This is about how the Sexual Recovery Movement got started in 1973. I was there at the very beginning of the first of the five "S" Groups (Sexual Recovery Groups), At a new website, you can see how the press described the first of these groups and how the Sexual Recovery Movement got started after the Rev. Troy Perry gave us a place to meet. Back when we started these first Twelve Step meetings, during the 1970"s, we received press from Newsweek, the Advocate, the Los Angeles Free Press, Pacific Radio Station KPFK, etc. I"ve kept copies of most of these press clippings and you can see many of them at a new website called http://scaorigins.com and this press coverage helped inspire others to follow our lead by starting their own sex-related 12 Step Groups. Some of the first members travelled and sometimes moved to other cities where they started new chapters. Gradually, some of us learned to fight lust and sexual compulsiveness. Several years later the term sexual addiction also began to be used sometimes. There has been a lot of confusion about starting dates of these various groups. The scaorigins.com web site provides the most reliable documenting of the first 'S' Group"s genesis. Some of this documentation was shared at an SCA conference in February 2005 at Hollywood California"s Plummer Park. I gave the opening talk of the conference about what it was like when Sexual Compulsives Anonymous began in 1973. Roy, the founder of Sexaholics Anonymous came to some of those 1970"s SCA meetings while we were trying to discover what sexual sobriety was all about. Not long after SCA started, Roy created Sexaholics Anonymous. Later would come Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and Sex Recovery Anonymous. Frank L. scafrankl@yahoo.com