Description
This scholarly study of the centuries-long history of fornicatory dolls examines the enduring obsession with creating an idealized, silent female sexual object and the manifestations of this desire through the ages in mythology, literature, art, philosophy and science. This particular sexual impulse has been expressed in a great variety of forms such as statues, mannequins, sex dolls, and gynoids (robots). In particular this study focuses on the evolution of the sex doll through its original incarnation as a sack cloth effigy, through the marketing of inflatable dolls, to the current elaborate cyber-technology figures, in an attempt to discover the hidden drives and desires which fuel this ongoing fantasy of creating a perfect, powerless, silent partner.
Author: Anthony Ferguson
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 07/30/2010
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.40w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780786447947
ISBN10: 078644794X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- History | Social History
Author: Anthony Ferguson
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 07/30/2010
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.40w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780786447947
ISBN10: 078644794X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- History | Social History
About the Author
Anthony Ferguson is an author and editor living in Perth, Australia. He has published over forty short stories and non-fiction articles in a range of magazines and anthologies in Australia, Britain and the United States and is the secretary of the Australasian Horror Writers Association.