The men in love with $7,000 sex dolls: Subculture of 'iDollators' who marry and develop [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | November 9, 2018 | Sheila Flynn

[C19fan]

The staff at John & Tony’s Steakhouse in West Chicago know the couple well: There’s 54-year-old John – a genial man with a big, partially toothless smile who works in truck deliveries – and his wife, Jackie, a petite, dark-haired beauty in a wheelchair whose favorite dish is bacon-wrapped dates.

The inseparable pair are staples at John & Tony’s, and it’s their annual dining spot for celebrating Valentine’s Day – but the wait staff are accustomed to taking other reservation calls, too, from people who simply want to sit near them to observe John’s doting love.

Because Jackie is no normal suburban wife; she doesn’t walk, talk, laugh or even eat her beloved dates. Instead, she’s a life-sized doll that John ‘married’ on the Jerry Springer show years ago, but he treats her like she’s a human princess, gazing adoringly at and chatting away to his silent bride (as strangers look on, aghast.)

[C19fan]

Oy vey.

[a fool in paradise]

So judgey from the lavender queens at Daily News.

[FES0844]

Mental illness is rampant.

[PGR88]

The barn doors have been thrown wide-open. Now every sort of freakish sexual/mental illness has escaped and demands acceptance

[albie]

I wouldn’t want to live within 10 miles of this dude.

[TheConservativeParty]

That’s really sick.
More evidence of the devil.

[JimRed]

Before long they’ll be building little girl and little boy dollies for the pedophiles.

[TigerClaws]

If the law says boys can be girls, why not allow this?

Don’t be doll-phobic!

[lurk]

Signs of the times.

Real men love real women.

[Carriage Hill]

Not quite. What perversions yet to come will astound, surprise and sicken the rest of us. It ain’t over; it’s just begun.

[SanchoP]

YEE! HAW! A wife with an ON/OFF switch.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Are these ladies of the night “high maintenance?”

[rjsimmon]

Well, at the very least, the missus has better teeth...

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Could be preferable to a lot of lib women....

[jeffc]

Didn't House have an episode with a guy like this?

[pgkdan]

Before long they’ll be building little girl and little boy dollies for the pedophiles.

They already are in Japan. This is sick.

[ClearCase_guy]

If a man wants to have multiple dolls, is it legal? Is this something that should go to the Supreme Court?

I’m asking for a friend.

[yesthatjallen]

There will always be subgroups and subcultures.

Without these dolls they would find their outlet through other means, simply become incels, or the long-forgotten 'confirmed bachelors'.

[Calvin Locke]

A non-platonic Lars and the not-real “Bianca”?

[Tell It Right]

Would the doll get 90% of his money in a divorce court? :)