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Through astonishing images and the surprisingly touching words of its subjects, Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews explores the new sex machine underground in America and the homespun inventors and users who propel it.
After contacting an active but intensely private Internet community of sex machine inventors, photographer Timothy Archibald eventually won their trust and was invited into workshops and homes. The resulting book is a powerful document that is by turns thought provoking, humorous, and always fascinating.
Sex Machines celebrates the American spirit of invention while exploring the desires and confusions that exist between men and women in our changing culture. Many of the inventors seen within these pages are otherwise ordinary family men who were inspired to help repair strained relationships or simply enhance their wives’ sexual pleasure. Some inventors have expanded their hobby into thriving cottage industries, selling their creations on eBay and adult stores online.
Archibald covers the broad spectrum of the makers—from the elusive creator of the Sybian, the forefather of sex machines, to lesser-known inventors like Paul Gaertner, who, laid off from his job in the high-tech industry, founded a new business by transforming a thrift store pasta maker into a high-powered sexual appliance. After receiving an apocalyptic vision of a future without men, Louis Walker constructs a sex machine prototype for the women survivors. Eric Reynolds credits his apparatus for saving his marriage, and Jon Traven uses his sex device as a form of Christian-based marriage counseling.
Like the work of Bill Owens, Studs Terkel, and Diane Arbus, Archibald’s photographs and interviews find unexpected beauty and mystery among the lives of regular people—this time, as they engender a new form of “marriage enhancement” and sexual liberation in the suburbs and small towns across America.
Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews Reviews
Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews Reviews
| 25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:  Sexual Inventiveness, By This review is from: Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews (Hardcover) In the hilariously over-pedantic penultimate chapter of _Ulysses_, Joyce describes human copulation as the "energetic piston and cylinder movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of a constant but not acute concupiscence resident in a bodily and mental female organism." Everyone is interested in sex, but only some concentrate on the pistons, and by pistons here, I am not being metaphorical, but literal. The inventors depicted in _Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews_ (Process / Daniel 13) by Timothy Archibald are almost all piston men. Archibald stumbled upon their works when doing research on independent inventors in general, and found that though the community of sex-machine inventors may be small, it has some cohesion. There are sex machines for sale on eBay, for instance, and web circles of specialists who invent, sell, and collect the machines. The invention of such things has gone on for centuries, as Archibald discovered in browsing Patent Office files, but... Read more 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful: The America you didn't know existed, By Alison Gentry "Alison G." (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews This review is from: Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews (Hardcover) I first saw the author's project on the web a few years back. Forgot about it and then stumbled upon the book last week at work. It's beautiful and cool and surprising all at once. Right now I think its my favorite book of the year, I luv it. Some backround: The author went out across the US to meet inventors of these home made machines. Rather than a freakshow, he finds this collection of everyday people that have curious tales to tell about themselves, their lives and everything else in between. The photographs themselves look like they are from the American heartland, as if the author tapped into America's little secret, this thing we had no idea existed. The photographs and stories are sandwiched between two essays, but the real stuff is in the middle: the tales the subjects tell, honestly, all in their own words. 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful: great photography, By This review is from: Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews (Hardcover) it is not what I expected! It's great when I am surprised. It is so "cute" looking. Kinda like a kids book, all fresh colors. At first glance it is naughty, but unthreatening, which is the beauty in it's concept. Not what I expected at all, I love surprises. The lawn mower really sets it up. The hidden lives of suburban inventers. Tim's style of very clear slightly detracted shots really adds to the simpleness of the topic without judgment or guilt. You don�t really even feel like you have crossed a sexual boundary. Simple folks inventing, like a science project, or fixing the mower. But then I put it down for a few days and then looked at it again. It is a really weird book! And that's coming from someone that haunted the NYC sex clubs with Mapplethorpe and Tom of Finland. All those little background elements, a fire extinguisher, and the shot with the two and the... Read more |
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