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