Jade Stanley—a 35-year-old mom of four from Birmingham, England—is expanding her business as a sex doll entrepreneur. After offering to create customized replicas of the deceased wives and lovers of bereaved men, allowing them to assuage their grief by having sex with a lifelike doll created in the image of their departed loved one in a business that launched just three months ago, Stanley wil now offer “lifelike” dolls based on popular porn performers.
“I’m very entrepreneurial, I have a business mind. Boundaries are being pushed; people are becoming far more experimental. The climate is ripe,” Stanley told the Birmingham Mail newspaper. “It’s just business. I would not introduce a doll into my life, it’s not my bag. But I know there are people who do—and they are from all walks of life. I’m aware some may raise their eyebrows, but I don’t care. Nobody else is putting food on my table.”
In October, Stanley and partner Steph Kemp went into the sex doll rental business, and quickly found that all 20 of the dolls in their inventory would be hired out simultaneously, according to Britain’s Mirror newspaper. The business quickly expanded into a “bespoke” doll service, and now that custom-doll aspect of Stanley’s operation has signed up a roster of real-life porn performers willing to be duplicated as sex dolls.
The stars who have signed deals with Stanley’s company so far include Zara DuRose, Puma Swede, Barbie Sins and Harmony Reigns. Each performer must travel to Birmingham, where their bodies are scanned in three dimensions. Stanley’s company then transmits the data to a manufacturing plant in China where the dolls are actually produced.
The first shipment from the Chinese plant is due to arrive within the next week, according to the Mail report. Of course, each real-life performer collects a royalty on every doll sold—with a projected retail price of about $4,400 per doll.
“Interest has been very high,” the entrepreneurial mom said. “We have taken pre-orders for lots of dolls. The majority of my sales are coming from America and India. It has surpassed my expectations. In 12 months, this will change my life.”
Though she told the Mail that her customers are “predominantly” men between the ages of 23 and 60, apparently Stanley’s business includes those who are seeking male sex dolls as well, because she also offers some for rent. Whether any male porn performers have yet signed on to be duplicated in sex doll form, however, was not yet clear.
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