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Rise of the Sex Bots
For some men, this is their future partner. Their dream girl.
Photo: Matt McMullen, creator of Real Dolls in his office at Abyss Creations' factory, outside San Diego. "Well, the idea, the goal, the fantasy there, is to bring her to life ultimately."
Vanity Fair magazine, May 2015
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It's a beautiful morning in Huntington, West Virginia, but David Mills wants to drink beer in the same ramshackle house where he has lived since birth. In the other bedroom is his ailing, nonagenarian father. Mills the younger is best known for writing "Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism." In the foreword, Carl Sagan's son Dorion praised Mill's "impeccable logic, intellectual bravery, and professional clarity." Richard Dawkins gave the book a blurb--"an admirable work"-- and mentioned it two times in his best-seller "The God Delusion."
In his introduction to a new edition, in 2006, Mills gleefully informed readers that he has been publicly condemned as a spokesman for Satan, a disgrace to human dignity, a moron, a shrimphead, and his favorite, a "pitiful middle-aged man, embarrassed by his lifelong unemployment, and frozen, emotionally and intellectually, in early adolescence."
At 55, he is tired of atheism activism, which he's been doing since the late 1970s, and ready for a career reboot. Recently he became the owner of a RealDoll -- the Rolls-Royce of sex dolls, created two decades ago by artist and entrepreneur Matt McMullen. Mills, who learned about them from an episode of the sitcom Family Guy, visited the company's website and was convinced the photos were of models, not dolls, because they all looked so realistic. More research proved otherwise.
"I thought, Well, gee, I would enjoy something like that!" he recalls. "I mean, I love women. God, I absolutely love women." And especially their legs. "That's what attracts me to a woman as much as a face, if not more." Big problem, though: "My fundamental personality conflict is that I really like women but I don't like to be around people."
A loner since childhood, he met his first wife in 1984 in Communist Poland through a mail-order-bride catalogue and was with her for 18 years, until he met his future second wife online. That marriage ended right before she was arrested by the F.B.I. for a white-collar crime. Mills has avoided relationships ever since. He estimates that of the approximately 180 women he has had sex with, a little over half were prostitutes. That profession has gone way downhill in Huntington over the years, so Mills thought a RealDoll might do the trick. He ordered a BODY A RealDoll2 model (83 pounds, 33-24-35 measurements, custom freckles) and named her Taffy the same day he mailed a check for $7,149.00 to a factory in San Marcos, California, Called Abyss Creations.
Three and a half months later, a coffin-like crate arrived. Thrilled, he pried it open, tore away the plastic, and screamed. The extremely human-like doll was looking right at Mills, and it reminded him of the Twilight Zone episode where William Shatner comes face-to-face with a monster on an airplane wing.
Then he became aroused.
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