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. 2018 Mar 8;9:144. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00144

Below are some questions about your relationship to sex. Choose the response alternative for each question that best describes youa

Answers should be given for life-time use rather than just recent use i.e., have you ever… Not like me at all Most like me
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1. I find it difficult to pass over an opportunity for casual or illicit sex
2. Others have expressed repeated serious concern over my sexual behavior
3. I pride myself on the speed with which I can get to have sex with someone and find that sex with a complete stranger is stimulating
4. I would take an opportunity to have sex despite having just had it with somebody else
5. I find making a sexual conquest causes me to lose interest in that partner and leads me to begin looking for another
6. I tend to ensure that I have sex of one kind or another rather than wait for my regular partner to be available again after an illness or absence
7. I have had repeated affairs even though I had a regular relationship
8. I have had three or more regular sexual partners at the same time
9. I have had voluntary sex with someone that I dislike
10. I tend to change partners if sex becomes repetitive

Source: From How to Identify Addictive Behaviour by R. Lefever, 1988, London, UK: PROMIS Publishing. [This is the source reference for the PROMIS questionnaire, from which the items for the sex subscale were taken.]. Copyright by PROMIS Clinics. Reprinted with kind permission from R. Lefever (personal communication, March 14, 2017).

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Instruction wording used in the current study, and not from the SPQ.