What is SAA

WHAT IS SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS?®

  •  Sex Addicts Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction or dependency.
  • Membership is open to all who share a desire to stop compulsive sexual behavior. There is no other requirement.
  • Our common goals are to become sexually healthy and to help other sex addicts achieve freedom from compulsive sexual behavior.
  • SAA is supported through voluntary contributions from members.
  • We are not affiliated with any other twelve step programs, nor are we part of any other organization.  We do not support, endorse, or oppose outside causes or issues.
  •  Sex Addicts Anonymous® is a spiritual program based on the principles and traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. 
  • We are grateful to AA for this gift, which makes our own recovery possible.

*from SAA outreach postcard

Questions

Questions for Self-Assessment

  1. Do you keep secrets about your sexual behavior or romantic fantasies from those important to you?  Do you lead a double life?
  2. Have your desires driven you to have sex in places or with people you would not normally choose?
  3. Do you need greater variety, increased frequency, or more extreme sexual activities to achieve the same level of excitement or relief?
  4. Does your use of pornography occupy large amounts of time and/or jeopardize your significant relationships or employment?
  5. Do your relationships become distorted with sexual preoccupation?  Does each new relationship have the same destructive pattern which prompted you to leave the last one?
  6. Do you frequently want to get away from a partner after having sex? Do you feel remorse, shame or guilt after a sexual encounter?
  7. Hove your sexual practices caused you legal problems?  Could your sexual practices cause you legal problems?
  8. Does your pursuit of sex or sexual fantasy conflict with your moral standards or interfere with your personal spiritual journey?
  9. Do your sexual activities involve coercion, violence or the threat of disease?
  10. Has your sexual behavior or pursuit of sexual relationships ever left you feeling hopeless, alienated from others or suicidal?
  11. Does your preoccupation with sexual fantasies cause problems in any area of your life – even when you do not act out your fantasies?
  12. Do you compulsively avoid sexual activity due to fear of sex or intimacy?  Does your sexual avoidance consume you mentally?

If you are uncomfortable with your answer to any of these questions, we encourage you to consider the following options:

  • Contact us or the ISO of SAA by any of the methods below for more information.
  • Read additional materials about recovery from sex addiction.

 

Contact Info

Contact Us By

–     email – cnysaa@gmail.com

–    Voicemail – (315)728-9722

International Service Organization (ISO) of SAA

–     Telephone:  1-800-477-8191

–     Email:  info@saa-recovery.org

–     Website:  //saa-recovery.org

–     Snail Mail:  P.O. Box 70949,  Houston,  Tx  77270

–     Business Hours:  M-Fr; 10AM-6PM Central

For partners of sex addicts or someone whose life has been affected by addictive sexual behavior see:  http//www.cosa-recovery.org/

This link to COSA is provided solely as a convenience to members/visitors and does not imply affiliation or association with SAA.

Meetings

Days and Times of Local Meetings

Our meetings are for those who share a desire to stop compulsive sexual behavior.  Due to the sensitivity of our addiction, we do not publish the meeting site locations.

  • Sunday      6:30-8:00PM  East Syracuse
  • Monday    5:30-6:30PM  Syracuse
  • Tuesday  Noon-1:00PM   Syracuse
  • Tuesday  7:30-8:30PM  Utica
  • Tuesday  6:30-8:00PM  Watertown
  • Wednesday  7:30-9:00PM  Syracuse
  • Thursday  7:30-8:30PM  Utica
  • Friday  7:30-9:00PM  Syracuse
  • Saturday  10:00-11:30AM  Syracuse
  • 3rd Wednesday of the month 6:30-7:30PM Syracuse (CNY area business meeting)

The 12 steps

THE 12 STEPS OF SAA*

  1. We admitted e were powerless over addictive sexual behavior – that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. Admitted to God,to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for the knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other sex addicts and to practice these principles in our lives.

*Sex Addicts Anonymous P. 20 3rd Edition