Involuntarily having sex with others while sleeping. This symptom, called "somniac paraphilia", is the strangest thing a person can do in their sleep. This behavior still makes it difficult for scientists to understand the reasons why it occurs, and often because people who exhibit this behavior are difficult to talk about, those who are interested in research are also blocked.

According to Dongsen News Network, a report in New Scientist magazine on the 25th explored the confusing symptoms of "sex sleep syndrome". There is currently no drug that can improve this symptom, and patients often suffer from it. interpersonal relationships break down. Patient Mahoney pointed out from his own experience: "I can't control it, it really bothers me, and I don't want this stupid situation to hurt our long-term relationship."

Patients with somnophilia People who have sex with people in their sleep without knowing it. Most researchers believe that somnambulism is a variant of somnambulism. The patient is half asleep and half awake, but the patient with somnambulism sleepwalks while lying in bed. Not really getting out of bed and roaming.

Trajanovich, a researcher who studies sleep and perception at Western Hospital in Toronto, Canada, said that although an average of 2% to 4% of adults experience sleepwalking, somnambulism is not common. However, a 2005 online survey with 219 credible returned questionnaires showed that parasomnia is actually more common than medical reports have recognized.

Presman, a sleep problem expert at Lancashire Hospital in Pennsylvania, said: "Most sleep intercourse occurs with partners who are already patients. Sometimes they hate this behavior, and sometimes they can tolerate it. , in some rare cases, the other party prefers sexual intercourse in this situation to having sex while awake.”

However, in some sexual assault cases, somnophilia has become a major factor in convictions. Difficulty. There was a case in Canada in 2003. A woman accused a man of sexually assaulting her after a party. The defendant claimed that he had the disease as a defense and said he had no memory of the sexual relationship between the two. The judge accepted the defendant's statement. , determined that the sexual assault in this case was not intentional and therefore did not constitute a crime. The verdict angered women's groups.

Trajanovic is currently working on this type of legal case to study whether sexual assault defendants are actually having sex because of an episode of somnophilia, a diagnostic method.