i am addicted

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides a 12 step addiction recovery program modeled after the Alcoholics Anonymous program.  They have produced a reading manual available in many languages. For an online version for click here.  For the audio download click here.

Below is a testimonial of how this recovery program can be applied to pornography addiction:

“I first came in contact with pornography when I was in elementary school at my dad’s friend’s place. I just turned on the TV and there it was. I fell upon it innocently but that experience left a memory that I still carry with me today. From there I began to have an obsession with women and pornography. Pornography became as a gateway “drug.” I began getting into drugs and alcohol when I was in 7^th grade. From 6^th grade till 11^th grade I was addicted to pornography and sexual activities with many girls. My father and brother were both very addicted to pornography as well. I saw the effects that pornography had on my parent’s relationship. It destroyed it.  It was not until the summer of 2010 that I began reading and applying the Addiction Recovery Manual. Once I began to turn my life over to the Savior [Jesus Christ] I finally felt like I had power to push the carnal desires away. The manual’s purpose is to turn you to the Savior. Surrendering my weaknesses (sense of entitlement, insatiable carnal desires, perfectionism) to the Savior has made the biggest difference in my life. Even though I had made the decision long ago to abstain from immoral activities and pornography it was not until I turned my will (carnal desires, desire to sin, perfectionist tendencies, sense of entitlement) to the Savior and used the Atonement in my life did I really feel like I had gained my life back.”

-Mike from Washington