Sexsomnia was recently in the news: a man was just acquitted of sexual assault charges on the grounds of sexsomnia, or “non-insane automatism.” Via UPI. Snarkified via Jezebel. (Thank you for this, EP.)
To revisit the subject, sexsomnia is a parasomnia, and parasomnias are disorders in which the body’s physiological systems are activated during [...]

sleepsex (i) and  sleepsex (ii)
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When I was going through puberty, I was able to lucid dream, to exert control over my own dreams. It started when I had the same nightmare three nights in a row and through that repetition I became aware within the dream that it wasn’t real. I can’t imagine [...]

The next morning, he had no memory of what had happened. I told him, but at first he didn’t believe me, and when he did believe me, he was baffled. And yet, I couldn’t believe that he did this while completely unconscious. He was on top of me, he was fucking me, and it [...]

A few years ago, I was in a serious relationship with a man who’d just started his residency in medicine. We both worked constantly and maintained the less-than-healthy ethos that all free time should be spent working, so our relationship consisted of work breaks and the occasional excursion for food.
He’s an ex for a reason [...]

Last night, I was forced by my restless uterus to sit at home with tea and bad television. I’d dosed up on codeine-enriched ibuprofen and Advil PM when my late-night fallen boy called. To my surprise, he sounded lucid. He wanted to play.
I told him that there was no way, seeing how I [...]