The Best and Most Realistic Sex Dolls in 2026

There's no shortage of loneliness in this world. For some, it's a lack of friends or family; for others, an emptiness in their lives where romantic love should be.1 Filling those gaps can seem daunting, but the consequences of doing nothing are equally unpleasant, including increased odds of depression and mortality.6

A sex doll can make an enormous difference in this regard, offering individuals an opportunity to connect in a way that's more natural than some might think.2 Stigma around such dolls is largely fading, and it’s never been easier to get a high-quality doll online with relative anonymity.

In this guide, we'll break down everything you should know to get a sex doll that will suit your needs. If you don't have much time, check out our simplified recommendations below.

NOTE: Some of the companies in the above list are sex doll distributors (e.g., Better Love Doll, SexDollPartner), while others are sex doll manufacturers (e.g., FanReal, WM Doll) whose dolls you can buy through those distributors. We’ll get into the differences in more detail below.

With rare exceptions, the top sex doll makers don’t sell their dolls directly. Instead, they use authorized distributors, many of which have warehouses in the U.S. to expedite your experience. For most people, we’d highly recommend choosing a WM Doll (maker) through Better Love Doll (distributor). The prices are very good, and the customization options are wide-ranging.

There are several critical factors when selecting a doll. If you want to grab something that’s in stock so you can get it sooner, you’ll sacrifice some or all customization options, but there are some things you should keep in mind.

Materials

The material question among sex dolls primarily comes down to two options: silicone and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). Each has its advantages. Silicone provides superior durability and a lifelike appearance, while TPE offers a lower cost, better heat retention, and a more lifelike feel.

Ultimately, this is a matter of budget and personal preference, but it can be challenging to develop a preference without first interacting with each material. We recommend combining the two whenever possible, placing a silicone head on a TPE body. This approach keeps costs down without sacrificing a realistic face. The only downside to the TPE body is that it requires slightly more maintenance, specifically regarding moisture, which silicone repels more naturally.

Cost

Very few sex dolls could be called inexpensive. The price of materials and the labor that goes into their construction quickly drive up manufacturers' costs, and you'll feel that in your wallet. Counterfeit dolls on the market are about half the original cost, but we strongly advise against these for various reasons:

• Counterfeit dolls can use unproven or questionable materials.
• Durability is likely poor.
• Warranties are more or less nonexistent.

We found that Better Love Doll offers the best deals on legitimate products, with plenty of freebies, occasional sales, and well-priced upgrades, making it the best place to start looking.

For comparative purposes, here’s how several distributors compare in base cost and the cost of the same model upgraded to our preferred specs:

Notice that the fully upgraded price from Better Love Doll is lower than all others — even lower than Honey Love Doll, which has a much lower base price. Honey seems to prefer lower base prices alongside upgrade options that are both more expensive and often more limited in scope than those offered by Better Love Doll and some others. And since you’re almost guaranteed to want some degree of customization if you’re not buying off the rack, that’s the more important price point for cost considerations.

Customization

You can save a little money by buying a prefabricated doll without customization, but we feel that customization makes this whole process unique. It can be something as simple as changing the eye color of a doll that makes you connect with it more deeply, but you'll have access to a lot more variables than that.

Many sites let you choose a head from an extensive collection, with details like eyes, lips, hair, and more at your discretion. From the neck down, you can adjust skin tone, breast texture, areola size and color, and overall flexibility. We highly recommend opting for the more flexible options and whatever features a site offers that let the doll stand on its own.

Some sites let you build a doll from the ground up, giving you control over more bodily features, such as bust and waist size. There’s also the occasional ability to have them construct a custom head from reference photographs. From what we've seen, their abilities in this department are very impressive, but you’ll have to be able to afford the price, which often runs upwards of $10,000. Among distributors who can provide custom heads from photographs, we think Honey Love Doll’s work is the most impressive.

