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The girlies contend with the complex history of man’s most baffling creation — the sex doll. They unpack the contested history of sailors circle-jerking into homemade wenches, what hyper-realistic silicone dolls are doing to our contemporary beauty standards, and ask an important question: is every man who has ever owned one a sexist pig or are we all Puritans for thinking so? Plus, a discussion about a man, his sex doll wife, and the Instagram account that started it all. Digressions include the most horrific photo that’s ever graced the Binchtopia inbox, the prison break of Eliza’s cats, and an exciting announcement from Julia.

SOURCES:

A (Straight, Male) History of Sex Dolls

Sex Dolls at Sea

Guest Lecture by Dr. Bo Ruberg - Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies

The Modern Sex-Doll Owner: A Descriptive Analysis

Exploring the Psychological Characteristics and Risk-related Cognitions of Individuals Who Own Sex Dolls

Gendered Synthetic Love: Real Dolls and the Construction of Intimacy

Sex Doll Ownership: An Agenda for Research

Real Dolls (article)

Real Dolls website

Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets

Technofetishism and the Uncanny Desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots)

A Cyborg Manifesto

Comments

Zoe

YAAA

cass

Perfect timing

Sam

thank god 4 this

Sophie

The perfect getting off of work treat 🫶 thank u binchies

Emma

God I love you guys!!!!!! My dad had a stroke and I have to drive 2 hours to see him. This is saving me! Thank you thank you thank you

lea mehers

Praying the sound on my headphones don’t leak through🙏

nicole vandeweghe

was literally about to go on a little walk and got this notification….thank u queens

sophia perkins

almost 2 hours long… i fear you’re SPOILING US

MK

The sigh I just sought

Nicole Michelotti

WELCOME TO NYC GORRLLLLL lmk if u need a friend! <3

dani

i am the new york bitches winning in question

✨

ELIZA!! I take my cat out on a harness and it is THE BEST!!! He gets to chill and sniff and lay in grass and I don't have to worry - I highly recommend (but those harnesses need to be tighter than you think lol)

Amanda R

ALMOST TWO HOURS 🫶🫶🫶

Amanda R

a learnding today!

Benedicte

lmao my mum makes life size puppets and dresses them in antique victorian clothes, they were all through my childhood home and never ONCE did I think to fuck them

Josefina Troncoso

Julia I’m so happy for you!!! 💖 (and you’ll be back on your east coast girlie bullshit!)

alexis

can y’all PLEASEEEE post that doll pic from the mailbox moment omfg

yasmine

i never get spooked from hearing about scary things but i entered a place of FEAR listening to that description of the homemade doll limbs

Sam

I wanna see the doll

Karla Marx

SHOW THE DOLL PLEAAEEEE

rayna wertlieb

We need a drunk herstory episode about female musicians!

shif

PLS i must see the doll now 🥲

Mahek Ghelani

JULIA I AM ALSO MOVING TO NEW YORK IM GOING IN AUGUST PLEASE BE MY FRIEND

alexaaaAAAHHHH

WHOOO SAID TO SHOW THE DOLL. I NEED NAMES

Chloe Bryan

Me, a queer in the us navy, listening to this episode 👁️👄👁️

Ryene Sanders

Did someone tell the girlies that Spotify lets you write comments now

Erin Healey

I’m the only one still left at college and I miss my friends and my girlfriend and I’m all alone for the week thank you ladies you’ve saved my night

Fiona Wang

I know it’ll be hard to work across the country from each other but STAY STRONG MY MENTAL WELLBEING DEPENDS ON YOU TWO AND THIS POD anyways love u guys

Taiana James

Having some sort of parasocial anxious attachment episode bc Julia is moving to NYC and I want y’all near each other to share LA lore…. I live in Virginia btw… this don’t have shit to do w me. Congrats Julia

jaden.edu

Congrats Julia!!

