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September 9, 2026 • 16 mins

Featured on the Wednesday September 9, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...

  • The market for Sex Dolls is about to blow up! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, go ahead and spring for a new one. It's
one more thing. Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
One more thing.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Because part of this conversation will include the secondhand sex
doll market.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I was thinking of what intros we could do, and
I came up with this one. Not tonight, dear. I
have a software update.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
That's pretty funny. The fact that these are going to
be so expensive, we're going to talk about sex dolls here,
that there will be a secondhand market for it. I mean,
I've been known to wear, I buy used shoes, I
get used coats, I got used lots of things. I'm
going new if I ever decide to, and I don't
think I will, buy a sex doll.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Here's a point to be made, though, as I am
the thrifty sort, as you are. I'll give you, for instance,
I own a golf cart. I... Use it to play
golf and transport myself about the neighborhood. They're so good
because they're so modular. If something breaks, you unscrew it,

(01:03):
you screw on the new one. You can swap out
like anything on the frame on a good golf cart.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you're thinking if the Vajayjay is on the fritz?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Or if you'd prefer not to go where others have been,
you just swap it out, get a new one. It's
like getting a rear view mirror on a golf cart. Gotcha. Yeah. Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Used car, but new engine.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, I find myself advocating for something I find important.
But anyway, back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So the sex doll market is exploding. They got the
numbers here just in terms of billions of dollars spent
two years ago, last year, and what they project for
five years from now. A couple of things are converging
at the same time. The technology around making a sex doll,
the fake skin, the fake hair, the Bendable joints.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh, boy.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
And then the AI happening at the same time to
where it can react to you, talk to you.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
But can it cook? That was for all the guys
who've heard those terrible sexist jokes through the years.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Or me. I will pay this much if you do
my paperwork. Can you go through this mail and get
everything to the DMV on time? I'll leave you alone.
I won't touch it.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
How about instead of sex, you do paperwork?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
That'd be awesome. A little house cleaning. Anyway, back to
the sex dolls. I'm reading from The Guardian. A quick
scroll on the doll forum website finds members regularly pit
real-life women against their silicone knockoffs. One writing that girlfriends
are for guys who haven't found the right doll yet.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh, you're so not living your life right, etc.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
etc.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Pity you. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I'm skipping over the disturbing part that they open
with on this article, which is kind of a separate
topic from where they are now with the technology on
the sex dolls and, you know, a secondhand market and
all that different sort of stuff. Are they going to
have to put rules around how you can treat your
sex doll or should we be? for obvious reasons. I'll

(03:20):
just read this because it's pretty interesting. Two weeks ago,
two citizens stumbled across what they assumed was the mangled
corpse of a woman stuffed into a suitcase in a
small town. They called the local police, who in turn
issued a statement that a body in a suitcase had
been found. The wider public waited somberly for tally of

(03:40):
a dead woman to tick up by one in the area.
But instead, a day later, after forensic analysis, I'm surprised
it took a day, it was determined that the woman
in question wasn't a woman at all. The body was
that of a sex doll marked with fake bruises for
some reason. Left to rot on a lonely dirt road.

(04:01):
As in everywhere in the world, it's not illegal to
own a sex doll. And it's not illegal to do
anything you want with the sex doll. Just like I
can do anything I want with a.
I don't know, a vacuum cleaner or anything else.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
We're going to have so many lists, but this person
who did this needs to be on a list somewhere.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh, I want him preemptively jailed. Yeah. I'm not sure
how that squares with the Constitution, but we'll work with it.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, the sex doll had bruises that were like makeup
or painted on and rain matted hair.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, that is a sick F.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, very sick. Well, there aren't any laws around this yet.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
But everybody seems to be in agreement with the way
you're reacting, that this is something. It's an indication of something.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Somebody fantasizes about battering and killing a woman.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's like one of the first signs of a serial killer.
They hurt animals. This is a weird intro to something else,
I feel.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh, yeah, but this is a four-alarm fire of this
guy is about to. It's not a hint.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
What kind of law would you craft around this, though?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
I don't think there is one. You know, it's funny.
Speaking of defending things I find abhorrent or even talking
about them, think of the products, and when you're incorporating AI—
if the thing can simulate a human being's thoughts and
reactions and voice, if you are designing a program for

(05:37):
guys who just want to abuse the hell out of
a woman.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Who get turned on by crying, and so you want
it to cry.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Or begging for mercy. Yeah, this is incredibly troubling.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
The research is so new on this, quoting one person,
an expert in this, whatever that would be. We currently lack...
What do you get?

