A fetish is considered healthy if it does not manifest itself to a point where it interferes with your relationship (friend, spouse, family, etc.), consumes or inhibits almost all of your daily life, or someone gets hurt. Once any combination of those things happens it's without a doubt unhealthy. I think this exlcusion or not of sexual behavior you mention only determines if what you have is classified as a fetish or not since it's official definition requires some form of sexual arousal to be involved.midiman wrote:A fetish in itself is considered healthy by current psychological standards unless it is to the exclusion of normal sexual behavior.
The vast majority of doll owners who have sex with their dolls are not doing so with the intentional exclusion of sex with real human partners but more so in the absence of them.
On the media bit, I really don't think they are to blame. I think the stereotyping and stigmatizing instead comes more from societal perspectives which almost always do frequent comparisons to a normal 'baseline' of human behavior. It's what shapes most of our thinking and has continued to be that way for hundreds of years now. And as for the polls, there are in fact other more controlled scientific ones out there that give an accurate assessment of doll ownership.
I believe the show and its producers have the final say on how they will choose to present it. This will also mostly likely be the case with anyone else looking to give any form of media or film publicity. We are just given the option to go along for the ride or not either through participation or as a viewer.
And ctalon, in 100 years we're most likely not going to see dolls as a common household item like milk and bread because we'll probably be in the age of androids and gynoids by then.