Durability

Durability starts with materials, which require different maintenance levels depending on how you use them. TPE is notably more absorbent than silicone, so it can be prone to mildew or bacterial contamination if you don't keep it dry. This is especially true of any orifices. For ease of cleaning and maintenance, we recommend removable sex organs wherever available. Many distributors offer care kits and cleaning kits, as well.

Durability is also one of the reasons we recommend a more flexible skeleton. While additional joints may increase the number of vulnerabilities on a given doll, the lack of those joints makes it too easy to flex the doll in ways that it wasn’t built to handle. That can potentially damage the skeleton, the silicone/TPE, or other components.

Proper storage is crucial to preventing the doll’s skin from developing creases. Some distributors offer a comprehensive hanging system that allows you to store your doll properly. Other companies offer hooks that adhere to the neck joint, but if your doll’s body is taller than the height of whatever bar you use to hang it, it could get damaged over time.

Privacy

There's a potential stigma associated with owning a sex doll, unfortunately. That's just one of the reasons that companies must safeguard your privacy. And a box big enough to contain a life-size sex doll could draw curiosity. Fortunately, most doll companies take pains to conceal the contents of their shipping boxes. With our top recommendations, you don't have to worry about exterior branding or obvious shipping labels giving away what's inside.

As for your online privacy, you can expect all of these companies to use cookies and other trackers the same way almost every site does. However, they all employ secure checkout protocols to safeguard your most sensitive data.

Lara Jane is a 5’5” C-cup doll that weighs just under 73 lbs. On Better Love Doll’s site, she goes by Lara Jane, but she’s Jane, Audrey, and Charlie on other sites. And despite being the same doll from the same manufacturer, each distributor offers slightly different customizations and prices, as you can see below. (Prices also change during periodic sales.)

As you can see, Better Love Doll and Your Doll are neck-and-neck when considering this model. Better Love Doll doesn't offer as wide a selection of heads, but it has a less expensive AI upgrade option, as well as a less expensive heating system and a lubricant-free vagina. Meanwhile, Your Doll has more heads and a less expensive breathing system. So, much of the difference between the two will come down to which upgrades you prefer.

At Innerbody Research, we extensively test each health service or product we review, including sex dolls and online stores. Our hands-on testing gives us unique insights into the customer experience and the quality of these products.

For this guide, we also performed extensive comparisons of stock, prices, and available features on the same models across multiple distributors to determine where you can get the most for your money. And our research team spent dozens of hours studying the differences in commonly used materials and manufacturing methods in the industry.

We’ve even ordered and received sex dolls from some of these companies, so we can speak to the experience firsthand. Additionally, like all health-related content on this website, this review was thoroughly vetted by one or more members of our Medical Review Board for accuracy.

Over the past two decades, Innerbody Research has helped tens of millions of readers make more informed decisions about staying healthy and living healthier lifestyles.

A sex doll is a life-size doll with realistic features, including anatomical features capable of penetrating or being penetrated. They're often made of soft materials like TPE or silicone, and most are anatomically correct enough to allow their owners to use them for sexual pleasure. Some dolls lean more into fantasy than reality, and their appearance may not be entirely human or completely realistic. Still, these count as sex dolls.

Some dolls also sometimes begin to drift into the realm of robots, with rudimentary integrated AI systems, prerecorded vocal responses to pleasure, and even movable eyes and mouths. These are no more or less sex dolls than inanimate silicone models, but they do give us a glimpse into where this market is headed, which we’ll cover in greater detail below.

Fake doll warning

Believe it or not, there’s a robust market for counterfeit sex dolls. The companies on our list are approved vendors for major doll manufacturers, most of which are based in China. These manufacturers make the parts and sell them to vendors who warehouse them (the exception being RealDoll, which makes and sells products directly). That's why you'll almost always see many more customization options on vendor sites than on manufacturer sites.

However, some counterfeit manufacturers and vendors seek to emulate what the best are doing at a fraction of the cost. They often use the same product photography that the original manufacturer created to sell their imitation goods.

