Robots these days can perform surgeries, walk the runway, and even teach a class of students. And now there’s a robot that can ... have sex. A German company called First Androids has created the world’s most advanced sex doll. Her name is Andy (guess men are really into women with guy’s names, à la Joey Potter?) and she costs $3820. Her face and body are crazy realistic and she appears to have hair and eyebrows (and, uh, pubes) that look pretty convincing. She also has a “heavy breathing” function and an actual G-spot. So far, First Androids has received four million orders for the sex ‘bots, which kind of shocked me at first. But then I remembered that there are guys out there (cough, Eliot Spitzer) who spend $3820 a month on hookers and it all made sense. Guess the age of robot prostitutes isn’t so far off? [Asylum]

Welcome to Monday, people. Let’s get this week started right—with a fun-loving video in which armed women shoot inflatable love dolls out of the sky. Now you know what you wish you were doing if you weren’t at work, don’t you? Making a feminist statement by annihilating that which represents the patriarchal objectification of women! Or, you know, maybe it’s just some wacky Japanese TV show. However you want to see it, it looks like a good time to me. Do you think that maybe for the next episode they could send up a squadron of those inflatable Sarah Palin love dolls? That would be a great opportunity for making an awesome political statement, indeed.

I try to keep an open mind when it comes to other peoples’ fetishes, though there are some things I draw the line at (anything involving bodily substances, for one). This particular fetish, however, just scares, rather than disgusts me. It seems that, like Buffalo Bill before them (remember “Silence of the Lambs”) there’s a certain type of guy that gets off on actually wearing the “skins” of latex sex dolls, face and all.  Called “masking” or “femskins,” these peeps are apparently prominent enough that they had a convention (no word on why it was canceled). And there’s video! [via Asylum]

My dog Lucca, a female mutt that has been fixed, has a thing for humping stuffed animals and balled up socks. It doesn’t make much sense, since she shouldn’t have any sexual urges, but I think she does it to assert authority (over an inanimate object). Which is why I thought this Designer Sex Doll for dogs would be the perfect gift for her third birthday! After all, it looks vaguely like modern art and it will be easy for her to grasp with her front paws! But then again, there is a, um, pink hole at the rear end, and something tells me it’s not dishwasher safe. [NeatORama]

You might have heard of RealDolls, those insanely expensive mannequins (they start at $6,500) that resemble very attractive women. Some people have sex with them. As you might expect, having sex with a doll can cause some damage. But you don’t just throw away a doll that costs several thousands of dollars, you get it fixed. An article in this month’s issue of Details profiles Slade Fiero, the RealDoll Doctor. This job sounds like a subject even too gross for the Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs,” but Fiero doesn’t mind. He appreciates the craftsmanship of the dolls—and he must be making bank. When someone’s broken doll arrives at his home, he hangs her in the shower and shoots hot water into her body. Then, he injects acetone into her three orifices with a syringe: “I wear rubber gloves, so it’s really not that big of a deal for me. I don’t see gobbles of goop rushing out.” I think I just lost my lunch. [Details]

Wow, some people really will do anything to get laid. In Australia, a particularly desperate man broke into an adult toy shop to have sex with blow-up doll. Apparently, he smashed the store windows and, um, squeezed through the tight hole. The shop owner say this isn’t the first time he’s broken into the shop and had his way with their merchandise, claiming there’s been at least one unreported break-in before this. “He has been taking the dolls out the back and blowing them up and using the dolls and leaving them in the alley,” he reported. Specifically, he’s been “using” a doll named “Jungle Jane,” which he’s stolen on both occasions. And if that isn’t enough of a gross-out image for you, consider this: the burglar “also had the ‘weird’ habit of cleaning up the mess he had made after entering the building.” Thankfully (?), he didn’t clean up nearly well enough; traces of DNA were left on the doll to help police track him down. “It is a real concern that someone like that is out on the street,” the shop owner said. We couldn’t agree more. [News.com.au]

We here at The Frisky live for celeb gossip, chocolate, and your comments. What can we say, you bitches crack us up! So in honor of you, our smart, sexy, and incisive readers, who aren’t afraid to talk smack on the Internet, here are our five favorite comments from last week:

(Don’t) Leave Britney Alone!
“bruce buchanan” from Quick Pic: Should Britney Spears Buy These Sunglasses?
There’s a new Chris Crocker on the Internet! When we spotted Britney trying on some wayfarer sunglasses, we decided to play gal pal and asked you guys to give her a yay or nay on buying the frames.  What did our friend Bruce say? “britney rules she is the best girl and entertainer ever,bruce.” 
Whoa, hope Aretha Franklin doesn’t read this.  She’s already pissed at Tina Turner for getting called the Queen!

Considering how obsessed the nation is with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, it was only a matter of time before someone created a love doll in her likeness. After the jump, all the details on what may be America’s first political sex doll.

A long time ago, I dated this guy who was a celebrity. He had his own TV show. You probably know who he is. But let’s not go there, shall we? At the end of our first date, he took me to his house in the Hollywood Hills. When I walked in the door, I found there were four life-sized, anatomically correct sex dolls sitting around on the furniture. They were RealDolls. They cost several thousand dollars a piece. Some of them were dressed. Some of them were not. It was kind of awkward. While he went in the kitchen to get a beer, I sat next to one of the dolls. She was cold and clammy. I pulled at her tongue, and it came out in my hand. I wondered what he saw in them. Ultimately, our relationship was short-lived. Maybe he preferred inanimate objects to me. Today, after I read this report about a sex doll who was thrown away by the side of the road, I wondered whatever happened to those love dolls.

They say one of the signs that you’ve “made it” as a celebrity is when you have your own action figure—but what about your own sex doll? Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, and Lindsay Lohan’s likenesses are among those that have been replicated as blow-up “love” dolls. Of course, since none of these women have authorized these products, the dolls only use their first names. The Lindsay Fully Loaded Love Doll bears the slogan, “She’s no love bug, she’s a fiery red ... who never says no and is always up for a good time.” If your idea of a good time is being a complete loser and humping an inanimate object that you can pop with a thumbtack, that is. [Trend Hunter]

Rachel Bilson strips down to a bra, underwear, and red heels on the February cover of GQ. Normally, we think Rachel is the cutest—and want to steal her clothes and her boyfriend—so why, oh why, did she feel the need to undress and contort herself into awkward-looking (and slightly sexist) positions? Of course, we know the answer: to publicize her new movie, Jumper. But, as our Amelia pointed out, doesn’t her face look like that of a blow-up sex doll? We think it’s the eyeliner. [GQ]

Apparently PETA was inspired by the movie Lars and the Real Girl for its latest stunt. The animal rights group had planned to protest KFC’s cruel killing of chickens by displaying blow-up sex dolls with banners reading, “KFC Blows.” But the plan went awry when Philippine customs confiscated the dolls before PETA could put them on display in red light districts in the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, and Japan. Maybe the customs’ agents were feeling lonely? [China View]