Great response there, really broaden out my original internal debate.
I wonder if, to the market for sex dolls, they consider how owning a sex doll presents themselves to any potential partners though. Do you think they picture the moment when they bring home a stranger to rock the casbah, and said partner walks into a room to find a silicone doll looking back?
However I think with the development of talking sex dolls marketed to have conversations and personalities such as this one, some men are considering sex dolls as a human parter replacement. Afterall the idea is that these dolls provide companship both sexually and conversationally.
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