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If the RealDolls are conditioning their owners to treat human women roughly, then perhaps we should quit giving baby dolls to little girls? I seem to remember being pretty brutal to mine when I was four or five, and yet my actual children, now grown, seem to have survived my parenting.
Seriously, it's a rare human who gets all his or her needs met by other humans. We have the flickering images on the tube to entertain us, our dogs and cats to make sure we get plenty of touch, our sex toys to get us off, the symbolic humans in books to stimulate our imaginations -- the RealDoll is simply an extension of any or all of those. And nobody I know has any trouble distinguishing between any of them and the actual humans we meet on the street or at work or school or church.