Speaker 3 (05:54):
You got to get a graduate degree to be an
expert in sex dolls or... Like an undergrad.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I think this is the law. We currently lacked data
to definitively prove whether such doll use or abuse.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Is it abuse?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
If I smash my vacuum cleaner, if I abused my
vacuum cleaner, whether such doll use is protective or conversely
is a behavioral stepping stone, because we don't actually know that,
that increases real world offending risk. We urgently need to
research on this question as more and more technologies enter
the market to simulate human sexuality. You know, if they

(06:30):
can come up with studies or I suppose if you
end up with a couple of cases where a guy
started with the sex doll and went on to the
real thing. Boy, that's the classic thing with all sexual stuff, though,
isn't it? Is that you have some sort of kink
and you got to take it further to continue to
be interested. That is like all sexual stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know, I've kind of found the good old way
has kept me interested now for several decades.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
True.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Whatever happened, though, to shame and embarrassment? I mean, I
would be so embarrassed to say I had a sex doll.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, because you're, well, never mind having one, abusing one,
but you're a non-psychopath.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, this particular researcher wonders about the whole sex doll thing, period,
whether you're abusing them or not. For instance, to put
it provocatively, it seems to boil down to total availability,
a youthful and attractive body, and zero emotional demand or dialogue.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
So even without the abuse, the fact that those are
the things that attract you to it, which I assume
they are, that's troubling on its own.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, to Michael's point, it definitely is a hell of
an indication that we have a severely psychologically retarded individual.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
While the market for sex dolls may be heterogeneous....

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Widely varied.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
What does it mean to engage in any kind of
relationship with a woman shaped thing? From my conversations with
professionals and police, there are definitely men with adult like
companion dolls who see that doll as a person. They
might see that doll as a woman. But do they
see women as humans? This is going to sound really dark,
but in a global context where I believe gender equality

(08:25):
has gone backwards, sex dolls are actually just the extreme
end of that.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's one wannabe researcher's thoughts. Now to get into the
less troubling part of this. Because of the technology around
this and everything like that, you can go to mentions
one of these companies here. You can tell the company.

(08:55):
what kind of woman you're attracted to, and then they'll
put it on a screen, and they'll mock you up
some stuff with AI. You know, just like you can
create stuff with AI so easily. Hey, give me a
picture of, you know, Joe standing on his head in
an elf costume, and I can have it in a
half a second.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Happy to do that live for you if you like.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
They can do a mock-up on it there at the company.
You say, no, I want her to be a little
more this, that, put her in that, blah, blah, bigger eyes,
smaller eyes, blah, blah, whatever it is you want. And
they say, how does that, that's what I want right there.
And then they can make it for you with lifelike
skin and hair and very bendable, which seems to be
a quality people like. And there you go. And so

(09:36):
then you can get into the AI part of it.
The website for this particular company says will be available
this year. There is a wait list for personality traits,
attributes like I want someone who's spiritual or insecure. You
want a sex doll who's insecure.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
I'm telling you, you gotta keep a secret list of
these people and i know it doesn't score with the
law but come on i mean i'm not saying do
anything to them but you know if anything horrendous happens
you got a list right let's.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Start with you i'm pro-list The new Harmony doll also
has an AI vagina, described on the Real Doll site
as an electronic insert that pairs via Bluetooth to the
X-Mode app.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
It makes me insane when my car won't pair with
my phone on the Bluetooth. I can't imagine if my lover,
it's like... What the hell? I've rebooted it twice.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
You're like in the mood, and it's like, sorry, system update.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Reset my password, and now I've got to go to
my email, and I'm no longer aroused.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
There's already an account with this email address.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Aw, crap!

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I want to have sex!

Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know, that's when the thing ends up on the roadside.
I get it now.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
It wasn't an I abuse women thing, it's an I
hate technology thing.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Right, right.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
I was angry because it was a computer. To finish
that paragraph, the AI vagina that pairs via Bluetooth to
an app detects touch, movement, and speed, transitioning naturally from
a mild arousal to climax with synchronized vocal responses that
make every moment feel real.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's American ingenuity at work, folks. Henry Ford, if you're
alive in the 21st century, here it is.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
You're reacting this way, Katie, because your type is being replaced. Yeah.
How do I compete with that?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Or, on the other hand, you can say, look, I've
been busy to get all day long. Go see Gwendolyn
or whatever you named her.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Gwendolyn.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's it. Honey, not tonight. Go grab Gwendolyn. And her
AI vagina.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
All right, you know what? I've got to copyright this.
I believe just the statement that this is mine, I
have come up with this. It's the year of our Lord, 2026,
September the 9th. My sex doll company, the private parts
will be spelled V-A-G-A-I. in capitals, and A.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Trademark. That's pretty good. Thank you, Michael.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
A couple more things on this, and then we'll call
it good.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh, God.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
This Singapore-based sex tech company, Love Ents, introduced Emily, an
AI-powered companion doll to participants. She's customizable, offering personality switching
from modes including co-worker, gym crush, or trad wife.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
What about hormonal?

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Once a month, it just goes to apes.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
I was going to say, wait, mood changes. I already
got that.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I don't want that, doll. Oh, I accidentally put it
on hectoring. That's not what I wanted.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Tired of my shit. Wait, how do I switch that off?

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I want a gym crush, and I got this. But so, yeah,
you're not stuck with whatever you order.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I didn't mow the lawn last week. Why is this even.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Coming up now?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
You know what you did. You know what you did.
That's what she says over and over. I clearly didn't
set this thing right.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
All right. Here's a question for you.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh, we'll elicit a moan when touched this way. Different
kind of moan when touched that way. Oh, wow, listen
to this. Can offer routine companionship, not sex, which will
help build confidence through judgment-free connection and allow for a
safe expression of your wildest fantasy. So it's like trying
out your pickup lines, I guess, or whatever.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
We're talking about the weather for a while before you
get on to the whatever?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
You had a comment before I get to one last
disturbing thing and call it good.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Here's your question. What's the frigging 22nd century going to
look like? Yikes, Planet of the Beavers.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
If these things get real enough, will they become socially acceptable?
I mean, just like just mainstream. No big deal whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Like we'll go to the Denny's and there'll be a
guy sitting there with one.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Is that like? Well, 15 years ago, I would have
thought there's no chance that someone with a penis could
play in girls sports and be given a medal. And
I was wrong.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
And Michael, it's socially acceptable to behead people who don't
believe in your religion in some parts of the world.
So yes, F dolls. Yes, is the answer.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
And here's the final point I'll put on this. There's
a lot to this article, and I think it's all
it's all happening and going to happen.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh, boy.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Uh chorus chorus c-o-e-r-o-s i don't know how to pronounce
it an online sex doll brand based in la offers
customized sex doll heads according to their website they're able
to model each head on photos of a real person
you bring in customers are able to upload reference photographs
to a sub to a form on their site and

(15:02):
the website claims they're able to achieve 90 resemblance to
women and photographs provided whether it's a Yeah, see, that's weird.
Former girlfriend or whatever.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh, what?

Speaker 1 (15:17):
You're telling me, Katie, you're bothered by the fact that
some guy might take pictures of you off of our
website and craft a sex doll around it and have
it doing all kinds of crazy stuff while it thinks
that bothers you? Imagine that.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Imagine that.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Ugh.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
This is a weird world.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
No kidding, Katie.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
No kidding.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
This is inevitable.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
This is an A.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Could happen. Do they have male sex dolls? Are we
seeing if any women are doing this? I was wondering
about that.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes, they do, as a matter of fact. I've been
asked to model for several.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
We're going to have a room full of Jack dolls
that are not flying off the shelf. We just keep
marking these down.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Hanson, get them on the website.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Let's do a test. Well, I guess that's it.
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