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The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish
by Marquard Smith.
Yale, 376 pp., £35, January 2014,978 0 300 15202 9 Show More
by Marquard Smith.
Yale, 376 pp., £35, January 2014,
“... animal is so much more fascinating than the splendid doll, for reasons that underlie the erotics Marquard Smith explores in his peculiar and highly equivocal study. Yet a doll promises everything the rat in a cage can give and more: she/he/it can be a human friend, a dream lover come to life with whom one may do as one wants – in every form of ... ”
