I recall one inventor attempting to explain his fascination to me and it really came down to the sound the machine made. “Each person had a reason why this thing spoke to them, and every answer was different. “To me this little subculture had everything in it I ever wanted that would allow me to tell a rich story about men, women, and America. It was anonymous, but the inventors shared photographs of their inventions. He told BuzzFeed: “While researching the world of inventors for another project I came across a listserv online for people who were inventing these primitive sex machines. In 2005, American photographer Timothy Archibald published a book called Sex Machines in which he met these creators and their various DIY fuckbots in their garages, bedrooms, and living rooms. People have been making sex machines since the invention of Cleopatra’s bumblebee-powered vibrator. Just FYI: The US patent office is filled with early designs for mechanical sexual devices.
