as high profile criticisms of pornography often come from religious and socially conservative organizations, it’s easy for liberally minded people to dismiss them without examination. But for the last nine years I have been paying attention to what people say about their experiences with pornography. For even longer, I’ve been studying what scientists are saying about how our brains work. I’m here to tell you this isn’t about liberals and conservatives. It isn’t about religious shame or sexual freedom. This is about the nature of our brains and how they respond to cues from a radically changed environment.” — Gary Wilson

23 of the Best Books on Porn Addiction and Recovery (2023)

Drawing from Jeff's "prodigal son" personal history and from Alyssa's "True Love Waits" experience, the Bethkes point to a third and better way. Blending personal storytelling with biblical teaching, they offer readers an inspiring, realistic vision of love, dating, marriage, and sex. Published in June of 2021, this relevant faith-based book is both current and needed. Noting that today’s parents are the first to face rearing kids in such a porn-saturated, digitally connected world, Weiss and Glaser offer a warmly compassionate, Biblical, and practical guide. The authors note: “You want your children to see you as a trail guide, not a prison guard!”

Others in the support group can share their own advice and tips about how they managed a porn-free lifestyle. Rosie shared in a recent webinar, “Two things really devastate wives, the betrayal and the deception… (wives) … say, ‘I don’t know who I’m living with. He’s lied to me again’.” It’s both a practical, personal and hopeful book that reminds you that many real people have walked this path before, and shows you how to walk in their footsteps. This book provides both great advice and great encouragement for young men struggling with addictions to porn and sex, and the devastatingly negative emotions that often come with them. Barb Winters, a Christian mom blogger at Hopeful Mom speaks from her personal experience, research, and a caring heart. She thought her son had come clean. However, her heart was broken again when she discovered her teen son was addicted to porn.

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Facing the Shadow, used by thousands of therapists with their clients, is based on the thirty-task model of recovery from addiction that forms the basis of Carnes’s work.So what can a parent do right now? What should you NOT do if you find out your child is watching porn?