Group & Member News
To date we have 30 inmates who want to join the SA group when it gets completely organized.
Group & Member News
I have recently been incarcerated on a sexual crime. Within the correctional institution that I have been placed is a Sexaholics Anonymous program. I have gone to a meeting and was advised to obtain your white book on SA. It would help me a great deal to overcome my problem as I need to do.
Group & Member News
THANK YOU so much for your response to my call. Your timing and willingness to help are deeply appreciated. With God’s help, a corner has been turned, and with God’s help, the grace will continue to come to take me one step at a time, one day at a time.
“What I Think Makes a Good SA Meeting”
The following two member contributions seemed to lend themselves to the above subject. We might consider this as a regular ESSAY feature if others want to answer the same question. (Please include your current length of uninterrupted SA sexual sobriety with your one-paragraph answer to this question.)
In Memoriam
Recently we lost one of our members due to a tragic auto accident. He will be missed by all of those who loved him including all of his S.A. brothers here.
From a Prison Psychologist
I cannot begin to adequately express our gratitude for the literature which your office sent to the men…this December. The meeting book and the ESSAY pamphlets were quickly snapped up at our regular Monday night meeting. We have 19 men actively involved in the S.A. program here at “…” and we are growing constantly.
Miscellany
“Institutions remain cumbersome, easily seduced by their own self-interest, preoccupied with their own survival. It’s a melancholy and ubiquitous fact of life that once an ideal, any ideal, becomes institutionalized, confusion sets in between the accomplishment of the ideal and the aggrandizement of the institution.”
7th Tradition Support of the Central Office
Dear Fellow SAs, I thought it might be helpful to let you know what our group from West L.A. is doing in response to the financial challenge facing our Central Office. We know that SA as a whole is working on ways to meet this challenge, and whatever recommendations are adopted, we here will seek to support them. However, we feel that whatever we can do in the meantime will be helpful.
The Top Plate
We may be experiencing something significant in SA. The Maryland Marathon and Mid-Western Regional reports (elsewhere in this issue) state that the most powerful session of the day (October 18th and 4th) was when, under example of the leader, those members who chose, “gave away their top plate.” As far as we know, this first took place in the Warm Beach, Washington convention last year. In each of these three cases, it was reported by several to have been the most potent or meaningful experience of the get-together.
Financial Report
The largest expense in the SA Central Office is our non-sexaholic secretary’s salary (without whose very efficient help Roy would be totally lost). No SA members are paid for their volunteer work.
