Abnormal Sexual Behavior During Sleep in an Adolescent: Sexsomnia and Defecation

Oya Güleşen Kapan; Zeynep Ihtiyar Aydilek; Mustafa Kapan; Mehmet Baştemur; Güray Koç; Şahin Bodur; Sinan Yetkin; Mehmet Ayhan Cöngöloğlu

doi:10.1055/s-0045-1809927

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Sleep Sci
DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1809927

Case Report

Abnormal Sexual Behavior During Sleep in an Adolescent: Sexsomnia and Defecation

Oya Güleşen Kapan

¹Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Zeynep Ihtiyar Aydilek

²Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Van Erciş Şehit Rıdvan Çevik Devlet Hastanesi, Van, Turkey

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Mustafa Kapan

³Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Mehmet Baştemur

⁴Department of Pediatric Neurology, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Güray Koç

⁵Department of Neurology, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Şahin Bodur

³Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Sinan Yetkin

⁶Department of Psychiatry, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Mehmet Ayhan Cöngöloğlu

³Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Abstract

Sexsomnia is characterized by sexual behaviors ranging from masturbation, sexual sounds, and verbalizations, to touching and full sexual intercourse during NREM sleep, with subsequent amnesia. Autonomic activation occurs with sexual arousal. Sexsomnia has been described mostly in adult males and is still an underrecognized condition. Treatment is often effective but without current consensus.

In a case now reported of an adolescent male with sexsomnia, which is rarely reported in the literature, a novel feature that is now first reported is defecation accompanying sexsomnia as a co-occurring autonomic disturbance during sleep.

Keywords

adolescent - defecation - parasomnias - sexual behavior - sexsomnia

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