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Οι πλαστικές κο

τους αποκαλούμε παράξενους, εκκεντρικούς με ερωτικές διαστροφές. Θεωρούμε ότι δεν έχουν επάρκεια κοινωνικών δεξιοτήτων (είναι δειλοί, δεν έχουν κοινωνικό θάρρος, έχουν έλλειψη κοινωνικής αποδοχής κλπ)Ωστόσο εάν τους ακούσεις διαπιστώνεις πως η σιωπηλή τους συντροφιά, η κούκλα Real Doll, παίζει έναν ρόλο μεγαλύτερο από αυτόν του απλού ερωτικού παιχνιδιού. Ο συναισθηματικός δεσμός με την κούκλα γίνεται τόσο δυνατός που κάποιοι τολμούν να το αποκαλούν αγάπη.Οι καλύτερες Re


Real Dolls & iDollatorsAbyss Creations, a company located in the wealthy town of San Marcos in Southern California, manufactures "the world's finest love dolls". These expensive life-sized silicone dolls (which cost USD $7,000 each), are made by hand. The company has sold over 4,000 of them since it began production in 1996. Customers can choose between 10 body types. The dolls are marketed as anatomically correct. The smallest figure is the most popular because of its light weight (80 pounds). Made of silicone, the dolls weigh as much as real women.
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στο San Marcos (κοντά στο Σαν Ντιέγκο) ο 39χρονος Matt McMullen,ιδρυτής της εταιρείας Abyss που κατασκευάζει τις Real



His new challenge? “Pushing the prices of the dolls down, to do our part and help our customers in these tough economic times.” Because even if sex sells, dolls are luxury items. As of February, Abyss had just announced a free shipping policy on all new orders.
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Η κοινότητα των iDollators, συναντιέται online στο Doll Forum που διατηρεί και

Text by Anne Sengès, Photographs by Stephan Gladieu, LondonIn Lars and the Real Girl, A Hollywood comedy released in 2007, a socially inept man played by Ryan Gosling finds companionship in Bianca, a Real Doll who ends up teaching him how to interact with real people. In the film, the young man is diagnosed by the family’s psychiatrist as delusional.
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στο ρεπορτάζ περιγράφεται η ζωή μερικών ανδρών που ζουν με μοναδική συντροφιά τους, τις κούκλες σιλικόνης.
Ο 45χρονος Mahtek στο Detroit, (έχει δύο κούκλες σιλικόνης) αντιμετωπίζει εργασιακό πρόβλημα και απειλείται με απόλυση λόγω της οικονομικής κρίσης, βρίσκει ηρεμία μόνο όταν επιστρέφει στο σπίτι του και βλέπει τις πλαστικές του κούκλες.
όπως τα μικρά παιδιά που παίζουν με τις κούκλες τους, ο Mahtek έδωσε στις κούκλες του όνομα αλλά και στοιχεία προσωπικότηταςαγόρασε την πρώτη κούκλα όταν χώρισε από τη γυναίκα του, και αισθανόταν πληγωμένος, εγκαταλειμμένος, άχρηστος , μηδενισμένος, προσπαθούσε να βρει τι θέλει και ποιος είναι. Η κούκλα λειτούργησε πάνω το

The scene is a meticulously well-kept house in a middle-class suburb of Detroit. On a winter day, 45-year-old Mahtek, the man of the house, comes home from work a bit tense. The economy is tanking, the automotive industry that emplo

Named Phoebe and Penelope in homage to Greek mythology, the two are in many ways the perfect girlfriends. They are stunning, stylish, and even brainy.
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ο Καναδός παραγωγός ντοκιμαντέρ David Hockey τέλειωσε ήδη το ντοκιμαντέρ του με τίτλο, Doll Chronicles με θέμα τους iDollators, αλλά αισθάνεται ότι και ο ίδιος ανήκει πλέον σε αυτή την κοινότητα… Ο Hockey αγόρασε μέσω ίντερνετ την κούκλα Bianca που κατασκευάστηκε για τις ανάγκες της ταινίας Lars and the Real Girl. Είχε σκοπό να χρησιμοποιήσει τη Bianca στο ντοκιμαντέρ Doll Chronicles.
Canadian filmmaker David Hockey bought on the Internet one of the four dolls used in the making of Lars and the Real Girl. Then he drove 9,000 miles with Bianca at his side, from his home in Nova Scotia to San Diego, where the dolls are made, for his documentary Doll Chronicles: Man’s Quest for the Ultimate Surrogate Female. Most doll owners, he believes, know exactly what they have, and most would gladly give them up for a compatible female companion. “Perhaps doll ownership could be more closely... ... related to car ownership. There are those who simply see them as a form of transportation and those who treat them as if they were a family member,” he says. Life with a doll is very much what life would be with a quadriplegic, he observes. “People don’t buy these USD $7,000 dolls to beat them up. They care for them.”
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Σύμφωνα με την έρευνά του, (γνωριμία με μέλη του The Doll Forum, ) μόνο ποσοστό 48% αντιμετωπίζει την κούκλα σαν ερωτικό παιχνίδι.Ποσοστό 34% των ανδρών που αγοράζει τις κούκλες είναι παντρεμένοι άνθρωποι που κάνουν την αγορά όπως όταν αγοράζουν ένα αυτοκίνητο ή ένα σκάφος.πηγή http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/31/filmmaker-learns-joys-of-life-size-dolls-as-alternative-soul-mat/

