This heartbreaking need for companionship could not be more apparent than this in the thriving Life size sex doll industry. Female dolls were a joke before several years ago. Sex dolls are almost everywhere today, and they are becoming more popular over time. The industry's craftsmanship is also unable to satisfy market demand, and in nations such as Britain, France, and Germany, and even America, sex doll experience halls have emerged. The owner of a sex doll experience hall opened in Russia was considering opening more venues prior to the Russia World Cup proving so successful. Sex dolls crack the deadlock between couples living under the same roof in Japan. Some Japanese men claim they like sex dolls, take them to the park, and show them to friends.

A quest on the Internet would show that in this explosion of companion robots, Japan is by no means an anomaly. Yet several psychologists also believe that sex dolls are going to do stuff against humans and that somehow robots are re-personified. For example, it is estimated that about 30 percent of the sex doll experience centers in Spain have behavioral disorders that prohibit them from communicating with others normally. Experts assert that sex dolls will ultimately help those groups learn to approach others and develop interpersonal relationships.

But does the ultimate aim of this business really be to enhance human interaction?

We're in an age of sovereignty and independence. We have rights and obligations; we are going to ask and we are going to give. "We believe in the "life is unfair" of Thomas and we believe in the "others are hell" of Paul. We wish for intimacy, but we can dislike intimate relationships as well. We prefer an avatar that can show a magical side of it and transform another self on the screen into an image. The sad and regrettable mode of interpersonal contact cannot encourage those who purchase sex dolls to bear themselves. Sex dolls have little to do with sex (because "sex" implies the pairing of male and female etymologically). It is not even the ego, it is the ego's sublimation to an entity, and the soul's isolation is integrated into the substance of the rubber.

The irony is that these alien objects are based on a profound lie that we have told ourselves. A individual may ask for a "customized" interaction because they feel they want a special "intimacy," but they are simply afraid of intimacy, affection, sharing, and devotion. To cover up the anxiety of opening up to another human in real-time, it is important to use foreign objects, attempting to temporarily ease the suffocating contact void brought on by his lonely life.

Thus, the sex doll reflects the perfection of liberalism. With the rise of sex dolls, we do not have to know or love anybody anymore—even ourselves.

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