The devices we use to create erotic and sexual pleasure are an expression of our culture, as much as our cuisine and our music. Food and music occupy a place in our cultural discourse where sex machines fear to tread; people gather at parties to discuss a new restaurant. “Oh, it’s an Indian restaurant? I love navrattan korma!”
Many of the books and lecturers on human sexuality encourage the use of vibrators, but they’re discussed in a way that suggests discomfort on the side of the author or the lecturer. The speaker will mention categories, such as rabbit vibrators, bullet vibrators, and wand vibrators, and probably discuss the safety of various materials. Few of them will go into sensual detail, gushing about the magnificence of an experience, like a food critic might.
And that’s just vibrators. Present for decades in the cultural consciousness, vribrators and dildos are still an uneasy subject for writers and speakers. So what about the joys I explore? What about e-stim? What about suction devices and fucking machines?
Violet Blue was brave enough to broach the subject of fucking machines.
Having an actual sex machine in the room for you to play with can turn an evening of sex into an endless session of orgasmic endeavors–because the sex machine itself is truly tireless.
And that’s part of the appeal of a sex machine. By today’s definition, a sex machine is a large device that vibrates or penetrates the user, or both, powered by electricity. These simple machines all perform pretty simple tasks: They buzz, they go in-and-out, or they spin a dildo–tirelessly. They’re often so big that the user sits astride the machine like riding a mechanical bull, or position their body on the large and imposing, and often loud, mechanical device–which is all part of the appeal.
Sex machines are the ultimate crossroad where vulnerable human interaction and intimacy says hello to a cold, powerful, mechanical device. By sexualizing the machine in these fucking-machine interactions, we even give the machine an athropomorphic quality, teasing ourselves for our own perceptions about machines and robots having lives and personalities. By having sex with a machine, a woman cen be seen as either conquering or being conquered by a powerful and imposing sex toy. Either way she slices it, sex machines represent to her the ultimate tireless lover, able to deliver satisfaction long after other human beings wear out.
from The Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys, by Violet Blue.
That passage is a good intro for those who haven’t yet seen the allure of fucking machines, the glamour of them. It might over-emphasize the tirelessness of the machine, and under-emphasize the relentlessness of its rhythms, but it’s refreshing to see someone who writes about sex toys trying to address this phenomenon. Kudos, Ms. Blue.
I’m encouraged by seeing red at The Red Sneaker Diaries blog about her explorations of e-stim, and Domina Doll at Viviane’s Sex Carnival has also begun to write about her discoveries. This could be the start of a movement, finding language to express subtler and more powerful aspects of the body’s encounter with devices — and devices are the mind made flesh.
