GMcMurrian Neurology and Epilepsy Men and Women with epilepy have a higher rate of sexual dysfunction then in any other chronnic illness.
Sexual function is arousal,and orgasm.
In many epileptics the sexual desire will simply be gone by the late teenage years,leaving them very confused as to what is going on with them. This can often lead to a homosexual life stile. In the past,sexual problems in people with epilepsy have been largely attributed to psychosocial problems,such as having low self-esteem. But as time and studies went on,it was found that the biggest factor for people with epilepsy is some destruction to the tempporal lobe in the brain. Damage to the temporal lobe,the most dominant part of the brrain,can limit a persons desire for sexual activity to zero.