Table 3.

Symptoms of abnormal sexual behaviors in dementias

Abnormal sexual behaviors	Symptoms	Type of dementia
Positive	Increased sexual desire, impulsive behaviors, urges, excitement, touching, kissing, hugging, disrobing, public masturbation, viewing pornography in public, requesting unnecessary genital care [21–23, 28, 33, 34]	FTD
		AD
		HD
Negative	Decreased sexual interest, impaired sexual function that causes anxiety and distress, perceiving sexual activity as unpleasant, culpability and uneasiness when intercourse happened, total withdrawal from sexual activities [18, 24, 33, 34]	AD
		HD

AD, Alzheimer's disease; HD, Huntington's disease; FTD, frontotemporal dementia.