Masturbating alone, together: A review of Escargotesque or, What is Experience? By M.H. Bowker (Punctum Books, 2015) | Norberto Gomez, Jr.
“When there are no bathrooms, no bedrooms, no rooms of any kind, you have to masturbate during ‘showers,’ … hiding behind the largest tree in the yard,” writes M.H. Bowker, recounting a pivotal experience while living and working in Porto-Novo, the capital of the West African Country of Benin….