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The age of the sex dolls

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cinematique · 20/02/2018 11:10

Someone sent me a link to this 'sex doll brothel' in Glasgow; I thought it was an isolated phenomenon but apparently there's more cropping up, in Paris also of all places! They are very expensive and look a lot more realistic than those plastic dolls with a hole for a mouth!
I don't know whether to be relieved that someone will shag a doll instead of treating a woman as such, or despair at the state of societal disfunction...
www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/uks-first-sex-doll-brothel-14274617

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BarrackerBarmer · 20/02/2018 12:02

I suspect it will not have the effect of letting men leave us alone but rather the opposite.

Porn has enabled violence and abusive practices to become mainstream. We haven't created a generation of men who are more respectful of women thanks to them indulging their darkest instincts in porn, but less instead.

If a man has a burning desire to do something unacceptably inhumane to another human, acting this impulse out on an inanimate object is probably going to strengthen his association of the actual humans with inanimate objects, and it further makes him more accomplished in the practice of inhumanity.

UpstartCrow · 20/02/2018 11:50

If they just wanted an orgasm they could use their imagination and their hand for free.

OldmanOfTheWeb · 20/02/2018 11:49

There was a brothel in Germany I read of that bought one and found it so successful that they've invested in another.

I think it's a mix of guys who want to say or do things that they wouldn't feel able to with a real woman; and men who are shy or intimidated to have sex with a real woman. And maybe a contingent who just like the novelty or find it attractive.

thedancingbear · 20/02/2018 11:48

Then all these pathetic men can go shack up with a doll/hologram and leave us alone.

What makes them' pathetic', Patodp? Genuine question.

Patodp · 20/02/2018 11:35

*shagging not snagging.

Patodp · 20/02/2018 11:34

Realistically though, users of sex dolls are likely also users of prostitutes, they're just doing dolls too for the "variety".

Patodp · 20/02/2018 11:32

I'd MUCH rather they were snagging dolls than real people.

People will try making money out of anything. I sort of think here, the blokes are being exploited for paying for something so tragic. Rather than real women being exploited for men's pleasure.

Once we have realistic virtual reality porn, I fully expect places will crop up providing "the best full immersion virtual sex experience with the hottest holograms"....

Then all these pathetic men can go shack up with a doll/hologram and leave us alone.