Ever wanted to know more about the fascination around Sex Machines? The book ‘Sex Machines – Photograhs and Interviews‘ by Timothy Archibald will open up a whole new world. The book explores an incredible American subculture of do it yourself enthusiasts with a penchant for building uniquely distinctive sex machines, yes you heard right those scary devices you see in many porn videos, a far cry from the original Sybian which is commonplace in adult videos and has been for some years these devices range in style from gun like machines, beds, freestanding devices, robots, and even coffins!
The book introduces us to the stories of the people behind these devices. From a tech industry executive made redundant, to a pasta maker with ambitions to launch a new career in the pleasure products industry, a cowboy from Idaho and many other thoroughly unique and interesting individuals. If you want one yourself you can buy a sex machine today?
Here are some of our favourite examples beautifully and artistically shot by the author Timothy Archibald himself.
Timothy Archibald’s photography has been used by many reputable brands having appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, GQ, The New Yorker, and Outside Magazine, and also in advertisement campaigns for Apple Computers, Eastman Kodak, and IKEA. Pretty accomplished to say the least.
“…one of publishing history’s most amusing, fascinating and unexpectedly profound photo books on sex.” — Thomas Roche, Eros-zine.com
“The book is…more about sociology than sexuality; the images aren’t pornographic, and the stories of these tinkerer’s lives and obsessions are fascinating.” — Xeni Jardin, boingboing.com
Reading this book made us totally want to buy sex machines after looking at all of those thrusting machines and what they are capable of! Tempted yourself?
Source: BuzzFeed
