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Am I addicted to porn? Nine questions, and not one of them is how often.

Most tests online count how many times a week and call it a score. The screens clinicians actually use do not ask that at all. This one asks what they ask: can you stop when you decide to, and what is it costing you.

  • 9 questions
  • About 2 minutes
  • Nothing saved, no signup

This is not a diagnosis and it is not medical advice.

Let us start with the question every other quiz opens with.

In a normal week, how many days do you watch porn?

Now the part that counts.

In the last 6 months, did you decide to stop or cut back, and then not manage it?

When you start, do you go longer than you planned?

Pick everything that is true. Or pick the first one.

In the last month, what did it actually take from you?

Do you use it to shut off a feeling, like boredom, stress, being lonely or angry?

Compared to a year ago, what do you need now to get the same feeling?

How long has this felt like a problem?

One more, and it is the important one.

If nobody in your life thought porn was wrong, would anything still be a problem for you?

Last one. This one shapes the advice, not the result.

What have you already tried?

What this checks

Three things, in the order the clinical screens weight them. Whether you decide to stop and then do not. Whether it takes sleep, work, people or sex from you. And where the bad feeling is coming from, since guilt and loss of control feel identical from the inside and need completely different help.

What it is not

It is not a diagnosis and it cannot be one. The scored instruments are the five-item Brief Pornography Screen, where 4 or higher means a professional should take a proper look, and the 18-item Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale, where the usual cut-off is 76. Both are doors to a conversation, not verdicts.

Where this comes from

The questions follow the ICD-11 criteria for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder, which require a lasting failure to control the behaviour plus real impairment, and which state that distress coming only from moral disapproval is not enough. The long version, with the papers, is in what a porn addiction test can and cannot tell you.