I recently mentionned the “Real Dolls” on my twitter but I wanted to give it a deeper thought here.
This is definitely the best response to the lady who denied that sex could also be artistic in a video I posted the other day. Well, here´s the proof! This fascinating peek into the Real Doll studio shows us how founder Matt McMullen is using his sculpting skills to create these highly realistic, fully working dolls.
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What gives more food for thought is the idea of a robotic RealDoll that could be programmed to move independently of its owner. According to McMullen, this is not so far out of reach. Doesn´t that blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality in a truely irresistible way?
What I like about these dolls is that they’re not interchangeable, every one of them is a piece of art. So whatever we may think of someone having a realtionship with a doll in the way that most of us reserve for real people, this is undoubtedly not only a fascinating facet of human sex culture but also human psychology, especially as the dolls get more and more believable to both sight and touch. The image of a lonely man and his blow-up doll are definitely a thing of the past!
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Yet again we’re seeing a technology driven by it’s sexual potential. Just as adult videos are considered to have driven the growth of VCRs and subsequently the DVD and online porn the growth of the web, robotics/animatronics will clearly be driven by products such as the Real Doll. To think of the potential once these industries mature (a point probably not in any of our lifetimes to any truly sophisticated degree) and how they will blur even existentialist lines is mind-boggling. I think anyone who has seen the movie ‘Blade Runner’ already has a sense of the legal, ethical (even bio-ethical) and existential debates this epoch will bring.
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