A solid majority of responders felt that the sobriety definition did not require clarification. A survey was held, reaching out to various individual meetings through the regional councils and local Intergroups. The issue came up again in the late 1990s. That's an awesome responsibility we're dealing with here-human lives!" If we validate same-sex sexualizing as normative for the sexaholic in recovery, and it turns out not to be normative, SA will have been promoting an untruth and doing a devilish disservice, supporting the problem instead of recovery. The point here is this: For SA to validate same-sex sexualizing in SA, even indirectly, would have us endorsing a highly controversial biological theory and political movement against our Tenth Tradition. It is one of the most explosive political issues of the day. nurture" argument about homosexuality, "Intense controversies rage about this issue in every area of modern life in highly polarized and publicized passion. In the section titled "The Great Same-Sex Controversy" Roy goes on to explain how society was divided on the "nature vs. That year I wrote a letter to a same-sex member sharing my thoughts it now has the title "Recovery Reveals Our False Assumptions." That paper, which follows, gives reasons from within our common recovery experience why I believe we in SA should not endorse or validate, even indirectly, same-sex or "committed relationship" sexualizing in SA." In an article titled Principles Corroborating SA's Interpretation of Sexual Sobriety Roy wrote, "Ever since attending the April 19 NYC Marathons, I have been examining my own assumptions in the same-sex area. Īs early as 1991 Roy was writing to the fellowship regarding same-sex acting out. Murray R, one of the SRA founders had served on the SA General Service Board and had long attempted to change the SA sobriety definition to include committed relationships with either the same or opposite sex. The fellowship did not accept this and, as a result, in 1991 some SA members and groups left SA to form Sexual Recovery Anonymous (SRA), citing the SA sobriety definition's lack of endorsement of same sex relationships and committed relationships. It was an attempt to endorse as sexually sober, sexual activity by couples, not legally married, whether they be of the same or opposite sex. This was an attempt to generalize marriage similar to the 12 Step concept from Step 3 of "God as you understand God". Group commitment to sobriety definitionįrom the earliest attempts by Roy K to found SA in the 1970s, and throughout the history of SA, some members have sought to change the group's concept of sexual sobriety. He had been sexually sober since January 31, 1976. Roy K died from cancer on the afternoon of September 15, 2009. SA received permission from AA to use its Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1979. Sexaholics Anonymous was founded by Roy K (in twelve-step fellowships it is customary to refer to members by their first name and the first initial of their last name, in order to preserve their anonymity).
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He or she has lost control, no longer has the power of choice, and is not free to stop." The White Book explains that "the sexaholic has taken himself or herself out of the whole context of what is right or wrong.
The group uses the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and the book "Sexaholics Anonymous" (often referred to as "The White Book") as a guide. And for all of us, single and married alike, sexual sobriety also includes progressive victory over lust". For the unmarried sexaholic, sexual sobriety means freedom from sex of any kind.
Thus, for the married sexaholic, sexual sobriety means having no form of sex with self or with persons other than the spouse. "In defining sobriety, we do not speak for those outside Sexaholics Anonymous. SA helps recovering "sexaholics." According to the group, a sexaholic is someone for whom " lust has become an addiction." SA distinguishes itself from other S groups by defining sexual sobriety as no sex with self or with partners other than with one's spouse "in the marriage between a man and a woman", and progressive victory over lust. Collectively these groups are referred to as "S" groups since all their acronyms begin with that letter: SA, SAA, SLAA, SCA, SRA. SA takes its place among various twelve-step groups that seek recovery from sexual addiction: Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Sexual Compulsives Anonymous and Sexual Recovery Anonymous. Sexaholics Anonymous ( SA) founded in 1979 is one of several twelve-step programs for compulsive sexual behavior based on the original twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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