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    I wonder if this happens more often in Australia.
    Looking forward to my vacation there in November

    Sleepwalker's sex in the city
    By Julie Robotham
    October 14, 2004

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    By day, she was a respectable middle-aged woman who lived with a steady partner. By night, she would creep out of their house to seek random sex with strangers.

    But the woman in question was entirely unaware of her double life, which was conducted while she was asleep, said the Sydney doctor who treated her.

    "Incredulity is the first staging post for anyone involved in this," - including medicos, said Peter Buchanan, a sleep physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

    "One has to maintain a healthy degree of scepticism. As doctors we are largely trustful of our patients telling us the truth about themselves."

    In this case, though, it was clear the woman's story was not an ingenious cover for clandestine sexual flamboyance. The patient was baffled; her partner distraught. "He was aware of some sleepwalking and there was circumstantial evidence, including the unexplained presence of condoms around the house," Dr Buchanan said.

    "On one occasion he awoke to find her absent from the bedroom and searched until he found her - engaged in such activity."

    Her condition, known as sleep sex, is a recently identified sleep disorder, Dr Buchanan will tell the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Sleep Association in Sydney this weekend.

    Sleep sex is increasingly being recognised as a real and personally devastating condition, said Dr Buchanan, who expects it will be included in the next revision of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, giving it the final stamp of legitimacy. It is fraught with personal danger through risky sex practices, and legal danger - if the sufferer commits sexual assault while sleepwalking.

    Dr Buchanan said it was hard to confirm the diagnosis, because staying overnight in a sleep laboratory would generally inhibit the behaviour. But in the woman's case, brain tests while she was sleeping showed she was unusually likely to rouse from deep sleep without passing first through lighter sleep patterns - a phenomenon linked to all types of parasomnia.

    Almost half of sleep sex cases were associated with psychological problems, and the woman was treated successfully with psychotherapy. But the fact that the condition manifested as aberrant sexual behaviour did not indicate sexual abuse or any other sexual problem, said Dr Buchanan, and it should be viewed as a sleep disorder, not a sexual disorder.

    "There's a huge embarrassment about seeking medical help," he said.

    Sydney Morning Herald
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    Yeah right... like she didn't know what she was doing!


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    Freaky, poor woman! Poor guy! I guess that is one way to collect some mystery-meat. I do believe her, my nephew had the habit of dreaming the house was on fire and trying to jump out of the window (2 stories high). I have also heard of a case of a man that killed his family in his sleep, the mind is a strange thing.

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    I dont understand. She would actually walk out her home and what then?? She would find a random dude wandering the street and have sex with him?? She would remain in some state of sleep at that time? What about her partners, like they would just go 'ok, lets do it if you want!'??

    Come on. This is bull.
    no blood no foul

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hetman_Koronny
    I dont understand. She would actually walk out her home and what then?? She would find a random dude wandering the street and have sex with him?? She would remain in some state of sleep at that time? What about her partners, like they would just go 'ok, lets do it if you want!'??

    Come on. This is bull.
    Exactly.

    She would go to bed in some sort of night-attire, then mysteriously...

    Sleep-get out of bed, sleep-dress, sleep-get out of the house, sleep-wander down to the local pick-up joint, sleep-chat up some bloke, sleep-convince him to buy condoms, sleep-take him home, sleep-warn him not to wake her husband, sleep-shag him, sleep-kick him out before hubby wakes up, sleep-tidy herself up, sleep-dispose of the evidence apart from the occasional "circumstantial evidence, including the unexplained presence of condoms around the house", sleep-get back to bed without waking hubby.

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    Scientists don't completely understand sleep. If she wasn't asleep she would have cleaned up the evidence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
    Scientists don't completely understand sleep. If she wasn't asleep she would have cleaned up the evidence.
    Why? She even used condoms while asleep. I´m fairly convinced that this is a hoax.

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    Incidentally, Peter Buchanan, the doctor who is quoted in the article, will give a speech on the topic of "sleep-sex" during a conference of the Australian Sleep Association tomorrow

    PDF-file; Peter Buchanan on page 3 number 17



    Perhaps he was trying to get some attention for his speech ... or the newspaper was blowing it out of proportion (maybe the Australian patrons can better judge the reliability of the SMH)

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    I have a hard time believing this. Unfortunately, a certain jury did not have these doubts.

    http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=3136

    Administer the polygraph.
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    To heck with all that, what's her address?
    "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*

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    Address? I think her and I can have a little 'chat'

    That is the most perverted thing I have said on the org so far. I congradulate myself.

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    Do you think it is due to your recently achieved social life?
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    Hmmm.... So maybe I am NOT dreaming after all.....

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    oh, I am so going to use this!!!
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    I wish I had such a disorder...


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    Quote Originally Posted by CBR
    I wish I had such a disorder...


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    Huh? You want to have sex with random hobos on the street?

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    Any sex is better than no sex


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