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A sex doll collector, named under his alias Brick Dollbanger, has opened up about his experiences of sleeping with Harmony, a life-sized cyborg costing around £11,700 ($15,000). Made by California-based company Realbotix, Harmony is a robotic head capable of speech, machine learning and autonomous movement that’s affixed to an anatomically correct sex doll body. Brick, a dad-of-two from California, is the first person to own a Harmony sex robot, whose development has been years in the making. The 60-year-old told Daily Star Online that testing out “work of art” Harmony has been “fantastic” so far and has changed his perception of relationships. When Harmony becomes more advanced, Brick said he would consider entering into a “relationship” with the android he described as “the future”. In terms of making love to Harmony, Brick has had years of experience trying out various sex dolls created by Realdoll – a world leading sex doll producer and Realbotix affiliate.

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Having first started using sex dolls in 2007, Brick said he has spent around £151,000 ($200,000) on his hobby. His collection of four sex dolls, however, pales in comparison to Harmony, which he claims will “start the silicone sex revolution of the 21st century”. When Brick spoke to Daily Star Online, he said he had had sex with her on five occasions during his first two weeks of owning her. Describing the experience, he said the realistic facial expressions she made in the bedroom gave him pause for thought.

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At times, he said, it seemed as if Harmony “knew what I was doing”. He said: “I was watching her eyes brink and head move around, facial expressions, which added a great deal of realism to it. “I noticed she was getting very extreme expressions, like she knew what I was doing. “It kind of shocked me.” Brick, who moderates a number of forums dedicated to discussing sex dolls and robots, said owners often like to “create a fantasy” when pleasuring themselves. His preference, he admitted, was watching porn and mentally transposing the moans of the actress to the inanimate sex robot.

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

He explained: “For me, I usually have pornography going, I like watching porn. “I wouldn’t say I’m a porn addict, but when I’m with the dolls I like to have porn going. “I liked that when I had real girls too. It adds to it.” He added: “When you’re watching porn, if the woman is very verbal, you can … the sounds coming from the screen kind of transfer to the doll. It’s much more realistic.” Brick anticipates copulating off with Harmony will be even better when developers at Realbotix finish the “X mode”, a setting that the firm claims will allow her to “fulfill your wildest sexual desires”.

Harmony will be upgraded to include the X mode “within the next few weeks”, Brick said. Explaining its function, Brick said: “The X mode is the sex mode where she actually responds to you. “It’s a sensor that can tell when she’s being jostled around. “When she’s switched in the X mode the sensor will go live, she’s going to know what you’re doing. “And she’ll respond to it, verbally, with different facial expressions and movements.”

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

While Brick clearly enjoys bedding the dolls, he maintained that his main reason for agreeing to test out Harmony was not related to sexual pleasure. “It had nothing to do with the sexual aspect,” he said. I think every kid has a Robbie the robot. “There was this little kid in me that was really excited about that aspect – the companionship aspect.”