Do you:
1. Regard sex as something normal and natural?
2. Hold the view that individuals have the right to seek out and engage in consensual sexual interactions that are mutually pleasuring?
3. Think positively about sexually explicit materials?
4. Support the need to discuss sex matters openly?
5. See sex as an act that is uniting, supporting, and expressive?
6. Believe that sex is something to be celebrated?
7. Avoid or deny sex?
8. Feel negatively about sexually explicit materials?
9. See sexual intimacy, discussion or education as taboo?
10. Regard your sexual views as restrictive and condemning?
11. Find yourself feeling vulnerable, fearful, guilty, angry, disgusted, or shameful when thinking about sex?
12. Have difficulty opening up to your lover or expressing yourself during sex?
If you have more “yes” answers for questions numbered 1 – 6, then you’re more of an erotophile. If you answered “yes” more often to questions numbered 7 – 12, then you’re more of an erotophobe. Erotophobes see sex as something negative and will usually have sex just to please their partner. Erotophiles see sex as something natural and healthy. They also tend to find it to be a bonding experience verses Erotophobes who don’t feel that way at all. Now you know.
Leslie