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Somnophilia is a rare paraphilia, a form of sexual fetishism which is characterized by the desire to have sex with an unconscious human object who is unable to respond. To the author's knowledge, this is the first case study concerning somnophilic sexual abuse associated with vaginal administration of triazolam. The perpetrator video-recorded his sexual acts with two unconscious female victims with whom he also had normal sexual intercourse and who were unaware of his paraphilic activities. His Internet conversations with other persons whom he thought to be interested in somnophilic sex and his plans to kidnap a child were recorded by the police. It was evident that sex with an unconscious object played a specific fetishistic role for this man. He obviously used a combination of drugs mixed with alcoholic drinks to make his victims fall sleep and videotaped vaginal administration of triazolam used to deepen the victim's unconscious state.

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forensic psychiatry; forensic science; sexual abuse; somnophilia; triazolam; vaginal drug administration.

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Home » Mental health » Mental health resources » Somnophilia – (A guide to this paraphilia)
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In this brief guide, we are going to talk about Somnophilia
Somnophilia is a type of paraphilia. This is when someone gets aroused by having someone unconscious around them.
People with this paraphilia may not seek to hurt others.
They are usually able to have regular lives if the urges are being satisfied in a consensual scenario.
However, if these urges cannot be controlled then the individual must seek treatment.
But before we get more into it, we should talk about certain points that will bring you more clarity around this topic.
A different type of intimate disorder/paraphilia is called Dacryphilia.
We talk about paraphilia when someone experiences intense arousal towards unusual objects, situations, fantasies, behaviours or even individuals.
Before the coinage, psychologists and psychiatrists used the term “ intimate deviation” to refer to those unusual intimate behaviors.
These unusual behaviors usually involve:
There are debates as to whether these paraphiliae should be diagnosed since most cases do not represent any real danger.
In fact, in most cases the individuals with paraphilias can live a normal life, being able to have consensual love-making with their partners.
However, the paraphilic fantasies may tend to intensify and, the individual starts having a strong necessity to satisfy this growing desire.
Behaviors like this can affect the life quality of people.
This could be either: the desire is confusing them or, they feel highly frustrated because they cannot be satisfied.
Another possibility among these is that this person could be in danger without knowing how dangerous their fetish could be.
In the case of somnophiliacs, they may induce an unconscious state on someone by drugging them or could try to have love-making with someone inebriated or asleep.
Necrophilia is another type of paraphilia.
Voyeurism is another part of Paraphilia in which an individual crosses lines to be aroused or get intimate pleasure. For example, in watching someone else make love or even a shower.
An exact cause is unknown, but some researches suggest changes in the neurodevelopmental on some males that had certain characteristics such as having big brothers, the probability of being left-handed, etc.
Also known as the “Sleeping Beauty Syndrome”, this is a type of paraphilia where the individual gets aroused at the presence of someone unconscious.
A somnophiliac person has the desire to have intercourse with someone who is sleeping.
The term was coined in 1986 by John Money. He described it as a condition where the individual was only capable of having intimate pleasure if they intruded someone unable to respond.
John Money stated that it could progress and became necrophilia (the desire of making love with a dead body).
These acts might include playing with yourself, fondling, intercourse, and even forcibly violation.
As with the rest of the paraphilias, the origin point of this behaviour is unknown, although there are a few explanations around why somnophiliacs behave in the way they do.
Most of these explanations are psychoanalytic, stating that somnophiliacs have a set of problems regarding the development (such as Oedipus complex).
However, not every person who feels arousal regarding forcibly violation or takes advantage of someone unconscious can be categorized as somnophiliac, because they don’t get pleasure directly from the situation.
It has been theorized that intimate abusers have been abused at some early time in their life.
However, there are no studies that are conclusive in this regard, as many abused people do not repeat the same pattern of abuse, and many abusers had never been abused.
If this isn’t treated, legal issues could arise.
This kind of intimate conduct can be legally punishable, but the motivation behind such conduct is still relevant when studying and applying treatment to these individuals.
The somnophiliac can induce an unconscious state in the victim by drugging them.
They also may try to have intercourse with someone already sleep.
In general, the individual is attracted to the idea of making love with someone unable to resist.
As we said earlier, however, an individual with this paraphilia will not necessarily seek to harm another person.
This only happens when they cannot control their impulses anymore.
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A paraphilia is all types of intimate attractions towards unusual objects, situations or even persons, which can manifest with intensity.
They were known as “intimate deviation” in the past.
Most paraphilias might be dangerous, but many individuals can have a normal life despite having one or some of them.
However, they can affect the quality of life of the individual or their close people.
There isn’t a known cause for paraphilias to exist.
However, some theories are trying to explain them, mostly psychoanalytic.
Somnophilia is a kind of paraphilia where an individual gets aroused at the presence of someone sleeping .
Somnophiliacs might try to drug someone or wait until they are sleep to abuse them.
This paraphilia might evolve into necrophilia due to its nature of intimate arousal regarding unconsciousness.
There might be legal problems for a somnophiliac if they try to satisfy their desire with someone in a non-consensual way.
Unfortunately, there are not enough statistical studies to give a concise answer to that question.
Most people with this paraphilia don’t even know they have it, so it might be more than one might think.
No, but they are connected according to John Money, the person who coined the term.
He said that somnophilia could evolve into necrophilia.
Yes. The treatments for paraphilias are usually behaviour-based.
It comes from the Latin “somnus” (meaning sleep) and the Greek “philia” (meaning love).
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Stephanie Pappas

