Sadly the book opts to remain on the moralistic surface, as if making behavioral changes will heal your deep-seated trauma, insecurities, and otherwise wounded heart. My knee-jerk reaction is, Well yes! I sure wish I could simply turn it off, control myself better, and STOP ACTING OUT.
But no - the main premise still seems to be Just learn to control yourself better!(ch.1–20) Bounce your eyes away from women!(ch.11) Live in constant fear of sliding down the slippery slope into an affair with your friend’s wife! (p.176)įor any true porn or sex addict, these plastic affectations will do little to heal wounds, motivate, change, or make any lasting adjustments to their lives. Maybe they had learned a few things in the past 20 years, like the takeaways from Joshua Harris’s shame culture or the purity movement which left countless ex-vangelicals in its wake, outside the church walls and angry.
#About every mans battle cracked#
I cracked open the 20th anniversary edition, hoping it would be a different experience than the original. Like they were spanking you while telling you to stop crying, or telling you not to swear by playing Lil’ Wayne music. It’s like a DJ’s mashup of 50 Shades of Grey and a nun slapping your wrist with a ruler. In a book on fighting sexual urges, they sure did a great job of putting those urges right back into you. Do they simply say they were checking out the jogger? Of course not! That would be too easy! They go into detail about the sweat on her golden flesh and the bikini she was wearing as well as the form and shape of her various body parts (p.4). But then the entire book was built around this.īounce your eyes, the authors implored from cover to cover.Īdditionally, the authors felt it necessary to include detailed descriptions of porn they had seen or times they were caught gawking at a beautiful jogger in LA.
The main premise was to guard your eyes and only let them take in good things. I first read this book in middle school, and recall it being relatively unhelpful. If only I made the list that receives the good books! But I still don’t want to get kicked off for writing negative (*honest*) reviews of every book they send. I guess the publishers get them out to everyone on a certain list and I’ve made the list.
Apparently I’m now a verified book reviewer, as these (bad) books keep coming to me in the mail, unannounced and unexpected.
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