Sex and Love Addiction in the Digital Age: Staying Sober and Safe Online

S.L.A.A. Conference-Approved Literature

This booklet looks at how sex and love addiction plays out online — dating apps, pornography, sexting, social media stalking, even AI companions — and how members of S.L.A.A. have found their way back to sobriety despite it. Much of the book is in members' own words: the frequency of app-checking, the shame of deleting and reinstalling the same accounts, the pull toward an AI relationship instead of a real one.

Written for anyone whose addiction has moved onto a screen, whether that's where it started or just where it followed them.

What's inside:

• Member accounts of the specific ways addiction shows up online — not only pornography, but stalking exes on social media, compulsive texting, AI-based relationships
• The consequences: damaged relationships, lost sleep, lost self-respect, and in some cases lost jobs
• Practical tools members use to stay sober online, including bookending, content filters, deleting triggering apps, and sober dating plans
• How to use the same devices that fed the addiction as tools for recovery instead
• The full Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions, Twelve Concepts, and Characteristics of Sex and Love Addiction

28 pages
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-7342265-9-1
ISBN (PDF): 979-8-9920530-0-5
© 2024, The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A., Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc.