Drawing by Numbers

Following their success online, the stories of Benjamin Ashton are now published in a single collection for the first time. Raw and moving, graphic and biting, they chronicle both random and intense encounters, they sketch portrayals of modern gay men - conflicted, vibrant, resolute, or hedonistic. With unflinching, explicit and introspective honesty, "Drawing by Numbers" toys with the codes of gay erotica to explore questions of intimacy and bonding, levity and expectations, friendship and sex, and the seductive allure of storytelling.