According to Medical boards in Australia and New Zealand, patients may have side effects when they are sedated or anesthetized. The rise in complaints about inappropriate sexual behaviour in patients, when they are anesthetized, is the reason for this belief.

The boards also advised that both genders should be present when giving anaesthesia to patient, in order to avoid any suspicions of inappropriate behaviour. Anaesthesia is given to patients by most of the practitioners, which is a common procedure, but the people who are at risk to be accused the most are dentists, anaesthetists and nurses.

Professor Barry Baker, ANZCA's executive director of professional affairs wrote an article which said that, patients may be in a condition, where they feel infatuation for someone in the room or may think they are dreaming. They may be in a state of confusion between dreaming and hallucinations. But according to him, there is no proper research associated with this report but there was increase in complaints which was reported by the medical board. Mr. Baker said 50 percent of patients can be affected, which is suggested on the basis of a survey.