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Understanding Sexsomnia
Everyone has heard of the sleepwalker, the sleep eater and the sleep talker. However, there is another sleep disorder that people are less likely to discuss: sexsomnia.What is Sexsomnia?
Sexsomnia, also called sex sleep, was first identified in 1996 and is a classified sleep disorder characterized as a non-rapid-eye-movement (N-REM) parasomnia. (A parasomnia is a disorder characterized by partial arousals during sleep or during transitions between wake and sleep.)
People who experience sexsomnia engage in sex while sleeping, though they have no memory of their actions once they wake up. The intensity of this sleep sex varies, with some sexsomnia victims merely moaning and groping, and others engaging in sexual activity either with themselves or with another person in the bed. On the extreme end of the scale are those who become violent and dangerous while performing sexual acts.
Specific causes of the disorder are unknown, but some scientists believe that there is a genetic component involved with sexsomnia. Research also suggests that sleep sex is caused by a genuine sleep disorder combined with other emotional problems.
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Natalie Pona, the then Sun reporter, broke the story of the first case of sexsomnia in the fall of 2005.
On 30 November 2005, a Toronto court acquitted a man of sexual assault after he was diagnosed with sleep sex disorder, although prosecutors have filed an appeal of the acquittal as of February 2006.[1] The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the acquittal on 7 February 2008 [2]
In Britain a man from York was cleared of three counts of rape on 19 December 2005.[3]
In Australia, a woman was reported as leaving her house at night and having sex with strangers while sleepwalking.[4]
On 8 August 2007, a British RAF mechanic was cleared of a rape charge after the jury found him not responsible of his actions when he had sex with a 15-year-old girl.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_sex
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Man Found Not Guilty In Sex Assault Because He Was Asleep
Rape crisis counselors and women's advocates are outraged Thursday after a man in Toronto, Canada was found not guilty of raping a woman because he was sleepwalking at the time, according to a Local 6 News report.
Canadian lawyers said Jan Luedecke, 33, suffers from a rare condition called sexomnia. The genetic disorder combines sleepwalking with sexual acts and is often brought on by alcohol, according to the report.
The two had met at a party in 2003 and she woke up on the couch to find Luedecke on top of her.
He was charged with sexual assault after the attack. However, at a trial, sleep experts testified that Luedecke suffered from sexomnia.
A judge then ruled Wednesday that the landscaper was essentially sleepwalking during sex and was not guilty of the rape.
The woman even said Luedecke seemed "out of it" during the incident, Local 6 News reported.
"He was not normal," she said. "During the entire altercation, when someone touches you, you can feel their body heat. He had no body heat. His arms were very limp."
Four other women testified the Luedecke had previously had "sleep sex" with them as well, according to the report.
Edited by maurizio13 30 Aug `08, 1:03AM
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