Like sleepwalking or sleeptalking, sexsomnia is a disorder — but one in which people engage in sexual activity Getty Some people sleepwalk. Others talk in their sleep. And then there’s another sleep ...

A 38-year-old man repeatedly tries to force his wife to have sex in the middle of the night but has no memory of his actions when he wakes up. A married woman in her mid-20s often tears off her ...

Some words have different meanings in different contexts. For example, “I saw a bird,” is quite different from “I plan to saw some logs.” Divergent meanings of this type are typically quite acceptable ...

Some people sleepwalk. Others talk in their sleep. And then there’s another sleep disorder — one that can cause embarrassment, relationship problems, and at times, legal troubles. Sexsomnia, as the ...

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Some people who have sleep talking or walking as children do develop sexsomnia or another parasomnia as adults, but many others do not, Schenck said. “We don’t know the ultimate cause, but there is a ...

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“These are disorders of arousal,” said Schenck, who has studied parasomnias for decades. “They most often occur during the slowest, deepest stage of sleep, called delta sleep. It’s like an alarm or ...