-It's going to be your perspective that really
brings the personality to the doll.
-For me, these girls is way more than just sexual.
[ Grunting ]
Now you're taking on the responsibility
of taking care of a piece of you.
-How's it going?
♪♪
Companionship -- it's a beautiful thing.
It can result in endless benefits on the well-being.
It can help you not just focus on yourself,
but potentially even learn to become a better person.
"To get the full value of joy,
you must have someone to divide it with."
"You don't need someone to complete you.
You only need someone to accept you completely."
"I want to be your favorite hello
and your hardest goodbye."
You could say that again.
So, why continue alone?
Why keep pushing forward in this dark, endless abyss
of life on my own?
I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to find a companion.
Companionship.
Here I come.
♪♪
So on this episode,
I will be bonding with a sex doll.
♪♪
In order to form a bond with a sex doll,
I'm heading to a sex doll factory to meet with a man
by the name of Rick.
But first, I'm going to stop by a party supply store
to grab a disguise to help protect Rick's identity.
All right.
♪♪
[ Chime ]
-Hey, Taji.
-Hey, Rick, how's it going?
-Good. Very nice to meet you.
-So nice to meet you. Thank you so much for having me today.
-Yeah, thanks, man. -I really appreciate it.
♪♪
Whoa. See, already some vaginas.
-Yeah, vaginas are normal course of business.
-Totally.
-So we have a couple of models on display today.
It's really a different strokes for different folks
kind of thing when it comes to sex dolls.
I guess the first lady I'd like to introduce you to is Jessica.
So Jessica here is modeled to have nice large breasts.
-Yeah. They almost feel like... almost like Jell-o.
-Yeah, almost like Jell-o. -You like Jell-o?
-I love Jell-o. -Me too.
-Yeah.
-Wow.
-So next here we have Tori.
So Tori here will have a mouth
and that can be used to receive a penis.
♪♪
-Oh, yeah.
-Nicki is actually a robot,
so what you're able to do with her
is basically have some verbal communication.
-Would you like to form a bond with me?
And does the dick come off, or, it's like...
Is it a removable? Whoa.
-It's a pound of dick right there.
-So this is one pound.
Does it double as a woman as well
if you take this out or not really?
-It doesn't. But what we can do is
we can take one of these female dolls
and put a dick on them.
-Wow.
-So this is what's called a removable vagina.
-Got it.
Yes, sorry, I got a little sidetracked
on the removable vagina,
but yeah, sorry, just more about my mission is kind of
just to further understand
just how one can actually bond with one of these.
So when it comes to sex dolls and the bond
that you're going to try and form with the doll,
it's all going to come down to you.
Because what you're going to find with the dolls
is they have a persona, they have a face,
some of them will talk,
but it's going to be your perspective
that really brings the personality to the doll.
-These dolls were clearly much more about companionship
than I had originally imagined,
but now it was time to put it all to the test.
Rick thought that Monique would be a great match for me,
and in order to maximize my chances
of forming a bond with her,
he allowed me to customize her to my liking.
Rick then put all my supplies into a bag
and sent me on my way.
-Are you sure you don't want to lube for the road just in case?
-Uhhh, maybe next time.
Lube would not be necessary for the mission I was on.
Now, bonding -- that was a whole different story.
Getting close with a lifeless object
was going to prove harder than Rick had made it out to be.
So how's it going, Monique?
So, I don't know if I told you, Monique, but I'm on this mission
basically, to become a better man.
So, you know, I'm hoping we can hit it off
and connect and, in the end, perhaps become a better person.
[ Horn honks ]
So Monique was not much of a talker --
I guess I should have figured that
with this sort of relationship.
Learning to love Monique was one thing,
but her inability to walk
was the biggest issue in our relationship so far.
♪♪
Fuck.
So far, this has been proving to be quite difficult.
She's extremely heavy,
and I don't see this bonding really working yet.
Fuck!
Ahh, fuck.
♪♪
Who was I kidding?
I didn't know how to love this woman.
I clearly didn't know the first thing
about companionship.
At this point, I needed a teacher --
a doll companionship mentor
who could help me fall for Monique.
-♪ You're so true ♪
♪♪
Johnny Tiger is a fully-blind, partially-deaf martial artist,
teacher, musician, and avid sex doll collector.
Hopefully he could teach me a thing or two
about how to connect with Monique.
-Sorry, Johnny. Hi, I'm Taji.
-How are you?
-So nice to meet you, Johnny.
-Nice to meet you.
-Thank you so much for having me today.
♪♪
So this is your bedroom right here, Johnny? -This is the bedroom.
-It's almost like a museum in here.
-Yeah, it also is just like my man cave.
[ Laughs ]
Society basically views me as a martial art teacher,
but society is not usually ready to associate that
with a more sexual or intimate side of things.
-So, yes, maybe, could we meet the dolls?
-This is Stephanie.
-So this is Stephanie right here?
Maybe I should, uh... one of the breasts has come, um...
There we go.
