Real Dolls

SAN MARCOS, CALIFORNIA, USA - FEBRUARY 2009: Abyss Creations, a company located in the wealthy town of San Marcos in Southern California, manufactures "the world's finest love dolls". These expensive life-sized silicone dolls (which cost USD $7,000 each), are made by hand. The company has sold over 4,000 of them since it began production in 1996. Real Doll customers can choose between 10 body types. The dolls are marketed as anatomically correct. The smallest figure is the most popular because of its light weight (80 pounds). Made of silicone, the dolls weigh as much as real women. Pictured is the showroom at Abyss Creations. The dolls come dressed in lingerie and high-heeled shoes. Customers can choose between 16 different faces and the 5 skin tones of fair, Asian, medium, tanned and light African. Smiling and closed eye faces are also available. The faces are interchangeable and the wigs removable. It takes about a week to make a face. The teeth and gums are made of silicone. Customers can choose between 5 skin tones, 11 eye colors and 7 lip colors. Blue eyes and apricot lips are the most requested. They can choose between 4 colours of eyeliner and 8 of eye shadow. (Photo by Stephan Gladieu/Getty Images)