Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) info.

Some posted this in an earlier thread. I'll call attention to it with an OP.
The website is http://www.sexaa.org/

Seems like a good day for "continuing education."

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"A fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so their PR people can tell the media that they're going to overcome their sexual addiction and help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency, and hopefully keep their high profile job in politics, sports, entertainment, etc."

It's called satire. There are some of us who aren't gullible enough to believe the public mea culpas and routine trips to rehab.

The majority of people who attend would have quietly decided to make a change, or been "motivated" by a spouse, etc., or mandated by a judge.

But not for "sexting."

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It must be torturous for people now who were/are addicted to internet porn, like a recovering alcoholic having a stocked bar and bartender in their living room.
Interesting site and I apologize for giggling but I kept thinking of Charlie Harper aka Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men when he went to a SAA meeting...lol

Missed that one. He was tempting fate, eh?

Age cured it.

Don

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speaking of 'education'

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useful references on rational thinking techniques.
An obvious problem is that folks with addictive behavior don't often use the ideas or persevere.

The 12 step programs are one way to try to change; there are others......

Group" of Bill Wilson and the "Moral Re-Armament Movement" and, by extension, the international fascist movements popular at the time...

I ought to think that, particularly, when thinly veiled religious or "spiritual" groups start trying to regulate sexual activity in particular, through prayer or contact with "God AYUH" or whatever, certain red flags might go up.

Especially since while alcohol addiction is a well-documented, physiological syndrome, there is widespread disagreement about terms like "sex addiction", and while the classification of sex as an addiction, particularly if it includes proposed definitions like "masturbates more than 3 times a week" (How many High School Boys AREN'T sex addicts, then, I wonder) might mean a financial bonanza for treatment 'professionals', the fact remains that the more you move into things like sex or eating or gambling the more dubious many people become as to the appropriateness of slapping the label "addiction" on what, certainly, are sometimes self-destructive behaviors or habits.

That said, yes, the 12 steps do help some people. It's important to know, as you mention too, they are not the only way.

He defines addiction as "repeated involvement with anything, despite excessive costs, because of craving."