In American vernacular "beating the meat" speaks (dare I say), on the one particular hand, of male erotic want and the physical act of masturbating to orgasm. "to escape the recently prolonged physique of technological engagement" so as "to reclaim working experience via the flesh."23 The narrator of Crash (an "other" named Ballard) reveals this contradictory want to reclaim encounter through the flesh in the most perverse way.