Sex Addiction Test

People who feel troubled by recurring sexual urges, secretive patterns, or consequences in relationships and responsibilities can use the sex addiction test to organize what they are noticing. It is intended for anyone seeking a structured way to examine whether sexual thoughts or behaviors are becoming difficult to manage. As a sexual addiction screening test, it returns a profile that points to the kinds of patterns most worth reflecting on.

What This Assessment Explores

Rather than treating sexual interest itself as a problem, the questionnaire examines persistence, control, coping, and disruption. Items address urges, attempts to stop, planning, secrecy, escalation, emotional relief, harm, conflict, missed commitments, self-care, unsafe situations, and trust.

The three result dimensions are:

• Consequences & Impairment (0-20) reflects sexual behavior despite relationship, work, financial, legal, health, or functional harm: Low impact 0-6; Moderate impact 7-13; High impact 14-20.
• Coping, Preoccupation & Escalation (0-20) reflects emotion-driven use, mental investment, secrecy, and needing greater intensity or time: Low 0-6; Moderate 7-13; High 14-20.
• Loss of Control (0-20) reflects difficulty resisting, stopping, or cutting back: Low loss of control 0-6; Moderate loss of control 7-13; High loss of control 14-20.

As a sexual addiction test, it helps distinguish isolated concerns from patterns involving impairment, emotion-driven use, or repeated loss of control.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Responses use either frequency choices-Never to Very often-or agreement choices-Strongly disagree to Agree, with Not sure. This format captures occurrence or endorsement, depending on the item. Answers are grouped into three displayed dimensions, producing a profile rather than a single total, while the bands describe the level of each dimension within this questionnaire.

Viewed as a compulsive sexual behavior test, the questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (Reid et al., 2011), especially its attention to control, consequences, and coping. It also overlaps with the CSBD-19 (Bőthe et al., 2020) in examining impaired control, preoccupation, negative consequences, and emotion regulation, but it is not a direct adaptation of either instrument. The ICD-11 framework described by Kraus et al. (2018) supports focusing on persistent patterns and functional impairment rather than distress based only on moral disapproval.

The questionnaire provides descriptive bands but no published normative conversion; as an online self-report tool rather than a diagnostic instrument, it can be affected by memory, privacy concerns, current stress, self-awareness, and personal interpretations of sexual behavior, so the profile should be considered alongside broader circumstances.