The Sex Doll

<p> This scholarly study of the centuries-long history of fornicatory dolls examines the enduring obsession with creating an idealized silent female sexual object and the manifestations of this desire through the ages in mythology literature art philosophy and science. This particular sexual impulse has been expressed in a great variety of forms such as statues mannequins sex dolls and gynoids (robots). In particular this study focuses on the evolution of the sex doll through its original incarnation as a sack cloth effigy through the marketing of inflatable dolls to the current elaborate cyber-technology figures in an attempt to discover the hidden drives and desires which fuel this ongoing fantasy of creating a perfect powerless silent partner.</p>