Lamar Odom Should Be Ashamed of Himself

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Buying a custom sex doll built exactly like your ex-wife is the stuff of dystopian fiction, but that has not deterred Lamar Odom, former Los Angeles Lakers player and absolute sicko, from ordering one that resembles Khloé Kardashian. The two were married from 2009 to 2016 but divorced for many reasons, including his struggles with sex addiction. (Per his own memoir: “I couldn’t keep my d–k in my pants or the coke out of my nose.”) The issue does not seem to be resolved. While some were casting their ballots on Election Day, Odom was at the RealDoll sex-toy facility in Las Vegas, copping a feel from the naked dolls and putting in his order for a Kardashian look-alike. Don’t believe me? There’s a photo shoot!

If that’s not gross enough, Odom’s manager said the quiet stuff out loud to TMZ, claiming that the sex doll was perfect “because he can do whatever he wants with her sexually.” Odom does not seem to have considered that this is an egregious violation of his ex-wife’s privacy; the two barely speak, but he says the doll is necessary for his “mental health.” (I’d like to see a doctor’s note on that.) Odom addressed the matter on the We’re Out of Time podcast on Tuesday. “It’s sick, but I think we’re all a little off, a little weird,” he admitted, as if he were talking about eating peanut butter sandwiches with pickles in it and not … shelling out thousands of dollars to put his dick in a startling realistic imitation of a woman who did not consent to this. (The dolls retail for $8,000–$20,000, but he reportedly got a discount.) That this is at all legal spells something seriously wrong with our country, where women are being stripped of their right to bodily autonomy and deep-faked into porn. Look-alike sex dolls are just another instrument of domination.