Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Д¬ontinued 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. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.ДЄdmitted 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. We admitted we were powerless over addictive sexual behavior - that our lives had become unmanageable.Д¬ame to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. If you are uncomfortable with your answer to any of these questions, we encourage you to consider the following options: Contact the International Service Organization (ISO) of SAA for more information, Visit the SAA website to find a contact person in your local area, Read additional materials about recovery from sex addiction, Attend an SAA meeting to learn more about the Twelve-Step Program and the Fellowship of SAA. Has your sexual behavior or pursuit of sexual relationships ever left you feeling hopeless, alienated from others, or suicidal?Дoes your preoccupation with sexual fantasies cause problems in any area of your life-even when you do not act out your fantasies?Дo you compulsively avoid sexual activity due to fear of sex or intimacy? Does your sexual avoidance consume you mentally? Have your sexual practices caused you legal problems? Could your sexual practices cause you legal problems?Дoes your pursuit of sex or sexual fantasy conflict with your moral standards or interfere with your personal spiritual journey?Дo your sexual activities involve coercion, violence, or the threat of disease? Have your desires driven you to have sex in places or with people you would not normally choose?Дo you need greater variety, increased frequency, or more extreme sexual activities to achieve the same level of excitement or relief?Дoes your use of pornography occupy large amounts of time and/or jeopardize your significant relationships or employment?Дo your relationships become distorted with sexual preoccupation? Does each new relationship have the same destructive pattern which prompted you to leave the last one?Дo you frequently want to get away from a partner after having sex? Do you feel remorse, shame, or guilt after a sexual encounter? We came to realize that we were powerless to change on our own.Дo you keep secrets about your sexual behavior or romantic fantasies from those important to you? Do you lead a double life? We could not stop acting out sexually, even when we faced negative or disastrous consequences. Others may have engaged in the same behaviors without ill effect, but we could not. No matter how sincerely we desired to stop our preoccupation with sex and our destructive sexual behavior, we found that we were powerless to change. We found ourselves isolated and alone, often gripped with fear and despair. Many of us went against our own moral values, for sex became an overpowering force in our lives. Much of our time was spent acting out or trying to manage the resulting crises and problems. We repeated sexual behaviors even though we were often aware of the potential risk to others and ourselves. Sex became our way to get relief from negative feelings and further avoid responsibility. Sex-related obsessions filled our minds and distorted our thinking. While living in addiction, our preoccupation with sex and sexual fantasy became more important than friends, family, and career. We refer to these behaviors as acting out. Both were destructive, because they led us to addictive sexual behavior.

We experienced compulsion, which is an urge that is stronger than our will to resist. We experienced obsession, which is mental preoccupation with sexual behavior or fantasies. Thus, its consequences usually became more severe over time. Sex addiction was progressive for most of us.

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