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After a tormented childhood, a young man succumbs to addiction, sex work, and white-collar crime, until a brush with prison awakens him to recovery. He finds freedom from his addiction and a spiritual calling as a sexual healer who helps others emerge from shame to connection.

Biographical,LGBT,Drama,Memoir

September 2004, DAVID sits in a holding cell in San Francisco waiting to be sentenced. He’s a blackout alcoholic, meth addict, and sex worker about to face prison time for numerous white-collar crimes. At six, David’s innocence was shattered after an encounter with a neighborhood pedophile.

San Francisco and Freemont, CA; various

Yes

Overcoming Monster/Villain,Internal Journey/Rebirth,Other,Voyage and Return

Meaningful Message,Other

Sexual Abuse,Substance Abuse

Name: David

Age: various

Gender: Lgbt

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Charming,Empathetic,Engaging,Adventurous,Unapologetic,Sexy,Selfless

Name: Norman

Age: 30s

Gender: Male

Role: Antagonist

Key Traits: Villainous,Criminal,Secretive,Unapologetic

Name: Todd

Age: 40s

Gender: Other

Role: sidekick

Key Traits: Masculine,Sexy,Charming,Aspiring,Engaging,Faithful,Seductive,Romantic,Selfless

Name: Linda (mother)

Age: 30s

Gender: Female

Role: emotional

Key Traits: Empathetic,Gracious,Insecure,Naive,Obedient

David P. Wichman is an author, speaker, sexual healer, and entrepreneur passionate about his message. He is respected and well-known all over the world to those who seek to renew themselves and explore ways to live a fulfilling life free of stigma, shame, and fear around sex, love, and intimacy. Raised in Fremont, California, David survived a childhood marked by severe neglect and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. The trauma of his early life led him into years of homelessness, alcoholism, and drug addiction. After decades of struggle and rehabilitation failures, he finally obtained freedom from his addiction in 2005. He remains an active member of New Thought and recovery movements to this day. In 2006, when David began his journey into sex work, unbeknownst to him he found his calling. While working with sometimes marginalized men, such as seniors, the disabled, and those with severe intimacy issues, he discovered the profound transformational power that sex work creates for both client and provider. In 2009, David founded his travel-companion company, the Male Adventure, through which he has accompanied clients on life-changing adventures to all seven continents. His trips have featured safaris in the Serengeti, bungee jumping in New Zealand, swimming with humpback whales in Tonga, treks to mountain gorillas in Uganda, and much more. He believes his connection to conservation, wildlife, and different cultures has given him a more intuitive ability to respond to the human condition. He is an activist, vocal ally, and grateful member of the LGBTQI2 community and stays connected to current and emerging issues that dominate marginalized communities. He is a passionate fundraiser for HIV- and AIDS-related causes and other nonprofits supporting other-abled persons and benefiting animal rescues. In 2011, David created and began facilitating a workshop called “Sex, Love, and Intimacy: Writing Your Way to New Relationships” for recovery conferences and retreats. Groups have used his highly sought-after writing workshop in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Sydney, Australia, with great success. In 2016, David and his partners, Carl and Todd, founded Heal-VR, a software development company that merges ancient spiritual principles and meditation techniques with modern virtual reality technology. Heal-VR creates content that offers users a deeper and more profound meditative experience. Undergirding all of David’s personal and professional efforts has been a deep and abiding mystical spirituality. He is currently a student of “A Course in Miracles” and utilizes New Thought practices, such as life visioning, creative visualization, and meditation. While he has studied the works of many modern healers, his deeper healing in recovery has been under the guidance of his spiritual mentor, T. J. Woodward. David’s spiritual practices have brought him an overwhelming sense of gratitude and an unending wealth of forgiveness and joy on his journey to true wholeness. David lives with his partners and their three dogs in the Coachella Valley area of California.

Age: 35-54,18-34,55+

Target Gender: LGBT Leaning,Male Leaning,Female Leaning

San Francisco, LGBTQI2, sex workers

Status: Yes: with a Publisher

Publisher: W. Brand Publishing

Year Published: 2020

Yes

978-1-950385-13-3