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The Creepiest Sex Robots In Mass Media Right Now

Ashton Kutcher posed as a robot being "tested" by his creator, in this photoshoot for vMan magazine with famous photographer Mario Testino. (See gallery below, completely with weirdly exaggerated robo-package in his briefs.) He says he got the idea from a Gatorade ad in which someone's being tested for their physical performance, and then he started thinking, what if God could test us, his creations, to see if we're fulfilling our function? And then somehow that led to him thinking about a robot being tested by his actual creator. Actually, his explanation is less cogent than that. But actually, Ashton's only the third creepiest and most inappropriately sexy robot in mass media at the moment. Want to see the two that are worse? More »

4:30 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,001 views, 23 comments

Latest by geekgrrl: the svedka bot looks the slightest bit like tilda swinton. i like tilda swinton; the robot, not so much. call me crazy, but even though she's too skinny (shocker), i kinda dug the heineken bot... more »