Researchers: Sleep Deprivation May Lower Male Libido, Cause 'Sexsomnia'

stuff.co.nz:

The Brazilian sexual health specialist, Professor Monica Andersen, says the increasing pace of the modern world is taking a toll on hours of sleep and is having a direct knock-on impact on sex.

There is an increasing body of evidence showing those who don't sleep enough are suffering lower libidos and, in many cases, are also suffering erectile dysfunction.

And in a very few number of men, this lack of sleep is triggering a rare and disturbing condition called sleep sex, or sexsomnia, when their libido is heightened and they initiate sex while asleep.

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Comments

[WTFbush]

08:46 AM on 09/07/2007

Life is tough eneough already without writing about this.

I mean, sometimes it's hard in the morning, especially if your an early riser ;)

[drblack]

08:16 PM on 09/06/2007

I always find when I am exhausted I am more horny and I have often found myself waking up and ready to go in the night; especially with a new and exciting partner. It shows that everyone is different in how their bodies work.

[wndrwrthg]

08:07 PM on 09/06/2007

If they would just shut-up with the constant, "Bitch, Bitch, Bitch" and let a guy get some sleep, this would not be a problem.

[MI6troll]

07:20 PM on 09/06/2007

BJ must have been awake the last 8 months.

[amanda85]

07:32 PM on 09/06/2007

This is the pathetic fascist sociopath who always complains about people posting off-topic and want them banned.
Too bad he's been banned countless time himself. Oh yeah, he once said that anyone who's been banned should not post here because he/she is in violation of huffpo's posting policy.

KING OF HYPOCRITES.

[ornery]

06:28 PM on 09/06/2007

That's It, Fritz!!!

Larry can now move to vacate his guilty plea and instead plead not guilty by reason of insomnia.

[sparkey]

06:19 PM on 09/06/2007

If the woman in the picture was my wife, you can bet that she wouldn't have her hand on her face. She'd have it somewhere on me guiding something into her. No man could be that tired.

[MikeDu]

06:01 PM on 09/06/2007

Ah, 'sexomnia', a new medical term for everyone to play with. Expect to be a plot point in 'Grey's Anatomy' at some point in the upcoming season.

[fran]

04:41 PM on 09/06/2007

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz!

[Nuzzy]

04:39 PM on 09/06/2007

There's something counter-intuitive in the message: "get more sleep, have more sex."

[MilwaukeeDan]

04:29 PM on 09/06/2007

"Your wife's ass being twice the size from when you married may also lower male labido". Who does these studies? Is this shit for real? I see these so called studies on Yahoo news all the time, stuff like, "College males who mastubate more get better grades". No shit, they are not out running around chasing women, wasting time. The catch word here is MAY, it may lower and it may not. Do they get paid for these "studies"?

[abbiehoffmansghost]

03:59 PM on 09/06/2007

You know that it might be that people are deprived of sleep from spending too much time getting after it.

[JeffDeVore]

03:03 PM on 09/06/2007

Is it sleep sex if you initiate it while your wife is asleep? Yea, that's pretty common.

[Dantana]

02:02 PM on 09/06/2007

Sleep sex!? Sounds like another version of the restless leg syndrome. Side effects of treatments include gambling and sexual disorders...

[autodefensa]

12:45 PM on 09/06/2007

"increasing pace of the modern world"

It's what used to be called "speed-up." Another way of saying it is that bosses demand longer hours and faster work.

[Crozier]

12:07 PM on 09/06/2007

I am waiting for this commercial. Who would ever have thought that prescription drugs would be advertised directly to the consumer, I mean, patient, rather than the medical business man, I mean, the physician in your country.

You must worry because medical care is a business commodity and service sold at high cost to the consumer of the product.

In your country, justice, medicine or anything important to the human being is sold to the highest bidder by the humanised and legalised corporation.

[CintiBlue]

01:20 PM on 09/06/2007

Boy, are you right about the commercial! This approach will fill the coffers.