Sexsomnia

"Sexsomniacs" puzzle medical researchers

LONDON (Reuters) - 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. [[continued...]]

It sounds like a joke, but it isn't. I have some experience with this and it's no picnic being awakened in the middle of the night with your body completely unaroused and unprepared and yet someone trying to stick something in it. New Scientist's story leads with an anecdote explaining why it doesn't work it is no fun the other way, either (a female sexsomniac with a male partner) no matter how much one might joke about men getting it any when they can, although you have to subscribe to get the full article. qDot (NSFW) could tie his hair back in a ribbon a la Violet Baudelaire and invent something for sexsomniacs to reach for, so they don't disturb their partners when the need takes them. Something less intrusive than a Real Doll (NSFW), but something a sleeping person can hold on to.

Obviously it's not a permanent solution, but a stopgap until researchers find a way to address the condition at its root.