Do you wonder whether your problem with sexual compulsion or behaviour warrants seeking help?
If so, here is your own personal self assessment survey.

Am I a Sex Addict?

1. Ask yourself the following 20 questions and answer them as honestly as you can:

1. Do you experience remorse, depression, or guilt about your sexual activity? Yes No
 
2. Have repeatedly been unable to stop or reduce certain sexual behaviors? Yes No
 
3. Do you engage in internet pornography or cyber sex? Yes No
 
4. Are you unable to resist sexual advances, or propositions? Yes No
 
5. Do you use sex to escape from anxiety, fear, anger, resentment, guilt? Yes No
 
6. Do you spend excessive time obsessing about sex or engaged in sexual activity? Yes No
 
7. Have you neglected your family or friends, due to time you spend in sexual activity? Yes No
 
8. Do your sexual pursuits interfere with your work or professional development? Yes No
 
9. Do you lie to others to cover up your sexual activity? Yes No
 
10. Do you avoid intimate relations to rely on fantasy, masturbation or anonymous activity? Yes No
 
11. Do you use other stimuli such as pornography, cyber sex, drugs/alcohol, “toys”, etc.? Yes No
 
12. Do you use abusive, humiliating, or painful sexual fantasies/behaviors to get sexually aroused? Yes No
 
13. Do you want to get away from your sexual partner after the encounter? Yes No
 
14. Do you have sex with people with whom you normally would not associate? Yes No
 
15. Do you frequent clubs, bars, restrooms, parks, or public places in search of sexual partners? Yes No
 
16. Have you ever had legal consequences due to your sexual activity? Yes No
 
17. Have you ever risked your physical health by engaging in “unsafe” sexual activity? Yes No
 
18. Are you financially strained due to money spent on sexual activity? Yes No
 
19. Have people you trust expressed concern about your sexual activity? Yes No
 
20. Does life seem meaningless and hopeless without a romantic or sexual relationship? Yes No

 

If you have answered YES to any one of these questions, there is a definite warning that you may be a sex addict.

If you have answered YES to any two, the chances are that you are a sex addict.

YES answers to three or more, is definitely consistent with a sex addict.

 

2. Congratulations on completing the twenty questions.

If you wish for one of our A Home Away counsellors to contact you for a free, personal consultation, please complete your contact information for how you wish to be reached.

NB: Your confidentiality is strictly respected; your information will not be provided to any outside person or agency.

 

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3. You deserve to get the type of help you need.
Are you ready to consider treatment at A Home Away?

Yes

No

What is the best time to call you?

4. What is your preferred method of contact?

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