Jules

oh lord this might be the first binchtopia ep i gotta skip y’all

Krib

eliza, obsessed with how you present info in such a nonjudgmental way! also love the way you frame it as a symptom of larger systemic issues. your mind <3

Ashlynn Long

congrats on the big move julia!! but also this episode in conjunction with the furries is about to trigger me into an Abstinent Girl Summer

Wendy

hey binchies i am visiting vancouver in july (literally planned the trip around eliza’s show hehe) and i wanna know where are some places to eat/things to do in vancouver that aren’t super cheesy touristy things, cause i wanna get a legit feel of the city’s vibes!! thank u in advance <3

Phoebe

NY bitches winning fr

Sam

this episode was an absolute doozy and some aspect of it has made me pretty uncomfy so need to do some self care now maybe BUT I truly loved that you guys had somewhat different opinions on this it was so intellectually stimulating. quite the thinker

Annip

Have visited a few times and Jericho beach is a really cute park where locals hang. a beautiful spot to bring a book or little picnic and swim.

Abby

I went to a restaurant called Nuba while I was there and the food was SO good! Also went for a walk near Jericho Beach (in the Kitsilano area) and there were wild bunnies roaming everywhere - so random and idk if it was just the time of year I was there but even if you don’t see the bunnies it’s a pretty beach!

Hilary

The description of the doll… screaming cackling spitting my water out

Harriet Y

You guys are literally creating a theory of your world through this podcast. Your research skills are having similar outcomes to Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes imo. As someone who found Julia through her work on Rookiemag as a Youth and therefore listening to Binchtopia from the very beginning, it has been really interesting and rewarding to watch you guys develop your thoughts on the world. Can’t wait to see where you guys go in your lives!

Emily

Julia will be SAFE from the Big One

Peyton Guthrie

Yaaaas Julia and I both moving to NYC let’s kiss (be best friends)

Katherine Wynn

hi binchies i emailed but the patreonites must know as well: kokoshka DECAPITATED the alma mahler doll after carrying it with him in public for THREE YEARS STRAIGHT

Delaney

Ngl this episode made me a little ill

Delaney

Congrats to Julia tho!!

E

prayers up for julia and elizas targeted ads

Anne Margaret

omg hey vancouver binchie here! my qualifications are i've studied, lived and worked in the city for the past 6 years. for beach recs, i actually recommend the spanish banks and locarno beaches (less crowded, not overrun by bunnies, easy to get to via public transit, looong shoreline). I don't recommend bathing in the ocean water however, just take in the vibes. After Eliza's show, I recommend grabbing a late-night bite at nearby Lucy's Eastside Diner (try their pulled pork, mac & cheese, and any of their milkshakes). In that same area, try thrifting at Stoxx Vintage in Kingsgate Mall where they often have clothes from the many film and TV sets that are filmed here (also Black-owned and family-run!). Also nearby is the Main Street neighbourhood, which you can spend a whole day wandering up and down and exploring! Personal favourite Main Street eats: Maizal RMF (tacos) and 49th Parallel & Lucky's Donuts (can take or leave the coffee but love their admittedly pricey donuts!). Another neighbourhood to explore is Commercial Drive further east, which also has lots of thrift and vintage stores - my favourites include: Spartacus Books (non-profit, volunteer-run bookstore), The Cannibal Cafe (extremely cheap happy hour burger specials!), and Elephant Garden Creamery (local ice cream with mostly Asian-inspired flavours - I recommend their mango coconut sticky rice flavour, which is also vegan!). YET ANOTHER neighbourhood to explore is Chinatown! Again, lots of thrift and vintage to shop and explore. Personal favourites in Chinatown are Massey Books (Indigenous-owned local bookstore), The Filipino Noodle Joint (inside China Town Plaza), Chinatown BBQ, and the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (touristy but IMO culturally important and gives a legit feel of the city's vibes being heavily populated and built by Chinese immigrants!)

Wendy

ANNE!!!! thank you so much for taking the time to share all of these beautiful recommendations 💛🥹 i hope u have an amazing day!!

