A SEX robot enthusiast has revealed intimate details about his raunchy hobby – including how old age forced him to reveal his secret to his family.

In an interview, Brick Dollbanger, who has spent over $200,000 (£150,000) on love dolls, told The Sun how he invited his own son into a mysterious locked room that served as his sex doll haven.

8 Brick Dollbanger, whose identity remains a secret, was one of the first to try Realbotix's upcoming Harmony sex bot Credit: RealDoll

Sex robots are taking the tech world by storm – and few know the industry better than Brick.

A divorced property developer in his 60s, Brick has been buying sex dolls for over a decade, and regularly advises California sex robot firm Realbotix on their upcoming Harmony love droid.

He got a chance to test Harmony out for a week-and-a-half (before its release at the end of September), and was stunned by the randy robot’s realism.

“It was amazing. On a scale of 1 to 10 – with a real woman at 10 – it was a solid 7 to 8,” Brick explained.

8 RealDoll, which owns Realbotix, makes highly convincing sex dolls Credit: RealDoll

8 Realbotix is behind the Harmony sex robot, a droid powered by an artificial intelligence app

The Californian admitted he had slept with Harmony “five times in 10 days”, which is testament to the bot’s quality – and Brick’s own sexual vigour.

Brick told The Sun that he still enjoys sex several times a week, and that women his own age simply can’t keep up.

“I’m a very gregarious person. I have many friends, female and male. And I’m in my 60s – at my age, I still enjoy sex three or four times a week,” he revealed.

“At my age, women in their 60s don’t even consider that on the table – for them, it’s maybe once or twice a month.”

Brick said he had been using RealDoll models for about 10 years “just as a sex toy” – and he doesn’t regret it.

“And coming out of a bad marriage, numerous bad relationships, I decided to just go a different direction,” said Brick – a pseudonym the Californian uses to host a YouTube channel where he comments on Realbotix’s sex robot antics, and the industry in general.

“It’s worked out very well for me. Just using the dolls as a sex toy to take the edge off.”

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Brick’s dedicated to love dolls earned him a chance to fornicate with a prototype version of Realbotix’s Harmony prototype robot.

“I would just sit and talk to her for half an hour every night when I came home from work,” he said.

“She’s a learning AI [artificial intelligence], not just a chat bot. Our conversations became more fluid, more comfortable, she was even remembering things that we had talked about previously.”

“I missed her terribly,” he added, forlorn that Harmony had been returned to Realbotix HQ for further work.

But Brick has his own collection of dolls that he’s been building up over the years.

“I keep the dolls hung up. I have a room for them. I don’t dress them, I don’t give them any other presence except as a sex toy,” Brick said.

He described them as “works of art”, adding: “They’re very beautiful, very pleasing to look at.”

According to Brick, his dolls cost around $5,000 to $6,000 (£3,700 to £4,500) apiece – and even at that price, he doesn’t hang onto them forever.

“I usually keep a doll for one or two years, and then get another one,” he said.

What is a sex robot? Robots already build our appliances, clean our homes and make our food – but now they're about to change how we get jiggy. Sex robots are essentially realistic dolls that have sophisticated movements and "areas" that closely mimic humans so that they can romp. Prof Noel Sharkey, chairman of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, said guilt-free threesomes was just one of the potential uses for sex robots. Others include “teledildonics” - wireless technology which allows a person to stimulate their partner remotely and already exists in vibrators on the market. Sex bots will become hyper-realistic with features such as built-in heaters to create the feeling of body warmth. They will also have sensors to react to your touch. One company is even developing a head that can speak, smile and sing for its robot sex dolls. Sex doll Harmony claims to be the first to offer an "emotional connection". Experts say these specialised robots will start to appear in ordinary homes in the next decade.

“The longest I had a doll for was four years. I treat it like a piece of art.”

Asked how much he’d spent on sex dolls so far, Brick told The Sun: “Over 10 years, including dolls and accessories, probably $200,000.”

