Sexsonmnia Also Known As Somnambulistic Sexual Behaviour Is On The Rise

According to the theregister falling asleep after sex is common we all do it, but falling, sleeping and staying asleep during sex is another matter.

This condition is called sexsomnia also known as somnambulistic sexual behaviour.
It happens when a person is asleep and yet proceeds to initiate sexual activity with their bedmate. It is also described as a mix of sleepwalking and adolescent wet dreams.

According to the researchers, amazingly, not all partners of sexsomniacs are distressed or irritated by the novel experience of having an unconscious person make love to them. In fact, some seem to prefer it.

The researchers discovered Sexsomnia by interviewing patients referred to their sleep clinic for normal sleep-related problems.

There were 11 case studies, mostly male. One married man, aged 35, had sexual dreams and “enacts these by having intercourse with his wife, who is convinced he is asleep…[he] is only aware of his behaviour from his wife’s reports”.

By contrast, another man, aged 37, according to his wife is “more aggressive and more amorous. He indulges in behaviours while asleep that he does not undertake when awake…there is no stopping him. But when he once grabbed her neck, she had to slap him.”

In the May 2006 Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, Dr I O Ebrahim of the London Sleep Centre describes a recent sexsomnia case in England “where the defendant was acquitted on three charges of rape on the basis of automatism due to somnambulistic sexual behaviour”.

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