Do You Know About Sleepsex?

I'm interested in unusual topics--especially medically-unusual things: Diseases, disorders, syndromes--almost anything along those lines. I came across 'sleepsex' and remembered something I'd read several years ago that had stuck in my mind, and I wondered if this topic had anything to do with that article. Here is what I learned. Kind of interesting to me, how about you? Have you heard of this before?

Explaining Sleepsex

There is no particular diagnosis for sleepsex; however, it has just recently been included as a sleep disorder in the new, revised edition of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD).

Some experts think that sleepsex is a variant of sleepwalking--a diagnosable and treatable disorder. It's been reported that touching and fondling a bed partner's genitalia is common in both heterosexual and homosexual orientations, along with intercourse, and masturbation during sleepsex. Oral and anal sex is less common but have also been reported--and all this is happening while the instigator is soundly sleeping!

Sleepsex is not necessarily always problematic. Many people report that they happily incorporate it into their normal sex lives and believe it happens because of strong sex appeal and say it is an extreme turn on for them.

In some cases, however, it can be very disturbing. The dark side of sleepsex can be violent, and many women experience sleepsex as rape-like and frightening. They are violently forced to have intercourse by unconscious boyfriends, husbands and male friends who are almost always impossible to awaken.

As bizarre as this may sound, there are probably millions of sleepers (most are women) who are are yanked and mauled into consciousness by groping, moaning and sexually aggressive behavior of others (mostly men) who are dead asleep. Many women end up calling 9-1-1 because of violent attacks that are not remembered by the aggressor in the morning.