"I know, I owe you. Now can you bend over, please? Face the webcam." Julie grits her teeth in between a false smile. The request is a direct attack on her pride because her son expects her to do such a degrading thing. She's not ignorant. She knows what's going to happen next. The timid expression on her son's face speaks volumes, like he knows he should be getting screamed at for this. She's done everything for Dylan and now she's being reduced to a s****l spectacle on the computer screen of strangers. But she reminds herself that this is her doing. She thinks about arguing, or maybe negotiating a compromise, but she stops herself. If her goal is to help Dylan become a man, then he has to be treated as someone responsible for his own decisions. On the bed she gets on all fours, facing the
