Realist Love Doll

Silicone love: Guys and dolls

When Stephen Caroll invited his mum around for a cup of tea one afternoon, her heart leapt with surprise - there was a beautiful woman sitting at her son's dinner table.

The woman, a brunette whose moderate height was evident by the reach of her long, skinny legs, sat engrossed staring into Stephen's laptop, completely still.

A steaming hot cup of tea rested on a drink coaster to her side and in her left hand she clasped a half-finished biscuit, but even when Mrs Caroll approached to say hello, her son's attractive lady friend gave no indication she had sensed anyone entering the room.

This was the first time Stephen had introduced anybody to Kaori, his $8,500 life-size silicone doll.

"I never actually told anybody I was getting her," Stephen says, recalling that first introduction.

"I sat her at the table, at the computer, she had a Tim Tam in her hand - you know, you've got to go the whole nine yards - and I actually took a bite out of the Tim Tam."

By the look on his mother's face, Stephen says it was clear she could sense something was not right.

"She sort of cocks her head to the side, walks across the room. And as she gets closer, she sort of sticks her hand out and gives [Kaori] a poke in the shoulder.

"And then she went, Ohhh!"

For Stephen, a 40-year-old truck driver from Melbourne who asked for his name to be changed, Kaori provides a humble kind of companionship, but he insists the relationship is truly platonic.

"A lot of people would, and I can understand why ... focus on the stereotype of things being sexual," he says.

But to Stephen that aspect is "irrelevant".

"A lot of things have developed since their first inception and people are branching out, people are doing lots more with them these days," he says.

Models have always been a part of Stephen's life. Having grown up in a family of engineers, where qualities like precision and detail were valued and cultivated, he spent much of his childhood fascinated with building scale models.

But as Stephen grew, so too did his fascination for more realistic models.

While searching the internet, he stumbled across a number of photos that caught his eye.

"They turned out to be these dolls," he says, and in that instant something clicked.

"It was really, really fascinating," Stephen says.

He was struck by how lifelike and detailed the dolls were, their precision and their beauty.

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