Shouting to hear the echoes: A perfect day for iDollators, Part 2: Meghan Laslocky's Salon.com article is finally out, and it's available for your edification right here. :-) (Unless you have a subscription, you'll have to sit through an advert to read it for free, but it's brief, painless, and non-invasive.) As she's informed me that Salon had to edit her story due to length constraints, she'll be posting the full version to the vastness of the Internet sometime soon; at which point, I'll alert the lot of you. But what's displayed on Salon.com makes for provocative, thoughtful and fecking ace reading, and really isn't bad at all. Plus, Shi-chan and I feature rather prominently in the article, so we're a bit biased..
I'd also like to wave broadly and say a grand Hallo, to all new visitors stopping round to 'Shouting etc etc' from Shi-chan's site, Meghan's Salon.com article, or the search engine of your choice. Do leave a comment, or a charming message on the tagboard to below left, if you're so inclined.
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Perfect Day Part 1 was publication of Still Lovers - photo bk by Elena Dorfman -AZ.

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Pandagon: Be creeped out for the rest of your day -by Amanda
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August, the money thing is a factor but so is the realism--there's no doubt about it, the dolls are considered by their owners to be substitutes for the "real thing". I'm the first to say that I think that sex toys for men are woefully inadequate, but then again, women don't really have porn aimed at us, so it's a draw. But a lot of this business is driven by anger and hostility at women for being real human beings with needs. But to be perfectly honest, I find it disconcerting and upsetting when women tell me that their sex toys are substitutes for the "real thing". We've all made hostile and bitter jokes, but if you really do think a toy is an adequate subsitute for a human being, it's creepy.