Storm Tossed: How a U.S. Serviceman Won the Battle of Sex Addiction

Jake Porter
Cladach Publishing (2006)
ISBN 097596190X
Reviewed by Erich Birch for Reader Views (5/06)

In his very personal memoir, Jake Porter lays out his life story as a testimony of how destructive and costly sex addition can be. Exposed to pornographic images in magazines at an early age, the author describes the desires that took hold of him and drove him for most of his early adult life. Although raised in a Christian home, upon joining the Navy after graduation from high school he was released from any restraints preventing him from pursuing his lust. After years of destructive behavior, he realizes that the God of his youth was still there waiting for him, and was also the only way that he would overcome his addition.

Porter’s story explains that his plight is perhaps more common than many realize. The number of Christian men’s help books and similar resources are evidence that this is a battle that most men have to deal with at least to some extent. Porter lives out a story that men who fight these battles will relate to, some more than others. His story will be an example to men who wrestle with this issue, and will be educational in that his life is about what happens if the battle is not fought. Instead of fighting, Porter chose to surrender to the desire and his story tells the price that he paid.

This is a book primarily for men. Women readers are sure to get insight into the intensity of the sex addiction issue, however, most men will have no trouble understanding the author’s trials. Porter discovers the answer to his addiction is the same God that has the answer for all of life’s other trials. When he finally turns to his Lord for deliverance, he finds that he is set free indeed. He then finds that God even has a purpose for the life that Porter had tried his best to destroy. This book is recommended for the person who struggles with sexual addition and who would benefit from reading the story of someone that has lived this life and desperately sought for a way out.

Society’s mixed messages about sex have costs that are often untold. Like alcoholism, some men are exposed to pornographic images at an early age and unknowingly begin their addiction to a life of lust. In his memoir “Storm Tossed,” Jake Porter tells how he wandered down this path, how he pursued it through the world of pornography and prostitution, and how he overcame it all only by returning to the God he had abandoned along the way.

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