Author: Hoag Levins
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
ISBN: 9781558505346
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
What happens when the legendary American passion for invention collides with the legendary American passion for sex? Eye-opening, provocative, and entertaining, this book reveals the amazing story of our national quest for sexual innovation--straight from the files of the U.S. Patent Office. Covers over 800 unusual and often incredible devices.
American Sex Machines
Author: Hoag Levins
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
ISBN: 9781558505346
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
What happens when the legendary American passion for invention collides with the legendary American passion for sex? Eye-opening, provocative, and entertaining, this book reveals the amazing story of our national quest for sexual innovation--straight from the files of the U.S. Patent Office. Covers over 800 unusual and often incredible devices.
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
ISBN: 9781558505346
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
What happens when the legendary American passion for invention collides with the legendary American passion for sex? Eye-opening, provocative, and entertaining, this book reveals the amazing story of our national quest for sexual innovation--straight from the files of the U.S. Patent Office. Covers over 800 unusual and often incredible devices.
Sex Machines
Author: Timothy Archibald
Publisher: Daniel 13 / Process
ISBN: 9780976082231
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A humorous, thoughtful exploration of American sex machine inventors and users, told through photographs and interviews.
Publisher: Daniel 13 / Process
ISBN: 9780976082231
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A humorous, thoughtful exploration of American sex machine inventors and users, told through photographs and interviews.
Sex/Machine
Author: Patrick D. Hopkins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
As powerful interacting social and physical forces, gender and technology shape our experiences, cultures, and identities-sometimes in such comfortable and subtle ways that it takes effort to appreciate them; sometimes in such conspicuous and explosive ways that everyone recognizes their importance. Delving into these issues is an opportunity to discover how technology promises or threatens to rewrite our ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender identity.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
As powerful interacting social and physical forces, gender and technology shape our experiences, cultures, and identities-sometimes in such comfortable and subtle ways that it takes effort to appreciate them; sometimes in such conspicuous and explosive ways that everyone recognizes their importance. Delving into these issues is an opportunity to discover how technology promises or threatens to rewrite our ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender identity.
Sex Machines
Author: Jamie Townsend
Publisher: Spect Books
ISBN: 9781732976924
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Poetry. "With these exquisite SEX MACHINES, Jamie Townsend gives us the Baroque energy of a painted rose casually opening onto a profane, profound, ornate, and complex realm where 'we don't have to choose.' Epiphanies occur, are recognized and undermined. Desire, identity, love, fun, and tragedy vie for our attention as Townsend proves there is a sexuality to fate, 'an effacement of its ongoing effacement.' Sonorous and seductive, SEX MACHINES might just reveal the 'culmination of your basest fantasy' where 'We can all go fuck ourselves.' Read them and weep."--Laura Moriarty
Publisher: Spect Books
ISBN: 9781732976924
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Poetry. "With these exquisite SEX MACHINES, Jamie Townsend gives us the Baroque energy of a painted rose casually opening onto a profane, profound, ornate, and complex realm where 'we don't have to choose.' Epiphanies occur, are recognized and undermined. Desire, identity, love, fun, and tragedy vie for our attention as Townsend proves there is a sexuality to fate, 'an effacement of its ongoing effacement.' Sonorous and seductive, SEX MACHINES might just reveal the 'culmination of your basest fantasy' where 'We can all go fuck ourselves.' Read them and weep."--Laura Moriarty
Rise of the Sex Machines: Where Our Orgasm-to-go Culture is Taking Us - and who Will Resist
Author: Barak Lurie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999513958
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"I lost my husband to a sex robot." You'll start hearing women saying those ominous words in the next 7 to 10 years. And when it happens, we'll all ask: How did we get here? With humor and insight, Rise of the Sex Machines lays out how culture and technology are hurling us toward the end of romance, relationships, and love. They're even changing the nature of sex itself.We have devolved to a culture of "insta-sex," where you can get your orgasm to go. Just look at Tinder and the "swipe-right/swipe-left" culture in selecting your preferred mates. Like many other aspects in our lives we demand instantly-food, music, books, movies, market information, banking, ride-hailing-we're beginning to expect our sex to be also fast and easily accessible. And people are deciding relationships are just too damn hard. That involves time in caring, being attentive and being selfless. What matters to many is the narcissistic immediate gratification. So sex robots--what's not to like? You'll get your sex quickly and just the way you like it. She won't get older, fatter or uglier on you. You can always upgrade or just replace her. You can never "cheat" on her, and she can't cheat on you. And she'll never accuse you of harassment, rape or assault. From the ever-waning interest in religion, to feminism's dismissal of men, to the new "masculinity is toxic" movement, to people choosing not to get married or have children, and to the ever-expanding embrace of multiple sexual identities and sexual freedom, author Barak Lurie shows us the factors that are conspiring to push us into the arms of sex robots. And brace for a shocking ending. It'll be a twist you never saw coming.Sex Robots will be a reality. They're already here, growing exponentially in numbers. They cannot be stopped. The more important question is: Who will resist?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999513958
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"I lost my husband to a sex robot." You'll start hearing women saying those ominous words in the next 7 to 10 years. And when it happens, we'll all ask: How did we get here? With humor and insight, Rise of the Sex Machines lays out how culture and technology are hurling us toward the end of romance, relationships, and love. They're even changing the nature of sex itself.We have devolved to a culture of "insta-sex," where you can get your orgasm to go. Just look at Tinder and the "swipe-right/swipe-left" culture in selecting your preferred mates. Like many other aspects in our lives we demand instantly-food, music, books, movies, market information, banking, ride-hailing-we're beginning to expect our sex to be also fast and easily accessible. And people are deciding relationships are just too damn hard. That involves time in caring, being attentive and being selfless. What matters to many is the narcissistic immediate gratification. So sex robots--what's not to like? You'll get your sex quickly and just the way you like it. She won't get older, fatter or uglier on you. You can always upgrade or just replace her. You can never "cheat" on her, and she can't cheat on you. And she'll never accuse you of harassment, rape or assault. From the ever-waning interest in religion, to feminism's dismissal of men, to the new "masculinity is toxic" movement, to people choosing not to get married or have children, and to the ever-expanding embrace of multiple sexual identities and sexual freedom, author Barak Lurie shows us the factors that are conspiring to push us into the arms of sex robots. And brace for a shocking ending. It'll be a twist you never saw coming.Sex Robots will be a reality. They're already here, growing exponentially in numbers. They cannot be stopped. The more important question is: Who will resist?
