SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Men and Women Differ in Their Perceptions of Sex Robots and Platonic Love Robots. “The results of the current study show that females have less positive views of robots, and especially of sex robots, compared to men.” And yet about half of women use a vibrator, which is just a primitive sex robot.

Related: Eugene Volokh on vibrators and double standards.

UPDATE: I almost forgot — nobody tell notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias. “He seems to have a particular fear of fembots, the analysis of which I will leave to the professionals.”