Sex machine
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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A sex machine, also known as a fucking machine, is a mechanical device used to simulate human sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
History and use
The vibrator was originally invented for the treatment of hysteria in Victorian women through medical orgasm induced by clitoral massage. These early mechanical devices were much larger and more powerful than the modern vibrators and were first used by physicians and became popular in bath houses in Europe and the US towards the beginning of the 20th century. More compact, electrically powered versions later briefly appeared as health aids in department store catalogs.
Modern automated erotic stimulation devices differ from vibrators because they penetrate as well as throb. These devices are sometimes used as part of auto-erotic or partnered bondage play. Teledildonics combines use of various sex machines and a web interface, used remotely by a partner. Modern sex machines on the market include vacuum pumps, instruments that deliver calibrated electrical shocks to the nipples and genitals, and life size inflatable male and female dolls with penetrable and vibrating orifices.
Namesakes in music
- "Sex Machine", a song on the 1969 album Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone
- Sex Machine (album), a 1970 album by James Brown
- "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine", a 1970 song by James Brown
- Live at the Sex Machine, a 1971 funk album by Kool and the Gang
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