Another Kind of AIDS

John believed his sexual attraction and involvement with men was his misguided attempt to compensate for the lack of emotional intimacy and support he had never received from his father.

As John said, " Dad's business meant he was often away from home and so I was never able to have a close relationship with him. I really hungered for male acceptance and affirmation as long as I can remember. Somehow this need became expressed in sexual behaviour with men."

"The only counselling I got was to pray and fast that things would change. Yet no matter how I prayed, fasted; nothing seemed to change. I didn't know who would understand my problem."

"Yet God did hear my prayers as somehow I heard of Exodus South Pacific, an interdenominational ministry for those wanting to recover from issues such as homosexuality, sexual addictions and emotional dependencies. "

"I contacted them, got counselling, support and developed some deep same sex friendships, something I was always looking for. No longer am I driven to have sex with other men."

"While I am on the long road of recovery: dealing with behavioural, emotional and spiritual issues of my sexuality, at last I feel I am becoming the man God intended me to be."

John is one of many who struggle sexually while trying to live true to a Christian faith in the area of sexual and relational wholeness.