Twelve Steps of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous

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The people who really need to change are those who have become sex addicts. This is about how the Sexual Recovery Movement got started in 1973. I was there at the very beginning of the first of the five "S" Groups (Sexual Recovery Groups), At a new website, you can see how the press described the first of these groups and how the Sexual Recovery Movement got started after the Rev. Troy Perry gave us a place to meet. Back when we started these first Twelve Step meetings, during the 1970's, we received press from Newsweek, the Advocate, the Los Angeles Free Press, Pacific Radio Station KPFK, etc. I've kept copies of most of these press clippings and you can see many of them at a new website called http://scaorigins.com and this press coverage helped inspire others to follow our lead by starting their own sex-related 12 Step Groups. Some of the first members traveled and sometimes moved to other cities where they started new chapters. Gradually, some of us learned to fight lust and sexual compulsiveness. Several years later the term sexual addiction also began to be used sometimes. There has been a lot of confusion about starting dates of these various groups. The scaorigins.com web site provides the most reliable documenting of the first 'S' Group's genesis. Some of this documentation was shared at an SCA conference in February 2005 at Hollywood California's Plummer Park. I gave the opening talk of the conference about what it was like when Sexual Compulsives Anonymous began in 1973. Roy, the founder of Sexaholics Anonymous came to some of those 1970's SCA meetings while we were trying to discover what sexual sobriety was all about. Not long after SCA started, Roy created Sexaholics Anonymous. Later would come Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and Sex Recovery Anonymous.
Who invented the name "Sexual Compulsives Anonymous", the first of the 4 or 5 major Sexual Recovery Organizations? All of that will become clear if you go to a new website called www.scaorigins.com This new website has copies of numerous letters, magazine and newspaper articles that document the very genesis of the so-called 'R' Groups! It all began right following 1973, and even Roy, the founder of Sexaholics Anonymous attended some of the SCA meetings before starting his own organization: SA. So take a look at some of the documents at http://scaorigins.com if you have any interest in how the whole thing started.

Twelve Steps of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous

The original history of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, it's documents, from the early 1970's can be found at scaorigins.com

Twelve Steps of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous

1 We admitted we were powerless over sexual compulsion -- 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 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 sexually compulsive people and to practice these principles in all our affairs.