published July 15, 2015

Allegations that comedian Bill Cosby drugged and raped multiple women since the 1970s have brought a controversial psychological term to the surface: somnophilia, a fetish for sex with a sleeping person.
The definition is straightforward enough — somnophilia is sometimes known by the nickname Sleeping Beauty syndrome. But use of the term is quite different in psychology and in the legal system. In fact, sexual fetishes, or paraphilias are a hot-button topic in the psychological community.
"Paraphilias and things like sexual sadism are not really used by psychologists and therapists," said Anna Randall, a clinical psychologist and sex therapist who practices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. "We don't generally diagnose somebody with that." [ Hot Stuff? 10 Unusual Sexual Fixations ]
In the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the mental health "bible" published by the American Psychiatric Association, unusual sexual fixations are described as paraphilias. This category includes everything from the benign (say, an obsession with shoes) to the dangerous (pedophilia).
If a person is fine with their shoe fetish, it's not a mental disorder. If, on the other hand, the fixation is distressing to a person, or if it harms others, it crosses the line into a paraphilic disorder .
Many mental health professionals see the "harm to others" distinction as muddying the waters, confusing criminality with mental illness. If someone is harming other people in the name of a fetish, the fetish itself is rarely the problem, Randall told Live Science.
"If somebody is doing something that is violating people's personal rights, they're more likely to have antisocial personality disorder, or they're a psychopath or a sociopath — where they don't either know what right or wrong is or they don't care," she said.
Similarly, she said, a "sex addiction" usually reflects an underlying problem like mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Sex "isn't the problem, it's a symptom," Randall said.
Cosby is alleged to have used Quaaludes and Benadryl to drug and rape women. Excerpts from a 2005 deposition in which Cosby admitted acquiring these drugs were released last week in response to an Associated Press request. Cosby maintains that the women consented to the drugs and encounters.
In response to the release of excerpts from the deposition, the lawyer for one of the alleged victims, Andrea Constand, brought up somnophilia. The lawyer, Dolores Troiani, asked for the complete transcripts to be released, saying that they included questions and answers with Cosby about additional sexual interactions, according to Yahoo News .
"Although some of the women engaged in consensual relations with Cosby, their accounts substantiated the defendant's alleged predilection for somnophilia," Troiani wrote.
The rape allegations may have little to do with somnophilia, however. If Cosby is guilty, it's possible that he had fantasies of sex with sleeping women, Randall said. It
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