Sexually Addictive Behaviors According to Levels of Severity*
Level One:
- Masturbation
- Affairs, chronic infidelity, romance addiction
- Sexual relationships with multiple partners
- Pornography use and collection (with or without masturbation)
- Phone sex, cybersex
- Anonymous sex
- Prostitution – strip clubs
- Illegal prostitution
- Public sex (bathrooms, parks, etc.)
- Voyeurism – online or live
- Exhibitionism
- Obscene phone calls
- Frotteurism
- Stalking behaviors
- Sexual harassment
- Rape
- Child molestation
- Obtaining and viewing child pornography
- Obtaining and viewing rape, snuff pornography
- Sexual abuse of older or dependent persons
- Incest
- Professional boundary violations (clergy, police officers, teachers, physicians, attorneys,
- etc.)
2 Comments
Could you qualify the behaviors in Level 1 and 2? Obviously, masturbation is normal, and there is, presumably, a normal level of porn use, voyeurism, etc. When do these behaviors qualify as “addictive” or pathological?
See the “self test” tab on my website. Also the Sexual Addiction Screening Test on http://www.sexhelp.com