Alia

YALL am I making this up or is there an ep that talks about Russ briefly and some cringey quote about ~vibes~ and a girls mind or something along those lines? Plz help 🥲

Yves_ell

......... Now why did I think redacted's name was Seamus... shady

maya

CONGRATS MISS JULIA!!!!! so happy for u queenstress

shelby satterthwaite

eliza once my roommates cat escaped onto our NEIGHBOURS roof while she (my roomie) wasnt home and literally almost died from fear………..i tried to called the fire dept and they literally went “we dont do that” and i cried and cried in my stranger neighbour’s living room and they gave me wine bc i was crying so much and we couldnt get him down so we just had to wait…scariest moment of my life truly but he Did get down eventually

mimi kiki

thank god julia found out about the tunnel under ocean blvd before she left

mimi kiki

this is binchtopia’s own “mike lives in a downtown hotel”

iva

Loved this episode!! A good way to interact with people’s opinions of the episode would be through reddit. I know you might not want to do that because people there can be rude af, however the reddit discussion posts about the episodes are always polite and people are not disrespectful, just sharing their opinion. A lot of people strongly disliked the last episode and shared that on reddit, whereas the comments on patreon were only positive. Just a thought, I understand if you don’t want to interact with reddit. But I think only reading the really positive comments on patreon could harm the quality of the podcast in the long run. Xx

shelby satterthwaite

this episode is fantastic and soooo horrific!! so much insane research.. i cannot believe the revisionist history of sex dolls…

Gillian Bond

Frankissstien by Jeanette Winderson !!! Trans Mary Shelly at a sex doll convention with Victor Frankenstein who is like doing human experiments I think?

Lia Slaystress

Omg it reminded me so much about my thesis on how men fear women's sexuality. I HIGHLY recommend to read The Monstrous Feminine by Barbara Creed. Also, I am screaming pissing crying at such long episodes omg I could listen to you disect any topic for hours so thank you for blessing us (on very much vile topic). I do stand with Julia on this one tho, whyyyy are men so disgusting BAN IMMEDIATELY. Kinda made me rethink if euthanasia is that bad............. These men deserve to be lobotomized idk idk

Evelyne

I just spent the pas 10 minutes trying to recreate myself as a sexdoll on realdoll.com 🙃 why am I doing this to myself, maybe some morbit facination 🥲

Siobhan

Had to turn down the volume of this one before pulling into my work parking lot (I work at an elementary school)

Siobhan

As a Boston binchie I feel VERY seen by Julia’s move to NY

madeleine

pleeeassseee stock up on some drunk herstories together before the move

Hannah

New York binchies stay winning!!!!!!

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Honestly, the type of man that wants a fuck doll THAT bad to pay for and house it ... let him have it. I'd rather that man be at home fucking his fuck doll than in the dating pool likely being a sex pest and bothering real women

ssteph

oh i’ve been waiting for this one but the comments have me SCARED

Tippy Trombly

As a puppeteer, I would NEVER exploit puppets the way that old man did…

Tippy Trombly

I’m giving my educated guess and saying maybe 5% or less of puppeteers have…intimate…feelings for puppets? the ones I know really respect the art and just aren’t weird like that guy lol. I also specialize in marionettes so the chances of knowing someone who is fucking a puppet with 8-10 strings are low

Jess123

I can’t stop thinking about in high school when I had to make a video reenacting a myth & I got pygmalion so the video is me as pygmalion with a Harry Potter cutout ☠️☠️☠️☠️

Emily Schmidt

Ok Julia my boyf and I were trying to move to NY we make 100k combined and we were STILL being asked to have someone guarantee our lease. Couldn’t move bc our parents were not in a place of guarantor. NY housing is a JOKE!!!

Casey Croft

The dichotomy of the disgust at sex dolls vs the love and respect for furries is a real whiplash loll I thought maybe we would come here to justify the dolls but no I think we all agree that it’s all horrific

Coral Bray

What is the Instagram account for Ms. Amber?

Emily Klingaman

Me listening to this while working at my desk on day 3 of my internship….. turning my volume down….

laura palmer

all i can think about is that photo shoot of evan peters with a blow up doll…

Emma

Oh my gosh! I am also a Vancouver binchie here but have only been living here for a year and a half! I will be taking these recommendations myself! Thank you Anne!

Leo flood

JULIA ARE U GOIMG TO NYC PRIDE

Leo flood

Eliza my cat has literally gotten on my roof 3 plus times. Mind you I live in a VICTORIAN HOUSE WITH 4 STORIES AND A CATSLIDE. His ass almost jumped too I literally could’ve died

Alex

Begging for Allegra's input on this ep where is she when we need her

Susie McKeon

Julia where are you going to grad school?! Is she a Columbia girly?!?!

