Sexsomnia

Sexsomnia is when people are asleep but have sex, not exactly sleep walking, but sleep sexing. I have certainly wakened up having an orgasm, without even touching myself, but these people affected with this sleep disorder are going out and having sex with others, or with their partners if they have one and not remembering a thing about it in the morning. Men have been acquitted of rape charges, since they were supposedly asleep at the time of the alleged attacks and had no memory of it.

Some sleep walkers are aware of their problem, but many are not, and it’s only when family members bring this activity to their attention that they realize they are doing more than sleeping. Many have had eating disorders where they wake up and eat things, even non edible things like cigarette butts or paper and have no recollection of it at all, but when your partner is wakened up by you having sex with them, you need to be made aware of the incidents. Ones with depression and obsessive compulsive disorders are more at risk for this behavior than ones that do not.

If your partner is aware of this and doesn’t mind sexual activity while you are asleep, it’s not as much of an issue than if you were going out and finding someone not willing. I know a woman that has sleep walked many times and has wakened up walking down the middle of the road, so it is possible that these things are going on. Professional help is needed to get this under control.