Breaking Free: Chapter 1

Sexual addiction is an obsessive compulsive relationship with a person, object, or experience for the purpose of sexual gratification. Whatever the type or amount of the behavior, it is damaging spiritually, physically or both. The addict has has repeatedly tried to stop the behavior but at the same time is terrified of stopping. What drives the addiction is inadequate spirituality and deep unmet childhood needs that are valid but are mistakenly thought to be sexual needs. the behavior usually starts in the pre-adolescence and tends to shape the orientation and personality of the individual. Genuine recovery is possible only with outside intervention and divine help. (page 27)

Proverbs 5:15-20 talks about being satisfied with my own wife, may her breasts satisfy me. The Bible also contains a whole book to sexual satisfaction, the Songs of Solomon, so God knows about sex and wants me to be turn to my wife for sex, not somewhere else.

Jeremiah 2:13 talks about forsaking God... really, abandoning him. I am his people and I have abandoned God by doing my sin. This is a bit depressing for me, but I will push through it. I have dug my own cistern, a cup that cannot hold water because it is broken. And by doing that, I cannot have living water, the water God wants me to have. I have no part with the Holy Spirit.