Caroline Quinn

WELCOME TO NEW YORK (Taylor’s Version) (Julia’s Version) NYC Binchie meet up when

Dianna Cohen

elizas comment at 1:08ish reminded me of that buffy episode where warren makes a sex robot of his ex which then leads to spikes buffy bot....

Rebecca Thornley

My 14 and 12 year old farm cats are CACKLING. TBH no clue how they’re still kicking.

Luteal Swan

When I was in college my friends and I had a small party where we did a bunch of Molly and my friend Tim bought one of those blow up sex dolls and we basically used it as a pool toy lol. Nothing sexual happened at all, I think we were just throwing her around and she had a tiny hole for her vagina 🤮🤮🤮🤮by the end of the night she deflated. Rip girl

Micaela

OG binchies remember the Laura mulvey controversy

Sedona Steffens

before this episode i lived in peaceful ignorance to the fact that sex dolls were this explicitly used and created. to think if women were to only date sex dolls and never fuck a human man again, human men would actually have a hissy fit and male sex dolls would be banned.

Sedona Steffens

I think the only time a sex doll is acceptable is for physically disabled humans and maybe people with diagnosed psychological differences. otherwise people should just seek therapy and unpack why they feel the need to buy a sex doll. TL;DR all men need therapy

kerrie

as a new york binchie im winningggggg

Dianna Cohen

at the end of the ep and all i can think of is roman roy pretending his gf was dead while trying to fuck her.... "the morgue is closing for the night"

mimi

i've done a lot of academic research on redpill/incel culture for grad school and this made me realize how numb i am lol. i'm listening along like yeah, yep true, yeah, good point, just unphased and then i read the comments and see how shocked and disturbed ppl and am like wow i've got BRAIN DAMAGEEE from submerging myself in the worst of humanity all the time 🧍‍♀️

ashley

Congrats and good luck on your move queen julia !!!

Kenzie

I WILL be taking a man detox for the next 3-5 business days thank you

melf

has anyone seen the hit movie good boys (2019) where the sex doll gets hit by a car and they think it’s a real person lmaooooo

Emma Allbright

JULIAAA moving to new york we are winninggggg

Maya Fielding

elizaaaa build a little enclosed cat tree outside so they can get some outside time

elizagolightly

Have you guys heard of Carl Tanzler and his obsession with Elena de Hoyos? Trigger warning, this is more a true crime horror story than sex doll edition but I wonder how much of the psychology is similar in this man. It’s the true corpse bride story.

Sedona Steffens

WAIT can we talk about how the furry community has a way bigger stigma than sex dolls…. and now, after hearing them both unpacked, clearly the ~sex doll user community~ is WAYYY worse. men truly can get away with anything and i hate it here.

Jax Preyer

YESSSS JULIA IN NEW YORK LET'S GO

melf

the phrase technofetishism has sent me into orbit

Sabrina Satterthwaite

The beginning of the dive into the history of sex dolls really has me thinking about that “no maidens 😔??” meme pls tell me you guys know the one I’m talking about

Anne Margaret

the venn diagram of binchtopia citizens and "you're wrong about" listeners is a circle!!!

Paloma Ocola

omg moving to nyc juliaaaaa!!!! congrats

Amanda Shelton

Eliza you should get a catio for the boys!! You could have cat plants for them, a bird feeder outside for entertainment, and a tunnel that leads to a “dog door” in the house! Or one of those cat shelfs for windows, you could put it in the window that has no screen too :)))) My cat lovesss outside & sunbathing in her catio is her fav activity!

molly robbins

EEEEE I’m a HISCON minor at UCSC right now!!!! and Haraway’s cyborg manifesto slays, I’ve read it for two different classes. Also our theater department did a musical last year called the Artificial Woman and it was literally about oskar kokoshcka and his pervy creep sex doll :) crazy how much i have been prepped for this wild fucking episode #goslugs

Juli

it's giving Made for Love

Valeria Reynosa

PhD?? Ugh, I love my women in PHLEGM (Philosophy, History, Languages, English Literature, Geography, Music)

