Ducky Doolittle's lil' documentary on Current.com - WATCH IT!

LOVE HER!! You'll see her at a For Your Pleasure meeting in the video. How lucky are we to have this chick as a resource?!?! She's AWESOME!

NEWS: Sex And The City' gets its own sex toy

Now, 'Sex And The City' gets its own sex toy

London, May 13 : Fans of 'Sex And The City' will be getting an even bigger thrill than the release of its movie - a Vibrator dedicated to the US TV series.

The new adult toy, which costs about 30 pounds, has been named after the show's heart-throb Mr Big, and is being released to celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the Rabbit's appearance in the programme.

The toy is so popular that a website which is confident that the ladies are going to love it, has offered to make it more pleasurable.

Bosses at LoveHoney (UK Site) are offering anyone who sees the film, the chance to buy one for half price.

"Part of the Rabbit's success is due to it being featured in an early episode of the show," The Sun quoted head buyer Bonny Hall, as saying.

"Just as Big is the one for Carrie, we think this Mr Big will soon have its own set of fans too," Hall added.

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Check it Out: Passion & Power: The Technology of an Orgasm

Review: 'Passion & Power' touts vibrators

Tamara Straus, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, February 22, 2008

Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm: Documentary. Directed by Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick. (Not rated. 74 minutes. At the Roxie in San Francisco and the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.)

Among the humorous highlights of "Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm," a documentary about the history of the vibrator, is Betty Dodson - the "masturbation movement godmother" - proclaiming, "Independent orgasms will lead to independent thoughts. Once a woman has given herself her own best orgasm, she's on a roll."

Although such assessments may seem overblown to the current generation of sex-positive women, this doc is a reminder that female sexual satisfaction is a fairly recent concept and one that remains taboo in the more conservative and religious areas of the country.

The movie starts with the tragicomic legal saga of Joanne Webb, a churchgoing Texas housewife who, in 2004, was busted for selling vibrators to two undercover cops. In Texas, up until this year, it has been a felony to sell sexual devices. Webb, a sales associate for Passion Parties, was just trying to make a few extra bucks for her family. Instead, she was summoned to jail. Within a year, her husband had a nervous breakdown and they were forced to declare bankruptcy. All because of some vibrators.

Filmmakers Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick's point is that even a generation after the sexual revolution the female orgasm is seen as a mystery, a threat and, in the most extreme cases, something to subjugate.

The bulk of their film is devoted to the groundbreaking research of Rachel P. Maines, whose 1999 book "The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction" charts how vibrators were used by 19th century doctors to massage women to orgasm as a treatment for hysteria, that hodgepodge of illnesses that included "reading French novels while tightly corseted."

At first the therapeutic technique was manual, then electronic, and eventually it left the doctor's office altogether when companies like Sears, Roebuck Co. and General Electric Co. began mass-producing a variety of home massagers that retailed for $5 to $15. But once they showed up in 1920s porn, the instruments went underground until they were rediscovered by feminists like Dodson, who held women's sexuality workshops in the 1970s, promoting the power of vibrators.

"Passion & Power" proceeds in the usual documentary fashion with a parade of talking heads interspersed with archival photos. Maines, who is shot in a musty Victorian parlor surrounded by a variety of antique vibrators, has a hard time reining in her academic jargon - she describes the vibrator of the 1880s as a "deskilling, capital labor substitution innovation" - but her findings are extraordinary.

However, it is Dodson, the New York sexologist, who is the true star of the movie. She describes with great poignancy and bravado how she was "dumber than s-" about her own sexuality until she began talking with women and men about female pleasure. Then she became a sex activist, holding workshops and writing books. "Sometimes on a Sunday afternoon I'd masturbate for three, four hours," Dodson says. The vibrator would get so hot, "I learned to hold it with a potholder."

Omori and Slick work hard to keep the laughs coming in their film, although there are too many images of volcanoes erupting, flowers blooming in slow motion and vulva-like jellyfish fluttering through the water to get across that, yes, women do reach orgasm - especially with vibrators.

"Passion & Power" may lay it on too thick with its You Go, Girl! message, but in the end it does bring to life a remarkably amusing and strange secret history.

-- Advisory: Sexual content.

E-mail Tamara Straus at tstraus@sfchronicle.com.

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Momma found the trailer!

NEWS: 'Lars' movie shines light on RealDolls

I promise...last time on this subject of robot/dolls/love. :)

Found this article just now.

