A Fresh Bite Of Peaches

The multimedia artist and pop provocateur continues to fight for erotic liberation—this time with the help of a dexterous sex toy

- Mary Katharine Tramontana

A new era for Peaches began with an online review of a men’s pale-pink silicone double masturbator she happened upon in January 2019. The multimedia artist, best known for her sex-drenched music, found herself shocked by two facets of the clip.

“The first was the look of the object,” she says. “It was so disembodied, like ‘Danger!’ Here’s what a woman could be reduced to: a mouth with some red lipstick and a vagina.”

Then there was the reviewer himself. “It became clear he’d never had sex with a woman but was projecting that women can’t give him what he can get with this toy,” she says. “He was talking about having that ‘Shut up and suck my cock, bitch’ fantasy. I felt sorry for him.”

Over a flat white at God shot cafe in Berlin last fall, Peaches recalls pondering the device’s features. One end mimics a woman’s mouth and the other a vulva, so the toy could theoretically pleasure itself if it had sovereignty over its body. The idea grew: If, in an alternate realm, double masturbators could speak and move, they could “get together, rename themselves and rewrite their own narrative.”