-For me, these girls is way more than just sexual.
They are more like an extension of my...
a more, maybe feminine side of my personality.
-What sort of feeling would you say
that Stephanie evokes from you if you had to,
I guess, just put it into words, like when you look at her,
like, what goes through your mind?
-It's not exactly arousal.
It's more like friendship.
If Stephanie was a real person,
she would be that person that I can work out with
and maybe spar with in martial arts.
And, yeah, she's in phenomenal shape.
-It was clear that Johnny had formed
a real bond with Stephanie
and that unique connection was distributed
in equal portions to all of his doll ensemble.
-Nadia is that person who I would imagine going out
for fine dining with.
With Sarah, my kind of feeling,
she that person that I can feel comfortable
talking about gaming.
This one is named after my girlfriend, Daisy.
She and the one beside her, that's Oceania,
they are less realistic,
but they are phenomenal for cuddling.
-So this is a thread you created on a sex doll forum,
Johnny has taken his passion for dolls online,
where he posts incredibly detailed reviews about them.
"The other selections I made on Holly was as follows.
standing feet, mouth with tongue, fixed vagina,
hollow breasts, shrugging shoulders.
It struck me how open and forthcoming Johnny
was in his reviews.
"I'm a B.B.W. man." What is B.B.W.?
-Big beautiful women. -Big beautiful woman man.
So you're a -- yeah, you're a B.B.W. kind of guy.
But he didn't pull any punches
if the dolls did not meet his standards.
"I almost went with the recommendation
until I saw the dolls' weirdly tiny shoe size."
-The feet were like three inches.
-It was certainly inspiring to see a man
so wholeheartedly committed to something.
"Stay tuned for more to 'cum,' exclamation mark."
I like how you chose to spell come in this instance.
[ Laughter ]
So is this your studio over here?
-Right in here. Right in here.
This is where all the serious stuff take place.
For me, especially as a blind person,
I'm confident walking out there,
and if anyone was to get in my face
and start raising their voice, I'm not scared because I know
if it come down to it, I can handle myself.
-Should I be worried right now? That it's going to get intense.
[ Velcro ripping ]
♪♪
[ Grunting ]
-Oh, my God! Alright, alright, alright.
-Say Uncle. -Uncle.
Did I put up an alright fight or not really?
-Not really.
♪♪
[ Grunting ]
Ugh! Uncle!
-Getting cornered by me is bad idea.
♪♪
-[ Grunting ]
[ Groaning ]
-Agh! Alright. Uncle. Uncle.
[ Laughter ]
You hand over the girl.
-Hand her over. Hand her over.
♪♪
[ Echoing ] Uncle. Uncle. Uncle. Uncle. Uncle. Uncle.
-As a blind person, as a partially deaf person,
there are a lot of things that I can't do,
but there are a lot of things that I actually can do,
and the only thing that's stopping me would be me,
if I say I can't.
I think of martial art and my dolls as both a means to an end,
a means to independent, a means to self expression,
and a means to freedom.
♪ I am just a simple kind of guyyyy ♪
♪ I'm inferior to no one and no one can tell me otherwise ♪
-Do you have any advice for me as I kind of try, you know,
to fully bond with a doll?
-I think when you try it, though,
just like going out on your first date --
don't try too hard to think
about how to establish a connection or bond.
Just have fun. Get into it with an open mind.
And remember that these ladies,
they cannot speak for themselves.
They cannot defend themselves.
They cannot take care of themselves.
So think of it as now you are taking on the responsibility
of taking care of a piece of you
that you really want to have some good memory with.
[ Chord resonates ]
-As my time with Johnny came to a close,
I was filled with a new outlook on companionship.
Maybe I was looking at this whole relationship thing
the wrong way.
Monique is not a human,
and I shouldn't expect her to be like one.
Monique is totally unique,
just as every person and doll on this planet is.
After feeling finally OK with all of this,
we headed to the park for our first-ever date.
♪♪
[ Sighs ]
Sure, some people thought we were weird,
but there were also people who found Monique
as beautiful as I did.
She says thank you.
Adorable.
And one person even asked if she could interview us.
Is that OK? Does that sound good?
OK. Yeah.
-What do you need the most right now?
-Um, I would say I need companionship the most right now
and that's kind of what I found in Monique.
It took a little while to become acquainted,
but we're pretty happy right now.
Right, Monique?
Yeah.
♪♪
Well, you know what? Oh, oh --
God damn it. Shit.
-♪ I am just a friend who's here to say ♪
♪ You're inferior to no one ♪
♪ So don't let them tell you that you are ♪
♪ Though there were times... ♪
-Companionship never comes easy.
It takes time and care to really connect with someone.
And if Monique has taught me anything,
it's that companionship is really about appreciating
someone for who they are, not what you want them to be.
So thank you, Monique, for helping me
get one step closer to becoming a better man.
♪♪
-What do you need the most in your life?
-Like, peace. And love. Pretty much that.
Right, Monique?
Yeah, Monique agrees. Yeah.