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Welcome to SA in Providence, Rhode Island!    Test YourselfTo The Newcomer What is a Sexaholic?The Twelve StepsThe Twelve TraditionsRecovery Links SA INTERNATIONAL WEBSITESA NEW ENGLAND-OTHER NE MEETINGSSA NEW ENGLAND STEP STUDYSA ONLINE (YAHOO! GROUP)WOMEN IN SANEWCOMER BROCHUREWHY STOP LUSTING?FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONALSA PHONE MEETINGSGLENN K-SA TAPES/CD'S/MP3WELCOME HOME CONVENTION 7-08S-ANONAA BIG BOOK ONLINESEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUSSEXUAL COMPULSIVES ANONYMOUSSEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUSSEXUAL RECOVERY ANONYMOUSWelcome to SA in Providence, Rhode Island!
We are glad you are here...this is the website of the Providence, RI Monday night meeting of Sexaholics Anonymous. This site
is designed to be a helpful source of information and guidance. Here you will find excerpts from our literature about sexaholism (also referred to as sexual addiction/compulsion) and recovery. Weblinks provide access to other sources of help including phone meetings, online meetings and support. If we may be of service to you please feel free to call our hotline number 401-451-3324 or send e-mail via the form below. Anyone who turns to SA can be assured that his or her anonymity will be protected.
Sexaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop lusting and become sexually sober.
There are no dues or fees for SA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. SA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
Our primary purpose is to stay sexually sober and help others to achieve sexual sobriety.
Adapted with permission from The AA Grapevine, Inc.
SA adaptation © 1982, 1989, 2001 SA Literature.
Excerpted from Sexaholics Anonymous, page 4. The Problem
The Problem
Many of us felt inadequate,
unworthy, alone, and afraid. Our insides never matched what we saw on
the outside of others.
Early on, we came to feel
disconnected—from parents, from peers, from ourselves. We tuned out
with fantasy and masturbation. We plugged in by drinking in the pictures,
the images, and pursuing the objects of our fantasies. We lusted and
wanted to be lusted after.
We became true addicts:
sex with self, promiscuity, adultery, dependency relationships, and
more fantasy. We got it through the eyes; we bought it, we sold it,
we traded it, we gave it away. We were addicted to the intrigue, the
tease, the forbidden. The only way we knew to be free of it was to do
it. “Please connect with me and make me whole!” we cried with
outstretched arms. Lusting after the Big Fix, we gave away our power
to others.
This produced guilt, self-hatred,
remorse, emptiness, and pain, and we were driven ever inward, away from
reality, away from love, lost inside ourselves.
Our habit made true intimacy
impossible. We could never know real union with another because we were
addicted to the unreal. We went for the “chemistry,” the connection
that had the magic, because it bypassed intimacy and true union. Fantasy
corrupted the real; lust killed love.
First addicts, then love
cripples, we took from others to fill up what was lacking in ourselves.
Conning ourselves time and again that the next one would save us, we
were really losing our lives.
© 1982, 1989, 2001 SA Literature.
Excerpted from Sexaholics Anonymous, page 203.
The Solution
The Solution
We saw that our problem
was threefold: physical, emotional, and spiritual. Healing had to come
about in all three.
The crucial change in attitude
began when we admitted we were powerless, that our habit had us whipped.
We came to meetings and withdrew from our habit. For some, this meant
no sex with themselves or others, including not getting into relationships.
For others it also meant “drying out” and not having sex with
the spouse for a time to recover from lust.
We discovered that we could
stop, that not feeding the hunger didn’t kill us, that sex was indeed
optional. There was hope for freedom, and we began to feel alive. Encouraged
to continue, we turned more and more away from our isolating obsession
with sex and self and turned to God and others.
All this was scary. We
couldn’t see the path ahead, except that others had gone that way before.
Each new step of surrender felt it would be off the edge into oblivion,
but we took it. And instead of killing us, surrender was killing the
obsession! We had stepped into the light, into a whole new way of life.
The fellowship gave us
monitoring and support to keep us from being overwhelmed, a safe haven
where we could finally face ourselves. Instead of covering our feelings
with compulsive sex, we began exposing the roots of our spiritual emptiness
and hunger. And the healing began.
As we faced our defects,
we became willing to change; surrendering them broke the power they
had over us. We began to be more comfortable with ourselves and others
for the first time without our “drug.”
Forgiving all who had injured
us, and without injuring others, we tried to right our own wrongs. At each
amends more of the dreadful load of guilt dropped from our shoulders,
until we could lift our heads, look the world in the eye, and stand
free.
We began practicing a positive
sobriety, taking the actions of love to improve our relations with others.
We were learning how to give; and the measure we gave was the measure
we got back. We were finding what none of the substitutes had ever supplied.
We were making the real Connection. We were home.
© 1982, 1989, 2001 SA Literature.
Excerpted from Sexaholics Anonymous, pages 204-205.
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