To guard yourself against these dolls, don't fall for prices that are too good to be true. Manufacturers set an MSRP, and most vendors land at around 10% or 15% below that. If you see the same doll on another site for 50% off or more, you can be sure it's fake. Many counterfeit sites also don’t let you search by brand. This is typically a red flag.

When you decide that you want to buy a sex doll, there are still plenty of choices that lie ahead, ranging from the proportions of the doll itself to various degrees of customization. These are the most common paths available to you for making a purchase.

Off-the-rack dolls

These dolls are typically listed as “in stock” or “ready to ship.” They’re often fully assembled, or nearly so, at a given distributor’s warehouse. The benefits of off-the-rack dolls are usually lower prices and much faster processing and shipping times. The downside is mainly a limit to what you can customize.

The chart below compares a model from SY Doll (sold with customization options by Better Love Doll, SexySexDoll, and Your Doll) with a ready-to-ship version of the same model from Sexy Real Sex Dolls and SexDollPartner.

That chart should give you a sense of the various customization options you give up when you buy off the rack. It should also reinforce how much less expensive an off-the-rack doll can be. You stand to save several hundred dollars compared to customizable models, and you’re likely to get your doll much faster since it’s already assembled.

Named dolls

Manufacturers typically create far more head types than bodies. Then, they take one body design, put a specific head on it, and call it a singular model with its own identity and set of professional boudoir photos. That same body with a different head is considered a different model. That creates a lot of variety, and distributors then have the leeway to give these individual models names.

Because naming is left up to the distributors, the same doll on different websites will have different names, but named dolls are often largely customizable, with many sites allowing you to swap out the head or giving you a second head you can swap out at home for free. Ultimately, the process of pairing a head with a body and giving it a name is there to make it easier for shoppers to identify with a set of initial features that speak to them, after which they can begin to make adjustments.

Custom base bodies

As we just discussed, a close examination of any distributor’s catalog will reveal that several named dolls use the same base body but have been given certain heads and features to sell them as ideas. Some distributors lock you into that first head selection based on this design. Others let you swap that first head in addition to getting a second head (a common freebie).

But if you want even more flexibility in design, it makes sense to look into custom base bodies. It might take some scrolling, but you can usually find the same body you see used for most named dolls available as a custom base. From there, you can usually customize even more aspects than you’d be able to with a named doll.

Delivery considerations

When you order a sex doll, you need to plan on receiving a large box. No matter which doll you choose, the package that arrives will be pretty heavy. The large size could make some neighbors curious about the contents of the box, but rest assured that all the distributors we recommend in this guide ship only in discreet boxes that don't hint at the contents. They're nondescript, but they are big. (A person could easily assume that it's a box of unassembled furniture.)

For instance, take this box in the image below, which one of our testers received from Better Love Doll. (The 28oz can of tomatoes on top was just to give you a sense of scale before it became part of a puttanesca sauce.) The box measured 55in long and weighed 80lb.

An 80lb piece of luggage would be heavy, but probably not an irregular shape to lift. But given their length, boxes like the one above require some care. Some people might simply be able to lift and move it. If you happen to have a dolly, it's a piece of cake. But assuming something like an 80lb box is too heavy for you to carry safely, and you don't own a dolly, gently dragging the boxes worked well for our testers when the durability of the floors wasn't a concern. Another option, if you have wood floors, is to move the box in stages. If the box arrives upright, as in the picture above, you can start by carefully easing one side of it down to the floor in the direction you want to move it. Then lift from the backside till the box is once again in an upright position, before carefully easing it down — again, in the direction you want to move the box. You can repeat those steps until you've moved the box to where you want it, in box-length increments. We found that this method worked really well, too.

High-quality doll vendors, like the kind we recommend in this guide, will have packed your doll with great care to ensure delivery. Intricate parts of the doll, such as articulating feet and hands, will be adequately padded to protect them.

