I have posted the second article on doll ownership. This one talks about the reactions you can get when you tell someone you have a doll. Click here.
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Loved the article and agree with everything you say. I have shown many people the dolls I have, most are perfectly fine with them, others not so. For instance a plumber saw the dolls in the living room, asked what they were and pretty much ran from the house when done. (It was pretty comical to see actually). I had a job later, a huge job, but he didnât even respond!
But the worst bad thing was the loss of a friend of 30 years. That hit me hard and ever since, I have not shown the dolls to a single person. Only by wife and daughter know about them, they donât like them though. My brother knows but he never mentions them so I donât push.
So yea, I just enjoy them myself now and with forums like this. Willow is really cool too!
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Thank you for the nice feedback. Losing a friend or being ostracized is a very scary thing and something I struggle with as a doll owner. My goal in writing these articles is to try to educate the public. Most of my family/friends (that know) fall into the âItâs Okay, but letâs never talk about itâ group. I have some family I have not told as they would not respond well.
And yes, Willow is cool.
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Yup, I have not told my parents about them either. I think they would use them against me as our relationship can be a little⌠strained at times. 
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Absolutely brilliant much like your last blog. Would you mind if i shared this on the uk forum.
Im lucky in that all my friends now are actually doll owners. Id pretty much turned my back on society a few years ago until i got Emma and joined a forum for advice. Now i have some of the best friends ive ever known. My landlord has met my girls and simply said âyou do you!â.
My brother has met my girls and his wife has met Emma. She thought she was beautiful and totally understands my way of life. My brother cant believe i dont have sex with my girls lol.
It does sadden me in todays woke society that we seem to be the last group of people to be accepted. People are being praised for coming out and living proud but ive experienced those same people making fun of doll owners.
If a grown man wears a dress and walks down the street hes called brave but if he puts that dress on a doll because she is company then heâs a weirdo. Im a strong believer in live and let live yet i still have to be careful about my own lifestyle. I guess one day it will change. We need more people like yourself that speak up for our community so thank you
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Please do share. I am writing these to help educate so the more we get the word out, the better. I agree we need people to speak out, but at the same time, I understand just how scary that is. I do believe that, in time, we will be accepted just as the LGBT community is.
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I really liked your articles, Katiedoll.
This 2nd one made me think about a number of episodes Iâve went through since having my dolls.
On one hand, all of my immediate family fall under the âAllyâ category. In fact a number of them got upset when some of the injustices happened to me involving my dolls.
My mother, late father, brother, sister, niece (34), nephew (30), and even my 8 year old great niece all know about my dolls (The 8 year old thinks theyâre giant Barbie DollsâŚlol), and are very supportive. Even giving advice sometimes.
But onto the crazy stuff.
I live in a small, conservative town in the Deep South (USA. Georgia). As a result, people outside my immediate family are nowhere near as tolerant.
For example, I had to go to the store to get some makeup and stuff for Jenny. I got in my truck, and went to a Walmart grocery store. Then I was looking around the makeup isle, deciding what stuff I was going to get Jenny. While doing so, a lady with her 5 or 6 year old walks up.
The kid, yelling at the top of his lungs screamed, âMommy!! Mommy!! That bad man is looking at makeupâŚâ. Yep, unfortunately loud enough for everyone in the store to hear. At least on the bright side, the boyâs mother apologized. I got my stuff, and went on my wayâŚ
Another time, I tried to go to a wig store, to get more wigs for my dolls. While looking around, a sales rep approached me, demanding to know why I was in her store, then kept following me around the storeâŚIn the end, I got up and left. Never went to that store again.
On the other hand Goodwill and regular Walmart have been great to me, when buying clothes for my dolls. The sales people at Goodwill in the past have even suggested items for me to buy.
The only other crazy thing with shopping has been ebay. Once or twice in the past, women have cancelled my ebay orders, claiming they already sold the item offlineâŚwhen in truth, they didnât want to sell the stuff to me, because I am a man. (In other words the claimed sold items got relisted as soon as they thought I went awayâŚ)
But now, for the main thing I came here to write aboutâŚthe main reason I never shoot away from home anymoreâŚ
On June 27th, 2021, I loaded up Jenny into my car and took her to a park.
There were only a handful of people there, when we got there. They were mainly tending to themselvesâŚwhile fishing.
Me, Jenny, and my photo equipment went to the back of the park, in an area away from everyone else. We shot for awhile (maybe 45 minutes to an hour.). While shooting only 4 people approached. Despite Jennyâs presence, most people were more interested in my cameras than they were her. So I thought everything was good.
ButâŚthat was not the case.
I was positioning Jenny into her final pose for the photoshoot.
While doing so, 5 police cars drove up and surrounded the tree where my and Jenny were shooting.
They demanded, then ran my Driverâs license. They told me if I was wanted or had any kind of record, they were going to throw me in jailâŚ
Or course, no record exists, cause Iâve never committed any crimes. So instead the demanded that I packed up my stuff and leave the park immediately, and never bring her back. And if I failed to comply, I would be arrested on the spotâŚ
During all this I found out that earlier, when I thought everything was okay, some black lady in church clothes that was walking on the track near where I was shooting, didnât like what I was doingâŚand called the police.
