What's the problem? They don't nag, and you can trade them in without any expensive divorce settlement. Win-win!

chillichocaholic said:

Does this count.....

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

his her name baaaaaberaaaaa?

chillichocaholic said:

I was thinking lambi....

umm..yeah. I don't really know what to say.

missfee said:

Wait a minute..."providing love and companionship that real women cannot??" Like it's a females fault the guys have to buy these things?

I swear it's a power thing. The guy from Virginia thinks he's God. But at least he had what looked like the only non-white doll. I mean, where are the Black dolls? (I did see one other one at 33:20)

The doll's creater says some men can't talk to a woman, so they buy his dolls. I'd rather call and beg to go on The Pick Up Artist or take a damn class on how to win friends and influence people than to spend all that money on a piece of rubber and call it my "female" companion.

Mike says his doll has begun to smell like fish. He has to clean her out with a bottle brush. So, it's not us women who they claim smell like that. It's been the men all the time. Bastards.
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The Lars and the Real Girl pic has already been posted, so I guess I can skip that reference.

Any of you Joss Whedon fans remember that episode of Buffy where Spike had Warren build him a Buffybot? Same idea, but his doll moved and spoke.


The Real Doll thing is creepy, for sure. But it's also sort of sad IMO. Something has gone wrong in these guy's lives that they're either not capable of finding a partner, or not confident/stable enough to try. Every one of them kept bringing up the alternative -loneliness. I feel bad for them.

yea...i just feel sad for these guys, they just really dont know they're worth (and can achieve) human intimacy

reneGade20 said:

co-sign

rocknrolldave said:

I agree.

noimageatall said:

Most men that lonely do tend to blame women for being "too fussy". Well, when your standards are low enough to fall in love with a doll, no wonder!

"give us your inept, socially awkward, twisted and emotionally damaged for we exist to protect the real women of the world."

I don't think it's disturbing. Realdolls are cool. If I were a guy with excess cash, I'd buy one! What a fun sex toy.

I feel bad for people who give up on human relationships, as most of those guys seem to have done. But if they're happier with the dolls than without them, fine. They aren't hurting anybody.

purplesweat said:

Yeah, most of those guys were hating on real women. They've obviously had bad experiences.

But seriously, if a person finds that a doll meets their needs better than a woman. . . yay for people who do what they wanna do even when it's "weird"! I love it.

meow85 said:

Different people react differently to loneliness I guess. I've seen people sit down and have entire coversations with themselves. And these aren't people suffering from schizophrenia or dementia, but just from loneliness. It reminds me of the scenes from I am Legend where, aside from talking to his dog like it was human, Will Smith's character set mannequins up in a video store to deal with his own isolation and loneliness. Or where Tom Hanks started talking to "Wilson", his basket ball.
When the reality of loneliness kicks in, imagination fills that void. The human spirit tries to cope. So I understand that.

But the problem I have with most of these men is that, like the sexy and newly returned Sirpycho said, these men devalue themselves so much to the point that they think they have nothing to offer a woman.

The British guy was rather attractive (to me). And all of them, given the right attitude, could find a woman--maybe not one with the same perfect proportions of their dolls, but certain a woman who could help fill that void for them.

The most disturbing thing about the series to me is that they seemed to blame women for their loneliness. That women put them in this position.
If it was just mere loneliness, they could log on to any one of dozens of websites for Rushian or Asian brides. They could easily have real, human, companionship for what it cost for one of those dolls.
But it's not just loneliness that drives this strange behavior I don't think. I think it's combined with an overall fear of intimacy, a feeling of inadequacy, and in some cases a 'fettish' that isn't compatible with normal societal norms. Whips, chains, even rubber/latex and dungeon fettishes are "kinky", but they're mainstream enough that most people know that folks around them may have these. But wanting to fuck a life sized rubber doll takes it to a whole new level, and I'd imagine somebody having that fettish couldn't easily talk about it with friends or work mates.
Lastly, aside from loneliness, I think some of these men have very low opinions of women. I mean if you'd rather fuck a doll cause you think women are vain, picky, creatures, that says more about you than it does about women. These guys are fooling themselves. There are panty droppers around every corner of this great Universe--you just need the right attitude and haircut.

OMG, I just realized how much thought I put into my last post

^

Imago said:

It was an enjoyable read!

EmeraldSkies said:

It's like when I saw Avril Lavigne mispronounce David Bowie's last name (she pronounced it Bow (is in cow) wee.

I watched it over and over again just to make sure I witnessed it correctly


I'm not proud of my questionable actions.

Gawd, I love peering into people's strange little lives. It helps me appreciate humanity.

tackam said:

My life right now is stranger than I ever imagined it would be just 2 years ago.
In some ways, I'm glad. It'll help me write my novels.




(no people--I'm not saying I'm ordering a Realdoll!)

Imago said:

You're not saying you're NOT ordering a Realdoll.

Hooray for a strange and interesting life.

tackam said:

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Imago said:

Oooh, you wanna be a gazillionaire? Make celebrity lookalike realdolls somewhere outside the US. Can you imagine what people would pay for an Angelina Jolie realdoll? Geezus.

Imago said:

I probably would have done the same. He is very well known,how could you not know how to say his name?

Somebody also needs to combine the male realdoll with one of those fucking machines. I bet it wouldn't be that hard to make one that could do decent missionary and doggiestyle.

I don't know why I'm going into medicine. I should be making porn or sex toys or something.

tackam said:

that is definately where the money is.

Wow. Loneliness is harsh. It's more than the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Someone lonely may find it hard to form human contact. These men have found some peace and happiness with these real dolls and they're not hurting anyone in doing so, to each their own. With so much political correctness in this day and age (and this thread) there is lack of understanding, respect and an open mind. Life has to be lived without safety nets. Live and let live peeps.

tackam said:

at both your post and your quote...