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.
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