Since it was announced at the Los Angeles convention last December, Roy and the Central Office have been using the International Group Conscience Committee in an ad hoc temporary advisory capacity in day-to-day matters involving Central Office or SA as a whole. This is the only active representative body SA has at present, and it has been working extremely well. Following are some recent decisions made:
SA Affiliation with Other Sex Addiction Programs.
The IGC Committee voted that any type of organizational affiliation with other sex addiction programs was contrary to our Sixth Tradition. This was with reference to a situation in one area where something called an “Intergroup” consisting of three sex addiction programs, including SA, was created which requested SA literature for a professional conference. SA has a history of friendly cooperation with members in other programs, even to referring people to them where appropriate, and some people attend more than one program. The point in question before the IGC was not such cooperation but affiliation. The long form of Tradition Six (found at the end of AA’s Twelve and Twelve, reads: “While an SA group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never to go SO far as affiliation ог endorsement, actual or implied. An SA group can bind itself to no one.”
SA Convention Attendee Lists.
The Committee suggests that if such lists of convention attendees are made available to members, “that each page…state clearly that the list is solely for SA purposes.” This decision has come about due to unauthorized use made of the list prepared at the L.A. Convention, which was used for commercial purposes, and members expressing concern for their anonymity. This also has raised the larger question as to whether such member lists should be disseminated at all.
SA Literature.
The Committee has given the go-ahead on issuing the SA manual in typeset paperback format and on assembling the loose literature in a separate volume (see details in this issue).
SA and the Media.
The Committee deliberated a very intriguing offer for television exposure to a foreign country that would have given SA total control over the scope, depth, and type of coverage. Tempted strongly at first, they finally decided against it; SA would have to carry its own message. One Committee member’s observation was noteworthy, in the light of the fact that other programs are pursuing media exposure: “Even if the other sex addiction programs outgrow us in numbers, we should hold true to our principles and be there for those who want what we want.”
