Originally posted by Spitman
For me the most evocative film was Barbarella, which was a great inspiration for fictional work.

I loved the thought of the girl sliding down into the Excessive Pleasure Machine, the part where she was suspended spreadeagled by leather straps, of course the zero gravity striptease, and the sets and costumes generally.
Ah yes, foundation of many of my teenage fantasies.

I loved the subtlety of the machine where you didn't see anything happening to her, only her reactions. The extreme limit of that is an occasional fantasy of mine which anyone is welcome to use if they like it:

I picture a box like one of the old-fashioned steam baths, with the occupant's head emerging from a padded hole in the top. There are no other features but a big button in the front, and maybe a dial set to "MAX". And as you approach the box the occupant's eyes go wide with fear and she starts to beg, please, no, no more, I can't bear it... as you reach for the button her head jerks around in hopeless struggles and her pleas become incoherent... you press the button and she screams rackingly, her eyes enormous with horror.

What happens inside the box could be anything from a tickling machine to a meat grinder. It's whatever you would most like to imagine.