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Article: Uncontrolled intimacy: sexual sleep disorders: troublesome bedroom behavior posed by sexual sleep disorders can damage relationships and present serious problems for patients and bed partners.(Case Report)(Case study)
- Article from:
- Sleep Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Sleep-related abnormal sexual behaviors, also called "sleepsex," "sexsomnia," and "atypical sexual behavior during sleep," are gaining more attention through increased research and legitimate recognition among the medical community. (1-3) While such behaviors are not nearly as prevalent as disorders such as OSA, the immediate need to identify and treat these cases should not be overlooked. Treatment is urgent seeing that there is the potential of sexual assault on an adult or minor during sleep, which could have tragic consequences for both the victim and the perpetrator. In the following case, a 32-year-old married man, with a chief complaint of "fondling my wife during ...