{"id":647,"date":"2006-09-20T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2006-09-20T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T21:47:04","slug":"the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"The Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday I watched ‘Guys and Dolls’ on Five<\/a>, and can honestly say that’s the most disturbed I’ve been by TV in a long time. It was a <\/p>\n

\nDocumentary about the men who use sophisticated life-size dolls for sexual satisfaction and more – such as dates, affection and lifelong companionship. Featuring a young American man who gives his doll daily massages in the home he shares with his disapproving Mum and Dad;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Parents Eh? How unreasonable.<\/p>\n

\na British man who takes his doll out on day trips to the coast where she watches him hang-glide;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watches. Yes. Of course.<\/p>\n

\nand two Americans who live with multiple dolls, one of whom shares his eight synthetic lovers with his human girlfriend.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Now it’s plenty strange enough to want to have sex with a \u00a34000 rubber doll (even one as sophisticated<\/a> as this), but these people interacted with them as if they were real. Isn’t there help for people like this? (hopefully bullet shaped?) I was genuinely scared. <\/p>\n

I should perhaps mention that Everard (!), the British man was ‘a computer technician’. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday I watched ‘Guys and Dolls’ on Five, and can honestly say that’s the most disturbed I’ve been by TV in a long time. It was a Documentary about the men who use sophisticated life-size dolls for sexual satisfaction and more – such as dates, affection and lifelong companionship. Featuring a young American man … Continue reading The Real Thing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eeewww"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}