Sexaholics Anonymous

[chazman]

Hi All:

I thought I would do something today to offer assistance to those who feel they are addicted to sex, pornography or lust. I am aware there is a whole forum on this, but I cannot get into it for some reason.

Anyway, we have a saying in Sexaholics Anonymous - "you could throw a rock in an AA meeting and hit a sexaholic" In other words, there are a lot of drug and alcohol addicts who come to conclude that their drinking and drugging were the result of their trying to cover over bad feelings for what they were doing sexually..... Think about it.....

I am a long time member of SA - if anyone wants to learn more about the program, please feel free to send a PM.

 

[Chaplain David]

Hi All:

I thought I would do something today to offer assistance to those who feel they are addicted to sex, pornography or lust. I am aware there is a whole forum on this, but I cannot get into it for some reason.

Anyway, we have a saying in Sexaholics Anonymous - "you could throw a rock in an AA meeting and hit a sexaholic" In other words, there are a lot of drug and alcohol addicts who come to conclude that their drinking and drugging were the result of their trying to cover over bad feelings for what they were doing sexually..... Think about it.....

I am a long time member of SA - if anyone wants to learn more about the program, please feel free to send a PM.

Regarding getting into the men's porn support forum, go to the Member Services center (MSC) and request it. They'll change your permission so you can enter. It's usually a good idea to talk about sex, porn, etc., in the gender specific forums (male-only, females only). Here's the link to MSC: http://www.christianforums.com/f883/

God bless.

 

[chazman]

We have a lot of female members too - but I agree it would not be a good idea in this forum to mix male & female. Face to face and phone meetings seem to be ok for male & female mix, but this place could much more easily lead to people acting out online together.

 

[Chaplain David]

We have a lot of female members too - but I agree it would not be a good idea in this forum to mix male & female. Face to face and phone meetings seem to be ok for male & female mix, but this place could much more easily lead to people acting out online together.

I'm a longtime member of AA and think especially in the beginning that it's good to recommend that males and females have the same gender sponsor and even attend at least one male only or female only meeting. Having worked inpatient counseling it became apparent early on how vulnerable we are in the beginning of our sobriety, females in particular. Getting the recommendation to not make any major decisions the first year including getting into relationships is really supported in same sex sponsorship and meetings. I've never attended an SA meeting but have heard good things about them. I attend a mixed open and mixed closed AA meeting in my area. God bless you.