SAA Scotland - sexual addiction recovery group

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Call us in confidence:
Edinburgh 07900 484184
Glasgow 0141 552 0154
Dundee 07760 274601

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Confidentiality
SAA Scotland is an anonymous group. However, anonymity does not apply if you tell us you are involved in sexual violence or in any sexual activity involving minors. We will report any instances to the police.

Am I a sex addict?

Many of us took a long time to discover we were actually addicted to sex in some way. A useful tool for self-assessment is the set of 12 Questions of SAA.

1.	Do you keep secrets, about sexual or romantic activities, from those important to you? Do you lead a double life?	Using these questions When looking at these questions for the first time, many of us found we recognised aspects of our own behaviour, perhaps for the first time. Many of us then found the next step - admitting we probably were a sex addict and needed help - much harder. Many of us even changed our answers to make it look "less bad" - making excuses for our behaviour. In the end though, we realised that unless we faced up to our addiction we would never go forward to tackle it. -> Getting started
2.	Have your needs driven you to have sex in places or situations or with people you would not normally choose?
3.	Do you find yourself looking for sexually arousing articles or scenes in newspapers, magazines or other media?
4.	Do you find that romantic or sexual f*ntasies interfere with your relationships or prevent you from facing problems?
5.	Do you frequently want to get away from a sex partner after having sex? Do you frequently feel remorse, shame or guilt after a sexual encounter?
6.	Do you feel shame about your body or your sexuality, such that you avoid touching your body or engaging in sexual relationships? Do you fear that you have no sexual feelings, that you are asexual?
7.	Does each new relationship continue to have the same destructive patterns which prompted you to leave the last relationship?
8.	Is it taking more variety and frequency of sexual and romantic activities than previously to bring the same levels of excitement and relief?
9.	Have you been arrested or are you in danger of being arrested because of your practices or voyeurism, exhibitionism, prostitution, phone calls etc?
10.	Does your pursuit of sex or romantic relationships interfere with your spiritual beliefs or development?
11.	Do you sexual activities include the risk, threat or reality of disease, pregnancy, coercion or violence?
12.	Has your sexual or romantic behaviour ever left you feeling hopeless, alienated from others or suicidal?

The Scotland Intergroup of SAA is an autonomous registered fellowship composed of registered groups of recovering sex addicts who follow the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Sex Addicts Anonymous®(SAA). The views expressed on this website are those of Scotland Intergroup and do not necessarily represent those of Sex Addicts Anonymous as a whole. The official website of Sex Addicts Anonymous® (http://www.saa-recovery.org) is overseen by the ISO of SAA, Inc., through its Board of Trustees who are elected by delegates who represent its member groups.