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toad · 05-01-2009, 08:50 PM

Each week I take a AA meeting into the prison down the road. It is a year long treatment program for inmates who because of alcohol and drugs are serving their sentence. Many are coming off of years in the mainline. If they qualify for the program they get to spend their last year in treatment. We usually take a topic from the steps and the spiritual principles involved in the steps. We finished up the steps last week, and we usually take a few weeks of just random topics before starting the steps again. Tonight I picked the topic of sex. It wasn't easy standing up in front of over 130 guys and presenting the topic. It actually turned out to be a very good meeting that was informative. I find that many people don't like to talk about sex in recovery. I also find that many have relapsed because of sex related experiences. The Big Book say that we should do an inventory (written) on our sexual lives.

Share this with me from page "69" of the big Book......

"We got this all down on paper and looked at it.
"In this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life. We subjected each relation to this test, was it selfish or not? We asked God to mold our ideals and help us live up to them. We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed."

Pretty good advice..........anybody got anything they want to share?

05-01-2009, 08:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
toad Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: mountain grove, missouri Posts: 1,439	Sex Each week I take a AA meeting into the prison down the road. It is a year long treatment program for inmates who because of alcohol and drugs are serving their sentence. Many are coming off of years in the mainline. If they qualify for the program they get to spend their last year in treatment. We usually take a topic from the steps and the spiritual principles involved in the steps. We finished up the steps last week, and we usually take a few weeks of just random topics before starting the steps again. Tonight I picked the topic of sex. It wasn't easy standing up in front of over 130 guys and presenting the topic. It actually turned out to be a very good meeting that was informative. I find that many people don't like to talk about sex in recovery. I also find that many have relapsed because of sex related experiences. The Big Book say that we should do an inventory (written) on our sexual lives. Share this with me from page "69" of the big Book...... "We got this all down on paper and looked at it. "In this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life. We subjected each relation to this test, was it selfish or not? We asked God to mold our ideals and help us live up to them. We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed." Pretty good advice..........anybody got anything they want to share? __________________ "Tet Vet" Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association Patriot Guard Riders 2007 Road King Classic 96 C.I. Six-speed Vivid black "God is doing for me what I could not do for myself"