Sex Machines

I first discovered that sex machines weren't 'new' things when I watched Weimar Love: Hot Sex in Pre-Nazi Berlin and learned that they existed in the 1920s. I knew that dildos and even vibrators had been around quite some time, but I thought fucking machines were relatively new to the sex scene.

In The Technology of Orgasm Rachel Maines chronicles over fifty sex devices developed before 1900. Ranging from small hand operated appliances to large steam powered machines (which required a crew, in a separate room, to shovel in the coal), all created under medical 'concern' for curing women of "hysteria".

In the 1930's and 40's, these machines were advertised heavily, if a bit secretively.

Most often they were in women's publications, but sometimes they were marketed to their audience in smutty publications, which clearly shows they were not so much for "hysteria" as pleasure.

Other times they seemed to be more comedic than the advertising they're purported to be -- like with this "Rape - All" copy.

Supposedly made by the "American Rolling & Frigging Mills" company, the copy is "wishful" if not silly.

In case you think this 'ad' is serious, note the corporate location in "Duchebag Wisconsin".

This drew into question, in my mind anyway, if this "Universal Intercourse Machine" wasn't also a joke...

A closer look at this 'ad' (found in a 1930's Tijuana Bible) exposes this too is a joke. Note the small boxed text at bottom left: "Tune in on Station A.S.S. and Hear Big-Tit Mae using a Universal"

For more on real sex machines:

See this review of Weimar Love where you can also watch clips.

Read the first chapter of The Technology of Orgasm