<p>I don’t think I have ever laughed this hard reading any other thread on CC. </p>
<p>this is several steps beyond the strange guys who “buy brides” from overseas because they can’t get an American woman to pay attention to them or be obedient enough. Those situations are weird enough. But THIS! oh my! This isn’t someone who wants a relationship at all; he just wants an audience.</p>
<p>No, cobrat. That is so weird, to assume that this was a bet that he lost and that the bet involved humiliating him by having him pull a stunt. This was clear that the guy was this way. People really don’t try to punk or humiliate or embarrass others the way you seem to think they always do. </p>
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<p>I have two words for you: clam fart. </p>
<p>PG, You forgot that he thinks people are arrogant, threatening officious bullies too. </p>
<p>“Those situations are weird enough. But THIS! oh my! This isn’t someone who wants a relationship at all; he just wants an audience.”</p>
<p>No, I don’t think he wanted an audience. I think he just wanted to feel like a normal guy taking his girlfriend/wife/whatever out for a nice dinner at a nice restaurant, just like the rest of the world does.
He was kind of patting her face a little much (you can see it on the Springer video) in a way that a guy probably wouldn’t do to a “real girl” but there was nothing in his demeanor suggesting that he was trying to put on a show for the other restaurant-goers. He just really had those intense feelings for this mannequin the way a normal guy would for a girlfriend/wife.</p>
<p>I’m dying to know what he does for a living, though! Since he was on Jerry Springer, some of his coworkers MUST know. Or they might have asked “are you bringing a date to the Christmas party” or whatever. God, that would be a tough one for a manager / boss, especially if you were in an industry where you had or entertained clients. </p>
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<p>I meant that he wants an audience-of-one. He wants “someone” to talk to at home - to be his audience.</p>
<p>This guy and his girlfriend might look normal wearing nice clothes out in public, like in a restaurant, but I wouldn’t be surprised if in private at home they are into weird stuff like bondage and whips and chains. </p>
<p>This couple’s arrangement does have some pluses. If girlfriend is a blow up doll and not a full blown regular mannequin, they can travel cheap on vacations not having to pay for two plane seats…he just can deflate her and put her in his pocket and pay for one seat. Or if they take a Caribbean cruise and the ship sinks, he can use her as a life raft.</p>
<p>This guy isn’t alone. Check out this article - really bizarre stuff: <a href=“http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/people-who-claim-be-relationships-fictional-characters”>http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/people-who-claim-be-relationships-fictional-characters</a></p>
<p>Maybe he never got to have a moody bear as a kid.</p>
<p>“this is several steps beyond the strange guys who “buy brides” from overseas because they can’t get an American woman to pay attention to them or be obedient enough. Those situations are weird enough”</p>
<p>Some of those situations are beyond sad. At least two of such cases involving mail order brides ended up tragically in my neck of the woods.</p>
<p><a href=“Murder by Mail-Order Crime Magazine”>http://www.crimemagazine.com/murder-mail-order</a></p>
<p>If the doll prevents another tragedy from ever happening, good, more power to “her.”</p>
<p>It is sad–but it occurs to me that there is at least one big advantage to loving a mannequin: she won’t die.</p>
<p>She will not age either, so no need to search for a trophy mannequin.</p>
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<p>Plenty of fraternities or similar type organizations at certain colleges/areas are known for pulling such stunts on their members or certain social groups in HS/college…and sometimes for those who don’t outgrow such hijinks…beyond. </p>
<p>Saw plenty of such examples while living in the Boston area and seeing college freshmen doing silly or sometimes even dangerous/illegal things. A phenomenon confirmed by some cops who have had plenty of experience with such folks. </p>
<p>Wonder if part of your denial has to do with your status as sorority alum. Your deep interest in this man and his peculiarities certainly conforms to popular stereotypes of folks with such status. 
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<p>Lizard - watch the video. This guy isn’t into whips and chains. He treats “her” tenderly. And it’s not a blow up doll. It’s a human size posable mannequin. </p>
<p>Well, cobrat, most people grow out of that phase. From the photos this guy appears to be middle aged.</p>
<p>I’m on the “maybe this is as good as it gets for him” side. He’s creepy, but he seems to be harmless. If this is the best he can do in his life, who am I to make his life worse?</p>
<p>We can’t fix everyone. We don’t know how to fix some people.</p>
<p>I do hope he sanitizes her periodically. I hope he and she remain harmless to others and no one bothers him or her. </p>
<p>No, cobrat, “plenty of fraternities and sororities” don’t do things like this, and anyway, this man was middle-aged.
You come from a weird subculture where everyone likes to punk and trick and embarrass everybody else and then giggle and think it’s funny, but that’s not how most grown-ups do things.</p>
<p>"Wonder if part of your denial has to do with your status as sorority alum. Your deep interest in this man and his peculiarities certainly conforms to popular stereotypes of folks with such status. "</p>
<p>I have absolutely no clue what this means, or what my having been in a sorority 25 years ago has anything to do with anything on this thread whatsoever. We’re talking about a man who has delusions that a mannequin is a real life girlfriend / wife. That’s the topic at hand. </p>
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<p>Haha, Cobrat never fails to deliver the predictable. </p>