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Sex Addiction: A
useful Tool for Self-Assessment
Answer these twelve
questions to assess whether you may have a problem with sexual addiction.
- Do you keep secrets about
your sexual or romantic activities from those important to you? Do you
lead a double life?
- Have your needs driven
you to have sex in places or situations or with people you would not
normally choose?
- Do you find yourself
looking for sexually arousing articles or scenes in newspapers, magazines,
or other media?
- Do you find that romantic
or sexual fantasies interfere with your relationships or are preventing
you from facing problems?
- Do you frequently want to
get away from a sex partner after having sex? Do you frequently feel
remorse, shame, or guilt after a sexual encounter?
- Do you feel shame about
your body or your sexuality, such that you avoid touching your body or
engaging in sexual relationships? Do you fear that you have no sexual
feelings, that you are asexual?
- Does each new
relationship continue to have the same destructive patterns which prompted
you to leave the last relationship?
- Is it taking more variety
and frequency of sexual and romantic activities than previously to bring
the same levels of excitement and relief?
- Have you ever been
arrested or are you in danger of being arrested because of your practices
of voyeurism, exhibitionism, prostitution, sex with minors, indecent phone
calls, etc.?
- Does your pursuit of sex
or romantic relationships interfere with your spiritual beliefs or
development?
- Do your sexual activities
include the risk, threat, or reality of disease, pregnancy, coercion, or
violence?
- Has your sexual or
romantic behavior ever left you feeling hopeless, alienated from others,
or suicidal?
If you answered yes to
more than one of these questions, we would encourage you to seek out
additional literature as a resource or to attend a Sex Addicts Anonymous
meeting to further assess your needs.
http://www.sexaa.org/12ques.htm
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