February 03, 2006

Lavender magazine on Sex Machines

Power Tools
February 3, 2006
by Steve Lenius

So begins a very old—and very famous—bawdy limerick.

The fascinating sexual subculture of “screwing machines,” and the people who build and use them, is the subject of Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews, a new book by Timothy Archibald.

Sexual devices can be as simple as cock rings, or as ubiquitous as phallic “personal vibrators” (“for soothing, relaxing massage on any part of your body!”). Sex Machines shows us more extreme, heavy-duty contraptions, designed to offer a sex partner that truly can “last all night” if necessary.

The machines shown in the book give new meaning to Ann Reed’s song that proclaims: “Power tools are a girl’s best friend.” One of the devices pictured in the book is, in fact, a power tool—a Sawzall with a dildo attached where the reciprocating blade normally would be...

Read the rest of the article at Lavender Magazine.

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