Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline D · Sexual Behavior
Compulsive / Addictive Sexual Behavior
Does compulsive / addictive sexual behavior affect a security clearance?
Basis: 99 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
99
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
13%
13 granted · 86 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 14(b) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur | 9 | 4 |
| ¶ 14(c) · No longer a basis for coercion or pressure | 9 | 3 |
¶ 14(b) · So long ago, so infrequent, or so unusual that it is unlikely to recur
- In granted cases
- 9
- In denied cases
- 4
¶ 14(c) · No longer a basis for coercion or pressure
- In granted cases
- 9
- In denied cases
- 3
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- rehabilitation · credited in 2 granted cases
Recent decided examples
the security clearance again in 2017. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) on October 19, 2023, citing security concerns under Guidelines D (s…
The applicant in this case was a 34-year-old employee of a defense contractor who applied for a security clearance in April 2019. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency issued a Statement…
The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who faced allegations under Guidelines D, H, and E. The applicant admitted to some drug use and mental health issues but denied allegations of…
Applicant, a contractor employee, was denied eligibility for access to classified information. The judge found that his long history of public masturbation, workplace pornography use, sexual fantasies…
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How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
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- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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