The original essay that started the site, “Sitting in a Rowboat Throwing Marbles at a Battleship,” gives a first-hand account of coming to understand what it takes to recover from sex and pornography addiction–and then doing it. The writer focuses on how addiction is not some minor inconvenience, but rather an enormous, overwhelming force that will crush the addict who keeps trying to beat his “little problem” on his own in isolation. The importance of 12 Step groups is emphasized.