Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) is a 60-minute meeting to support recovery from compulsive sexual behaviour. As a community of recovering sex addicts, SAA offers a message of hope to anyone who suffers from sex addiction. Through long and painful experience, we came to realize that we were powerless over our sexual thoughts and behaviours and that our preoccupation with sex was causing progressively severe adverse consequences for us, our families, and our friends. Despite many failed promises to ourselves and attempts to change, we discovered that, by ourselves, we were unable to stop acting out sexually. Many of us came to this realization when we started attending SAA meetings. In that setting we heard stories like ours and realized that recovery from our problem was possible. We learned through the SAA program that we were not hopelessly defective.
We find a new way of living through the SAA program and carry our message to others seeking recovery. Our Saturday evening meeting offers an accepting, non-threatening environment where we can share our common struggles and learn how to apply the principles of SAA to our everyday lives. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop addictive sexual behaviour. There is no cost to attend, although all SAA meetings ask for voluntary donations to support the meeting.