Explores the new sex machine underground in America and the homespun inventors who propel it. From the elusive creator of the Sybian, the trailblazer of modern sex machines to a suburban dad who transforms a thrift store pasta maker into a high-powered sexual appliance; from an apocalyptic visionary who constructs a sex machine prototype for the women survivors of a future without men to an Idaho cowboy who uses his devices as a form of Christian-based marriage counselling, "Sex Machines" celebrates the spirit of American ingenuity as it engenders a new form of sexual liberation throughout the hinterland. Many of the inventors seen within these pages are otherwise ordinary family men who were inspired to help repair strained relationships or simply enhance their wives' sexual pleasure. Some inventors have expanded their hobby into thriving cottage industries, selling their creations on eBay and adult stores online. Like the work of Bill Owens, Studs Terkel and Diane Arbus, Archibald's photographs and interviews find unexpected beauty and mystery among the lives of regular people - this time, as they engender a new form of sexual liberation in the suburbs and small towns in America.