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Woman in sleep seeks sex with strangers
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-18 13:37 A woman seduced and had sex
with strangers while she slept and later had no recollection of her infidelities
due to a sleeping disorder, her Sydney doctor said Thursday.
The middle-aged woman had no idea that she was sneaking from her house at
night in search of sex with random strangers until her partner awoke, discovered
she was missing from the bedroom, and found her having sex with another man,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital sleep medicine physician Peter Buchanan told The
Sydney Morning Herald.
Her partner was already aware that she was a sleep walker and also had been
confounded by condoms he found strewn around the house, Buchanan said.
Buchanan will discuss the case when he lectures on sleep sex — the disorder
has yet to be given a formal title — at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the
Australasian Sleep Association in Sydney at the weekend.
"It is very complex, elaborated motor behavior during sleep," Buchanan told
Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Thursday.
"People are often stunned and overwhelmed when they're told what they've been
doing," he added.
The partners and doctors of people suffering from the disorder often do not
believe the acts were committed while they slept, he said.
"It's very stressful both for them, for their partner or for their
relationship," Buchanan said. "It also promotes an intense sense of
embarrassment on their part, their partner's behalf and this inhibits people
coming forward to seek potentially helpful professional intervention."
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