Sarah McCafferty

the way some people watch certain shows on the treadmill i exclusively listen to my binchies while washing dishes. thank you for always being here for me <3 excited to listen to whatever this horror show will be!!!

blake frost

Loveeeee the epi, and I am so curious about sex dolls and sex toys as accessibility tools?? I am sad about the mention of the ongoing pandemic and people’s isolation in the past tense. A lot of high risk, immunocompromised, and disabled people are still living isolated because public life has been made inaccessible for them. Something to think about! I would actually love an epi on Disability Justice and to hear you both speak on the importance of protecting our communities 💛

hannah

This was a banger

Dynasti deGouville

Girls I'm loving the extra long content-heavy eps!! Pls keep them coming!!

jackie

NY BINCHIE MEET UP !!? 💖

jackie

wait lol i said that before julia said i was gonna say that

Madison

The end of this episode reminded me a lot of Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein, a book I read during undergrad (I don’t know if it holds up, I read it in 2017 lol) but she talked about how porn is basically the reason technology has advanced so much in the last few decades. Sex sells and sex technology REALLY sells. 🤔

kerrie

why is this my fav ep ever in the feminist way not in the incel sympathizer way

kerrie

the connections to BrittGate are so full circle

kerrie

omggg feeling so seen w the endometriosis discourse…. if yall ever do an ep I would love bc the correlation (idk ab causation and allat) between endo and s/a is like pretty crazy in the research thats only come out extremely recently

Oana Diaconescu

I just wanna say that 30 year olds had Snapchat in undergrad because that’s when it came out, so we are the ones who made it big 😬 so it’s not as creepy as it sounds to still have it

T. Chau

Hey girlies, there's no need to ever worry if your episodes are too long! We love hearing you speak - all of us on the Patreon subscribed because we wanted MORE content - so if an episode ever runs long just know that you're doing us a favor! Talk as much as you want! We love you ❤️

Danielle

A thought, if an episode is running long, maybe you could continue with a part 2 exclusive / extended version for the patreonites

Nicole Beaumont

The CPR doll ending reminded me of a short story from haunted by chuck palahniuk. Basically, cops had a doll that children could show where they had been touched, and cops would fuck it. So a woman at the station felt so bad for the doll that she took it away and the cops RIOTED. Very on point for this episode and how men will fuck anything

Danielle

I think that the technological advancement really needs to stop. Julia’s point that non men don’t have a huge market for their own dolls is so telling. I’m sorry you’re lonely. I’m sorry women dont want to sleep with you. I’m sorry you're disabled. But I, a human woman, am not something you should be able to replicate, fuck, and stuff in your closet. I’d controversially appreciate a flesh light & oculus virtual reality sesh over a real doll. But that’s like me picking my favorite way to break my own thumbs.

Siena

matt mccullen and real dolls…its giving oscar isaac in ex machina to me

Hannah Schleifer

as another phd student in nyc, i feel extremely seen and i’m excited to follow julia’s journey 🥹

✨

Omg I was so confused at that part I was like no that's the original audience lol

Tate Cohen

Guys i was just listening to this in my corporate office and I put my phone down in the break room and my conservative colleague came in and saw my headphones and said “oh what are you listening to?” And looked at my screen and read the title of this episode.

Brayden Schauer

oml i was listening to this in my car and unplugged it from my aux to pump my gas and i forgot i was playing it aloud at the gas station til i heard “in a sex doll dynamic” and remembered HAHAH

Anna

there’s a super interesting clip in the documentary ascension of factory workers in China making sex dolls it’s soooo eerie to see women making them

Nora bedard

CONGRATS JULIA!! 💕💕

Claire & Fiona Taylor

Women were objects for so long that it was only once they started gaining independence from their husbands and getting rights that men needed sex dolls 😳

Siobhan

Unrelated to any of this but can you guys do an episode about people who do competitive hobby horse riding

Riley Anton

this episode haaauuuunnnttttssss my dreams

Molly Cahill

Ok i am so not original but THE NEW YORK BINCHIES STAY WINNING!!! I’m so happy for you Julia, you deserve this 🥰 hope to see you on the streets of NYC

emily burchfield

Just looking at these dolls n some are pregnant🫠🫠🫠ah!

