E302: Why He Walked Away from Homosexual Hookup Culture | E302 Lila Rose Show | E302 Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Andrew grew up in the shadow of his older brothers and disconnected from his father. Paired with early pornography exposure, he developed an incomplete and insecure understanding of his masculinity, which manifested in same-sex attractions. However, several key events, including some important risks, helped him better understand his God-given masculinity and sexuality -- to the point where he's now happily married with children and helping others with their sexual brokenness.
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00:00:00 - The path toward same-sex attractions
00:05:00 - Early exposure to porn
00:07:16 - First identification as 'gay'?
00:11:20 - First memory of SSA?
00:21:05 - "Unsafe" Masculinity Is a Good Thing
00:27:16 - Advice for parents:
00:41:06 - The importance of consistency
00:48:00 - Coming to faith
00:51:43 - Best thing I ever did:
00:56:46 - What happened in therapy?
01:07:38 - Once gay always gay?
01:14:47 - Starting Desert Stream ministry
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Now, are all the traitors present? |
| 0:02.0 | Let's get started, shall we? |
| 0:04.0 | From rags to riches. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm so sick of this. |
| 0:07.0 | Working like a dog and being treated worse. |
| 0:09.0 | Yorkshire to New York. |
| 0:10.0 | Or climbers, you and me. |
| 0:12.0 | A life dedicated to revenge. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's make this an occasion to remember. |
| 0:16.0 | A woman of substance on Channel 4, stream now. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm curious about your first sort of self-identification as I might be gay. |
| 0:24.3 | My introduction to pornography was so early. |
| 0:27.3 | These boundaries were broken so early, kind of as a matter of course. |
| 0:31.6 | Most in our culture have some sort of sexual wound, addiction trauma, bad experience. |
| 0:37.0 | They need to be accompanied. |
| 0:38.9 | There's a type of good masculinity that isn't entirely safe. |
| 0:42.4 | It's kind of being called into something a little risky. |
| 0:46.2 | I think I perceive that as only threatening, not a challenge that I could navigate effectively. |
| 0:53.5 | If you were the therapist for your father growing up, what would you tell your father to do |
| 0:58.1 | differently? |
| 0:58.6 | If I had had something like that, it could have been so helpful. |
| 1:01.9 | Really? |
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