Weird guys with weird dolls

Did you see that programme on Tuesday night about men who have 'relationships' with life sized dolls made of foam, or rubber with 'real' pubic hair? The pubic hair comes from Sweden, apparently.  I'm not sure about the wigs.

I haven't seen anything so disturbing since Abi's year 4 Christmas show at school.  I spent most of the programme with my jaw hanging open.

Highlights - there really weren't any.  The whole thing was just shocking.

Lowlights - lots of these:
- watching one man take a bottle brush to his "partner's" lady garden, complaining that she was starting to smell a bit fishy down there.
- feeling so sorry for a lovely, normal, middle-aged woman who was attempting to have a proper relationship with a guy who insisted on inviting two dolls to his birthday party.  These two sat at the tea table in their tarty, slutty outfits, their legs splayed, their mouths gaping, their enormous fake breasts pointing bullet-like nipples aggressively at the ceiling.  (You can get three different kinds of tongue, and many different kinds of everything else...)  This woman was so nice about her fella, who has eight of these dolls.  But the credits at the end told us that the relationship had ended two weeks after the horrible tea party.
- the woman who lives with a guy who repairs the dolls as parts wear out.  I won't go into which parts he repairs most.   This woman admitted to feeling intimidated by the perfection of the dolls.  "They're not perfect!" I yelled at the telly.  "Because they're not women!  They don't have a personality!  They won't buy you a birthday present!  They don't care!  They won't TALK to you.  They can't touch you.  They're dolls!  They're not real!"  Eventually a daughter appeared and told me to calm down.
- the English guy who takes photos of his dolls doing realistic things, like reading a book, then fills photo albums with pictures and captions.  Lots of pictures of him in tiny shorts and slip on brown leather shoes and socks, and two tarty dolls.
- watching one guy hang his doll from the ceiling.  All dolls have a hook in their neck so you can hang them up.  They spin round, their legs wide, like they're in the middle of a game of leap frog.
- and the whole thing....that these guys aren't just treating the dolls as a sex toy.  Rather they consider themselves to be in real relationships.  A couple of them have been hurt in relationships with what they termed 'organic women.'  (I wonder if we should register with The Soil Association.)  Well, guess what!  We've all been hurt in 'organic' relationships.  It happens.  Get back in there and try again.