It's a simple question, but there is no simple answer. Let me give you some examples:

When I was younger there was popular song "Standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by". It's a perfectly harmless belabor, except when it is practiced to the exclusion of important responsibilities.

Once telephone sex meant making anonymous calls and harassing women. I have known people who have opened their telephone bills to find over a thousand dollars spent on pay sex lines.

I know several people who have lost jobs for receiving sexually explicit material at the office.

These may seem as somewhat tame activities, they are, but sex addiction may result in exhibitionism, promiscuity, child molestation and murder.

The one thing that binds all of these activities together is not what is done, but why it is done. A sex adduct uses sex as a narcotic to escape from life. As any other narcotic as the adduct becomes habituated more of the drug is needed to sustain the "High". So the sexual behaviors become more frequent, more driven or more dangerous.

Thus "Standing on the corner..." can grow into some very dangerous actions.

I entered the SAA after my arrest; it wasn't for "Standing on the corner...". It was for child molestation. The SAA program has given me a way to change my reality, to make my life better and more fulfilling. I am still a sex adduct, I am still a child molester, but I am not driven to molest children, I am not compelled to have sex.

There is no magic to the SAA program. We don't chant. We're not a religious organization, we are spiritual however. The program consists of groups of sex adducts, alone none of us can overcome the dark vagaries of our souls but together we can help each other. We talk, about our feelings about the things in our past we least want to talk about and we find from others the strength, wisdom and courage to guide our lives.