Addicted to love...

Are you a sexual addict? These are the prescreening questions that one should apparently answer to ascertain whether you have a problem. (I found this on JJ )

Answer these twelve questions to access whether you may have a problem with sexual addiction.

1. Do you keep secrets about your sexual or romantic activities from those important to you? Do you lead a double life?
Yes I did. Not proud of it. Never going to reveal it to my wife.

2. Have your needs driven you to have sex in places or situations or with people you would not normally choose?
Yes. I have fucked women found physically and mentally unattractive in slightly seedy surroundings - thinking back, one or two make me feel a little sick. I have also had some wonderful experiences...

3. Do you find yourself looking for sexually arousing articles or scenes in newspapers, magazines, or other media?
Yes. Next? Well I can hardly deny it - a cursory glance at the list of blogs to the right rather gives the game away... Trouble is, dear reader, you are almost certainly "bang to rights" too, by the very fact that you are reading this...

4. Do you find that romantic or sexual fantasies interfere with your relationships or are preventing you from facing problems?
Hmmm. That was the case. Much less so now but not fully resolved. So, yes.

5. 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?
A bit like the last one. Don't want to get away from my wife after sex. But after seeing an escort there was all that feeling.

6. 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?
No. At last something I don't fricking agree with...

7. Does each new relationship continue to have the same destructive patterns which prompted you to leave the last relationship?
Gosh, been married for ever, so not sure how one should answer this... My relationships have never had a destructive pattern (if you don't count paying a string of escorts to go away...)

8. Is it taking more variety and frequency of sexual and romantic activities than previously to bring the same levels of excitement and relief?
Yes - as demonstrated by this post.

9. 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.?
Never been arrested, hopefully won't be arrested because I've given up on prostitution. But I have been at risk historically. Sex with minors???? Yuck...

10. Does your pursuit of sex or romantic relationships interfere with your spiritual beliefs or development?
Bad karma, man. No, my spiritualist beliefs are humanist - no difficulties for me here.

11. Do your sexual activities include the risk, threat, or reality of disease, pregnancy, coercion, or violence?
Since I got a social disease, I suppose I have to answer yes.

12. Has your sexual or romantic behavior ever left you feeling hopeless, alienated from others, or suicidal?
Way too self-centred and smug for this...

So - 9/12. What's the required score?

If you answered yes to more than one of these questions, they encourage you to seek out additional literature as a resource or to attend an Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting to further assess your needs.

Oh. My. God. I'm fucked up beyond all recognition - 9/12! They'll be putting me in a cage for people to gawp at - "come and see the freak." Either that our they'll strap electrodes to my balls and try to shock me out of my habits - "drastic times call for drastic measures..." I guess that I'll steer clear, just in case.

How do you fare?

Enjoy...