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I Nearly Married A Human...

So let’s say you work in a special effects shop. Your specialty is dead bodies. Years you have produced a number of high-quality dummies for use in various fields from TV and movies, to the medical field over the years. One day a coworker jokes that a female dummy would make some great *ahem* late night accompaniment, and you should start selling them.

You’re always in for a laugh, but you know how much high quality dummies cost. No one is going to buy one of your dolls for late night entertainment. At $5,000 a piece, you figure that there’s only one group of people who would be willing to buy an anatomically correct full size, realistic female doll- rich people who love to play dirty practical jokes.

That’s the story I like to tell myself about the origins of the realdoll. It may not be true, but I sleep a little better at night believing it. For those of you not in the know, a realdoll is an anatomically correct life-sized doll that can be custom made to your specifications. I like to believe that no one, no matter how wealthy would purchase this thing as anything other than a joke. Unfortunately I come across sites like this one Ginger Brookes Realdoll Page that ruin my delusion.

That’s one of several websites created by fans of the realdoll. Unfortunately I can’t find the website for the guy who had the night elf realdoll made. This website, and the others like it show a number of similarities. The doll itself takes on human characteristics in the eyes of the owner. The owner gives the doll a name, and the owner expresses a certain disdain for humans in general. I don’t have anything particularly nasty to say about people who own real dolls as a substitute for a living companion. These are people who have had bad experiences with humans. It’s only natural that they would want to avoid having these problems in the future, but no matter how you cut it, this stuff is disturbing.

posted by SumThing @ 7:59 PM