PORN NATION: CONQUERING AMERICA'S #1 ADDICTION: Michael Leahy: Northfield Publishing (c2008): Non-fiction: 210 p. Michael Leahy takes you down the road of his slow, but steady decline though his own personal nightmare of addiction. It began with a small, nude shot a classmate showed him on a playground when he was 11-yrs-old. And it continued…until his entire family was ravaged by what he had thought was a harmless pastime. It cost him his family, his career and most of his friends. And it turned into an addiction that nearly led to the suicides of every single member of his family, including himself. Harmless? Hardly.
Not always a pleasant read. Yet, ironically inspirational. He eventually found help through a religious 12-step program akin to the familiar AA programs. What impressed me most was his willingness to use his experience to help others in his same plight. He had the courage to acknowledge his own choices and mistakes, to ask forgiveness of those he’d hurt, and now spends his time speaking out on the subject. After all, someone to respect. A good read for anyone interested in knowing more about what Oprah Winfrey and others have denounced as “America’s #1 Addiction”.
DLA
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