more bearable, but does not eliminate it. The realism helps with the illusion, and if you play along with and encourage the fantasy they develop personalities of their own. Or so I've read.

And you know, I thought this forum would be like the last place I'd get judgmental responses to this subject, considering many of us feel like social rejects as well. But hey, think what you will, their dolls make them feel better. Would you rather that they feel worse?
 
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Esmeralda

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It's a lot of money, time and energy to put into a fantasy that will never solve your problems in the long run. Crap, for 6,000 dollars you could hire a life coach and a dating guru to get you back on track and into a REAL relationship. Further alienating yourself from society by plunging into this fantasy is only going to make it harder for you to find real love and is pretty much going to raise your creepiness factor by quite a bit.
 
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