Within the supposed safety of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, the likelihood of someone new to sobriety becoming sexual prey is very real.
"Thirteenth-Stepping" refers to the too-common occurrence of the newly sober being treated as sexual prey.
Eric was nearly 10 years her senior and a common fixture on the sobriety scene. He had a criminal record whose details Eric would disclose to Karla only in pieces.During the trial, the jury learned that Eric was known amongst his fellow AA members as a man who had a history of contentious relationships with several newly sober members of AA.
In 2009, researchers Cathy Bogart and Carol Pearce collected data on a rather small sample of 55 women involved in AA and found that 50 percent of those surveyed had experienced seven of the Thirteenth-Stepping behaviors. The percentage in the number of respondents rose after those who had never attended a women-only AA meeting were exposed to the women-only environment.
Possible reasons why this topic has not been explored further are likely to be related to the anonymity of AA andof individual members to participate in a research study, as well as the subjectivity of many of the oversteps and missteps described previously.place—especially if you are new to this lifestyle—and it is human nature to look to be connected to people similar to yourself.
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