Meksex, Machines and Sex Options

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Although many people have rigorously defended Richard Leakey's thesis that man's ascension to a position of dominance over other animals is based on the aggressive use of weapons rather than the peaceful use of tools, I have this nagging thought that thousands of years before our ancestors used a femur as a club they discovered how to enhance the pleasure of sex with rocks and pieces of wood polished smooth by flowing water, strips of fibrous plants, animal furs, bones and tusks, berries, fruits, seed pods, tubers, and whatever else they could find. Such speculation aside, what we do know is that many of the great civilizations have left to us in their legacy of tomb paintings, burial artifacts, temple carvings, myths, legends and written records a fascination with sex tools that equals if not surpasses their accomplishments in the armory, and that anthropologists have returned from field trips with a remarkable assortment of items used to adorn the penis and intended to heighten a woman's pleasure. All in all, it seems to me that there is much evidence to suggest that throughout history mankind has more often than not applied his mechanical know-how in pursuit of that classical hippie adage, "Make Love, Not War."

While the dividing line between tool and machine is fuzzy, I recognize that since early adolescence I have had an inclination towards sex machines, and only a much lesser interest in sex tools. When I saw my first picture of a dildo it fascinated me, but it fell far short of my own fantasy creations -- large, motorized machines intended to give girls unlimited pleasure that bordered on torture. Years later I stumbled across Tomi Ungerer's Fornicon, and for the first time in my life I realized that I was not alone in my interest in the application of complex machinery to produce intense erotic experiences.

The properties of a sex machine most significant to me are that the device harness energy and redirect it to produce intense stimulation associated with sexual pleasure, and that it be purpose built for that end. I am equally drawn to machines large and small, massive structures that envelop a person to gizmos small enough to go unnoticed underneath street clothes.

A block of ice in an insulated box is able to keep a bottle of soda cold. An electric refrigerator is a machine, but simple, generic, and requiring a lot of effort on our part. A coin-operated soft drink vending machine is relatively complex, and in the absence of vandals does a fantastic job of serving up gratification. A knife is a tool, a food processor is a machine. A dildo is a tool -- so what is a sex machine?

Derivation of "MekSex"
As provocative as the phrase Sex Machine is for me, the term has a different and more widely used meaning. I doubt that the men who flatter themselves with this title are any better at sex than the average bloke. In fact, I believe that they are at risk of being ridiculed for their presumptuousness, although the term appears to have been accepted by the pop music crowd. At any rate I felt it necessary to distinguish my passion for machines that pleasure people and people who fancy themselves machines, so I have coined the term MekSex. Use it in the same manner as "oral sex" or "masturbation" or "S&M." Specifically, it is not a noun; "This device is a MekSex" would be incorrect usage.