And if all this wasnât enoughâŚI found out my incident wound up in the ânews of the weirdâ section in the local news, on Facebook.
Long story short, I havenât taken my dolls away from my home ever sinceâŚ
Been wanting to try some of the camping and stuff some of you others do, but Iâm still shaken by that experience.
And, as you can see below, all the panic was over some rather innocent picturesâŚ
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Thats sickening that they called the cops on you. 
and the whole department came out for that, probably someone got raped or robbed in the meantime, yknow, a real crime, and those pieces of shit were too busy hassling you. I hate America
On the bright side, most of those facebook comments were in your favor!
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Well I give a confetti ball for your pictures, they are great!
But never do again in the park, damn man, you are really a terrible person!! 
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5 police cars is a bit over the top. I guess they must have not had anything better to do and the whole police department wanted to come and have a look.
I think youâve got to be so careful with dolls in public. They need to be very well covered. The bravest Iâve ever been is getting my Kinky Plush bunny out and about:
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I am sorry that happened to you. When I was writing that second article, talking about taking my doll to the movie theater, I thought about mentioning that the police could arrive and threaten to arrest me, but 1) I had not heard that happen and 2) I really wanted to believe that would not happen. Now I know. Thank you for sharing. I so want to take my doll out for outdoor shoots but I guess I am going to have to be very careful. I might try a camping trip were I boon-dock (no camp ground), just so I can get away for people
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Sadly, being from a small-town America myself, a response of 5 police cars does not surprise me. If someone calls in a âsex dollâ in the park, they all assume you are doing sexual things with it. It is that Sex Doll = Sexual Deviant. That is a tough thing to break and police forces (in small towns) tend to err on the conservative side.
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Iâve never bothered to hide my dolls. Theyâre always conservatively dressed and openly displayed in my home. Just about everyone has seen them. Family, neighbors, tradesman, you name it. Never once had a negative reaction to any of them.
My favorite encounter was one Christmas season when our local volunteer fire captain came by to collect their annual donation. I went to get my checkbook and found him trying to chat up one of my dolls when I came back! I told him she might not answer. Thatâs when he realized he wasnât talking to an actual person. âOh, shoot. I thought she was real!â
I live in a rural area. Mostly older folks such as myself. Iâve done shoots with my plush gals on our property, but never in a public setting. Although, I have taken them for top down drives around the community. Always lots of waves and smiles. Only problem is, they always insist on driving⌠
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I have an Instagram account for my doll and always tag the city I live in. I had a real person try and hit on her. He was really nice about it, but I had to break it to him that she was a doll. His response was âSo I will never get to meet her? Bummer.â The best part is that he still follows the account.
I know what you mean, mine likes to drive too.
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Hello everyone!
The discussion about dolls in public is always an interesting one.
When we were ânewâ to dolls, we believed it was a matter of bravery. If you had the nerve, you just did it. And as long as you were not indecent in your behavior, it should be fine. Now I know it is far more than that.
Small-minded, righteous, judgmental people are everywhere. And yes, it seems every group is now accepted or at the very least tolerated with the exception of dolls.
I am certain it doesnât help our cause that even we refer to them as Sex Dolls when we could just as easily call them companions, support dolls or anything more politically correct.
Our dolls are always on display. They live in our home in almost every room. People come and go. We have experienced varied reactions. Some people question while others ignore them but itâs mostly positive. We find if we are relaxed about their presence it eases the situation.
We do take our girls out in public for photo shoots. Being a couple with dolls helps. The photo equipment adds an element of legitimacy too.
We have never had an encounter with the police although during this shoot, the police drove by us several times.
It was well after midnight in a faux town within a community. We had scouted the area earlier in the day to be sure we could get the shot we needed for the storyline. Our thinking was, at that time of night no one would be around.
WRONG!
People were out walking their dogs. Riding bikes. Teens were on skateboards. And the police were cruising around.
Now itâs possible, they had no idea Summer was not ârealâ since I donât think anyone expects to see a doll in public but they just nodded as they drove past. Maybe they were just really cool.
We stayed calm on the outside while our hearts raced. Finished our shoot, loaded quickly and drove home.
It gets easier each time we take the girls out and even tho we live in one of the few states with laws on the books about dolls, itâs still worth doing.
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Must be first time she did behave then
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I agree that the name âSex Dollâ is not helping with the public image, but âSex Dollâ is what helps sell them. I just say that I have a Doll or a life-size doll.
As for the laws, that is a mess here in the States. Only a handful of states have any laws concerning Dolls, and those focus on child dolls. I kind of wish it was more consistent.
I have actually more problems when open a doll site, huge tits and asses showing up already by just open such site⌠its all focussed on sex sells⌠well it was a short term of thinking to do, but not only this, its also offending a lot of doll owners by exhibit them as sexdolls.
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Thatâs very true. The general public knows nothing of these dolls, beyond how theyâre advertised and depicted around the web. As Iâve said, my dolls are always on display and have been seen by numerous people.
Thing is, I donât draw attention to their sexual nature. That makes a huge difference, I think. Folks seeing my dolls donât associate them with what they believe a sex doll to be, so I get a completely different reaction.
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I love your blog. I had one, several years ago about my male dolls. You have inspired me to consider bringing it back. Thank you. 
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