People are strange



From an article in Wired on Timothy Archibald's book, Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews:

The Huskette has a $300 KitchenAid mixer motor inside it. We thought it was silly to spend $300 on something with only one use, so we made this detachable. So, if you wanted to make cookies, you can detach the mixer from the machine, hook it to its original base and bowl -- clean it off, of course -- and you can get to work in the kitchen. We aren't kidding. We did have a kinky cookie bake with our local BDSM group last year during the holidays. - James from St. Paul, Minnesota

What I love about this picture is the juxtaposition of the domestic and the sexual, the presence of the dog, sprawled and bored and thoroughly domesticated, the bookshelf littered with diagonal slashes of books, the boots, a leash and then an unforgiving juggernaut of a self-built sex machine. And the fact that the Huskette doubles as a cookie mixer, presumably so you can deal with friends unexpectedly dropping in. It's so mundane and so extraordinary - the thriving sexlives of the suburbs.