In addition, members reach out to others in the fellowship. One of the resources we draw on is our willingness to stop acting out in our own personal bottom line addictive behavior on a daily basis. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all fellow S.L.A.A. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, film, and other public media. name ought never to be drawn into public controversy. has no opinion on outside issues hence the S.L.A.A. as such ought never to be organized but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.Įvery S.L.A.A. as a whole ought never to endorse, finance, or lend the S.L.A.A. as a whole.Įach group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the sex and love addict who still suffers.Īn S.L.A.A. group, provided that as a group they have no other affiliation.Įach group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or S.L.A.A. Any two or more persons gathered together for mutual aid in recovering from sex and love addiction may call themselves an S.L.A.A. membership is the desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction. Our leaders are but trusted servants they do not govern. unity.įor our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as this Power may be expressed through our group conscience. Our common welfare should come first personal recovery depends upon S.L.A.A. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to sex and love addicts, and to practice these principles in all areas of our lives. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with a Power greater than ourselves, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Ĭontinued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. Die Anonymen Sex und Liebesschtigen (Eng.: Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, S.L.A.A.) sind ein Zwlf Schritte Programm fr Menschen, die unter Sexsucht oder der Sucht nach Flucht in romantische. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.Īdmitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. Sex Addicts Anonymous® is designed to help people suffering from sex addiction to control their harmful, unhealthy sexual practices and thoughts, while still enjoying healthy sexual practices.We admitted we were powerless over sex and love addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.Ĭame to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The typical sex addict will experience painful emotions of self-hatred, shame, or despair surrounding his sexual activities, compulsions and desires. These compulsions, actions, and thoughts may lead to undesirable consequences in interpersonal relationships, work, and family life, even when the sex addict is not acting on his compulsions or fantasies. A sex addict is typically defined as a person whose sexual compulsions, fantasies, and behaviors are uncontrollable, and damaging to his quality of life. Sex Addicts Anonymous® (SAA) is a twelve-step program for people struggling to recover from sex addiction. Sex Addicts Anonymous is for anyone whose sexual lifestyle has negatively impacted their day to day life.