Kae

eliza do you remember the pushing daisies episode where there was a character who genuinely thought his sex doll was real? and said that she killed the victim? also i appreciate your nuance and patience towards subjects that might be more uncomfortable or something youve never encountered personally before

Kae

julia i think youre hilarious as always, but sometimes I wish you were more open to these types of subjects. I understand the repercussions of sex dolls. I'm not pro sex dolls personally and also agree that it's damaging a lot of men's already warped perception of women, but its hard learning new things or listening to the other research presented when you write it off as crazy and weird so quickly.

Aiyana

This is probably one of my fav episodes ty guys so much for sweating through this one for us 💕

cordelia price

omg listening to this ep has just unlocked a deeply hidden memory of mine of a incely guy in my tutor at school telling me he named one of his teddy bears after me then put a hole in it and use to fuck it 😭 fuck i guess someone’s made a sex doll in my image then … ? interesting

kvz

not me personally knowing the puppet fucker from the mailbox moment cuz i was a professional puppeteer 😭 😭 😭

Natalie Delgado

does anybody watch Dave because the way i just SCREAMED at the intro to the most recent episode after listening to this

Emma Griffin

just a likkle request: after the history portion then the more modern cultural overview, can we get a small recap of key terms/big names? i always adore the research that is put into these episodes and would LOVE to have a summary of the key points for further research and such. love y’all

li

for anyone who likes buffy the vampire slayer u shd watch S:5 EP:15 there is a man talking about why he created a sex doll and got bored of it

Erin

Such a good idea, I feel so dumb not being able to remember all the stuff they just said lolll key notes at the end would be great for me

Julia

Broadly (RIP) did a great mini doc on male sex dolls and the reporter’s experience w one bc #equality

emmylou

VERY upset abt having the same name as tht guys sex doll 😔

Erin

And why THREE washable orifices? Are they fuckin her urethra? 😫😫😫😫😫

Erin

Ohhh lol how did I forget mouth haha nooo. But less disturbing than what I thought I guess 😅

Alice

This is so offensive to women!! Men trying to replace their female relationships with a sex doll just shows how they think the only thing they can get out of that relationship is sex instead of all of the other things that women have to offer. Disappointed in men per usual

Emily

they need to do a general horse girl ep and include this for sure

Kate Winslow

screaming a little because I wrote a braided essay for my creative writing class in April comparing the story of Galatea and pygmalion to the story of the man with the Instagram account for his now dead sex doll (after if was originally mentioned on Eliza’s story) & my prof called it extraordinary (to flex) and now here we are, great minds thinking alike, slay

annina

p sure allegra is also moving to ny! not a stalker i just follow her insta

Mackenzie

moms please don’t drop the news of julia moving to new york on me right now i’m literally in the hospital with a suspected ruptured ovarian cyst

VF

I have listened to and thoroughly enjoyed EVERY SINGLE Binchtopia episode no matter how uninterested I am in the topic but omds this was so heinous and boring I could not sit through the whole thing, what a bizarre, grotesque and niche topic to choose. I really hope strange episodes like this don’t become a regular occurrence.

Siobhan

Omg I’m watching Dave and in the new episode that just came out Lil Dicky gets a sex doll and they show the whole process of making a customized sex doll it’s so crazy

Tay

Take care queen!! ❤️‍🩹💝❤️‍🩹💝

taliyah

sex dolls can not kill dozens of people in a matter of seconds

Mimi

Ngl totally with Julia this episode! I completely appreciate Eliza’s slightly more open minded view, and understand that she wasn’t making an argument *for* sex dolls per say, she was just outlining and considering multiple different outlooks. But Julia said pretty much everything I was thinking - especially the point of how if sex dolls can theoretically be used for positive social purposes like loneliness, why is there such a huge gap in male/female ownership of the dolls? Like I said, I appreciate the broader scope that Eliza incorporated but ultimately I’m weary of treating this topic with neutrality, as I think it is a concept firmly rooted in misogyny/women’s dehumanisation and commodification and the interviews quoted in this ep only made that belief firmer for me.

