What It's Like To Photograph People Masturbating (NSFW, For One Thing)

The first time I ever photographed someone masturbating, it was for a small, feminist-porn magazine in Berlin. After the shoot was over, I bought my subject a piece of cake and a coffee, over which he half-jokingly complained that there was something asexual about me -- and that it didn't help him during his performance in front of the camera. When I was commissioned by Neon Magazine to shoot a larger project on my generation's relationship with masturbation, I thought about my role in it as a ...