Cycles DOES have SSS. Just not on the GPU at the moment. Sorry if you got me wrong here, in fact Heimlich's skin shaders are really impressive stuff. You need to render them using the CPU, though, not the GPU. 

GPU renders of SSS are planned, but they still seem to have problems with those.

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