In American vernacular "beating the meat" speaks (dare I say), on the a person hand, of male erotic wish and the bodily act of masturbating to orgasm. "to escape the newly extended overall body of technological engagement" so as "to reclaim expertise by means of the flesh."23 The narrator of Crash (an "other" named Ballard) reveals this contradictory wish to reclaim encounter via the flesh in the most perverse way.