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Author: Hoag Levins
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781558505346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat 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.
Author: Timothy Archibald
Publisher: Daniel 13 / Process
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780976082231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA humorous, thoughtful exploration of American sex machine inventors and users, told through photographs and interviews.
Author: Patrick D. Hopkins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780253212306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs 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.
Author: Fred Botting
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1526185628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvailable again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture. Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the book develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation. The book unravels one figure in a detailed, lucid and extensive revision of Lacanian psychoanalysis in association with postmodern theory, feminism and deconstruction. Problematising the easy conjunction of human bodies and inhuman technology, the navel opens into networks of desire, history, culture and machines. Linked to the unconscious, to jokes and dreams, navels appear on the bodies of replicants and in the technological matrix, a strange excess in a future imagined in terms of corporeal ‘meat’ or posthuman machine. Exploring the significance of this omphalic excess, the book closely examines postmodern and cyberpunk texts (by Thomas Pynchon, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker) alongside detailed readings of contemporary cultural critics and theorists.
Author: Barak Lurie
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09-08
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780999513958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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?
Author: Jamie Townsend
Publisher: Spect Books
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781732976924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. "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
Author: Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-05-17
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0226923096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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.
Author: John Lardas Modern
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-11-11
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0226533255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.
Author: Donna J. Drucker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9400770642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Machines of Sex Research describes how researchers worldwide integrated technology into studies of human sexuality in the postwar era. The machines they invented made new ways of seeing bodies possible. Some researchers who studied men used machines like penile strain gauges to police “deviant” male sexuality; others used less painful devices like penis-cameras to study women’s sexual responses and map the physiology of their arousal and orgasm. While researchers used the findings from their technological innovations to propose their own views of how people should view their bodies and should manage their sexual lives, their readers interpreted their findings to enact their own visions of sexuality. Drucker shows how the use of machines in sex research provided some of the intellectual underpinnings of the sexual revolution and the women’s and gay rights movements, and in turn how the sex research community developed new machines for investigations that would enhance sexual happiness rather than constrict it. The Machines of Sex Research is a key read for those interested in the intersections between human sexuality, technology, and twentieth-century social movements. Describes the little-known history of the machines of human sex research in the postwar era Shows how researchers worldwide invented and used machines to study human sexuality and the body in new ways, and how they used and improved each other's designs Relates the relationship between the machines of sex research to Cold War sexualities and gender and sexual liberation movements.
Author: Andre Duza
Publisher:
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781933929644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica 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.
