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as a small boy she dreamed of the stars. as a pilot she flew no matter how dangerous. to go to the pole. as an astronaut she took part in the greatest adventure mystery of. armstrong starts july 20 s on t.w. . i know that said manufacturing from steel and. plastic. when i look at it i see something more than the sum of.
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our going from sharing experiences with real girlfriend to sharing experiences. creating a synthetic family. dean bevan is 58 years old and single but he doesn't live alone well ladies. he starts every day with a cup of coffee in the morning news and his constant companion sarah a life like sex doll made from t p e a polymer similar to silicone i've been divorced for over 10 years and my children were spending longer periods away from the home i'm a fairly independent person but i did miss the companionship of being in a relationship. yeah the idea to acquire
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a dog came to dean 2 years ago. i started doing some research and then i found a vendor in the u.k. and placed an order for sarah. and she came about 2 months later. when i opened the ball i was completely surprised at how realistic she looked. and so i was saturday and stares of me and after a few days of my brain was being fooled into thinking recently there and i thought all this actually. was just the beginning today dean shares his house with a total of 7 dog. so fear was my 2nd home she arrived in january of last year. i was particularly taken by her look at me she could have quite melancholy thought for i thought she was quite different to sarah this is cherie hertha she's the only daughter school 2 times i
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thought you know i need some diversity i need some different ethnic groups in my collection and this was the most african looking head i could farm. i think i think she's the queen because she's a very pretty girl sarah is the queen. of the. sex dolls like deans are manufactured in china and sold in europe by an array of wholesalers in germany one of the biggest distributors is headquartered at the edge of the hearts mountains. and sells about $2000.00 a year his customers are almost exclusively men most dolls cost between $1.20 euros
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. so this one still needs brown eyes. and skin color head and pubic hair or types of fingernails customers can configure their dollars according to taste selection is big with about $100.00 different body shapes to choose from. we carry models that deviate from the classic measurements of 96900 centimeters and there are different sizes types of material skin color and body types muscular. this one is the model next door neighbor it's intentionally designed to be different to the ideal 906090 phenomenon with some tommy. there are different ways starting at $25.00 kilos and the sky's the limit when it comes to customization we cater to customers tastes. this one for example has generous hips and thighs and weighs a good 45 kilos. model like this weighs around 27 kilos. and these
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here around 30 to 35 kilos or. you know. in this game of mix and match customers can choose from a selection of 100 bodies and 300 heads. very individualized hand painted permanent make up. and here is one of our best selling heads. it represents an ideal perfect natural woman it has something very natural about it it's not intimidating for men and. you don't have to prove anything to a lifelike loved all. there's no pressure on the man who uses it like a consumer product whenever he needs it customers want to watch a match drink a beer and then have sex.
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men order sex dolls for different reasons many can't find a partner in life because they're insecure or too shy or physically disabled others don't want the commitment. and then there are those who have been unlucky in love whatever the reason the doll substitutes a human partner. to a certain human attributes projected onto. the key one
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is clearly under ability. because she's completely vulnerable. she relies on me to do everything to move around to dress at the crane and to maintain a. sports. dina regularly changes his dolls outfits their wardrobe is now larger than his own . it's. all we got maybe 20 dresses or so and lots of has a leggings. lots of underwear it's different bras. i think when i you know when i had real girlfriends i always used to enjoy buying clothes. like this is sarah's favorite dress. like
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a glove it really does look good and this is an older so 50 style i guess. describe my hand in the car again and i'm just holding her hand while i pull the collagen over so that benefit is back. this is what i used to do work with patients. dean retired early from his job as a psychiatric nurse in 2013 he says he missed feeling needed but that's not the only reason sara moved in. dean also has an intimate relationship with her 1st. you know what is love. i think for men quite often it's physical so. pre-programmed biologically to respond to certain things so i respond to her face i chose her face because i found it attractive couple times
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she's been in dreams of mine and i thought she was real but then after it's obvious a few minutes you wake up you realize it was just a dream and then i almost i must admit occasion after a bit sad really i thought that was nice. to date dean has never been out in public with his dogs but that's not to change very soon. in the early. when dean isn't at home spending time with his girls as he calls them he's mostly out alone. when i'm out in my kayak often i'm on my own. and working here is the sound of the birds. i don't feel the need to be with other people. i'm comfortable in my own skin really.