Secularism in Antebellum America
Author: John Lardas Modern
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226533239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Ghosts, railroads, Sing Sing, sex machines - these are just a few of the phenomena that appear in this pioneering account of religion and society in 19th-century America.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226533239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Ghosts, railroads, Sing Sing, sex machines - these are just a few of the phenomena that appear in this pioneering account of religion and society in 19th-century America.
Machines Like Me
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385545126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding. Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence—Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart—and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human—our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, coming in September!
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385545126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding. Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence—Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart—and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human—our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, coming in September!
What Soldiers Do
Author: Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226923096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226923096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
Necro Sex Machine
Author: Andre Duza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933929644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
America post apocalypse...a toxic wasteland populated by bloodthristy scavengers, mutated animals, and roving bands of organized militias wing for control of civilized society's leftovers. Housed in small settlements that pepper the wasteland, the survivors of the third world war struggle to rebuild amidst the scourge of sickness and disease and the constant threat of attack from the horrors that roam beyond their rudimentary borders. But something much worse has risen from the toxic fog, a menace whose ferocity rivals the legendary wrath of Bloody Mary and her Revenant Clan. People say that this new menace is responsible for the Revenant Clan's sudden disappearance, that Bloody Mary had finally met her match. Or maybe the reports of yellow-red eyes glaring from the darkness were all part of Griff's mind games.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933929644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
America post apocalypse...a toxic wasteland populated by bloodthristy scavengers, mutated animals, and roving bands of organized militias wing for control of civilized society's leftovers. Housed in small settlements that pepper the wasteland, the survivors of the third world war struggle to rebuild amidst the scourge of sickness and disease and the constant threat of attack from the horrors that roam beyond their rudimentary borders. But something much worse has risen from the toxic fog, a menace whose ferocity rivals the legendary wrath of Bloody Mary and her Revenant Clan. People say that this new menace is responsible for the Revenant Clan's sudden disappearance, that Bloody Mary had finally met her match. Or maybe the reports of yellow-red eyes glaring from the darkness were all part of Griff's mind games.
Sex Machine
Author: Marie Force
Publisher: HTJB, Inc.
ISBN: 1942295839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
“(This) was seriously one of the HOTTEST books I’ve ever read!” —Emma Chase, NY Times bestselling author of Royally Screwed "Hot, emotional and fun, this sex machine of a man has a huge...HEART!" - Lauren Blakely, NY Times bestselling author of WELL HUNG “Sex Machine totally got my motor running. Marie Force just delivered one smoking hot romance.” —Sawyer Bennett, New York Times bestselling author SEX MACHINE He’s good for one thing and one thing only—and she wants it bad. Honey Carmichael has never had a decent orgasm, and she’s out to change that with the one man in town known for his superior skill between the sheets. Blake Dempsey is happy to help Honey with her “problem” as long as she knows he’s only interested in sex. His heart was broken when his high school girlfriend was killed in the car he was driving, and he has nothing to offer other than more orgasms than Honey can handle. Which is just fine with her—until fantastic orgasms aren’t enough anymore for either of them and unexpected feelings turn hot sex into messy entanglement—and that most definitely wasn’t in the plans. But you know what they say about plans… A sexy, dirty standalone romance intended for MATURE audiences. If you can’t take the heat in Blake’s bedroom, stay out or you might get burned. You’ve been warned!
Publisher: HTJB, Inc.
ISBN: 1942295839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
“(This) was seriously one of the HOTTEST books I’ve ever read!” —Emma Chase, NY Times bestselling author of Royally Screwed "Hot, emotional and fun, this sex machine of a man has a huge...HEART!" - Lauren Blakely, NY Times bestselling author of WELL HUNG “Sex Machine totally got my motor running. Marie Force just delivered one smoking hot romance.” —Sawyer Bennett, New York Times bestselling author SEX MACHINE He’s good for one thing and one thing only—and she wants it bad. Honey Carmichael has never had a decent orgasm, and she’s out to change that with the one man in town known for his superior skill between the sheets. Blake Dempsey is happy to help Honey with her “problem” as long as she knows he’s only interested in sex. His heart was broken when his high school girlfriend was killed in the car he was driving, and he has nothing to offer other than more orgasms than Honey can handle. Which is just fine with her—until fantastic orgasms aren’t enough anymore for either of them and unexpected feelings turn hot sex into messy entanglement—and that most definitely wasn’t in the plans. But you know what they say about plans… A sexy, dirty standalone romance intended for MATURE audiences. If you can’t take the heat in Blake’s bedroom, stay out or you might get burned. You’ve been warned!