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.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I woke up once in the middle of having sex with my then-girlfriend. After we finished I was like, “You could’ve woken me up at least before we started.” She was like, “What are you talking about? You started all that!” So I guess it’s a real thing, my body just wants to bang at all hours.

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    1 year 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

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        1 year 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.

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    1 year ago

    I was raped by someone who them rolled over after and asked if we had sex… maybe they weren’t lying? I didn’t push them off because I was also asleep, then in shock. After that I’m told I punch and kick pretty violently in my sleep.

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    1 year ago

    My partner has it to.

    Sometimes it is a fast. Finger in there. I call it the ‘check if this is still female’. It waked me up but nothing more. Frustrates me more than you can immagine.

    There is the longer time having his hand over my tits. Iff he gets to playing with the nippels I start joining. Manuelly getting him hard and during his sleep he still doos the rest.

    Rarely we have the ‘wet noodle is lonely’. Tries to hump but… Nothing more. Also waked me up ;(.

    My favorite ( the haha type ) is when he starts talking. ‘come fucking’ ‘frick frick frick’ ‘now now yes now’ ‘legs open… fock’. Often it is when he is a bit wilder. Rolling up me and starting the penetration. He speeks often in his sleep btw. Not only for sexxy times.

    My favorite ( the oh yes type ) When it comes to sex and I have fun.

    The next morning I always ask ‘When during fucking you woke up?’ Sometimes he had the ’ i did it again?’ Sometimes it is ’ somewhere during being inside you. I did xxx. What happened befor ?’

    He always (when he can t remember ) thinks it is sad. He misses a bit off the sexy and nice times between us like that.

    But tbh… I m the one with the bigger sexdrive. An extra turn when it did not happen when going to bed is for me always welcome.

    My partner is 40 and I am 41. We are 13 years together. He has SSRI medication / ADHD stuff and some other medication. Sometimes beta-blockers and atm he takes something that has as a side effect to sleep better. He has often stress at work.
    We were looking if the sexsomnia was stress-related but even when it happend than a bit more. It is not only during those times. We have no ID about a trigger.

    Now it is yust a part off our relation. Could be months without the sleep-fucking and than in one week 3 times.

    We have a good relation. When I found out he has it… We talked. He was upset after hearing what he did and said.

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    1 year ago

    I dated a woman for a year while she was in the middle of a legal battle. Her husband (they were separated pending divorce) was in jail awaiting trial for having sexually molested her daughter for three years at night, from ages 11 to 14. His defense was sexsomnia. He ended up getting a 40-year sentence without parole. He’s incarcerated in a state prison south of Houston until May 2058.

    Honestly…I don’t know what to think because I wasn’t there. If he really truly does have a sleepwalking form of sexsomnia and never would have hurt his stepdaughter otherwise, then I feel really bad for him.

    On the other hand…c’mon…three years? The woman I dated did say that he tried to sex her up in the middle of the night every now and then, and that she’d just push him off and tell him no it’s sleepytime right now. I dunno.

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    Wow, that’s somehow the opposite of my experience. I need dreams to fully relax and enjoy a good night’s sleep. Even though I regularly have “nightmares” to the point of sweating right through my pj’s AND my covers, after I wake up it feels only as if I watched an actual decent horror movie. Dreamless nights always result in me feeling only half-rested.

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    1 year ago

    I have this as well, everything from sex, four play, talking, and teasing. The gf can notice a difference, she says the sleepy guy is more slow and sensual 😅

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      Not sure why you are getting down voted.

      But I doubt it would work. I think the vast majority of juries would even believe such a thing exists let alone believe someone had it. Judges sadly probably wouldn’t listen either.

      I sat on a murder trial as a jury member. What I saw scared me. People openly admitting they would rather put an innocent person behind bars rather then maybe setting a guilty man free. People just voting how others were voting just so they could get out of there (not really looking at the evidence).

      I’ve seen cases where judges were reading the exact letter of the law and obviously not reading the intent of said law, because of that people got much harsher sentences then we warranted. Sometimes people get found guilty when they shouldn’t have been.

      Sorry I doubt it would work as a defense, except in some rare cases.