Chapter 8When Mason was fourteen, he made the mistake of admitting that he liked boys more than girls. His parents immediately sent him to a summer camp designed to cure homosexuals and bring them back to God. Mason had had more s*x that summer than any other summer of his young life. During the day, they would be forced into a variety of “treatments,” each one designed to inculcate a sense of deep shame and an understanding of just how perverted they were in the eyes of God. At night, after all the lights had gone out in the cabins, things would get a little out of hand. After that, he always wondered if that was the reason s*x always felt better when it was more than a little forbidden.
Now, he mostly just wondered if he should have let them browbeat him into heterosexuality. He would h
