Orgasmatron
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- For the head massage device, see Orgasmatron (massage device).
- For the Motörhead album, see Orgasmatron (album).
The orgasmatron is a fictional electromechanical device that appears in the 1973 movie Sleeper, which also shows the effects of a related device, an orgasmic orb. A device with similar effect (but applied to devious purposes) appears in the movie Barbarella. It is also an album of Motörhead (and a track on it, later covered by Sepultura, then by Satyricon with several alterations), and the registered trade name of a head massaging device. The orgasmatron was made by decorating an elevator in the home where the movie was filmed.
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[edit] In Sleeper (1973)
The orgasmatron is a fictional device in the fictional future society of 2173 in the Woody Allen movie Sleeper. It is a large cylinder big enough to contain one or two people. Once entered, it contains some (otherwise undescribed) future technology that rapidly induces orgasms. This is required, as almost all people in the Sleeper universe are impotent or frigid (males of Italian descent are notably excluded).
The main character Miles Monroe, played by Allen, is being hunted by the police as being subversive to security of the state, and attempts to hide in it, thinking it is a closet. He is discovered there, and easily captured in a daze, with a dopey smile on his face.
Another, related device, an orb also appears in this movie. It is a silver-colored sphere about the size of a grapefruit that contains some (otherwise undescribed) future technology. When the orb is touched by a human, it induces pleasurable sensations. In a scene where Miles impersonates a robotic servant, he is ordered by the hostess to pass the orb among the guests. Unlike the robot he is imitating, he is not insensate to the effects of the orb. Much physical humor results from his reaction to firmly holding this device, which party participants only lightly caress.
Later on, they encounter a gay male couple, one of whom offers Miles a "hit off the orb". Miles reports that he's "cool" and doesn't need to indulge. It appears the effect of the orb is more like social marijuana, pleasurable rather than orgasmic.
[edit] Similar concepts
[edit] In Barbarella (1968)
The device has been invented by Dr. Durand Durand, the evil opponent of Barbarella. Instead of being called an Orgasmatron, Durand refers to it as the Excessive Machine. It resembles a reclining lounge covered with movable finger-like paddles that operate to gently (at first) and pleasurably massage the victim. It is operated from a keyboard resembling that used to control a large organ. By properly manipulating the keys the operator may induce great sexual pleasure in the victim, sufficient to cause death by orgasm (it could be argued then that the device is an instrument of sexual abuse and rape, and that he essentially uses the device to rape Barbarella). In one of the final scenes of the movie the evil opponent is torturing Barbarella with the pleasures of this machine, during which she vocalises extensively ("oh", "ooh", "ahh", etc.). But in the end the machine overloads and is destroyed, while she survives, and feels rather well.
[edit] In Flesh Gordon (1974)
In the 1974 film Flesh Gordon, a ribald parody of the science fiction adventures of Flash Gordon, the villain "Emperor Wang" directs a "sex ray" at Earth which causes the planet's inhabitants to become uncontrollably sexually aroused.
[edit] In Coneheads (1993)
"Sensor Rings" were use in the movie Coneheads to provide pleasure to the other partner. Same technique was used in Demolition Man.
[edit] In Demolition Man (1993)
John Spartan (played by Sylvester Stallone) is introduced to an orgasmatron-like device by Lt. Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) in the 1993 movie Demolition Man.
[edit] In Orgazmo (1997)
In Orgazmo, the "Orgazmorator" was built in the form of an oversized water gun. It was operated by pointing it at a subject and firing. Apparently, it could even generate multiple successive orgasms in a man.
[edit] Real world attempts to build an orgasmatron
[edit] In Orgasmatron (TV Documentary)
This is the first attempt at making a real working orgasmatron and has some limited success. The device is actually some sort of function generator manufactured by AME Corp. (Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation) and requires the terminals to be surgically inserted into the spinal cord.
Medical reports from Winston-Salem, N.C. in 2004/5 describe the device as being of great potential in treating sexual-dysfunction in women.
