Needs more leather fetish mask & goggles. Bring out the gimp.
Exactly my thought. Just never understood the desire to spend so much energy on such a thing. Or space.
Apparently my friend’s new job is one of those Ws… He is the Quality/Regulatory person for a lube manufacture – he gets interesting packages every day for compatibility testing/etc.
Mary Roach’s book Bonk had a passage relating to this surprisingly common hobby, and that part of Burn After Reading seemed to get it just about right. According to her research a typical scenario goes this way:
- Tinkerer husband gets it into his head to build a sex machine.
- Sex machine is built around the typical male idea of what gets a woman off: a dildo rhythmically moving in and out of the vulva (as opposed to a more focused stimulation of the clitoris).
- Wife uses machine once or twice to humor husband.
- Machine ends up for sale on eBay some months afterward.
I just read this bit myself and couldn’t stop laughing because it’s so TRUE. I particularly enjoyed the part where she asked a whole bunch of maker dudes at a sex machine “meet up” if they’d ever thought about incorporating clit stimulation, and there was this kind of awkward silence.
(BTW, I think you mean “moving in and out of the vagina” - vulva being the lips.)
You see, that’s why I don’t build sex machines. 
I envision a new pavilion at the next Maker’s Faire…should be interesting…
Now, will AdaFruit and/or Make sell kits or hold DIY workshops, that is the question.
Also, please feel free to tag up potential OS-spinoff names for these.
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