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Yet their value extends beyond the sexual. Many users report treating their dolls as companions—dressing them, speaking to them, even giving them names and personalities. This practice, while easily dismissed by outsiders as strange or delusional, mirrors the human tendency to anthropomorphize objects of emotional importance. Just as children talk to stuffed animals or people form emotional attachments to sentimental objects, the relationship with the cheap sex dolls can serve as a form of emotional grounding. In a lonely apartment or an emotionally barren life, that constant presence—however artificial—offers comfort.