Sexual Detox: A Guide for Guys Who Are Sick of Porn (Tim Challies)

Sexual Detox

A Guide for Guys Who Are Sick of Porn

A huge percentage of men need a porn detox, a moral and psychological reset of the sickening impurities in their minds.  Do you? If so, whether you know it or not, pornography has corrupted your thinking, weakened your conscience, warped your sense of right and wrong, and twisted your understanding and expectations of sexuality. You need a reset by the One who created sex.  You need a sexual detox.

In this book, I hope to help you reorient your understanding of sex, both in the big picture and in the act itself, according to God’s plan for this great gift. I want to help you detox from all the junk you’ve seen, all the lies you’ve believed. This is not an easy process. It is rarely a quick process. It involves a letting go of old realities and an embrace of a new normal. To be willing to go through it you need to see how bad your current situation really is, and how the path you are on leads no place good. You need to see that the path of porn leads only to more isolation, guilt, alienation, and pain. Whether single or married, such a reset to normal is the only thing that can ever equip you to become a pure, loving, attentive, sacrificial husband.

Detox from all the trash you’ve fed your mind

But you already know you need to change. Few Christian men indulge in porn without realizing they need to quit. Every Christian guy who looks at porn wants to stop, but many of us want to stop just a little bit less than we want to keep going. The problem isn’t knowledge-it’s desire and ability. So sin prevails.

Here’s a promise. You’ll never stop until you begin to see the monstrous nature of the sin you’re committing. You’ll never stop until the sin is more horrifying to you than the commission of the sin is enjoyable. You’re going to have to hate that sin before you can find freedom from it. That means you need more grace. You need to cry out to be changed and to see the monstrous nature of this sin. And then you need to behave in faith that God will meet you with grace as you act to cut off the porn and begin the reset.

Endorsements

“Strikes just the right balance….a valuable resource.”
— Kevin DeYoung, pastor and author

“I want every man I serve to read this book.”
— Tedd Tripp, pastor and author

About the Author

Tim Challies is a follower of Jesus Christ, a husband to Aileen and a father to three children. He serves as a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario, and is co-founder of Cruciform Press. Tim is well-known as a Reformed blogger, and has also written two others books: Sexual Detox: A Guide for Guys who are Sick of Porn and The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment.