Think about your unhelpful sexual thoughts by answering these questions:
- How often do you have sexual thoughts about children?
- Does anything in particular trigger your sexual thoughts about children? For example a sight, sound, an image, a person, mood or situation, use of pornography.
- At what time of day do they happen?
- What feelings do you experience?
- What do you say to yourself when you have sexual thoughts about children?
- What do you feel like doing when you have sexual thoughts about children?
- How often do you masturbate to sexual fantasies about children?
- Do you have any other sexual thoughts that concern you?
From the answers to these questions you will have started to identify your pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Remember that sexual thoughts, whatever they are, don’t determine behaviour by themselves. It is possible to manage the sexual thoughts that concern you.
