James's life is apparently normal. At 58 years old, he spends his last years before beginning to enjoy retirement working as an engineer. At his side is Tine, the woman he has been married to for 36 years and who promises to accompany him until his last day. We say apparently because James, despite being close to sixty, leads a most atypical sexual life. And not just because he quadruples the number of intercourses per week what the latest American Sexual Behavior Study qualifies as a normal activity for someone his age.

What makes this American truly rare is that he doesn't share that hectic sexual life, which any man much younger than him would sign a priori, he doesn't share with his wife. Nor with a lover or a prostitute. His passionate encounters take place with a sex doll.

April, which is what the doll is called, is blonde, measures 153 centimeters, has a foot height of 36 and has huge silicone breasts. In fact, that same material is made of the rest of his body. Physically, she tries to resemble a young woman who is barely over 18. "Most manufacturers make them as if they were 20 years old," says James, who has no shame in telling his story to Channel 4 in a report entitled The Sex Robots Are Coming.

Its price, 2,000 dollars (about 1,660 euros), is already more than amortized by a James who sees in April much more than a hyper-realistic piece of plastic. For him, it is "his other partner of hers", for which he sees it as normal to share part of her daily chores with her, in addition to those related to the relief of her more animal impulses. James often goes for walks with April and even invites her to dinner from time to time. "People don't even realize that it's a doll," he says, shortly before stating that, although most find it hard to believe, "if I had to choose between April and my wife, I honestly don't know what I would do."

And it is that, unlike what happens with his wife, with whom sex already seems like a beautiful distant memory, with his youthful lover with golden hair he enjoys intercourse that has nothing to envy to those he has enjoyed before with flesh and blood couples: "The only difference is that if you want to change position you have to move it yourself." When asked which pose he prefers to practice with April, James replies 'puppy'. Of course, it makes it clear that the enormous flexibility of his back allows him to enjoy endless possibilities of the most accommodating. However, he emphasizes, what gives him the most pleasure is, strikingly, choosing what clothes he wears and what type of makeup he applies before each date.

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"Being with a girl like April for someone my age is a fantasy that, luckily, I can make come true on a daily basis," James adds, convinced that there is nothing wrong with what he does and that, therefore, Therefore, there is no reason to hide it from his wife or from the world.

James's wife, delighted with April

The most striking thing about this story is that each and every one of the encounters that James and April enjoy is carried out with the knowledge and approval of their woman, who for a while had a hard time assuming that there was "another" in her marriage. Considering that her husband began having extramarital affairs with April when she had to neglect her "marital obligations" and dedicate herself body and soul to taking care of her ailing mother, she concluded that it was best to reach an "agreement " so that her husband would not feel "alone".

"If he really wanted to, he could have gone out and found someone else, but he didn't, he was honest with me," says a Tine who already knows that, like her long ago, April will soon be no more. James's favorite sexual pastime. And it is that his intention is none other than to acquire a Harmony, the first sex doll with artificial intelligence. To do this, she still has to save a few hundred bucks, since the price of the new intelligent, emotional, orgasmic sex doll she's infatuated with is well over $8,000.

With a much more realistic appearance than April, these new pleasure dolls can develop up to 18 different personalities that can be interchanged to suit the buyer. Thus, at any moment he can decide if the female figure he meets is more "shy" or more "launched" based on her preferences.

Capable of conversing on just about anything, these fashion-forward 2.0 dolls possess what their creators call a "persistent memory." This is nothing more than the ability to memorize past conversations and use all the information that chat after chat is recording to offer more and more humanized talks. The goal, its makers say, is to help people "find a level of togetherness that you might not be able to otherwise." James and Tine corroborate it.