iDollator
English
Etymology
From idolator and doll; capitalisation possibly influenced by i- (“alluding to cutting-edge or fashionable digital devices”).
Noun
iDollator (plural iDollators)
- One who prefers a love doll over a normal human relationship.
- 2005, "Jim Winters", "He treats objects like women, man!" (on newsgroup alt.support.shyness)
- As one iDollator wrote to the group, "You are truly a family of open-minded people and it's so great to know I'm not alone."
- 2009, Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth, page 88:
- It's not surprising, then, that these iDollators don't refer to their dolls as sex toys or masturbatory aides[sic], but as “girlfriends.”
- 2011, Eva Christina, The Book of Kink: Sex Beyond the Missionary
- On top of it, McMullen talks about the continually growing online community of doll enthusiasts, called “iDollators,” where they meet up in the virtual world on DollForum.com.
- 2013, "BurfordTJustice", group of people called iDollators or technosexuals (on newsgroup alt.politics.scorched-earth)
- Davecat is part of a group of people called iDollators or technosexuals who say they are attracted to robots […]
- 2014, Michael Hauskeller, Sex and the Posthuman Condition
- One of those who prefer the artificial lover to a real one is the self-declared technosexual and iDollator Davecat, who lives with two $6,000 RealDolls, one of which he regards as his wife and the other as his mistress.
- 2005, "Jim Winters", "He treats objects like women, man!" (on newsgroup alt.support.shyness)