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Self-assessment

Is what you are dealing with sex addiction?

Not everyone with a high libido or a heavy sexual history has a compulsive behavior disorder. The clinical marker is loss of control that persists despite real consequences. This is a 10-question read on whether that is what you are looking at.

If you are asking whether you have a sex addiction, the honest question is whether the pattern is under your control. Read the list below and count how many describe your last 6-12 months.

  1. You keep returning to sexual behavior even after promising yourself you would stop.
  2. You lie to a partner or hide time, spending, or apps related to sexual behavior.
  3. You have lost significant time to sexual behavior, hours per day, or entire evenings, that you did not choose.
  4. You escalate to more extreme content, higher risk, or more time to get the same relief.
  5. You feel intense shame, self-loathing, or hopelessness after the behavior, then repeat it.
  6. Consequences (a discovery, a job risk, a health scare, a legal issue) have not stopped the pattern.
  7. You feel physically restless, irritable, or anxious when you cannot access the behavior.
  8. You have tried to quit on your own, self-help books, filters, accountability apps, and it has not held.
  9. The behavior is interfering with work, sleep, physical health, or your relationship.
  10. You cannot honestly say the behavior is under your control right now.

Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (ICD-11 6C72) is diagnosed by a clinician after a structured assessment. This checklist is not a diagnostic tool. It is a way to check whether the pattern is serious enough to warrant a clinical conversation.

If several of these describe you, call (512) 399-1038 or email intake. We return voicemails within one business day.

What sex addiction is not

Sex addiction is not simply having a high libido, watching porn regularly, being unfaithful once, or having a kink. The clinical picture requires loss of control that persists despite consequences you did not want. It is that persistence: behavior continuing after a discovery, an ultimatum, a health scare, or a job risk, that separates compulsive sexual behavior from ordinary sexual behavior a person might regret.

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A 20-minute intake call is honest, unrushed, and not a sales pitch. If IOP is not the right level, we say so and refer you to someone appropriate.

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