characterized Fucking Machines' examples of orgasms as a form of transhumanism. In the book Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema (2012), Sarah Schaschek devoted a chapter to the phenomenon, titled "Fucking Machines: High-Tech Bodies in Pornography". Schaschek concluded, While antipornography feminists usually criticize that female performers are visually and practically degraded by men in heterosexual pornography, it is hard to uphold such an impression in the FuckingMachines videos. Given that all pornography eroticizes difference, and given that sexual fantasies usually require clearly drawn roles of dominance and submission, the women of FuckingMachines seem to resist at least a few of these categories. ... Strictly speaking, the women in these videos are both the controllers and the controlled. See also Censorship in the United States Cohen v. California Freedom of speech in the United States Fuck (film) Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties The F-Word Mechanophilia Object sexuality Sexual fetishism Sybian Teledildonics Footnotes References Further reading Legal commentary alternate link alternate link; alternate link at Wikimedia Commons: :File:2007 July 24 USPTO appeal response to Fucking Machines.pdf Scholarly analysis External links Official website Fuckingmachines, case history at United States Patent and Trademark Office Culture of San Francisco American erotica and pornography websites Internet properties established in 2000 Obscenity controversies United States trademark law Machine sex