Thanks for your input. Grouping pedophiles into a sex addiction meeting is not something I would have ever imagined...and it's not a meeting I could attend and be non judgemental.
I hope you will try one in spite of this possible negative experience. If you don't like it, you don't have to go back.
I kind of agree though, that it is a bad idea to lump pedophiles in with other sex addictions. It would be more appropriate (and probably helpful) to put pedophiles in their own group. They are more likely to receive sympathetic support there. But from the description above, we don't know if pedophiles regularly attend such meetings. For all we know, this pedophile was referred to a more appropriate group after the meeting.
Frankly, I don't see how it would be helpful for anyone to go to a group and whine about how he missed his addiction. That is not how any 12 step or support group I have gone to functions. I don't think this would be particularly helpful in the case of a sex addiction, a gambling addiction or drug addiction for that matter. There are more serious issues to explore around addiction, imho. It sounds to me like the meeting described got derailed by someone. If that is how it goes on a regular basis, then it sounds like a waste of time.
