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October 26, 2006

This Should Make For Some Interesting Clinical Trials

I'm not sure I see a downside to this newest 'malady':

LONDON - 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 towards 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.

I'm not sure what the 'difficulties' are that it leads to; it seems to me it should make a lot of husbands and wives happier: he gets what he wants and she still gets to sleep.

Meanwhile Trajanovic is devising a procedure for diagnosing sexsomnia in legal cases where sufferers have been accused of sexual assault.

A pity the name "Twinkie Defense" is already taken...

Posted by Mr. Bingley at October 26, 2006 11:26 AM

Comments

I thought sex when one person was unconscious was called "college."

Posted by: Lisa at October 26, 2006 11:38 AM

buwhahaha!

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at October 26, 2006 11:40 AM

Sometimes I think doctors are just dirty old men. How in the world is he going to test his theories?

Posted by: Mike Rentner at October 26, 2006 11:46 AM

Playing "hide the Twinkie", Mike.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at October 26, 2006 11:57 AM

Must everything be a disorder? Sex, anger, the fidgets, conservatism...

Posted by: Nightfly at October 26, 2006 12:14 PM

"Conservatism" is eeeevull, 'Fly.

Sigh. Try to pay attention.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at October 26, 2006 12:55 PM

Hmmm I was wondering why I sometimes wake feeling like I had been punched/slapped in the face...

Posted by: major dad at October 26, 2006 01:41 PM

Just close your eyes, honey.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at October 26, 2006 02:20 PM

and enjoy it?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at October 26, 2006 02:33 PM

That's as far as I'm going with this...

Posted by: major dad at October 26, 2006 02:36 PM