Lifelike Male Sex Dolls: Eerie or Erotic?

In the 2007 film "Lars and the Real Girl," Ryan Gosling falls in love with an anatomically correct sex doll. Even though we'd gladly spend time with a sex doll of Ryan, the real sex dolls out in the universe lusted after by horny men (and women) give us second thoughts. Browse the photo gallery below. Are they eerie, or erotic?

After stumbling upon Buzzfeed's photo collection, we were led to a few spots where lovers of startlingly lifelike male sex dolls can indulge in their wildest fantasies. There's a fascinating message board called OurDollCommunity.com where lovers of sex dolls, both male and female, chat about different types of dolls, where to order the best, how to build them, and share photos of their dolls in come-hither poses around their homes. Boy, these folks are giddy with excitement! They chat with the blushing anxiousness of sleepless children on Christmas Eve, anticipating Santa's gifts under the tree.

Then there's RealDoll.com, where you can build your very own man-doll to exact specifications, from body type, eye color, hair style, to how bushy you want the pubes. Some of y'all like it trimmed, and some of y'all like it growing free as God intended.

The dolls tug at the ying and yang of our libido, at one time repelling us and attracting us. They're inanimate objects, fillers for the real deal, and their lifelike poses with marbles eyes have the immediately ring of show and tell at a funeral home. Yet, they fulfill a base, childlike, adolescent fantasy. They remind us of wandering through department stores as teenagers, wondering what was underneath the clothes of those impossibly physiqued mannequins. The figures are lifesized Ken dolls, which we'd always strip with disappointment because there was no anatomy when we were dying to see "it."

Like Barbie dolls, their limbs can be bent in a variety of ways. If you want him doggie style on the bed, you got it! If you're craving him bent over the dining room table, tah-dah! If you desire to contort him in the most intricate kama sutra positions, your wish is his command. Admit it: If any of us encountered one of these hunks of silicone flesh, it would be hard to resist the temptation to at least tug on its detachable private parts.

And frankly, their conversation is probably a tad more interesting than most of the real, live human prettybois we've brought home.

· Male Real Dolls: Creepier Than Their Female Counterparts (buzzfeed.com)
· Our Doll Community: Muscle Beach (ourdollcommunity.com)
· Male Real Doll (realdoll.com)