Porn Nation

This book says it all, and yet it doesn’t say enough.

In brief, the author is a 30-year veteran of porn consumption. Porn ruined his marriage, career, family, and nearly killed him. Finally, after nearly everything was lost, he came to his senses, read the Bible, God rescued him, he got into a good church, and now he is, as he calls it, a recovering sex addict who passionately warns others of the dangers of porn.

That is what this book is all about – a written red flag warning everyone that porn is addictive and destructive, and that the only way through is to admit defeat, get help, and get rid of all the impurity.

Leahy now goes on the road with this message, speaking to college groups at public universities, often serving as one side of a “porn debate” against a well-known male porn star. So, his message is well-defined, open and honest, and full of the nitty-gritty details of his former life.

Perhaps, too many details. It is possible to sin vicariously through reading a book like this, in exactly the same manner as one would do in looking at the porn or in reading a steamy sex-romance.

This is definitely a ground-breaking book for Moody, except that the name Moody isn’t on the book – “Northfield Publishing” is… interesting. Is the material too risqué to carry the name Moody?

But, on the other hand, for a culture awash in pornography, straight talk and plain speech seems like the sensible approach to victory.

However, the weakness of this book is that when it comes right down to it, the “mortification of sin” is not really explained. Hearing about the destructiveness of porn in the life of the author is useful to warn folks away from ever dipping their toe in the cesspool. But for those who are swimming in the sewage, I am not so sure Leahy’s book explains how to get out. Make no mistake, he leads folks to see that they absolutely must get out, but the book lacks a fuller explanation of the nature of repentance and the practice of flesh-killing, although he does talk about the necessity of starving oneself of impurity. In the end, I don’t think the book lives up to the subtitle, “Conquering America’s #1 Addiction.” I think a better subtitle would be, “Exposing America’s #1 Addiction.”

With the sensational testimony woven throughout the book in lively language, I am sure that folks who buy this book will in fact read the book. And as a first-step in staying away from porn or getting out of the bondage of porn, this book will be useful.