Bonnie Ruberg of "The Village Voice" wrote in a 2008 article that Fucking Machines replaces the insecurity men feel about vibrators and transform it into a turn-on. The 2008 edition of "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History" described the aesthetic of the devices on the site as harrowing. In his 2009 book "From Aches to Ecstasy", author Arnold P. Abbott commented of the devices used by the site: "Fucking Machines are mechanical marvels which had to be invented by the Marquis De Sade himself." He observed that some of the machines, "would seem to be replicas to those used during the Inquisition to extract false confessions".