Sexsomnia Or Sleep Sex Explained By Psychiatrists
The man was experiencing sexsomnia, a rare type of parasomnia (sleep disorder) in which a sleeping person engages in sexual activities. According to research published in the journal Sleep Science in 2021, the first officially recorded case was in Singapore in 1986, when a man told his doctor he had begun masturbating in his sleep every night. In 2017, a paper in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine described the case of a 37-year-old man whose wife told doctors that they had been having sex while he was asleep most nights for about 13 years....