Nine employees in southern California spend their days painstakingly sculpting faces, pouring silicone into molds and customizing fake Tips to create high-end sex dolls.

Each ‘RealDoll’ is created with a flexible skeleton and requires about 80 hours of work from start to finish, although more specific requests, ranging from multiple heads to elf ears, take up additional time and handiwork.

Photographer Robert Benson captured the surreal world at Abyss Creations outside San Diego, where faceless bodies hang from the ceiling and shelves are neatly lined with dildos.