Press Stuff:
SALON MAGAZINE by David Amsden
"When the author finds himself in a room filled with sex machines thrusting into the atmosphere with metronome-like frequency, he muses on a quintessentially modern paradox: how willing we are to dehumanize ourselves while pursuing the most human of thrills. "Their sound fills the room with a mechanical, repetitive hum, and their movements look frightening," he writes. "The machines' movements are so confident and determined in their attempts to re-create a human, sexual thrusting that in a way they are overdoing it, doing it stronger, faster, more precisely. And these attributes are the very things that make the machines seem like things I just don't want to touch."

Call me a throwback, but in our pornographized, Viagra-girded era, it's refreshingly welcome to hear a man longing for the fumbling clumsiness that good old-fashioned sex has to offer."

LA WEEKLY, by Holly Myers:
"For those who like their sociology a little racier, here is a fascinating volume devoted to the complicated intersection of sex and technology.Timothy Archibald’s Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews is a surprisingly touching glimpse into the “mom-and-pop” sector of the sex industry."

GIZMODO.COM, by Noah Robischon:
"Archibald's photographs capture the juxtaposition of the hard-edged machines in the comforting and familiar settings where they are built and used. Most — but not all — lack the ironic message that pervades so much modern artwork. As a result, these inventions resemble a kind of folk art sculpted from the Home Depot palette.


Bullinthevaginashop.blogspot.com by Jaclyn Perrelli
"Sex Machines demilitarizes all the bible lovin' and suburban folk, hailing them as authors, technicians, reviewers and owners of these unexpectedly accurate phallic devices."

Rob Kinmonth, Photographer, NYC
" The style of the images can be described as deadpan and something more... like a parody of deadpan picturemaking."