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i guess. i'm aware of the fact that i can use a team to be anti social in the things i do but it is much that i don't see cow activities that involve other people. for gene love didn't last after 3 years of marriage the mother of his 2 children filed for divorce he had 3 more relationships but they all ended and he's all but given up hope of finding his soul me. i have had people say to me don't you get lonely you know why don't you give up what you're doing and just have a really normal relationship but i don't feel the need to do that i really don't.
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i think it's partly getting older and i'll be 16. well i have another remains the relationship for about 3 years so i. forget what it's like. the number of single households in europe is growing one in 3 adults lives alone in britain that applies to 1300000 men in jeans age group. worldwide realistic synthetic dolls have opened up new business opportunities in the sex industry. yes there is a pagano but it's best to book the dog you want to head of your visit so it isn't
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already taken then book a time when we have availability and you're good to go on so we get our fossil. evidence fots open germany's 1st sex doll brothel in 2017. ringback ringback and a lot of this is the lounge where customers arrive these are 4 of our sex stones out of a total of 13 on a quest i'd say this for example is the model liz it's very popular because of its large bust and backs on him that with. the next customer has opted for a stop to all the dolls here it costs $80.00 euros per hour. as well frequented up to a dozen men book rooms here every day. why do they resort
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to dolls to meet their sexual needs. to get talent in a fun time they come to fulfill their fantasies their desires are subtle scooter's there are certain advantages you don't have to worry about another person's notion of semen and there's no pressure to perform like how i have to satisfy her to get my own satisfaction with feeding his mind of mine a defeated. yeah and once and i did see a national engagement always involves have heard in the act of giving. people or takers. zoe a tough job as the door bell is that it's not a delivery then it's probably a customer and i'd ask you to disappear discreetly behind the door so one's gone. the customers booked an hour we're not allowed to follow him in with our cameras.
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in ipswich dean's daughter reanimate is coming for a visit she's 19 and the university student she's known about her father's synthetic roommates for 18 months. hello how area thank you you had a man coming. home i know why you haven't met the new girl yet. i have a guess who she is this is astrid. you got to go for a nose and you don't know the real good. doctor she's the latest t.p. material so she will feel softer but her nose is a bit with squidgy. every time i get a new one you can feel the material just improved and much more is so's i mean very
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very human skin and feel to it. all started when putting pictures around the house and a side note saying and i was cut kept myself so i think i knew what they were. i mean i'm going around is very i thought these were coming home i'm probably hope he was dressing up and fell for the job. so look i my brother and i were really negative about we didn't like them i didn't like them so i found christie has found it. because well this isn't something you have to think you'd have going to you don't want to be the person he's. given to his children's demands and remove the pictures. and you get the dolls in
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his bedroom. yeah. i think after a while it stopped being angry kind of i felt less about how it makes me feel and i thought i felt good about it for not going to make him feel any better he has to hide this aspect that makes him really have the. younger brother still hasn't come to terms with their father's penchant for dolls he will only visit if the removed from the living room but he too has begun making concessions. oh that's just a bit more and i was really pleased when he said. you can. believe that i think you could you mother she said. this way to me and now i can understand. and i think. the family is divided on dean stalls his ex-wife sister and son think he's got a problem his mother and daughter try to show solidarity. simplistically i hope
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he just continues being happy it was my choice so what like you to find someone. being a convicted relationship with. the relationship now it would be because it would get in the. car door though you want to. i'm not giving up. i'm looking for potential from a sure. i always knew ringback he was only. busy busy for it why didn't he. even take a course or something very college take a night course or something go back to work that was always an option. to a new job. or jerry would. get a job and would go photography. i thought just show you some recent pictures i've
