Married to a Doll: Why One Man Advocates Synthetic Love

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13. I remember that too! It leads me to think that both of these doll fixations point out quite

the gulf between the mentalities of men and women. It's hard not to be critical of the impulse men have toward sex all the time with anything, and it's hard to be critical of women's desire to mother a baby even if it's not real. Men's sexual impulses, whether they mean it or not, have led to plenty of destruction and misery; generally, you can't really say that about women's impulses to mother and help out.