Table of Contents

Contents Preface

• Something in the Water
• Soap Gets in My Eyes
• June
• The Family: Hard to Live With
• Chrysanthemum Tea
• Re-creation
• The Good Parts
• “Is That All Real?”
• That Sandwiched Feeling
• All in the Mind
• Venice Beach: Memorial Day
• Porn
• The Videos: Easy to Work With
• AIDS
• Foreskin
• The Noose
• Open Wide
• . . . and Perhaps Some Wine, to Clear the Throat
• Passion by Mistake
• Colm
• Philip Core
• Scott in Love
• Dear Ex-Lover
• Pornstars in Private
• Chess
• Peaks
• Spunk-boy
• Chronology