The King of 13th-Steppers by Michael X.

This scene is not fiction! Bill Wilson's womanizing is legendary:

"As the AA office staff expanded in the 1940s, Bill seemed to take an active part in its recuitment efforts. One longtime AA member told me that at first she didn't know why in 1946 Bill hired her and another young woman AA member. 'Neither of us could type or take dictation,' she told me. Then, one night soon after they were hired, Bill took both women to an AA meeting. He sat between them and, all during the meeting, he had a hand on one leg of each of the women."
[ Francis Hartigan. Bill W.: A Biography of A.A. Cofounder Bill Wilson, page 172-173.]

If you attended an A.A. meeting with Bill Wilson, you were likely to witness such a scene, or to listen to him boast his exploits at the "meeting after the meeting." Wilson refused to stop having compulsive sex with AA women, telling Tom P., "I just can't give it up." Tom P. helped Wilson edit "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions". During their work he recalls that Wilson admitted feeling like a fraud telling AA members to take moral inventories and pray for the removal of shortcomings. Wilson was indeed a fraud. He was never without a mistress, and in 1964 altered his will to subtract 10% of his wife's inheritance and give it to Helen Wynn, the most passionate paramour of his life.

Wilson refused to allow his wife to author the chapter "To Wives" in the Big Book. Instead he writes it as if his wife did. And in that chapter he rather chauvanisticly instructs wives of alcoholics to never get angry lest their husbands go out and find another woman or drink! The ideas in "To Wives" laid the foundation for what would become Alanon.

The tales of Wilson's philandering are too many to tell here. The concerns that the book Alcoholics Anonymous is sexist and dated are real. Have we not heard enough of AA members glossing over this stuff?