If you think you may be a sex addict, there is a way out.

1. Do you keep returning to sexual behaviours, porn, fantasy, or lust even after deciding to stop?
2. Have you tried to control or limit your behaviour and found that you could not stay stopped?
3. Do you hide parts of your sexual behaviour from people close to you?
4. Has lust or sexual acting out harmed your relationships, work, school, finances, or spiritual life?
5. Do you use sex, fantasy, or pornography to escape loneliness, fear, anger, boredom, or stress?
6. Do you feel shame, guilt, or despair after acting out, but eventually repeat the same pattern?
7. Have you crossed boundaries that once mattered to you?
8. Do you spend more time or money on sexual behaviour than you intended?
9. Have you put yourself or others at risk because of lust or sexual behaviour?
10. Do you feel driven by urges that seem stronger than your own willpower?
11. Have you made promises to yourself, God, or someone else and then broken them?
12. Do you fear being found out?
13. Have you used anonymous contacts, apps, websites, or secret accounts in ways that concern you?
14. Do you compare yourself with others to convince yourself your behaviour is not serious?
15. Have you lost interest in ordinary life because fantasy or sexual pursuit takes over?
16. Do you isolate or withdraw because of your behaviour?
17. Have you sought therapy, religion, self-help, or resolutions but still felt stuck?
18. Do you feel powerless over lust once it gets started?
19. Would you like to stop lusting and become sexually sober?
20. Are you willing to ask for help from people who have found recovery?

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1. We admitted we were powerless over lust — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to sexaholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.