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Orgasmic epilepsy

rare form of epilepsy causing orgasms

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ131320022 ↗
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Orgasmic epilepsy is a rare form of epilepsy that involves auras in which spontaneous orgasms occur. Due to their rarity and sensitive nature, they have mostly been reported as single cases and case series. A broader category is epilepsy with sexual auras generally. There are similarities and overlap of orgasmic epilepsy with ecstatic epilepsy and certain other forms of epilepsy. Orgasmic seizures were first reported in 1960 and a number of additional cases have been reported since then.

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“Orgasmic epilepsy” enters the record as rare form of epilepsy causing orgasms. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Orgasmic, epilepsy and rare can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Orgasmic epilepsy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.