vagina gallery If you are in the market for a sex doll

 When you are in the market for a love doll, there is no shortage of choices. Dolls, often with cartoonish proportions, start at $2,500. At the more expensive end of the market, there are products like Abyss' RealDoll (like Bianca from Lars and the Real Girl) that start at $6,000. These are highly detailed and come with long lists of customization options: freckles, tattoos, custom nipples, tan lines.

The most striking and obvious thought that comes to most people's minds when they first see some of the designs of love dolls and male sex dolls is the stereotypical hyper-sexual nature of the dolls. It's quite obvious that they can perpetuate stereotypes about women.

In order to comprehensively reflect the state of research on lifelike sex dolls and robots, it is necessary to collect academic literature from different disciplines and to deal with different dimensions of the topic. Often the debates focus first and foremost on the negative or positive effects of sex dolls and sex robots.

Effects are an important dimension of this topic. However, it is important to be aware that the effects will always depend on the users and usage in different settings (e.g. domestic, commercial and therapeutic) as well as the design of the selected sex doll or sex robot (e.g. gender, age, race, body type and sexual and non-sexual functionalities). Therefore, as the title suggests, this review looks at the design, use, and effects of both sex dolls and sex robots.