The Sex Doll: A History

by Anthony Ferguson

Overview

This scholarly study of the centuries-long history of fornicatory dolls examines the enduring obsession with creating an idealized, silent female sexual object and the manifestations of this desire through the ages in mythology, literature, art, philosophy and science. This particular sexual impulse has been expressed in a great variety of forms such as statues, mannequins, sex dolls, and gynoids (robots). In particular this study focuses on the evolution of the sex doll through its original incarnation as a sack cloth effigy, through the marketing of inflatable dolls, to the current elaborate cyber-technology figures, in an attempt to discover the hidden drives and desires which fuel this ongoing fantasy of creating a perfect, powerless, silent partner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786456628
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	01/10/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Anthony Ferguson is an author and editor living in Perth, Australia. He has published over forty short stories and non-fiction articles in a range of magazines and anthologies in Australia, Britain and the United States and is the secretary of the Australasian Horror Writers Association.
Anthony Ferguson is an author and editor living in Perth, Australia. He has published over forty short stories and non-fiction articles in a range of magazines and anthologies in Australia, Britain and the United States and is the secretary of the Australasian Horror Writers Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Preface 1

Introduction 3

1 The Origin of the Species 9

2 She Ain't Heavy, She's Just Rubber 24

3 The Great Leap Forward 40

4 I Am Your Automatic Lover 56

5 Forever Young 71

6 Consumable Women 81

7 Sex Doll Stereotypes 93

8 The Vagaries of Masculine Desire 108

9 The Dark Side of Desire 127

10 Do Androids Dream of Electric Orgasm? 142

11 Revulsion, Lust and Love 167

Conclusion: Disengage from Society and Plug into the Network 199

Chapter Notes 205

Bibliography 211

Index 217