Hypersexuality Test

How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
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Hypersexuality Test - Description and methodology of the test
People who want to examine whether sexual urges, habits, or consequences are becoming difficult to manage can use this hypersexuality test as a structured self-check. People asking whether they may be hypersexual can use this questionnaire as an am I hypersexual quiz to consider whether concern centres on control, disruption, secrecy, or risk. The result offers a profile to reflect on rather than a judgment about sexual desire itself.
What This Assessment Explores
Rather than treating desire itself as the problem, the hypersexual quiz examines perceived loss of control, interference, and concealed or risky behavior. Items address recurring urges, difficulty stopping, lost time, emotional coping, relationship agreements, finances, routines, and consequences at work or school. The profile can help a person identify which areas currently show the greatest difficulty with control, disruption in daily life, or exposure to risk.
The result is organized into three dimensions:
- Compulsive Sexual Behavior: 0-30; Low 0-10, Moderate 11-20, and High 21-30 show increasing difficulty controlling sexual thoughts, urges, and behavior.
- Functional Impact: 0-30; Low impact 0-9, Moderate impact 10-19, and High impact 20-30 indicate increasing disruption to relationships, responsibilities, finances, wellbeing, and time.
- Risk & Secrecy: 0-20; Low 0-6, Moderate 7-13, and High 14-20 reflect increasing exposure to risky situations and reliance on concealment.
Methodology and Evidence Base
As a self-report questionnaire, it uses agreement, frequency, and impact options, allowing the assessment to cover both internal experiences and concrete consequences. The displayed score ranges and bands identify the reported level for each dimension, but the item-to-score mapping is unspecified; no item-by-item scoring rule should be inferred.
The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory, behavioral-consequence findings from Reid et al. (2011), and Bőthe’s work on ICD-11-based screening for compulsive sexual behavior. These sources provide construct context for this hypersexuality self-assessment, whose clinical norms and standardization status are not established. Its bands should therefore be read as descriptive levels, not clinical thresholds.
Interpretation should follow the pattern across dimensions, not a single band. Answers can shift with memory, honesty, current circumstances, and self-awareness. A result is best used to identify patterns worth examining further, especially when consequences or loss of control feel persistent.
- Reid, Rory C., Sheila Garos, and Bruce N. Carpenter. "Reliability, Validity, and Psychometric Development of the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory in an Outpatient Sample of Men." Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 18(1), 30-51, 2011. 10.1080/10720162.2011.555709
- Reid, Rory C., Sheila Garos, and Timothy Fong. "Psychometric Development of the Hypersexual Behavior Consequences Scale." Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 1(3), 115-122, 2012. 10.1556/JBA.1.2012.001
- Koós, Mónika, Beáta Bőthe, Gábor Orosz, Marc N. Potenza, Rory C. Reid, and Zsolt Demetrovics. "The Negative Consequences of Hypersexuality: Revisiting the Factor Structure of the Hypersexual Behavior Consequences Scale and Its Correlates in a Large, Non-Clinical Sample." Addictive Behaviors Reports, 13, 100321, 2021. 10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100321
- Bőthe, Beáta, Marc N. Potenza, Mark D. Griffiths, Shane W. Kraus, Verena Klein, Johannes Fuss, and Zsolt Demetrovics. "The Development of the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Scale (CSBD-19): An ICD-11 Based Screening Measure Across Three Languages." Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9(2), 247-258, 2020. 10.1556/2006.2020.00034
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