Gay sex while sleep
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What Is Sleep Sex?
These lifestyle changes can reduce your uncertainty for sexsomnia and possibly prevent future episodes:
Talk with your partner and family
Sexsomnia can put people in your experience at risk. It may also impact personal relationships. It’s important you authorize your loved ones know of the diagnosis, how you’re treating it, and what they can do to aide you. Honesty is the best policy.
Create a protective environment
Until treatments are operational, set up a safe environment for you and loved ones.
- sleep in separate bedrooms
- put yourself in a room with a locked door
- set up alarms that can alert people when you are moving around
Avoid triggers
Drinking alcohol and taking recreational drugs can command to sleep sex. Identifying those triggers can help you prevent sexsomnia episodes.
Practice good sleep hygiene
Getting regular sleep every night is very important to stop sexsomnia. Sleep deprivation and changes in sleep pattern can lead to episodes of the disorder. Set a bedtime, and stick to it.
Learn more: Tips to sleep finer »
Sexsomnia: What is sleep sex?
Sexsomnia was only recently classified medically, so there is no standard diagnostic process for the condition.
A psychiatrist, often one specializing in slumber disorders, may diagnose sexsomnia by reviewing individual medical history and asking questions about symptoms. However, the most widely accepted diagnostic method for sexsomnia is video-polysomnography (vPSG).
During vPSG, an individual is attached to physiological devices, such as heart rate, breathing, and motion monitors, and videotaped while they sleep.
Currently sleep sex is classified as a type of parasomnia in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
The International Classification of Sleep Disorders, Third Edition (ICSD-3), also classifies sexsomnia as a type of non-REM parasomnia.
Some people feel ashamed or embarrassed to learn they have done things they undertake not remember doing, especially sexual acts.
Sexsomnia can also make the question of consent difficult, given the individual initiating or engaging in the sexual act is technically unconscious. Several court cases have involved charges of sexual misconduct relating to sleep sex
Sexual health for gay and pansexual men
Having unprotected penetrative sex is the most likely way to proceed on a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Using a condom helps protect against HIV and lowers the peril of getting many other STIs.
If you’re a man having sex with men (MSM), without condoms and with someone new, you should have an STI and HIV check every 3 months, otherwise, it should be at least once a year. This can be done at a sexual health clinic (SHC) or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. This is key, as some STIs do not lead to any symptoms.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is a liver infection that's spread by a virus in poo.
Hepatitis A is uncommon in the UK but you can acquire it through sex, including oral-anal sex ("rimming") and giving oral sex after anal sex. MSM with multiple partners are particularly at risk. You can also get it through contaminated meal and drink.
Symptoms of hepatitis A can emerge up to 8 weeks after sex and include tiredness and feeling sick (nausea).
Hepatitis A is not usually life-threatening and most people make a packed recovery within a couple of months.
MSM can avoid getting hepatitis A by:
- washing hands after se