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Jay Stringer As a clinician, men and women were arriving in my office with almost no understanding of what freedom from sexual brokenness involved. The primary mes…moreAs a clinician, men and women were arriving in my office with almost no understanding of what freedom from sexual brokenness involved. The primary messages they received invited them to stop lusting and pursue accountability. But as the years and decades rolled on, they found that these approaches failed to provide pathways to the freedom they desired and deserved.

I realized that unless we change the conversation, we will continue to consign men and women to a lifetime of futility with this issue. Most conventional research has explored what we already know: that pornography is a pervasive issue in our world today. But what we have not explored is the "why" behind the sexual behaviors we wish to stop.

So I had an idea. What if we could ask men and women to share some of the most intimate details of their life story and the specifics of their unwanted sexual behavior. In doing so we could then uncover insights from the data that might give us clues about what was driving the choices they said they wanted to end. We could then use those insights to aid their freedom. And that is exactly what happened.

My research on over 3800 men and women shows that unwanted sexual behavior is not random. It is a direct reflection of the parts of our story that await healing. I wrote Unwanted to help guide you to freedom from sexual brokenness by leading you to identify the unique stories that bring you to it in the first place.(less)

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Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

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“The gospel tells us that our belovedness will never change according to our wanderings. But our belovedness is intended to change our wanderings.”
― Jay Stringer, Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

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“Freedom is an often paradoxical and unexpected path that is found through kindness and curiosity. What would it mean for you to bless instead of curse your body for experiencing what it felt? Will you cry out with agony for how your desire was misused instead of remaining silent in your shame? Honesty and kindness change the human heart. Contempt for arousal and silence in our shame lead to continual pursuit of unwanted sexual behavior.”
― Jay Stringer, Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

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“The overwhelmingly standard evangelical response to sexual brokenness has been to address it through the lens of “lust management,” even declaring war against it. This approach has oversimplified and trivialized a far more complex issue within human sexuality.”
― Jay Stringer, Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

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