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Newcomers like yourself often have a lot of questions about our program. This pamphlet will attempt to answer some of them.

Table of Contents

• Welcome to SA!
• What is SA?
• What is sexual sobriety?
• How can I stay healthy without some kind of sexual outlet?
• Is SA like group therapy?
• How can I become a member?
• How much will it cost me to join?
• I admit I’ve been overdoing it with sex. Can’t I just cut down a little?
• How can I tell If I’m addicted?
• Test Yourself
• I know I cannot stop on my own. I’ve tried before and it did not work. Are you saying it is actually possible?
• What do I have to do to get sober?
• Okay—I’m willing to give it a try. What do I do next?
• The Twelve Steps of Sexaholics Anonymous
• The Twelve Traditions of Sexaholics Anonymous

Do you have a problem with pornography or lust on the Internet? Find out how the SA solution has worked for others and can work for you, too.

Many of us came to Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) driven to total despair by our destructive sexual thoughts and behaviors. Within the meeting rooms of SA we discovered, to our surprise, that lust was the driving force behind our acting out. Sexual lust is an inordinate thought or feeling that drives us to use ourselves, others, or things for self-centered destructive purposes. The spiritual sickness of lust wants sexual stimulation at that moment instead of what a Higher Power or God of our understanding is offering us. Later we come to see that lust wants anything other than what is offered us each moment. At first it was hard to believe. As we began to accept this fact, we wondered how we could live without lust. It became clear that we had to give it up, yet we doubted that life without lust was possible.

Table of Contents

• Why Stop Lusting?
• Why can’t I lust, just a little?
• How can I stop lusting?
• But what will happen to me?
• Breaking The Lust Habit

Sponsorship is a cornerstone of our Sexaholics Anonymous recovery program.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Taking Direction from a Sponsor
• Does My Sponsor Have to Be a member of SA?
• Member Share: I Can’t Do it Alone
• Taking Direction from a Higher Power
• Member Share: Sponsorship Helps Me Be Obedient to God

In your practice as a helping professional, you may have occasion to counsel someone who is experiencing unmanageability in his or her life due to sexually destructive thinking and behavior.

Table of Contents

• What is Sexaholics Anonymous?
• A Resource for You
• How the Program Works
• Meetings
• Anonymity
• SA and Sexaholism
• What Some Health and Helping Professionals Have Learned
• Some Common Objections to SA
• Attending the First SA Meeting
• Summary
• How to Contact SA

The SACFC is a national committee made up of local members who are dedicated to carrying the SA message to incarcerated sexaholics. We support members, groups and Intergroups in their work with correctional facilities by providing them with literature that is commonly used by our members during 12-Step work and by sharing with them the experience, strength and hope that Sexaholics Anonymous has gained over time doing this work.

Table of Contents

• Sexaholics Anonymous Correctional Facilities Committee (SACFC)
• Representatives
• Contact Information
• Services
• What is Sexaholics Anonymous?
• The Twelve Steps of Sexaholics Anonymous
• The Twelve Traditions of Sexaholics Anonymous

The SA Service Manual defines the service structure of Sexaholics Anonymous, from the individual groups to the General Delegate Assembly and the Board of Trustees.

Table of Contents

1. Twelve Traditions of AA and SA
2. Sexaholics Anonymous Statement of Principal
3. Introduction to General Service
4. The Spirituality of Service
5. SA’s Service Structure Graphic
6. The Group and its Representative to the Intergroup (GSR)
7. Intergroup and its Representative (IGR)
8. Regional Assembly
9. General Assembly Delegate (GAD)
10. General Delegate Assembly (GDA)
11. Board of Trustees
12. Trustee Committees
13. Committee Mission Statements
14. International Conventions
15. Essay
16. SAICO: SA International Central Office
17. The Twelve Concepts of AA and SA
18. Inverted Pyramid of Service
19. A Member’s Experience with the Twelve Concepts
20. Glossary of Terms
21. Appendices

The SA meeting participation statement.

We have compiled a list of Fellowship Approved Literature. Click on the button below for a printable version.

The Archives and History Committee of SA would like to record the recollections of our Old-Timers. This document will serve as a record of SA’s beginnings from the memories of our earliest members.