Μέλη του The Doll Forum θα συναντηθούν στο Michigan gathering,
ανάμεσά στα μέλη, βρίσκονται παντρεμένα ζευγάρια που από κοινού αγοράζουν ρούχα για την κούκλα τους.Euchre’s request may seem like wishful thinking, but CDJ and his wife, C, are living proof that doll ownership and married life aren’t necessarily incompatible. The couple drove to Detroit from Ontario, Canada, to attend the Michigan gathering. C is a friendly woman in her forties who met her husband online and married him on a cruise ship en route to the Bahamas. She has no problem sharing her man with Sandy, an attractive doll with a perfect figure, as long as the doll doesn’t get into the matrimonial bed. At home, Sandy has her own bedroom filled with Tinker Bell figurines and beanie babies. She has a huge closet full of fancy clothes and sexy shoes, where she hangs when she isn’t lying languorously on her bed under a poster of Alexandre Cabanel’s Birth of Venus. CJD and his wife spend about USD $400 a month on clothes and accessories for the doll. “I wish I could wear her clothes.
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Στο βιβλίο Love + Sex with Robots ο συγγραφέας David Levy υποθέτει πως τα ρομπότ θα αντικαταστήσουν γρήγορα τους αληθινούς φίλους.Η γιαπωνέζικη εταιρεία Honey Dolls ετοιμάζει ήδη κούκλες πραγματικών διαστάσεων, με αισθητήρες επαφής (ανταπόκριση στο άγγιγμα)
In the fascinating book Love + Sex with Robots, author David Levy suggests that robots will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. The marketing of Real Dolls as the perfect women - always ready and available, providing all the benefits of a female partner without any of the complications involved in human relationships - will likely appeal to many of the men who use prostitutes for sex, he says, and to some who have problematic sex lives at home. Levy is also convinced that electronically enhanced sex dolls should be the next big money spinner for people who are already pulling in buckets of cash from the adult entertainment industry.
“I believe the next stage will be dolls with additional features such as vibration technology and artificial speech. Just imagine a man has one of these dolls, and it’s talking to him and telling him how handsome and what a wonderful lover he is!” says Levy. He believes a lot more people will buy the enhanced versions. Honey Dolls, a Japanese company, is already marketing a sex doll equipped with touch sensors that can make it moan during sex.
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Η κοινότητα των iDollators αριθμεί πάνω από 24.000 μέλη παγκοσμίως. Καθηγητές Ψυχολογίας προσπάθησαν να αναπτύξουν θεωρίες για το κοινωνικό αυτό φαινόμενο. Πρόκειται όπως υποστηρίζουν για παρα-κοινωνική σχέση καθώς αναζητούμε την κοινωνική αποδοχή όπως αναζητούμε το φαγητό, όταν δεν βρίσκουμε να φάμε ένα υγιεινό γεύμα, τρώμε σνακς.iDollators communicate through the online community DollForum.com which has over 24'000 members world wide. The forum houses discussion on doll maintenance, member's experiences and feelings for their doll, model updates, and both tame and erotic photos of their doll in family portraits, or nude shots of their lover with bedroom eyes.
Wendy Garner, Professor of Psychology of Norwestern University in America has developed a theory of such human behavior called “The Belonging Strategy of Last Resort”. This is where the person's desire to belong or be attached to something or someone is so powerful that they form a para-social relationship with something which can't connect back with them. Because belonging is the basis of all social interactions, and we hunger for acceptance like we do food. When we can't get a healthy portion we uses social snacks to reminds us that we can belong. 'Social snacking' is giving tangible objects intangible meaning that remind them of social experiences. Perhaps this is what stimulates such a strong relationship between an owner and their Doll. As Dolls rely entirely on their owners to be washed, dressed, and cared for, this dependence can translate into belonging or being needed by someone or something, making the relationship fulfilling to some extent.
The founder of Abyss, 39-year-old artist Matt McMullen gave an interview for the BBC Documentary 'Guys & Dolls'.
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