

However, these behaviors are never set in stone and may change as SLAA members continue in the program. SLAA encourages members to identify their own "bottom-line behaviors." The organization identifies these behaviors as "any sexual or emotional act, no matter what its initial impulse may be, which leads to loss of control over rate, frequency, or duration of its occurrence or recurrence, resulting in spiritual, mental, physical, emotional, and moral destruction of oneself and others." Maintaining " sobriety" in the SLAA program requires abstaining from one's bottom-line behaviors. COSLAA is another twelve-step fellowship created to support the family members and friends of sex and love addicts. Augustine of Hippo in his work Confessions.

SLAA is also sometimes known as the Augustine Fellowship, because early members saw many of their shared symptoms described by St. He founded SLAA as an attempt to stop his compulsive sexual and "romantic" behavior.

Though he had been a member of AA for many years, he repeatedly acted out and was serially unfaithful to his wife. SLAA was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976, by a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous ( SLAA) is a twelve-step program for people recovering from sex addiction and love addiction. Sex addiction and love addiction recovery Not to be confused with Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sexaholics Anonymous, Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, or Sexual Recovery Anonymous.
