History of male sex doll (part3)

 Throughout history - from Pygmalion and his marble bride to Oskar Kokoschka and his fuzzy companion - silicone doll makers and users have been overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, straight men. "In the Idid content analysis of magazines and books, I don't believe any of the [examples] involved women," says Cynthia Ann Moya, vice president of erotic database Alta-Glamour.com Book Gallery, who wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco on artificial vaginas and sex dolls from the late 19th century to the 1980s. "That's not to say it never happened. But the mythologies people tell each other about these sex dolls all involved men."

The two questions this raises are: "Why don't women use more sex dolls?" And "Why are so many men attracted to them?"

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Some answers are purely practical. For example, only 25% of women can consistently orgasm from vaginal sex alone, making a doll far from the most effective sex toy. Also, when it comes to RealDolls and their ilk, everyone I've spoken to has told me how heavy they are. (Female RealDolls weigh between 75 and 115 pounds.) Some mentioned it sheepishly, others factually, but there was a general consensus that the dolls were difficult to move for many. women.

There is also a lot of speculation about the difference between male and female masturbation styles. In his 1936 book Studies in the Psychology of Sex, English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis wrote that men are more visual, while women are more imaginative and rely more on their sense of touch. Both Smit and McCullen reiterated this conventional wisdom, and given individual differences, this seems like a plausible enough explanation for why most dolls, like most pornographic films, are designed with men's interests in mind. Most women care primarily about the actual tactile feel, while men like things to look real, the thinking goes. When a man gets along with a mini sex doll, especially a modern doll with his silicone skin and almost human expression, it's easier for him to pretend he wants it back.

There are women who buy sex dolls. But McCullen says many of them buy the dolls with a male partner — or with the intention of dressing them up and enjoying them like fashion dolls. "A lot of women love dolls because they're like life-size Barbies," he says.