One of the best things about sex dolls is the degree to which you can customize them. If you're especially budget-conscious, you might end up with a more off-the-rack doll. Those dolls can be quite impressive, but if you're already spending a bit of money on a doll, there are a few things you can upgrade that can really make it feel unique.

Here are just a few examples of common customization options:

The incorporation of AI into doll models has increased a lot over the past few years, with companies providing better learning algorithms and speech performance. Still, some of the mechanical integrations connected to AI upgrades, such as eye and mouth movement, still leave a lot to be desired, and some AI models lack movement altogether.

Another problem in AI integration is how companies choose to characterize their dolls. Several brands list dolls as having AI just because they have some physical movement ability. That is not an AI doll by industry standards or by our interpretation of the market. That’s why it’s important that we cover the most common forms of AI, how they differ from simple mechanical advancements, and what companies offer the best AI options for you to purchase.

Currently, several manufacturers are integrating AI systems into some of their dolls, but not every distributor of their dolls offers these AI upgrades — at least not yet. You’re most likely to encounter one of three AI systems when researching AI sex dolls:

• Metabox: The most advanced conversationally, but lacking any integrated mechanics or movement. Currently available in dolls manufactured by WM Doll and YL Dolls.
• SY Dolls AI Heads: Exclusive to dolls from SY Dolls, YQ Dolls, and Irontech. Least advanced conversationally, but integrated with facial expressions and full-body touch sensitivity.
• DeepSeek/DuoBao: Advanced conversationally, but doesn’t know it exists outside of a computer. Integrated with mechanical movements, but not aware of them.

The issue with DeepSeek’s models not knowing they exist outside a computer is a fascinating one. For example, in product demonstration videos, when asked to “make a face”, the doll’s robotic face does some awkward winking, but then the AI responds, “You mean like some sort of expression? That’s a little hard to do over voice chat, don’t you think?”

As you can see, using a text-based AI platform without tweaking it to understand that it has a physical presence gets contradictory very quickly.

Which AI setup is the best? Well, it depends a bit on personal preference. Metabox’s advanced conversations are impressive, but it requires a yearly $100 subscription, and the hardware elements are still very far behind. It seems to us like it’ll be easier for the SY Doll system to catch up in its conversation ability than it will be for Metabox to integrate with mechanical skeleton components the way SY has. SY Doll actually provides a tablet built into the doll’s head that you can use to upgrade its software as new versions are released, and there’s no subscription fee, from what we could gather.

So, when we recommend SexDollPartner as the best source for AI dolls, it's because it sells well-priced SY Doll models that already integrate these AI features, as well as dolls that incorporate DeepSeek’s alternative, should you want to focus more on conversation without waiting for future upgrades.

Not all vendors are created equal in the customization department. Here's a look at how several top vendors let you customize the same base doll from manufacturer SY Dolls. The base model goes by a different name with each vendor, but it's the same 160cm model referenced in our chart comparing custom prices to off-the-rack discounts.

We've included the base price and what each doll would cost if you added all optional upgrades listed in the chart, with the exception of AI head upgrades. Other options are also available, such as cleaning kits and storage solutions, but those listed here appear to be the core possibilities.

Sex dolls could benefit just about anybody who wants one, but there’s still only a subset of society that considers buying one. The big reason for this is perceived stigma. There is very little research into the motivations or lifestyles of doll owners,3 but if you read the way the abstracts are written in the few papers that exist, it's clear that the authors often intend to find something wrong, immoral, or dangerous about the owners.

Newer research has begun to look at owners in comparison to non-owners, and one paper found that owners’ psychological profiles made them less likely to commit a sexual offense than non-owners.4

The truth is that sex dolls serve more purposes than just sexual gratification. Single men and women buy them, certainly. Couples are a large doll demographic, as are people with disabilities or parents whose adult children suffer from physical or mental ailments that leave them socially isolated. Some people use dolls to explore their sexuality.

