Porn Free Radio Episode 202.

Well, I'm really excited about this show.

It's my interview with Jay Stringer, who wrote the book Unwanted, How Sexual Brokenness Reveals

Our Way to Healing.

Now, Jay is a therapist, but he also is a minister, and he works a lot with people like us who struggle with unwanted sexual behavior.

Now, he includes pornography as part of that, but also affairs and other sexual addictions.

In my conversation with him, he tells a little bit about his story, what drew him to write unwanted, and some of the research

that he did for the book. He actually interviewed over 3,800 men and women who were seeking

freedom from unwanted sexual behavior. And he started mapping out how some of their story, you know, the past parts of their story,

and even some of the things they're doing in the present, predicted what kind of things they were

drawn to.

And he basically has this premise in the book that our unwanted sexual desires

identify, are not by accident. They identify unique reasons why were triggered by certain things.

So it's a particularly eye-opening book. Now, one couple of things I'll say is it is a book that is written from a theological

point of view. Jay is a Christian. So there are Christian references and some, there's even a chapter

on theology where he talks about sexuality and being created in God's image, God's purpose for sexuality.

So for some of you who are not

Christians or are people who don't have a particular faith, that part might be a little hard for

you to understand. But Jay does such a good job with the other parts of the book, talking about things that he learned in this surveying, things that he learned from client work, that there were just so many things that I think you would still get a ton out of this book.

Now, if you are a Christian, I think you would really get a lot out of the theology part of it, too,

because he doesn't just, this isn't just a brain science book, or this isn't just sort of a

behavior book. It's a book that's very holistically written. So I'm going to get into that

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