“With a sex doll, one can be as depraved as he likes.”
"These antisocial obsessions have been allowed to mushroom under our culture’s nauseating mantra — “don’t yuck my yum”.
The sex dolls are coming Indulging perversions isn't 'self-care'

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The sex dolls are coming
"It’s self-care that we offer there. You can be with your own sexuality there and focus on your needs.” So raves the Austrian filmmaker Philipp Fussenegger, co-founder of Cybrothel in Berlin. Here, headless and naked bodies hang from hooks, waiting to be penetrated in those delightfully euphemistic “self-care” sessions. They are encased in hyper-realistic silicone skin, with cartoonish breasts and feet pointed downwards to slip into stripper heels. There’s Paris, the leggy blonde, and Liara, a blue-skinned “scientist”. Every month or so, a new character is dreamed up and added to the dead-eyed cohort. In time, Fussenegger wants to swap out the dolls for robots: these can “touch you, move around, have sucking vaginas, heat up — all those things”. You can also ask for more bespoke experiences in the name of “focusing on your needs” — such as a doll with slashed and torn clothes. As Fussenegger assures, “it’s a shame-free environment”. He wraps his venture in the mollycoddling language of self-care and sexual expression; this tactic, it turns out, can excuse a lot.
Sex-doll brothels sprang up around Europe in 2017 — including in London — as novelty establishments which could skirt regulation around human prostitution. Cybrothel is one of only two to have survived the initial wave of curiosity (the other is in Prague), with plastic dummies giving way once more to the appeal of a living, breathing woman to violate. At the same time, another rival reared its head: AI-generated pornography burst onto the scene a couple of years later and has developed at breakneck speed since. Part of Cybrothel’s survival can be explained by its willingness to integrate this new tech into the experience with the help of an “in-house sex-tech entrepreneur”. AI-powered sex dolls are part of a booming industry in China, with one of the leading manufacturers expected to make a 30% sales increase this year. Middle-aged men in Europe are the most common buyers of these £2,000 dolls.
But sex dolls alone are by no means old hat. For hardcore enthusiasts, the ultimate aim is to buy your own. The activist Caitlin Roper, author of Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating, has spent “many hours” on forums of men, numbering in their thousands, who own replica women. “I’ve seen photos of dolls bound, tied spread-eagled to a bed, strung up, penetrated with objects and in positions of sexualised torture,” she says. “One man said he wished his doll would ‘struggle’, and another expressed his disappointment that he couldn’t leave bruises on his doll after a beating.”
Selling or renting out silicone likenesses of women as literalised sexual objects is among the queasy horrors to which liberal feminism lacks an answer. After all, the arguments in favour of this industry are the same ones bleated in the case of that other caste of less-than-human women, the “sex workers” whom enlightened cultures expect to service the needs of undesirable, abusive, violent or awkward men. In both cases, the solution to antisocial male sexuality is never to simply compel men to pack it in: sex positivity is about advocating for erections, regardless of how they are achieved. Instead, entire industries — from “barely legal” OnlyFans accounts to “breath play” fetish clubs (for those variously interested in paedophilia and now-normalised strangulation respectively) have sprung up to square the circle of how dangerous paraphilias and ever more extreme porn-inflected demands can coexist with women’s safety; in the real world, they mostly cannot. But with a sex doll, one can be as depraved as he likes."
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