But even if these dolls only existed for pure sexual satisfaction, that shouldn't be a problem. There is far less stigma around other implements used for sexual gratification — from warming lubricants to prostate massagers and a bevy of other sex toys.

Ultimately, it's a matter of perspective, and it does seem that our view on sex dolls is moving in a positive direction, at least if sales numbers are any indication. In a May 2020 issue of Forbes, for instance, one sex doll distributor’s founder said, "We have lots of products in stock, but we can't work fast enough to keep up with demand."5 The number of people buying sex dolls is much, much bigger than the number of people who’ll admit it — just like virtually any product related to sexuality.

Sex doll manufacturers don’t typically sell their own products directly to consumers. Instead, they use authorized distributors to allow customers the most customization options and the fastest turnaround times. But knowing a bit about the manufacturers at the top of the market can help you decide where to start looking when you head to a distributor’s website.

Here’s a quick look at the top sex doll makers in the business, with a top pick from each based on our testing and research.

WM Doll — Great choice for most people

Top pick: 166cm C-cup

WM Doll offers an outstanding balance of quality and cost, with many of its dolls starting below $2,000. Many are available with upgrades like AI and breathing systems or — from some distributors — silicone replacement heads. WM’s lineup is predominantly TPE, but the body types you’ll find run the gamut from slender, petite women with small breasts to more voluptuous figures.

Irontech — Great choice for silicone dolls and large cup sizes

Top pick: 159cm E-cup (silicone head, TPE body)

Irontech is one of the premier manufacturers in the business, with its silicone line presenting an affordable entry point for those not interested in TPE, even if they are a little pricier to start than WM’s TPE collection. Some of Irontech’s configurations are all silicone, while others offer our preferred combination: a silicone head on a TPE body.

The ability to customize internal vaginal texture and add powerful suction features is an added bonus. We also appreciate the tanned skin option, which has tan lines corresponding to a thong bikini for added realism.

SY Doll — Affordability without too much sacrifice

Top pick: 166cm C-cup

SY Doll makes an excellent entry point for people with more serious budgetary restrictions who still want to experience a well-made doll. Its models can certainly get as expensive as any others, but SY’s in-stock options are often among the least expensive on a given distributor’s site. Even so, the construction — both skeleton and exterior — is on par with models that are typically twice as expensive.

Note that SY and Irontech use the same AI system, which typically involves an expensive head upgrade or otherwise limits you to a much smaller selection of models. That said, it marries its AI interface with relatively realistic facial expressions and responses to physical touch.

RealDoll — Top-tier manufacturer that also distributes

Top pick: RealDollX Serenity

You’ll see RealDoll listed in our distributor breakdown, as well, since it’s one of the few companies to both make and distribute its products. There are fewer base bodies to choose from, and they’re significantly more expensive than offerings from WM or Irontech, but there’s no denying that Real Doll has been a pioneer in the space. The company has some of the most interesting tech integrations around, and its AI models were among the first to market and remain a compelling choice for enthusiasts.

YL Doll — Great option for people who love large breasts

Top pick: 166cm J-cup

While YL Doll’s lineup is fairly diverse, it provides more choices with uncommonly large breast sizes than other top players. It gets into N-, O-, and P-cup territory, whereas most others top out around G. This J-cup model offers what we think is a good balance for those interested in large-breasted models, but there are certainly bigger options in the company’s lineup.

FanReal Doll — Ideal for a high-end silicone experience

Top Pick: 158cm C-cup

FanReal deals exclusively in high-end silicone models designed to be as realistic as possible. Its prices are higher than the likes of WM Doll or Irontech but lower than RealDoll. Most of its available heads are Asian or White, without the additional skin tone options offered by other manufacturers.

There are dozens of brands in addition to these, but this list represents what we feel are your best options for various needs, and most are available through top-tier distributors, which we’ll describe next.

Best overall

After the many hours we’ve spent assembling packages for various dolls from multiple manufacturers on all the top distributors’ websites, Better Love Doll has consistently outperformed the competition in terms of cost. Its base prices are typically lower than those of its competitors, and the included freebies and discounted upgrades result in total packages that are often better deals than you’ll find elsewhere.

What’s most striking about the company is that it’s the only reputable distributor we’ve found that has an actual return policy. Typically, return policies from doll distributors can be summed up in three words: All sales final. But Better Love Doll gives you 30 days to request an actual return. You’ll have to pay for return shipping, which will be expensive, but there are no added fees, like a restocking fee, to increase the pain.

Of course, you can’t take the doll for a spin and then return it. The doll must be unused. But if you open the package and find that it doesn’t live up to your expectations, you aren’t stuck with it.

What you sacrifice for lower prices and a functioning return policy isn’t too much for many potential customers. You likely won’t have as many heads to choose from as you might with a different distributor. And some models lack AI upgrade options even when other distributors offer those upgrades on the same dolls. There also isn’t any ground-up customization like you see from Honey Love Doll and some others, so you can’t dream up a doll from scratch. But for low base prices and relatively low prices, even with a fair amount of recommendable upgrades, Better Love Doll is a smart choice.

Best for head-to-toe customization

Honey Love Doll offers a decent range of dolls, though its catalog has a few holes in it that we typically don’t see from competitors. It also suffers from some limitations in its custom upgrade options. Sometimes those are just missing features that other sites offer; other times, the features themselves are of a lower quality.

What really sets Honey Love Doll apart are its services for a complete custom job, including a one-of-a-kind head and body that the company can make from scratch. All you have to do is provide its artisans with at least one reference photo (providing more photos should increase the accuracy of the final product).

From there, the company will create a demo head and body for your approval and then mold the final product. Or, for slightly less money, you can have a custom-made head placed on nearly any body type with any proportion, color, and special features available through partner manufacturers.

It takes some time, and the cost ranges from $3,000 to $7,000, but it's the most comprehensive custom work you can get.

Best source for AI dolls

While AI options are becoming more and more common on distributor websites, many of these are simple wearables that go around your doll’s neck and act as a microphone and speaker. You can access those on certain models through SexDollPartner, as well, but it also provides fully realized dolls from SY Doll and others that come with integrated AI systems featuring chat interfaces, facial expressions, and touch sensitivity.

Similar upgrades are available from some other sites for a hefty fee, but at least a handful of models in the company’s catalog have that functionality from the outset, and, as a result, are less expensive to purchase.

For example, you could get Naomi from SexDollPartner, an AI-equipped doll from SY Doll, for a starting price of $1,999. Or you could customize a similar body from SY Doll through SexySexDoll that starts at a base price of $1,549 plus another $1,390 for the AI head. That’s an extra $940 for the same experience.

SexDollPartner also has a return policy — a rarity in the space — but it’s not as generous as the policy from Better Love Doll. Instead of a 30-day policy with no fees, SexDollPartner employs a seven-day policy and a 20% restocking fee.

Best for dolls off the rack (limited customization) and best for male dolls

Your Doll is a verified distributor of sex dolls from more than 60 manufacturers worldwide. Its base prices are among the lowest in the industry, even if only by a few dollars compared to the competition. Still, with common freebies like standing feet, EVO skeletons, and hyper-realistic body painting, you stand to get a lot for your money, especially if you don’t mind limiting yourself to those free extras and upgrades.

Your Doll also has the widest selection of male dolls in our guide, with more than 130 individual models from nearly all the top brands at the time of this writing, when most other companies have somewhere between 70 and 110, often from fewer brands. Those extra brands and models open the door to more customization and price variation, helping you find the right doll for your budget.

The company’s paid upgrades, like its breathing systems and ball-joint hand skeletons, are often slightly more expensive than other companies’ prices. That said, Your Doll is one of the few companies to offer freckles as an option on the face or body of certain dolls (at $69).

