{"id":178,"date":"2019-12-08T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T12:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sa-israel.org\/en\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2019-12-11T05:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T05:46:33","slug":"sobriety-definition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sa-israel.org\/en\/sobriety-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sobriety Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How We Define Sobriety<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <strong>Statement of Purpose<\/strong>: We have a solution. We\n don\u2019t claim it\u2019s for everybody, but for us, it works. If you identify \nwith us and think you may share our problem, we\u2019d like to share our \nsolution with you (Sexaholics Anonymous, last sentence, page 2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In defining sobriety, we do not speak for those outside Sexaholics  Anonymous. We can only speak for ourselves. Thus, for the married  sexaholic, sexual sobriety means having no form of sex with self or with  persons other than the spouse. In SA\u2019s sobriety definition, the term  \u201cspouse\u201d refers to one\u2019s partner in a marriage between a man and a  woman. For the unmarried sexaholic, sexual sobriety means freedom from  sex of any kind. And for all of us, single and married alike, sexual  sobriety also includes progressive victory over lust (Sexaholics  Anonymous, 191-192). <em>Passed by the General Delegate Assembly February 2010<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only requirement for SA membership is a desire to stop lusting \nand become sexually sober according to the SA sobriety definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any two or more sexaholics gathered together for SA sobriety \naccording to SA sobriety definition may call themselves an SA group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meetings that do not adhere to and follow Sexaholics Anonymous\u2019 \nsobriety statement as set forth in the foregoing Statement of Principle \nadopted by the General Delegate Assembly in 2010 are not SA meetings and\n shall not call themselves SA meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Addendum to the Statement of Principle passed by the General Delegate Assembly on July 8, 2016.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Quotes from the White Book<br>Copyright \u00a9 1989-2008 SA Literature<br>Reprinted with permission of SA Literature<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How We Define Sobriety Our Statement of Purpose: We have a solution. We don\u2019t claim it\u2019s for everybody, but for us, it works. If you identify with us and think you may share our problem, we\u2019d like to share our solution with you (Sexaholics Anonymous, last sentence, page 2). In defining sobriety, we do not&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sa-israel.org\/en\/sobriety-definition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sobriety Definition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"default","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"off","neve_meta_disable_footer":"off","neve_meta_disable_title":"off","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How We Define Sobriety Our Statement of Purpose: We have a solution. 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