It is my understanding that sex addiction including pedophilia is widespread in the United States and around the world. In my community there has been generational pedophilia in families. I have recently found out that there are cultic communities in this area, a cult formerly called Children Of God, a sex cult. I have been in touch with some people from these communities and they are suffering so much and want to go into addiction recovery through 12 Step groups. There are three excellent 12 Step groups to turn to for support:
Fellow Travelers (a special group from SAA for Minor Attracted Persons (MAPS) There is a new book out by one of the groups members called A Map for MAPS that you can buy on Amazon.com or get as a Kindle e-book)
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
These sites will link you up to all kinds of resources, especially 12 Step meetings, face to face, phone and zoom meetings. In their stores you can buy their main texts and stories, daily readers, audio downloads, meeting cds, booklets and pamphlets including new meeting starter packages to begin your own meetings.
I have an Apple iPhone and I use a great app called Alcoholics Anonymous Companion which has over 1,000 recorded meetings for all types of 12 Step groups including SAA, SLAA and SA. I am positive that you can find apps on whatever cell phone you have for recorded 12 meetings. It is really worth it to get one of those apps to listen to.
I found a great book called From Generation To Generation: Understanding Sexual Attraction To Children by a woman who had been molested by her father and wanted to understand him better and people like him who were pedophiles. Her name is Anne Stirling Hastings, PhD. The book came out in 1994. There aren't a lot of copies of it. I think there might be two left on Amazon used, but you might be able to find it at other used book sites. It is worth looking for.