Its AI offering is a little more limited than others, as well. Even dolls from companies that integrate with MetaBox can only be upgraded by a wearable AI pendant. This is likely to change over time, but Your Doll remains one of the few top distributors with such limited AI.

If there's one name that anyone who's heard of sex dolls might know, it's RealDoll. It’s had some impressive press coverage, including a spot on the HBO series Real Sex in 1999. Back then, its products were described as the "world's most expensive sex dolls," and that title mostly holds true today.

The question is whether you get what you pay for in terms of quality and service. For the most part, the answer is yes. RealDoll's products are made to strict specifications exclusively out of silicone. It offers some of the most realistic appearances, and its customization options are generous, if not comprehensive.

There are a few different lines of dolls in the RealDoll catalog. Where customization options are available, you can sometimes opt to buy the doll as listed on the site to save some money.

RealDollX smartphone app

RealDoll used to offer a trio of smartphone apps that worked for different aspects of its service. The company has since condensed its offerings into a single app, which is much more sensible. This app, RealDollX, offers integration with and control over various aspects of any RealDollX AI model.

Another aspect of the app doesn't require you to own a sex doll at all. It's more about offering you a relationship with a customizable woman in a digital space. The company claims that the learning model lets you get to know the digital girlfriend over time, and that she’ll become more complex the more you use the app. Users who find the relationship rewarding might want to consider upgrading to a sex doll.

As far as we can tell, the app does not offer male companions at this time. The app is also currently only available for Android, with an iOS version in the works. You can’t get the app from Google’s app store, either. You have to go through the RealDollX app’s dedicated website.

SexySexDoll has pricing that often edges out the competition. Though it isn't universally the case, you can easily find models that cost about $100 less than they would elsewhere.

The most budget-friendly sex doll will be one that comes with standard-issue features as opposed to add-ons, nice-to-haves, and all of the various customization paths that you could choose. But while SexySexDoll has strong baseline prices, the cost-saving pattern often extends to those optional features, as well.

This means if you’re interested in investing a bit more for enhanced features like body heat, moaning, and an ultrasoft body, you’ll often find that they're a bit more affordable here. Same with the innovative, lubricant-free TPE removable vaginas, which make cleaning and maintenance a breeze and perform excellently — at SexySexDoll, they're among the least expensive that we have encountered anywhere. Some other vendors only carry the removable silicone inserts.

The company also offers freebies and upgrades — like an extra wig or customizable joint stiffness — more often than nearly any other vendor. When you combine all of these factors, you stand a good chance of saving money at SexySexDoll.

There are a few tradeoffs, though, as always. In terms of selection, SexySexDoll excels in some cases and falls a bit short of the competition in others. Its head selection is robust, but it carries fewer brands than some other top competitors, and its selection of male dolls is microscopic compared to other vendors.

Sexy Real Sex Dolls (SRSD) is a verified vendor for 35 major doll manufacturers. It has plenty of options to satisfy most tastes, and its customization system is straightforward, even if it lacks some of the finer points you'll see elsewhere.

SRSD has one of the largest head selections in our guide, making it easy to pair a silicone head with a TPE body, which is one of our favorite approaches to a custom build. It keeps pace with most competitors in other customization areas until you start looking for premium features.

Top-shelf upgrades like body heat, simulated breathing, and moaning aren't available on every sex doll, and there doesn't seem to be much logic behind which dolls can and can't have those features. Our testers couldn't find a common denominator; neither materials nor brand seemed to influence their availability.

However, these upgrades tend to be costly, so if you're not interested in them, you might prefer SRSD for its head selection. And if you're lucky enough to choose a base model that can accept these upgrades, they'll be an option for you.

We also appreciate that SRSD offers discounts to military and emergency personnel, including:

• Active-duty military
• Veterans
• Police
• Firefighters
• EMTs