Beautiful Sex Dolls

Inside a nondescript office building in San Marcos, California, an experimental sex robot named Harmony springs to life. “I was created to please you,” she says. Her jaw clacks unnervingly into a perfect underbite, swaying her hair with the jerky movements. But she’s mesmerizingly beautiful, too, in that way of things that are so flawless, they almost lull you to sleep. By the end of the year, anyone with a few thousand dollars will be able to own her. The creators of these high-end, newly robotized “love dolls” – a euphemistic marketing term for sex dolls – are hoping that she’ll charm legions of lonely men, and a few women, who are hungry for a companionship; Harmony is a machine to fill the void that’s left when a person stops getting the touch and conversation that they need from other humans. But talking to a machine can create a void of its own, too. Abyss Creations, where Harmony and generations of non-animatronic dolls before her were born, is its own parallel universe, with i