Christina (oops, we mean "Xtina") Aguilera has piled on another endorsement deal and will be heating up yet another series of print ads with her photogenic hotness, this time for the Skechers shoe brand. The advertising campaign is called "Naughty and Nice" and will roll out in August to support Skecher's Fall 2004 line of shoes. The ads feature Christina (er, Xtina) playing dual roles in scenes that illustrate fetishistic male sex fantasies.

Aguilera appears in one ad as a hospital patient and as a syringe-wielding nurse in tight hip-hugging white uniform that barely covers her panties and shows off legs sporting white stockings and garters. In another, the pop diva and her doppelganger play both mini-skirt clad student in pigtails and open-blouse teacher holding a long pointer like its a weapon. In a third, more overtly erotic scenario, Xtina is dressed in a leather mini-skirt police uniform, complete with dangling handcuffs, and she eyes her twin who washing a car, soapy sponge in hand.

The iconic and erotic images have a vaguely lesbian undertone, but only in so far as the ads are designed to titillate like those rote color-by-numbers girl-on-girl sex scenes in many male-produced porn videos. These images have an airbrushed, illustrative quality that imbues them with the veneer of innocence and draws out the eroticism into greater, more effective contrast. In other words: these ads are freaking HOT!!!!!

BTW, just in case any of you folks unfamiliar with the current pantheon of sexed-up MTV divas, Christina Aguilera is the blonde who can actually sing‹the one with the amazing voice.

--Shibuya Kid

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