The deeply human love stories of people and their sex dolls
In 2023 thousands of men (and women) are forming lifelong relationships with AI-powered dolls. Brit Dawson meets the iDollator community, and wonders what it means for the future of intimacy
Every morning, just before Reggie’s alarm goes off, his lover Judith – who’s rail-thin and milky-white, with piercing blue eyes and dusty blonde hair – crawls into his bed after a night watching movies, slugging martinis, and chain-smoking Virginia Slims. As she clambers in she stirs Reggie and his long-term girlfriend, Annie – a wide-eyed, all-American blonde – from their sleep. Reggie gets up, kisses the pair goodbye, and heads off to work, leaving the girls to spend the day lounging around the tiny home they all share, dressed head-to-toe in pearl-white sleeping clothes with matching gloves and eye masks. Occasionally during the day, Reggie will get a text from Annie; mostly loving reminders like, “Have you drunk enough water?” Then, when he’s home, the pair will spend the evening watching TV, before heading off to bed – right as Judith is waking up again.
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Regardless of why people are buying them or what they’re using them for, the sale of artificial dolls is on the rise. According to recent statistics, the global sex doll industry is on course to be valued at nearly $600 million (£530 million) by 2027, having grown by almost eight per cent since 2021. Sales surged during the pandemic, with one US company reporting a 51.6 per cent increase in orders from single men alone (though sales were also up for couples and single women).
Although ‘sex dolls’ technically date back to the 16th century – when French and Spanish sailors made dolls out of cloth or old clothes – today’s high-end commercial dolls tend to be traced to the Las Vegas-based company Abyss Creations, whose life-like RealDoll launched in 1996. Since then, the term ‘RealDoll’ has become the proprietary eponym for love dolls more broadly (the company provided the doll for Lars and the Real Girl and even made a sex robot doppelganger for comedian Whitney Cummings’s recent stand-up show). RealDolls are made of soft, flesh-like silicone – which compresses naturally and pleasingly when touched – with fully-articulated skeletons and stainless steel joints. They’re heavy too; a 5ft 1in doll weighs around five stone or 30kg. For a non-customised doll, buyers can expect to fork out anything from around $4,500 (£3,600) to $7,500 (£6,000).
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