Why Might People Want to Own Sex Dolls?
When referring to ‘sex dolls,’ we are principally concerned with realistic (but inanimate) silicone dolls, or models made from synthetic materials such as thermoplastic elastomer, which mimic the feel and motion of the human body to produce realistic sexual experiences for owners. However, we realize that for some people a ‘sex doll’ may conjure images of unrealistic inflatable items at one end of the realism spectrum, through to interactive sexualized robots with embedded artificial intelligence and the ability to learn at the other. The emergence of realistic dolls, however, has led to an explosion of philosophizing about the ethics of such materials (Carvalho Nascimento et al., 2018; Danaher et al., 2017; Eskens, 2017; Facchin et al., 2017; Kubes, 2019; Lancaster, 2021; Richardson, 2019), particularly when these dolls ostensibly represent children (Chatterjee, 2020; Cox-George & Bewley, 2018; Danaher, 2017a, 2019b; Maras & Shapiro, 2017; Strikwerda, 2017). Indeed, there have been some convictions for the importation of sex dolls that resemble children (Brown & Shelling, 2019; Danaher, 2017a, 2019b; Strikwerda, 2017), with those prosecuted for such offenses also commonly being found to possess child sexual exploitation material (Brown & Shelling, 2019; Cox-George & Bewley, 2018). In spite of the rapid increase in theorizing about the ethics of doll ownership, there has been no empirical exploration of the characteristics of individuals who own sex dolls (Harper & Lievesley, 2020).
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The limited evidence that is currently available suggests that motivations for sex doll ownership are overwhelmingly sexual. In small-scale surveys of owners, up to 70% of participants suggest that sexual gratification is the primary purpose of a doll (Langcaster-James & Bentley, 2018; Valverde, 2012). However, it has been suggested that sex is just one of a number of reasons for doll ownership among this subgroup (Ferguson, 2014; Valverde, 2012). Even discounting this non-exclusivity of motivations, these statistics indicate that approximately one-in-three doll owners have a doll for primarily nonsexual reasons. Common alternatives are often linked to relationships, such as interpersonal connection and emotional intimacy (Ferguson, 2014; Su et al., 2019; Valverde, 2012), while others own dolls purely for artistic pursuits (e.g., photography; Su et al., 2019). This all being said, there is currently a lack of empirically derived knowledge about who sex doll owners are, or how they present from a psychological perspective. As such, a principal aim of our work was to provide some baseline data about the kinds of psychological factors which may differentiate those who own sex dolls from those who do not.
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