Keeping Your Sense of Self Intact The Empty Mirror The Ultimate Loss of Innocence Communicating / Silent Negotiating Different Worlds Dancing In The Dark Power Imbalance Your Naked Self Using Sex To Prove Something Finding A Teacher Bad Choices Based on Bad Information What Will Be Enhanced? The P Word Friends What the Shattered Self Chooses Family Secrets Where’s The Fun? A Big Deal Pleasing You / Pleasing Me Be True To You On a Whim Being Present

12 – What Will Be Enhanced?

Joaquin’s Story

When I was fourteen, my best buddy, Kiko, and I, that’s practically all we talked about—sex and what it was. He was fooling around with this girl, Linda—she was one or two years older than us. She was probably sixteen, not pretty, a little chubby. I’d go over and hang out with Kiko, and she would come over, and they would disappear. She would give him oral sex. I was fascinated. I was jealous. I wanted that. Kiko was getting it, and I wasn’t.