Sexsomnia: sleep sex or sleep assault?
Researchers are struggling to understand a rare medical condition where sufferers unknowingly demand, or actually have, sex while asleep. Research into [tag]sexsomnia[/tag] – making sexual advances towards another person while asleep – has been hampered as sufferers are so embarrassed by the problem they tend not to own up to it, while doctors do not ask about it.
Most researchers view sexsomnia as a variant of sleepwalking, where sufferers are stuck between sleep and wakefulness, though sexsomniacs tend to stay in bed rather than get up and walk. While sleepwalking affects 2-4 per cent of adults, sexsomnia is not thought to be as common a problem. But an internet survey of sexsomniacs carried out in 2005 that drew 219 reliable respondents concluded it was more prevalent than medical case reports alone might suggest. And on rare occasions you have stories of people liking it better than waking sex.
As yet there is no cure for the condition, which often leads to difficulties in relationships. Scientists are working on devising a procedure for diagnosing sexsomnia in legal cases where sufferers have been accused of sexual assault or ‘[tag]sleep assault[/tag].’
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My x-wife has this problem. She’d be sound asleep and decide to go down and give me a blow job. It was the only times in our marriage where she would actually swallow and it was definately not the cause of our divorce. The last few years it was about the only way I ever got some and it seemed the further apart we grew the more often it happened.
I miss those blow jobs!
Comment by Walrus — December 26, 2006 @ 6:10 pm