Plastic doll
Real woman playing doll
Paper doll
A heavy-duty venture in make-believe will arrive at 4632 Yonge soon in the form of a place where people (maybe mostly men) can play with plastic dolls. The entrepreneurs are calling it a “brothel” but that seems to torture the meaning of the word out of all usefulness. The fantasy of dolls as sex partners and girlfriends isn’t new. The City News story here references West World where “robot” women fulfill fantasies But they aren’t robots are they? They’re real women (if you’ll pardon the expression). In the end, it seems quite melancholy — like the Mills Brothers lament Paper Doll.
