418 - Understanding the Nature of Sexual Addiction w/ Sam Jolman

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are joined by Sam Jolman. He is the author of, The Sex Talk You Never Got: Reclaiming the Heart of Masculine Sexuality, and an expert in the field of sexual health and addiction recovery. Today we’re going to dive deep into the complexities of pornography use, compulsive sexual behavior, and the path to healing. Sam shares insights into how these behaviors can become addictive, offering a compassionate look at what it means to face down these struggles. Together, we explore how early relational wounds impact sexuality and intimacy, and how understanding one's full story of sexual development can be key in breaking unhealthy patterns. We reflect on the gaps and misconceptions many people face in their understanding of sex, intimacy, and emotional connection. This conversation offers a roadmap for reshaping one’s view of sexuality and building healthier relationships with self and others. Whether you're seeking to understand your own journey or support someone else through theirs, this episode provides practical steps and a hopeful perspective on rewriting your internal narrative around sex and intimacy.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello. I am your host, Nick Stumbu, and you are listening to the Pure Desire
0:09.6	podcast, your biblically based and clinically informed approach to breaking free from compulsive
0:14.9	sexual behavior and healing from betrayal. We're so excited to have you back for today's podcast. This is episode 418.
0:24.2	And here joining me as my co-host throughout this series is Mr. Mike Maxwell. Mike, welcome back.
0:30.2	Hey, y'all. How you doing? Good. Thank you. Good. Good. Anything exciting happening in your life
0:35.8	these days or just... Oh my gosh, so much exciting stuff happening.
0:40.6	Exciting stuff personally, exciting stuff at work.
0:42.8	Well, I think today was exciting because we got to interview a first-time guest,
0:47.3	but I'm confident not a last time guest.
0:49.6	He's a therapist and a brand new author of a book called The Sex Talk You Never Got, Mr. Sam Jolman.
0:56.6	And today we talked with him.
0:58.4	This is part two of a six-part series that we're calling the Foundations of Freedom,
1:03.0	kind of helping people understand some of those initial steps that you need to take,
1:07.1	what really creates a transformative healing pathway.
1:10.5	And today it was all about
1:11.5	understanding the nature of sexual addiction. So Mike, just tell our listeners a little bit about
1:17.9	what they might expect from today's conversation. Oh my gosh, some really good insights.
1:21.4	I think right out of the gate he talked about the splitness, which I had not thought about
1:27.3	that in that aspect before.
1:29.3	And he had some really good insights. Yeah, he knows what he's talking about. As you'll hear in his
1:36.1	introduction, he has three boys. And so his content is stuff that he's living out at home. And with
1:41.7	the client, he helps. And I think everyone will get great information
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