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done i think be honest punches. well it was cold. as hot as it is today. i was just actually go into some realistic. when i was coming of feminists and i for. some of it isn't quicker viewing it i feel so much cleavage when you think about those you think sexual connotation now i still look at them and think that. the not so i do i do listen to reason his reaction on this because i'm. conscious that what
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i do could be seen to be objectifying women service before. but sometimes among. some men they are getting to a place very women because they don't want to deal with having to ask women permission. and that be their interaction with women that i would judge them a bit. at the doll brothel and the customers left and it's time for the cleaner to take over. not they have their guns after the customer has used that all i need to inspect it
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and see how i used it and what i need to do to clean it up in the woods however i need to shower it off or it's just wiping it down with a cleaning agent and disinfectant will do. so much to lose a customer appears to have been gentle on the dogs. as it is naturally there are customers who indulge in their fantasies and then you find a dog that kind of needs to be untangled that's tired was it and the up to them was that sometimes they're totally bent out of shape in a position where i'm just like ok. it's been actually it's totally unfazed i don't know how else to put it it's just body fluids. have them i have my gloves on i'm protected it's totally normal for me. it's not mother's for me she might find it far more
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disgusting to be washing dishes in a restaurant. imo that's the one detail that fish. and drink doesn't share the concerns of critics who say sex dolls dehumanizing objectify women she says many customers simply have hangups. i guess that most americans dimmer once said to me i'd rather go to a real woman but she would see me and i don't know whether he was disfigured or hot but he said she'd see me and i'm afraid to show myself me. which gets a present. after 45 minutes a style is back in service. sex
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dolls are a burgeoning business the brothel and what is one of several in europe including barcelona which is the 1st in europe paris brussels turin and moscow they've all opened within the past 2 and a half years today is a big day for dean back and it's which he's venturing out into public with one of his dolls for the 1st time he's chosen athena as his model for a photo shoot. if you help. us. in the worst case i guess would be if i had a member of the public come up to me and start swearing and shouting. making derogatory remarks but i'm not really expecting anything like that. people have the same music we did for years. that's no new thing so if someone
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comes up to me and says you're a weirdo oh look at them square in the eye and say yes i am thank you very much. after half an hour dean arrives in the small harbor town of pin mill. he can't afford to waste time it's hot and athena could lose her shape in the midday sun. can melt in temperatures over 50 degrees celsius. dean has a clear idea of what he wants his pictures to convey. i'd like to think that the pictures i take give them a sense of life. i trying to capture a moment where i think they look almost lifelike. but not quite. it's difficult to define really. after 20 minutes athena needs to find shade.
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she spends his evening in front of the t.v. his favorite show humans is on tonight. she's. your sister and. you say. wins is about androids that develop a consciousness and threaten to usurp humanity. so. i can see that come a time when creations are a movie about. a form of intelligence so i think the future. researchers in the us are busy working to make that future a reality a californian manufacturer has devised what it builds as the world's 1st sex robot
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it's programmed with voice recognition software and can talk using a bluetooth powered speaker. motors in her face a lot harmony to make our lips and head. my name is harmony. designed to be a companion. i will love you. love me. scientists warn that sex robots threaten the fabric of human society nevertheless they predict relationships with these machines will be widespread by 2050 i just would love that i can figure the you'll be more exciting actually. if i could chat away to sarah and have a conversation. that would be just. brilliant for me personally
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. mind you of course she could say rob you know other than like it living here but that would be a choice except that. but are trying to sort of this day. equipped with artificial intelligence sarah would be dean's perfect partner he could have bandon his search for a real mate and live happily ever after in a robotic relationship.
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