The issues these men's desire to exercise total control over their partner mentioned by the obviously somewhat fearful psychologist also gives me pause.
But better this than the, ahem, alternative.
Fes:
I'm sorely afraid to think about the alternative of which you speak.
Does this mean that if the doll is over-inflated and resistant there could be pins and needles employed for coercion?
**imagines nekked inflatable doll whizzing out the window
Horrors!
I was lonely
I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious
If I'd had too much to drink ...
Is that half the blokes, or half the birds?
Salon did a feature article on this last year (including the same picture). You know, just in case you wanted to pursue the topic. Or find a support group. Or something.
if you're not ready to commit to a long-term purchase relationship, you can rent.
Where is quid's corpse lately? Did someone ship him overseas again?
What gomi said.
didn't quid mention something about a trip downunder?
What silly person made the decision that showing the entore rest of the breast is OK as long as you block out the nipple? It's more disturbing to me to see an entire naked breask with pixellated of blacked-out nipple; it just looks WRONG!
That's because you are a sick and twisted pervert. Enjoy your room in Hell.
But, why go for a 'RealDoll'? Instead of, like, a SurrealDoll?
You could have, like, breasts on the back AND front, to use for the reach-around, but still give you the visuals. And have, like, six or seven, or eighteen of them, in handier areas. And they could be detachable, and relocatable. Like a big perverted Mr. Potato Head.
Or, given how many of these guys are in IT, you could make an alien version, get those stupid Star Trek fantasies out of the way.
*suddenly remembers Ensign Ro, ribbed for his pleasure*
Did I say stupid? I meant, uh, complex.
Rrrrrrrro's have rrrrrrridges.
it boggles my mind that people consider owning a doll an actual relationship. at least my relationship with my cats involves genuine interaction and free will....
If we accept that guys will do it with guys, girls with girls, and that some people are perfectly ok with never gettin' some, I don't see why we have to marginalize some poor schlubs who can't, won't or doesn't see the need to get it on with a human female.
C'mon - it's not like these dolls are stealing dates from anyone.
Some people blow their money on blow, some on Ferrari's - these guys are just being honest with their money and gettin' a little happiness. Expensive happiness and probably not as fulfilling as the real thing, but then again, these are not guys who are destined to ever be ecstatically happy in any normal way.
I agree with the shrink. I think this is bad for them. But its really up to them what they want out of life, if they aren't hurting anybody.
The other part of me says that people have gotten their priorities so far out of line that I can no longer empathise with them.
Other people are important, and its worth working at figuring out how to interact with them. I mean, thats what love is about, making other people in your life a priority. With only this data to go on, these appear to be narcissists, possibly psycopathicly so. Maybe they cultivate more normal relationships in other areas of their life.
I agree with the "unhealthy," but that article was the most god-awful writing I have seen in a while. Seriously, was the guy's other passion airline pilots or writing? And what about:
"Doll lovers claim their unhealthy pursuit is not just about carnal pleasure."
Does that mean they admit they're "unhealthy?" I'm getting more mixed signals than a teenaged boy in a strip bar.
Who is harmed by this activity? Which seems more masturbatory in nature then anything else.
... for whenever sex
is men-shunned ...
For a low-rent alternative might I suggest the Love Ewe! I've got one and I've never been happier!
http://www.sickindividual.com/ewe.html
(I was going to link to the muttonbone webpage but it doesn't seem to be in business anymore! Where oh where will I go for my inflatable sheep needs now?)
My plastic girlfriend and I think you're all full of shit.
No one is harmed, bees, but I think it may be unhealthy to shun the touch of your fellow beings in favor of mannequins. It seems so de-feated and similarly -luded.
Re deluded ..., Chimp these folk may be, indeed. I'm seriously convinced everyone is deluded. Not about the same things, necessarily, and not everyone realizes that they're deluded.
And I'm probably the worst of the lot.
Why, sometimes I hallucinate there's an electronic playground where self-styled monkeys exchange ... well, actually, I'm not certain what we exchange. Ions? Illusions? Confusions? Even though I know I'm really in this small room poking buttons on a new-fangled keyboard and straring glassy-eyed at a kind of window into ... what? Ideas. Unreal and less filamentous than the protoplasm folk a cewntury ago were so fond of taking pictures of.
Aye, those delusions look delicious -- o could I have a second helping, please?
Mmmm...but there is SOME reason to believe that there are other perople involved in this process.
I have no delusions, lord beeswacky! I have slain the grey knight of chance with doorknob germs and am ready for my brass-leafed parking lot, sir.
O wait...
Fair enough. Another reminder for me to reinterpret today's satori.
purchaserelationship, you can rent.