Talk:Sleep sex
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Is it fair to call this a disorder? Aren't mild forms rather common? Bill shannon 2001
For an October 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sleep sex
Surely this is a joke page?--Gabriel Webber 17:17, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3744226.stm
- No - it is a real, abeit rare, occurance. See
Sleeping Woman Bedded Strangers Doctor Says Woman Has Sleep-Sex Disorder
No not a Joke but extremely real, albeit my legal case has been running prior to most articles talking about this!! :-( But the sleepsex.org is a good beginning and there is also a group on yahoo groups who deal with this matter!! I am still looking around for some info on this as I do not take lightly to being called a sexual aggressor!!
Jaime 04:27, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm commenting anonymously, but I agree with Jaime. This is real, as I can state from my own experience as a sufferer until around a year ago, when the behaviour stopped. I have no difficulty believing that a sufferer might be capable of rape while asleep.
As an aside, while asleep I have also left the house, spoken to people, made food, eaten and drank, and once pushed a 1.5 metre bookshelf over onto a lamp, all without waking. My family has a history of epilepsy and sleepwalking.
Both sexomnia and sexsomnia seem to be in common usage, although I'd wager a guess that sexsomnia is more correct based on the root (omni -> everywhere/universal, somnia -> sleep).
This is a real behavioral pattern that some people suffer from, although I'll leave it up to the experts to define whether it is a disorder.
Opalmirror 18:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I didn't think I had to check with anyone that I should remove "These acts may be injurious to themselves or others, as in the case of a man who not only bruised himself with sleeping masturbation, but broke two fingers trying to escape restraints in which he had placed himself to control the behavior." because it was cited without a reference. There are lots of cases where patients with parasomnias may harm or attempt to harm themselves or their partners, and they can all be given with a reference. This just seems like a non-sequitur joke, like that time I walked in on Paul Reubens. (Warrenreport 10:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC))
