I guess I'm a minority here as I don't assign a fantasy or personality to a doll. To be honest dolls are like the best sex toys I could ever purchase for myself.



^^ This sums it up for me. They are the closest to the real thing. A surrogate or substitute. A doll's form and sexual function must approximate a real woman in order to turn me on. That's why I'm not into anime dolls, cute-animal dolls, etc. Even the masturbators I like the most (visually) look exactly like the real thing. I'm disappointed they can only approximate and tend to break after X uses.

I agree with the remarks made by AlexKnight.
In direct answer to the question I think of 'my girls' as beautiful women.
I do not fantasise about other women when making love to them. The primary reason for this is because I am looking into her face & eyes, looking at and feeling her body, curves and breasts, taking in their beauty and 'feeling their personalities and characters at the time.
On the other hand however, if, for example, I were to have sex from behind doggie style there would be (for me) a loss of intimate contact and it would be such as masturbating to a porno or humping a doll.



Which I would modify 'to a beautiful human partner we have available to us'.

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This and more. What came in a box as an inanimate object has turned into an almost ideal partner,( I have one of those as well and she's happy with the 'girls' but for me life is complicated and I don't need to stray).
I don't see them as dolls when making love, especially after picking the clothing, doing hair, makeup and perfume but as a cross between a fantasy figure and a woman. I like a photoshoot and afters..........

I hope this doesn't hurt anyone's feelings ... but ... this has always bothered me. You can't 'Make Love' to a doll or anything else for that matter, Only another human being. It takes two Souls becoming one to Make Love.

To answer the question, I am turned on by my dolls because they are silicone dolls ... A Silicone Fantasy 4 Sure.

So am I the only one who pretends my doll is some body else's doll?
I will admit that I view some ladies as sex objects which maybe offensive, but I think it is ironic that some people view their sex objects as living breathing humans complete with personalities and think it is perfectly fine. I guess it is natural, because little girls have been personifying their rag dolls all the time.

By the way I don't think of it as making love, but more like filling up the emptiness in side of her with a little part of me. So I like to think I am sharing my soul with my Jizzabelle.

speaking of souls, sentimental gentlemen, don't be afraid to show me your soul.
Look up "show me your soul" by red hot chilli peppers on youtube.

I think about the character she represents. my anime fabric doll is designed to look like miku hatsune. therefore she has become MY miku hatsune. she makes me feel happy and glad. she wil never hurt me or betray me.

Well, I've often said that I treat inanimate objects like real women because women reject me for men who treat them like objects. Stacy once told me she believes all men (and indeed some women) objectify women to some degree, and I think she's right. But that doesn't mean we don't also respect them as people just because we find them sexually desirable.

I rarely use Sharon for sexual purposes, but since I do occasionaly use her to satisfy myself I voted "real woman". However after reading your post:

I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't have voted at all. For while I do imagine her as an actual woman during sex play I don't see her as being an actual woman, real or fantasy (by which I assume you mean a woman who doesn't actually exist in the real world, like an anime character for example). Perhaps the poll voting buttons should appear after the original post?

When I do use her for masturbation - and let's face it, it is masturbation - the doll is nothing more than a physical and tactile representation of what I would be doing to the woman I am imaging her to be at the moment. I say "to" because my sexual fantasies are all about self gratification, What the woman would think of what I'm doing is irrelevant. Does that sound cruel? Well maybe it is, but then most if not all of my sexual fantasies are cruel and selfish; so better an inanimate nonsentient object than the real thing, right?

Just be thankful my moniker is Szalinski, and not Morbius!

If you're feeling singled out because no one else shares your fantasy, don't; because you're not alone. How many people here (carbon or silicon based) do you think fantasize about women having been shrunk to anywhere from three feet to three inches in height and kept as personal pets (and yes, sometimes used for sexual gratification)?

Back during the 2011 doll meet in Hershey while watching the rough draft of Midi's documentary I was holding an Arte Tokyo doll in my lap. You can't imagine the feelings that were going through me, holding this 18 inch high "woman". And no, they weren't sexual; well, not all sexual.

Many people here talk about getting one of the smaller dolls, like MLDs, VLDs or R13 Presselys because they are lighter, easier to manage and/or store. My next doll will definitely be a small doll, but not because she's lighter!

Mine is fantasy. Karen is the fantasy of a very young woman, in my past life. She is a woman burned into my soul. She is poison in a wound that will not heal. Through the doll, Karen has come back into my life as therapy. I don’t “wish things worked out”. Karen is in my bedroom and I can have my way with her any time I desire.

All of this was unintentional. I did not realize this until the doll was in my possession and I started thinking of what to name my doll. It struck me like a bolt of lightening when I chose the name Karen.

This a damn good topic. It's always been roleplaying and fantasy for me. But for them life sized hotties, I can see it going the other direction in treating them like a lady. =)

At first I was well aware I was boinking a doll. Each time though, there would be moments where she'd seem real. Now, it's more often that she feels completely real with only brief moments where I'm reminded that she's a doll.

Definitely an interesting observation. I was recently reading an interview with a psychologist who does research on human sexuality... he said that the majority of people have at least one thing that arouses them that others would think is "weird". IMO one of the positive developments of the past few decades is that it's becoming a little easier for people to talk about those things.

Tell me about it. I spent my early adolescence thinking I was some sort of freak because of my urophila, until I saw a few golden shower jokes in a volume of the Truly Tasteless Jokes series; I was relieved (no pun intended ) to learn that not only was I not the only person with such a fetish, but it was apparently common enough to acquire a whimsical nickname.