Many theories have been generated to explain hypersexuality, which has been defined as “recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges or sexual behaviors” (Kafka, 2010). Measures of the construct vary widely in the behaviors and fantasies they assess, but little research has examined the core nature of the construct or the relation among the various impulsivity scales purported to measur...

Abstract Background Hypersexuality is associated with many psychiatric disorders and creates enormous burden for the affected individual, family society. There are numerous inventories measuring behavioral, emotional or stressful features of hypersexuality, we still need a structure-validated questionnaire to measure hypersexuality in comprehensive way. Methods Based on previous related clinica...

Men and women have been seeking professional assistance to help control hypersexual urges and behaviors since the nineteenth century. Despite that the literature emphasizes that cases of hypersexuality are highly diverse with regard to clinical presentation and comorbid features, the major models for understanding and treating hypersexuality employ a "one size fits all" approach. That is, rathe...

Objective: This manuscript reviews the etiology, presentation and treatment options of hypersexuality. Methods: A MEDLINE search was conducted for English-language articles published over the past 35 years and was supplemented by a search of bibliographies of relevant articles [Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Sexual Addiction, altered sexual preference or Hypersexuality (hetero-, homo-, autosexual)...

To the Editors: Hypersexuality and psychotic symptoms are occasionally associated with Parkinson’s disease, dopamine agonist therapy for Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and temporal lobe seizures, but rarely with stroke. Although some studies have shown that quetiapine is effective in treating psychosis and motor functions in Parkinson’s disease, as far as we know, there have not been any treatm...

Hypersexuality and gender dysphoria have both been described in the literature as symptoms of mania. Hypersexuality is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 as part of the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder. Gender dysphoria is less often described and its relation to mania remains unclear. This case report describes a young homosexual man presenting in a m...

Eight patients are described in whom either hypersexuality (four cases) or change in sexual preference (four cases) occurred following brain injury. In this series disinhibition of sexual activity and hypersexuality followed medial basal-frontal or diencephalic injury. This contrasted with the patients demonstrating altered sexual preference whose injuries involved limbic system structures. In ...