RealDoll

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A RealDoll with face #11

The RealDoll is a life-size sex doll (also considered a mannequin) manufactured by Abyss Creations in San Marcos, California, and sold worldwide. It has a poseable PVC skeleton with steel joints and silicone flesh, which is arguably the state-of-the-art for life-like human body simulation.

RealDolls in popular culture

• The mainstream movie Lars and the Real Girl stars a RealDoll as a second main character. There is an extensive scene showing the RealDoll.com website.
• Talk-radio host Howard Stern has given a personal endorsement of the product after an on-air test.
• The doll was featured on HBO's Real Sex show where a couple was filmed having a ménage à trois with one of the mannequins.
• Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil showed off his RealDoll in an April 2005 episode of MTV Cribs.
• Glamour and high fashion photographer Helmut Newton also photographed RealDolls. A sample can be found in his autobiography. Playboy magazine reportedly refused to publish Newton's RealDoll photo shoot, considering it too weird, according to his account.
• In a June 2003 article, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kenneth Baker described a photograph of the RealDoll "Rebecca" by Bay Area photographer Elena Dorfman as "an image of eerie, Vermeer-like stillness that brings us almost cheek to cheek with a silicone beauty. Freckles of imperfection or wear in her synthetic skin induce an improbable refracted sympathy for her unseen owner." The owner of "Rebecca" and a handful of other RealDolls uses photographs of his dolls to construct visual narratives.
• A RealDoll played the central role in the 2002 French sex farce Monique, featured a RealDoll as Monique, for whom a husband undergoing a mid-life crisis develops an overwhelming passion.
• A film entitled Love Object starring Desmond Harrington was released in 2003 that deals with a lonely man's purchase of a RealDoll that may be more real than he thinks.
• Nick Holt's Guys and Dolls television documentary for North One Television (renamed "Love Me, Love My Doll" for broadcast on BBC America) follows the lives of four men who live with RealDolls.
• In an episode of Nip/Tuck, Sean has sex with a RealDoll made in the image of Kimber Henry.

See also

• Agalmatophilia
• Artificial vagina
• Galatea (mythology)
• Gynoid
• A Mom for Christmas
• Pygmalion (mythology)
• Robot fetishism
• Sex doll
• Uncanny valley
• Technosexual
• Weird Science (film)

References

1. "Just Like a Woman", Meghan Laslocky, Salon.com, 11 October 2005 (web page) longer version (web page).
2. "Flexible friendship", Lisa Scott, Metro.co.uk 22 February 2006 (web page).
3. Abyss Creations website, product news (web page).
4. "ASFR", documentary short by Allison de Fren (streaming video).
5. Internet Archive page cache of Realdoll website offering robotics and interactivity features, 21 September 2003 (web page).
6. "Real Doll", Michael Lane, Monk Magazine, 15 June 1999 (web page).
7. 706velmont, High-end artistic photography of silicone dolls started 6 June 2007 (web page).

External links

• RealDoll—Abyss Creations' official site
• Feature story on Real Dolls by writer Peter Hossli
• The inline citations on Solid doll Is they are a doll made in America, Like real doll The Candy Eighteen doll is made with a real skin feel. Dolls are made for sex & photograph.
• GlobalSecurityReport.com—"BioErotica Turns Corner", June 1, 2006
• Guys and Dolls—UK documentary about RealDoll owners
• "Guys and Dolls", Erin O'Brien, Cleveland Free Times, May 30, 2007
• "Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone" By Meghan Laslocky
• "Deconstructing RealDoll", Meghan Laslosky, On The Page Magazine, Issue 11, Summer 2004