'Lars' movie shines light on RealDolls

By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer October 17, 2007

SAN MARCOS, Calif. - A dozen headless female bodies hang from industrial metal hooks in the center of the room. To the left are a table of plastic faces, awaiting makeup. To the right, a stack of silicone molds ready for the next order of life-sized love toys.


Normally reserved for private play, these high-end, anatomically correct dolls are getting big-screen exposure with the recent release of "Lars and the Real Girl," an offbeat, surprisingly chaste comedy about a lonely introvert (Ryan Gosling) and Bianca, the silicone object of his affection.

Bianca, a freckle-nosed brunette, was born just east of San Diego at Abyss Creations. The 11-year-old company that makes RealDolls will ship 400 dolls to the U.S. and abroad this year — at upward of $6,500 each.

RealDolls can be actresses, lovers, photo subjects or companions. Customers can choose from 10 body types, 16 faces and 17 hairstyles to create their dream girl. They specify skin tone, hair and eye color, makeup palette and nail-polish shade. The dolls have interchangeable faces ($500 each), so with the pull of some Velcro and the flip of a wig, she's like a whole new gal.

They're made from soft silicone that takes two days to cure to a somewhat flesh-like feel. With jointed skeletons they're entirely poseable — "They move in the same places people move," company spokeswoman Bronwen Keller says — but they can't stand up on their own. They range in height from 4'10" to 5'7" and weigh 75 to 115 pounds. There is also a male doll, "Charlie," who stands 5'8" and weighs 130 pounds.

The artists who spend about 80 hours crafting each doll all started out in the Halloween industry, says creative director and chief executive officer Matt Krivicke, 36. Before working with RealDoll, he made Halloween masks. (O.J. Simpson was his most popular.)

For many doll owners, and for Gosling's character in the film, the dolls are more like companions, each with her own personality and presence.

"She looks like a person," says Rob McKay, 55, a writer who owns two dolls, Lily and Eden. "Even though she's not a breathing person, psychologically you feel like someone is with you. They're like a balm for loneliness or aloneness."

McKay and other doll owners, who share their stories and photos online at DollForum.com, compare the life-size ladies to "teddy bears for adults."

"That's where she's done the most good, reducing the feeling of solitude," McKay says, adding that he prefers intimacy with a live partner but hasn't had a girlfriend since 2001. "Just having her there to hug or just to have somebody close by, even though it's not, obviously, a warm body."

A member of DollForum.com who goes by the name Doll Luvr says his doll "is far more than just an expensive sex toy."

"She sleeps with me, watches TV with me, sits at the table and has coffee with me," he writes. "Just having a female shape laying next to me in bed is very comforting."

Gosling's character gets emotional, but never physical, with Bianca. But whereas Lars is delusional and believes the doll is alive, most doll owners "know where to draw the line," McKay says.

The dolls "inspire imagination," he says. "You put what you think into the doll, so you're projecting part of yourself onto this inanimate creature and making her seem more lifelike."

Stacy Leigh, 36, a married photographer who lives in New York, uses her two RealDolls as photo subjects. Both are petite and "could fit in all my clothing, same shoe size and everything," she says, noting that one doll has a more curvaceous figure. ("The one with the big boobs is the sluttier of the two," she says.) Leigh owns six faces and more than 30 wigs and divides her time between shooting real models and shooting the dolls. She staunchly defends her fellow doll owners.

"Most guys just need it because they just want to feel somebody in the bed next to them, even though it's not a real person," she says. "I feel bad for those guys."

Doll owners tend to be "older men with disposable income," Keller says, adding that the dolls are also popular with couples and artists. RealDolls have been used in movies, music videos and by a forensic studies program as models in sex-crime scenarios, Keller says.

Chicago-based artist Amber Hawk Swanson had a doll made in her exact likeness as part of a multimedia art project. The 27-year-old says she didn't anticipate the relationship she would form with Amber Doll.

During the nine months it took for her doll to arrive, "I really did picture her as real," Swanson says. "Not that I imagined her walking around my house, but I just couldn't wait. I just imagined cuddling up with her."

Swanson is continuing her art project, but she now has a live romantic partner who's "thankful that I've moved past the time when I pictured my life with this doll and not with a human."

She says doll owners can identify with "Lars and the Real Girl," which she describes as "a movie starring a RealDoll that's true to the way many people interact with their dolls: in a partnership way."

"Lars and the Real Girl" - movie

After I posted about the Robot Marriage, I came across this movie the other night:







Tagline:
The search for true love begins outside the box

Plot Outline:
A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.


Now this looks funny! It's a comedy/drama. It came out on Friday, but only in limited theaters. These dolls have always fascinated me.




Creepy, but oh so fascinating!!