{"id":851,"date":"2014-03-20T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2014-03-21T23:25:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:25:53","slug":"you-are-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/you-are-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you tell people you are in SA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can say that you are addicted to Nicotine.\u00a0 They probably will congratulate you for quitting cigarettes and joining SA &#8211; <a title=\"Smokers Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smokers_Anonymous\">Smokers Anonymous<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAA &#8211; <a title=\"Sex Addicts Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_Addicts_Anonymous\">Sex Addicts Anonymous<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SLAA &#8211; <a title=\"Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_and_Love_Addicts_Anonymous\">Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SCA &#8211; <a title=\"Sexual Compulsives Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_Compulsives_Anonymous\">Sexual Compulsives Anonymous<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SIA &#8211; <a title=\"Survivors of Incest Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Survivors_of_Incest_Anonymous\">Survivors of Incest Anonymous<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or you can say you are a student or a writer and you are working on an <em>Essay<\/em>.\u00a0 Either way, let&#8217;s face it, sex addicts are not generally thought highly of in today&#8217;s world.\u00a0 All you hear about is the latest rape and sex offense on the news.\u00a0 Once you get caught by the FBI you are &#8220;smeared&#8221; for life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SA &amp; S-Anon International Conventions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you been to a Sexaholics Anonymous\u00a0convention?\u00a0 Visit the complete history on the Wiki SA site\u00a0&#8211; <a title=\"Sexaholics Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexaholics_Anonymous\">Sexaholics Anonymous<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sexual addiction<\/strong> (sometimes called sex addiction) is a conceptual model devised in order to provide a scientific explanation for sexual urges, behaviors, or thoughts that appear extreme in frequency or feel out of one&#8217;s control\u2014in terms of being a literal addiction to sexual activity.<\/p>\n<p>Hypersexuality is a related continuous theoretical construct. Higher hypersexuality has been associated with addictive or obsessive personalities, escapism, psychological disorders, low self-esteem, self-destructive behavior, lowered sexual inhibitions, and behavioral conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>Medical studies and related opinions vary among professional psychologists, sociologists, clinical sexologists, and other specialists regarding whether &#8220;sexual addiction&#8221; is a medical, physiological, and psychological addiction, and whether it is representative of a psychological\/psychiatric condition at all.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_addiction\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can say that you are addicted to Nicotine.\u00a0 They probably will congratulate you for quitting cigarettes and joining SA &#8211; Smokers Anonymous SAA &#8211; Sex Addicts Anonymous SLAA &#8211; Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous SCA &#8211; Sexual Compulsives Anonymous SIA &#8211; Survivors of Incest Anonymous Or you can say you are a student or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/you-are-in-sa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do you tell people you are in SA?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}