Jesse, Week 1

In Treatment begins after Jesse has been in therapy for some time. As gradually becomes clear, Jesse's birth parents abandoned Jesse at some point in his life, and he was adopted sometime later. Jessie is understandably bitter about his birth mother, whom he characterizes as a “crack whore“ but seems not to blame his birth father, who he fanaticizes is a professional of some type. Jesse is also “gay“ and has had anal sex with at least two gay men who own a bar. We pick up Jesse's story as someone who claim