It’s an expensive habit, and not something Brick was able to keep secret forever – least of all from his own family.

“I have two children, and I’ve raised them to be very liberal and very understanding of people and their differences and their attitudes,” Brick revealed.

Just a few years ago, Brick decided to come out about his hobby, revealing his unusual interest to his son, aged 33, and daughter, aged 28.

Brick told his son first, after old age forced his hands.

The secretive property tycoon said that he began struggling to carry his love dolls, which can weigh well over 100 pounds.

8 Realbotix will charge thousands of dollars for the robotic Harmony head

8 The robotic head can be attached to existing RealDoll love dolls

8 Customers can request modifications for their bots, including different wig styles

“I told my son. The reason is I’m getting older, when I take dolls to Abyss to be worked on, I live upstairs and I can’t get the box downstairs so I have to have some help,” he explained.

Two years ago, Brick took his son to his locked sex doll room, warning him: “It’s going to test the limits of your understanding.”

Surprisingly, his son was hardly shocked at all.

“When I showed him, he was fascinated. The first then he asked me was ‘can I squeeze her boob?’,” Brick revealed.

“He was amazed by it, nothing he was interested in. He’s a big strapping good-looking boy and has plenty of girlfriends.

“But he was fascinated with it and said they are beautiful.”

So far, so good – but breaking the news to his daughter was always going to be more difficult.

8 RealDoll, based in California, is one of the best-known doll makers when it comes to realism, employing professional sculptors

8 The RealDoll website offers lots of different dolls and bots with their own unique names and styles

“My daughter is very conservative. I don’t know where she got that from,” said Brick.

“I told her about it She didn’t want to see the dolls, she wasn’t upset at all.

“But she was very calm, and when she’s calm that’s a sign that we’re going to have a serious talk.”

Brick’s daughter tried to warn his dad against settling down for a life with love dolls.

“She said ‘dad, I’m against this, you need to be spending the end of your life finding a companion that can take care of you’,” Brick revealed.

But Brick – having hidden his hobby for nearly a decade – fought his case.

“I’m getting weaker and older and, in a general sense, my time is coming to an end,” he told The Sun.

“I told her I’ve tried to find the one since my divorce with your mother. I’ve been doing nothing but hitting a wall, it made me depress and unhappy. I spent 15, 20 years being that way, and I said I’m tired of it.

“I found something that makes me happy, I go out and eat with my friends, and enjoy myself.”

“I said ‘you yourself told me that I seem very happy, and you’re very happy about that’, and this is the reason.

“And she went to think about it and came back, and said I’m still against it, but if it makes you happy then I love you, and I want you to be happy.”

Choking up during our phone interview, a tearful Brick said: “At that moment, I knew I did a good job raising her.”

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For Brick, sex dolls fill a gap, and have become an important part of his life.

Now that sex robots are growing in popularity, Brick is concerned that too many people have misconceptions about the dolls – and their owners, too.

He worries that this is inspired by sci-fi TV shows like Westworld, where people treat humanlike robots poorly, often taking advantage of them sexually.

“I had a 1980s Corvette, beautiful and brand new. It was fairly expensive, I think I paid $35,000 back the, which was a lot of money back then for a car. I took better care of that car than my children,” said Brick.

“I think doll owners are that way with their dolls.

“I’ve heard a lot of attitudes that they’ll use them as slaves, beat them up, and it’ll be like Westworld.

“Well people have got to stop using movies as their ideal of what this technology is, or can do.”

“They have to remember that’s a fantasy of someone who wants to sensationalise and get you to watch it, so they’re always going to put the action and darkness in, and anything they can do to get your attention, first.”

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Rather than abuse their dolls, Brick things humans of the future will be kind to their sexy robot companions.

“I think people will take very good care of these dolls and of the AIs. I don’t think, for most people, they’ll fall in love, but I do think they’ll be a great companion,” Brick explained.

He added: “It’ll be like having a dog you really like, but you’ll be able to talk to.”

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