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Our common welfare should come first; personal
recovery depends on SA unity.
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For our group purpose there is but one ultimate
authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
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The only requirement for membership is a desire to
stop lusting and become sexually sober.
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Each group should be autonomous except in matters
affecting other groups or Sexaholics Anonymous as a whole.
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Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry
its message to the sexaholic who still suffers.
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An SA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend
the SA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of
money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
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Every SA group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
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Sexaholics Anonymous should remain forever
non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
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SA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may
create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
serve.
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Sexaholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside
issues; hence the SA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
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Our public relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the
level of press, radio, films, and TV.
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Anonymity is the spritual foundation of all our
traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
