[Corbu]

Doggy style

LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters Life!) - Researchers are struggling to understand a rare medical condition where sufferers unknowingly demand, or actually have, sex while asleep, New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday.

Research into sexsomnia -- making sexual advances toward 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.

As yet there is no cure for the condition, which often leads to difficulties in relationships.

"It really bothers me that I can't control it," Lisa Mahoney told the magazine. "It scares me because I don't think it has anything to do with the partner. I don't want this foolish condition to hurt us in the long run."

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 about.

While sleepwalking affects two to four percent of adults, sexsomnia is not thought to be as common a problem, according to Nik Trajanovic, a researcher at the sleep and alertness clinic at Canada's Toronto Western Hospital.

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.

"Most of the time sleep sex occurs between people who are already partners," Mark Pressman, a sleep specialist at Lankenan Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, told the New Scientist.

"Sometimes they hate it," added Pressman of the reactions of sexsomniacs' partners. "Sometimes they tolerate it. On rare occasions you have stories of people liking it better than waking sex."

With no cure, addressing triggering factors -- stress or sleep deprivation -- can help, while Michael Mangan, a psychologist at the University of New Hampshire in the U.S. has set up a Web site, www.sleepsex.org, to help sufferers.

Meanwhile Trajanovic is devising a procedure for diagnosing sexsomnia in legal cases where sufferers have been accused of sexual assault.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...NIACS1-DC.html

[~Fallen Angel~]

Having sex with someone that was asleep would be creepy.

[$1.25]

thats why i like it so much

[~Fallen Angel~]

You like creepy sex?

[$1.25]

yeah

to an extent

[MonJoe]

I think I have it. It explains why I don't have sex when I'm awake.

[D8alus]

hahaha, what if you thought you were straight, then found out you had sex with men (or women, for da ladiez) in your sleep?

[Corbu]

Then I'd be d8alu!

[$1.25]

d8

everyone knows sleep jizz and ghost jiz dont make you gay

thats like day one stuff

[Keiyla]

This sounds like a way to excuse those guys who wake you up in the middle of the night, already rubbing on you.

[$1.25]

you make that sound like its a bad thing keiyla

[Keiyla]

Originally Posted by $1.25

you make that sound like its a bad thing keiyla

I'm trying to sleep, here, dammit.

[$1.25]

well maybe a little preemptive strike would solve your problems

[rub the bear]

I have to be tied down before sleep.

[Nevets]

So what if a women did this while at a party with a bunch of people sleeping over, and got pregnant. Now I really don't think this would be considered cheating if she had a boyfriend/husband, but what the hell would you do with the baby? Also would it be rape if the guy thought the girl was willing?

[$1.25]

abortsomnia

[Coke King]

ahahahaha! Awesome sauce.

[DUATE]

haha ghost jizz

poor d8

[Arzen]

Originally Posted by D8alus

hahaha, what if you thought you were straight, then found out you had sex with men (or women, for da ladiez) in your sleep?

if you're sleeping naked in the same bed as another man, you're probably already well on your way to homotopia.

[$1.25]

you dont understand arzen

sometimes in the army youre forced to house four, five, maybe even eight soldiers in a single bed.

[tkups]

Sure, there are other beds open, but they're soldiers, damn it.

They don't NEED other beds.

[Arzen]

I'd strap myself to the ceiling!



Just cause it's cool.

[tkups]

And so comfortable.