"She looks like a person," says Rob McKay, 55, a writer who owns two dolls, Lily and Eden. "Even though she's not a breathing person, psychologically you feel like someone is with you. They're like a balm for loneliness or aloneness."
McKay and other doll owners, who share their stories and photos online at DollForum.com, compare the life-size ladies to "teddy bears for adults."
"That's where she's done the most good, reducing the feeling of solitude," McKay says, adding that he prefers intimacy with a live partner but hasn't had a girlfriend since 2001. "Just having her there to hug or just to have somebody close by, even though it's not, obviously, a warm body."
$6500. Lets see now; the guy hasn't had a girlfriend in 6 years, so that works out to $1083 a year spent on his doll, times 2 as he's a spare for I guess when one of them is pissed at him. While I defy anyone to find a living doll THAT cheap to keep, this is one helluva sad commentary on the human condition.
Then again, they can travel with the luggage so you do save on plane fare as well.
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