Emma

Maybe I'm more of a misandrist than I thought but I just find the entire sex doll phenomenon to be disgusting. Similar to OnlyFans, to me it seems to be more about the feeling, a sense of ownership over who or WHAT you rightfully "purchased". Having ownership of a woman means she has no choice but to please you. When real-world, non-doll, women don't behave this way - what happens then? Perhaps this is a stretch, but I also get worried thinking about the kinds of violent things these men do to these dolls before ever trying them on real women, and if they never get the chance to do it to real woman, the kinds of thoughts and feelings that race through their mind about women in general (i.e. incels writing testimonies about the bitches at work who won't talk to them). Obviously having a sex doll doesn't mean you're violent, but it does almost certainly mean that there is little sexual or even probably social contact with women in the real world. How can you really EVER have a real, healthy relationship with a REAL person if you've been home sticking your wiener in a cartoon version of them? Super interesting episode, I loved hearing E & J's perspectives.

Chloe Minella

So scared of change but so excited for new york based anecdotes, congrats juuuulia!

Lucia M

On some level I think they’re essentially a sex toy & some arguments against them could also be said about flesh lights (which I think are pretty socially accepted?). On the other hand I’d love to not talk about this for more than 15 seconds ❤️

Sarah

omg one of the works yall quoted is from a professor i had a couple years ago!!!!! freaking out a little 😎

taliyah

*doll parts by hole plays softly*

Hannah B

Nobody could fuck him, he’s wooden as hell, splinters as fuck🎶

Erin Lunde

The way Eliza said “oh” after julia said “shared between sailors” is still making me lol hours later

marisa

I don’t think there’s any evidence of vintage sex dolls on this Instagram account, however, if anyone is interested in an archive of leather or fetish the @ukfetisharchive on Instagram has some interesting archives but also be warned it is graphic

heidi

i would love if u guys did more episodes like this one and the furry one, particularly one ab kink/leather culture !! (esp during the sexual liberation/gay liberation movements)

Rebecca Thornley

I just realized we will not be getting as much Allegra content after the move. RIP

Zoe Peters

As a freelancer: yes 🥲👍

laura rose

DARLING BINCHIES!!! 🫶🏼❕i’ve got a reading recommendation based on this ep!!! The (fictional) short story “Goodbye, My Love” from Bora Chubb’s book Cursed Bunny is about human/humanoid AI relationships and is brilliantly done (the whole book is). i always recommended the book to anyone who likes Her Body & Other Parties (CMM is one of my favorites!!! & Cursed Bunny is also a collection of magical realism & surreal, uncanny horror focusing on patriarchal & capitalist violence) anyway just thought some folks would like Chung’s writing, couldn’t stop thinking of it in this ep!! love u mwah

laura rose

ai is so fucking scary and we need human connection !!! we need community and nature … not to be crunchy granola ballerina farm but we were NOT made to become iPad babies… get your ass OUT of the enclosure and into the vibrant, beautiful, scary, vast & unknown life and existence around you!!

Kat

CONGRATS JULIA I work as a therapist in nyc if you wanna be colleagues 🥹

Madison

I had drinks with my boyfriend and his coworker one night and the topic of fleshlights came up. His coworker shared a disturbing story of how in college the whole frat house would share a fleshlight and keep it on top of the fireplace. It was used as a hazing tactic but they all used it. I had many questions that still remain unanswered. Was there a schedule to use it? Was is ever washed/who’s responsibility was it to wash? Did it make it more appealing to use knowing you all shared it? 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

Sasha

Kokoshka was so fucked up

Devorah Klein

Loved the recap of cyborg manifesto at the end. I read it for a class on perspectives of sci-fi cinema. Incredibly relevant work.

Madison Gable

Can I just say I listened to this right before watching the Dave episode tht dropped tht week and it was the perfect companion piece

Madelyn Schur

This was playing out loud as I walked thru target and I didn’t realize

Kiki Frost

IM ONCE AGAIN BEGGING for you girlies to read Staying With the Trouble by Donna Haraway!!! It changed my life fr

Leimoni

Sooooo behind on the pod and I’m catching up on my flight back to nyc and jaw dropped julia is moving. Welcome and congrats!!