Tina and I had just confessed the same secret: each of us has lusted for the other since we were teens. More than that, we had each confessed a love that went far beyond lust and beyond the love that a sister and brother should share.

My mother had talked Tina into joining her at my home in Southern California for an "intervention," apparently intending to get me to stop having so much sex, or stop having sex with multiple women, or stop having sex where other people can see it. Or maybe all of that. Mom had flown out by herself the week before to "calm Thomas down" but...