I’m talking about making their perfect-copy body-part sex toys. In any garden-variety adult store, one can buy Jenna’s mouth, Peter’s penis, Keri’s foot, Ashleigh’s anus…and the ladybits of many a lady who stars in Porn Valley’s fine visual products. As artist Midori illustrated last weekend in her “Plastics” art show, imitation human sex toys are often more than the sum of their parts, conjuring up visceral reactions in observers, and likely also users, of the expensive and (often) contextually creepy toys.

Yet, other than squeaking on Howard Stern that we should buy as many of Rhapsody’s Realistic Love Tunnels as possible — how does any given “Rhapsody” feel about being the subject of such a product? Every time I see a girl’s molded punany in a sex toy display, I wonder what the conversation was like leading up to, and during the casting process of her nethers. Did she Tweet in surprised exuberance with her legs in the air to followers no doubt waiting with bated breath, “Now Rhapsody has two coochies!”

Or not. After interviewing Midori I did wonder if the starlets think about what’s happening to their most private look-alikes, and if they do think about their body doubles, how the women feel about having their likenesses in someone’s underwear drawer, ready for use in an almost voodoo-doll kind of way.

Seems to me there’s a horror movie storyline in there somewhere.

Fortunately, before my imagination got away from me, I had the opportunity to interview porn star April Flores (also: fattyd.com, NSFW) who recently had her vulva cast into a lifelike, realistic masturbation toy. Flores not only had much to say about the process, including what her husband thinks of it, and her reflections afterward, but she also did something no other porn performer has done with her cloned part. She let several famous artists loose on their own copies, and took the art show on the road.

Violet Blue: What sort of things did you think about when you were asked to model for the toy?

April Flores: When I received the first email saying that someone was interested in using me as a model for a toy I was very flattered. For some reason I thought it was going to be an action figure type toy, so I envisioned dressing the April doll up and styling her hair like I used to do with my Barbies. I planned on having her get it on with our Hulk action figure too! Once I did some research on Topco I realized the toy would be of a more adult nature, and I became very intrigued and excited. When we had the first meeting with Topco it was explained to me that the toy would be an actual sex toy and part of their Wildfire Celebrity Series. Then I became thrilled! They told me that this would be the first ever Plus Sized Love Toy molded from an actual person. I couldn’t believe this had never been done before. I felt beyond honored to have been asked to provide the pussy that would break new ground for sex toy diversity! Read the rest of this entry »