The Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on the Adult Survivor

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Child Sexual Abuse Any sexual contact, covert or overt, between a child and a trusted individual that damaged the child, whether these contacts included suggestive remarks, pornography, fondling or acts of sexual aggression or torture, needs to be dealt with assertively. These contacts scar virtually all facets of victims’ lives since we are left with [...]

The first step towards recovering from sexual addiction

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Recovering from sexual addiction Hundreds of thousands of people suffer from sexual addiction or sex addiction – a pattern of sexual behavior which the sex addict performs in spite of the ever-increasing negative impact it has on his or her quality of life. Sexual addition is often characterized by the compulsive use of pornography, internet [...]

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous

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Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) is a twelve-step program for people recovering from sex addiction and love addiction. SLAA was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976, by a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Though he had been a member of AA for many years, he repeatedly acted out and [...]

Recovering from sexual addiction is a difficult and long term process

Recoverying from Sexual Addiction Recovering from sexual addiction is a difficult and long term process. Similar to other addictions it is behavioral disorder characterized by compulsive sexual behavior often in increasingly self-destructive forms. Sexual addiction can range however from relatively benign sexual behavior that is deemed undesirable by the addict to thoroughly dangerous and damaging [...]