Fucking Machines (also known as Fuckingmachines.com and fuckingmachines) is a
pornographic website founded in 2000 that features video and photographs of women engaged in
autoerotic sexual stimulation with penetrative
sex-machines and
sex toys. The site is based in
San Francisco, California, and is operated by
Kink.com. Web entrepreneur
Peter Acworth launched Fucking Machines on September 25, 2000, as his company's second website after Kink.com. Devices shown on the site were created with the intent to bring women authentic
orgasms. Performers were instructed to allow themselves to be recorded experiencing pleasure. After the site applied in 2005 to trademark the phrase "fuckingmachines", the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) denied the application and ruled that the mark was
obscene.
Free speech lawyer
Marc Randazza represented the site and appealed the decision.
Orlando Weekly called his legal brief, "one of the most entertaining legal documents you're likely to come across." The appeal was denied in April 2008 and the case was terminated. Randazza's argument in the case became known as
The Fuck Brief. The website has received analysis from journalists and academics studying sexuality. Writer
Regina Lynn highlighted the site's emphasis on communication, and
Annalee Newitz of
AlterNet classed it as part of
Porn 2.0. Violet Blue wrote in
The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Sex Toys that it helped popularize the idea of machines aiding in sex acts. The 2008 edition of
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History described the aesthetic of the devices as disturbing. Jessica Roy wrote for
The New York Observer that Fucking Machines' examples of orgasms were a form of
transhumanism. Sarah Schaschek devoted a chapter to the phenomenon in
Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema, titled "Fucking Machines: High-Tech Bodies in Pornography". She observed, "Strictly speaking, the women in these videos are both the controllers and the controlled."
The following are images from various freedom of speech-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1Punk band
Visací zámek which composed a popular song "
The President Is a Faggot" about
Václav Klaus, 2003–2013 Czech President (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 3Local issues are often the subject of free speech. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 4Moscow municipal deputy
Alexei Gorinov was sentenced to 7 years in prison under Russia's
war censorship laws for his
anti-war statements in 2022. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 5Article 299's prosecution have surged during
Erdogan's presidency. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 7First page of
John Milton's 1644 edition of
Areopagitica, in which he argued forcefully against the
Licensing Order of 1643 (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 8Restriction of apostasy by country (2020) (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 9Orator at London's
Speakers' Corner, 1974 (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 11A map of nations which have
Lèse-majesté laws as of January 2023 (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 12Title page of
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or
List of Prohibited Books (Venice, 1564) (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 13Russian opposition politician
Ilya Yashin was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for discussing the
Bucha massacre in Ukraine on a
YouTube stream. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 14George Orwell statue at the headquarters of the
BBC. A defence of free speech in an open society, the wall behind the statue is inscribed with the words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear", words from
George Orwell's proposed preface to
Animal Farm (1945). (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 15The
Free Speech Flag was created during the
AACS encryption key controversy as "a symbol to show support for personal freedoms". (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 16In Brazil,
freedom of assembly and expression are Constitutional rights. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 17De Schreeuw (The Scream) is a memorial commemorating
Theo van Gogh and a symbol of the freedom of speech. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 18The
Bill of Rights 1689 grants the
parliamentary privilege for freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in
Parliament and is still in effect. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 19This 1688 edition of
Jacobus de Voragine's
Golden Legend (1260) was censored according to the
Index Librorum Expurgatorum of 1707, which listed the specific passages of books already in circulation that required censorship. (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 20Protesters exercise freedom of speech to hold a vigil in front of the Zimbabwean Embassy in London, 2005. (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 21Map showing U.S. states where
anti-BDS legislation has passed, is pending, or has failed as of November 2023 (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 22A protest outside the
Saudi Arabian Embassy in London against detention of Saudi blogger
Raif Badawi, 2017 (from
Freedom of speech by country)
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Image 24In
Panegyricae orationes septem (1596), Henric van Cuyck, a Dutch Bishop, defended the need for
censorship and argued that
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press had resulted in a world infected by "pernicious lies"—so van Cuyck singled out the
Talmud and the
Qur'an, and the writings of
Martin Luther,
Jean Calvin and
Erasmus of Rotterdam. (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 25A map of countries which have lèse-majesté laws as of January 2023 (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 26An "unexpurgated" edition of
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1959) (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 27World map highlighting countries with legislation criminalising
Holocaust denial as of 2025
Countries where Holocaust denial is illegal
Countries where Holocaust denial is illegal when threatening or inciting hatred, discrimination, or violence, or where legality is ambiguous
(from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 28Permanent Free Speech Wall in
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. (from
Freedom of speech)
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Image 29Orthodox priest Libor Halík with a group of followers. Halík has been chanting daily for over five years against abortion via megaphone in front of a maternity hospital in
Brno,
Moravia. (from
Freedom of speech by country)