Sexsomnia: An embarrassing sleep disorder no one wants to talk about | CNN
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Imagine having sex with your partner in your sleep and having no memory of it once awake. Welcome to the world of sexsomnia.

A 38-year-old man repeatedly tries to force his wife to have sex in the middle of the night but has no memory of his actions when he wakes up.

A married woman in her mid-20s often tears off her clothing and masturbates but remembers nothing when her partner rouses her.

For a dozen years, a 31-year-old man masturbates while asleep, at times injuring his groin. Embarrassed due to his unconscious behavior, he avoids relationships for eight years.

These are all clinically documented cases of sleep sex, or sexsomnia, part of a family of sleep disorders called parasomnias that include sleepwalking, sleep talking, sleep eating and sleep terrors.

  • EatATacoEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So I definitely have this, although it’s seems to have waned as I’ve gotten older. We didn’t even know it was a thing, and my wife and I referred to it as “sleep molesting” until I came across it on the Internet one day.

    Luckily, it’s only happened when sharing a bed with my wife/gf. Plenty of times her, knowing it happens, just wakes me up to laugh (or be angry i woke her) and tell me to stop. Always scared when I share a bed with someone, even tho it has never happened.

    I remember one time going on a ski trip with one my my best friends. We booked one room, but it said it had two beds.

    Turns out it didnt, and it was going to be a week. I had to warn him.

    His response? “Oh so you suffer what every guy suffers from?”

    “Wait, it happens to you too?”

    “Yeah i’ll often have a dream where im having sex for some weird reason, like keeping a polar bear out of my igloo, and I’ll wake up having sex with my gf.”

    " Yeah, that’s not normal at all."

    I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was like “wtf is going to happen? Are we going to have gay sex in our sleep?” Although he is a good looking guy, so if it was anyone it would best if it were him. Lol

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        Lul gottem. But really, there’s a non zero chance it happened and they don’t even know, sorta crazy to think about.

      • EatATacoEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Lol. Now that you mention it, I did have the taste of dick in my mouth one morning.

        But seriously, I don’t know if any time I haven’t woken up once we really have gotten into it.